Air Operations, EuropeRAF BOMBER COMMANDEvening Ops:
Air Operations, New Guinea
Central PacificTarawa is attacked by land-based Liberator bombers. [ | ]Eastern FrontThe Soviets complete the capture of Bryansk overcoming ferocious German resistance. The OKW is already resigned to the loss of huge areas of ground, and considers it essential that the Wehrmacht should hold the line of the Dniepr. They also take Bezhitsa, a little to the north, and Trubchevsk, to the south, as they advance across the River Desna on a broad front. In the south on the Sea of Azov, Berdyansk is taken. CENTRAL SECTORThe 11th Guards Army enters Bryansk and, after a brisk battle with German rearguards, captures the city. Trubchevsk also falls to the 47th Army. SOUTHERN SECTORBerdyansk falls to the 44th Army as Hollidt's 6th Army pulls back to the Melitopol line. [ | ]Italy5th Army is beginning to push out the boundaries of its beachhead once more. Altavilla and Battipaglia are attacked again by the Germans in order to cover their withdrawal which is now beginning. The British XIII Corps advances toward the Potenza-Auletta line. American units of the US VI Corps continue their attacks against Altavilla. [ | ]New GuineaThe Australian 9th Div is to be employed for a landing in force at Finschhafen on the 22nd, in accordance with decisions taken by the Southwest Pacific Area Headquarters. Finschhafen, at the tip of the peninsula that encloses the northern part of the Gulf of Huon, will be used as an advanced air base and for light naval units. [ | ]SolomonsFighting continues on Arundel Island and the near-by islet of Sagekarasa, with intensive artillery activity. At a conference of Allied commanders at Port Moresby, New Guinea, Gen MacArthur maintains that it is necessary to establish a beachhead on Bougainville as quickly as possible and build up a big bas there which would give the Allies control over the whole Southwest Pacific and enable them to break out towards the Central Pacific. [ | ]Yugoslavia, ResistanceA senior British liaison mission arrives and is sent to visit Tito. It is led by Brig Fitzroy Maclean who is Churchill's personal representative. It is to follow up the reports of representatives sent in May and June and to confirm that Tito is doing more against the Germans than Mihailovic. [ | ]Pics from September 17, 1943
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