Air Operations, CBI
BURMA- 9 308th Heavy Bomb Group B-24s attack Myitkyina and Sadon while flying to India for supplies via the Hump ferry route from China.
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]Air Operations, Europe
RAF BOMBER COMMANDEvening Ops:
- 352 aircraft are sent to Bochum. Included in the total are 213 Lancasters, 130 Halifaxes and 9 Mosquitos.
- The Oboe-assisted Pathfinder plan works well and the bombing is accurate and concentrated.
- 5 Halifaxes and 4 Lancasters are lost.
- 11 Mosquitos are sent to Gelsenkirchen and 14 Lancasters lay mines off Danzig, Gdynia and Pillau in the Baltic. There are no losses.
ITALY:
- XII Bomber Command B-25s and B-26s attack bridges at or near Amorosi, Cancello Arnone, Castelvenere, and Piana.
- 12th Air Force P-38 fighter-bombers attack a bridge near San Apollinare and the defile at Ausonia.
- NATAF aircraft attack tactical targets in and around the battle area.
| ]Air Operations, Solomons
AirSols SBDs and fighters attack a depot at Kakasa while P-40s attack barges.
[ | ]China
Gen Stilwell announces a 'program for China'. He recommends the re-establishment, with American aid, of 60 divisions of the Nationalist Army.
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Diplomatic Relations
Gen Eisenhower and Marshal Badoglio sign the full armistice agreement aboard HMS Nelson at Malta.
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Eastern Front
After 3 days bitter fighting Konev's Steppe Front troops cross the Dniepr at Kremenchug and capture the town. Even the vital 'Dniepr Line' looks like crumbling. Now Rokossovsky and Vatutin advance towards Kiev. Farther north, Rudnya on the Smolensk-Vitebsk railroad, is taken.
SOUTHERN SECTORKremenchug falls to the Steppe Front after a bloody battle.
[ | ]Italy
Gen Alexander issues instructions for future operations. They fall into 2 phases: first, the capture of Naples and the advance of the front to the line Sess, Aurunca, Venafro, Isernia, Castropignano, the Biferno River, Termoli; second, advance to the line Civitavecchia, Terni, Visso, San Benedetto del Tronto. The US 3rd Div begins to attack Avellino. In the X Corps sector the advance reaches beyond Pompeii.
Furious engagements continue in Naples between the insurgents and the German troops. Finally, after the Germans have again used tanks, a truce comes into force at 7:00a.m. on September 30.
[ | ]Pacific
The US submarine Bluefish (SS-222) sinks the Japanese merchant cargo ship Akashi Maru (3227t) off the southeast coast of Mindanao.
[ | ]Pics from September 29, 1943
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