Air Operations, CBI

• 9 308th Heavy Bomb Group B-24s attack Myitkyina and Sadon while flying to India for supplies via the Hump ferry route from China.

Air Operations, Europe

• 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.

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.

A Sherman tank named 'Sheik of the Scots Greys' with distinctive camouflage, 29 September 1943.

Camouflaged Sherman Tank

Diplomatic Relations

Gen Eisenhower and Marshal Badoglio sign the full armistice agreement aboard HMS Nelson at Malta.

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.

Kremenchug 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.

Pics from September 29, 1943

Members of the Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS) move a torpedo for loading into a submarine at Portsmouth, 29 September 1943.

Women's Royal Naval Service Members Move a Torpedo

American Troops Going from the Chiunzi Pass to Naples. Italy, late September 1943

The British Army in Italy 1943: Men of the 2/6th Queen's Regiment read the Newbury Weekly News in their jeep, 29 September 1943.

British Soldiers Read the Newbury Weekly News

Semovente L40, Italy, September 1943