September 1943

Eastern Front

The XLVIII Panzer Corps launches a ferocious counterattack at Bukrin. The Soviet forces in the bridgehead were not expecting an attack of this strength and in the subsequent fighting are almost wiped out. Only through sheer stubbornness do they maintain a small bridgeh3ead on the west bank. Farther southe the Southwest Front enters Dnepropetrovsk but becomes embroiled in bitter fighting with Fretter Pico's XXX Corps.

In the Kuban the Germans give up Temryuk.