Air Operations, Asia

The Japanese bomb Madras, India.

Air Operations, CBI

• 308th Heavy Bomb Group B-24s attack Myitkyina and Sadon.

• 308th Heavy Bomb Group B-24s attack Tengchung.

Air Operations, East Indies

During the night, V Bomber Command B-25s attack the Cape Chater airfield at Timor and Lautem.

Air Operations, New Guinea

• V Bomber Command B-24s attack Bira, Fak Fak, and Manokwari.
• On a reconnaissance mission over the airfield at Boram, 4 348th Fighter Group P-47s encounter a Japanese bomber formation escorted by more than 30 fighters. The 4 P-47s down 9 of the Japanese fighters.

Air Operations, Solomons

22 AirSols TBFs and 30 SBDs attack the Kahili airfield on Bougainville and vicinity. Marine Corps F4Us down 7 A6M Zeros in the Shortland Islands area around 0945 hours. 1 18th Fighter Group P-40 downs a two-seat airplane near Kahili at 0945 hours.

Eastern Front

The armies of the Bryansk Front under Gen Markian M. Popov tighten their hold around Gomel and manage to capture one of its suburbs, Novobelitsa.

The Central Front makes slow progress around Gomel, Novobelitsa falling after hard fighting.

As Soviet troops enter Zaporozhe, bitter street fighting erupts in the town.

Italy

Montgomery regroups his forward troops. V Corps is deployed on the right flank while XIII Corps mans the central sector, but there will be a pause while the reorganization is completed.

Scenes from October 11, 1943

(13th AF) 22 B-24's join 30+ USN dive bombers in pounding Kahili Airfield and the nearby area. Hits are scored on the airstrip, fuel dumps, supply areas, gun positions, bridges between Rangu and Jakohina, barges at the mouth of the Uguima River, and several other targets.

B-24s To Bomb Kahili Airfield

View of Salerno Harbor, 11 October 1943

Soviet Armored Forces during the Zhitomir-Berdichev Offensive

Clearing Debris on Cellestrasse, Hannover – October 1943