The
Royal Navy carried out
Operation Tungsten, an attack on the German battleship Tirpitz anchored in northern Norway. Fifteen bombs hit the battleship but the damage inflicted was not sufficient to sink or disable the target.
The Germans began running long distance cargo flights between Polish airfields and Manchuria, flying
Junkers Ju 290 A-9 aircraft at altitudes of up to 38,000 feet to cross the Soviet Union undetected.[2]
The
RAF dropped a record 3,600 tons of bombs in a single raid on Germany, France and Belgium.[1]
General
William Slim ordered a new offensive in Burma, calling for Stopford to break through to
Kohima while the
Imphal Garrison would make sorties into Japanese-held territory around them.[2]
The
Bombay Explosion occurred in the Victoria Dock of
Bombay when the freighter Fort Stikine caught fire and was destroyed in two giant blasts that killed about 800 people.
The Japanese roadblock to the west of Kohima was broken and the encircled British XXXIII Corps was relieved after a week.[2]
German submarine U-448 was depth charged and sunk northeast of the
Azores by Allied warships.
Also, on this day, as part of the Japanese supported Axis forces led by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, fighting for India's liberation from British rule, Col. Shaukat Ali Malik of the Bahadur Group of the Indian National Army entered Moirang in present day Manipur in northeastern India and raised the flag of the Azri Hukumat e-Azad Hind for the first time on Indian soil. This is considered to be one of the 1st times in British Indian history where an army of liberation raised the national flag on Indian mainland.[20]
Operation Guidance: British submarine X24 attacked a floating dock at
Bergen in occupied Norway. The mission did not quite come off as planned when the charges were placed on a large merchant vessel instead of the dock; the ship was sunk but the dock only took minor damage. The operation was repeated on September 11 and this time the dock was sunk.
Died:Elmer Gedeon, 27, American USAAF officer and one of only two major league baseball players killed in WWII (shot down over France)
The Allied forces broke through the Japanese siege of Kohima and relieved the Royal West Kent’s. The Tanks of A Squadron 149 Regiment Royal Armoured Corps supported this breakthrough and also assisted with the evacuation of the wounded. Almost 300 wounded were evacuated from Garrison Hill on the Kohima ridge.
The Salzburg conference between Hitler and Mussolini concluded. A compromise was reached in which Mussolini agreed to continue permitting Italian troops to be trained in Germany, with the best fighters allowed to form the nucleus of the new
National Republican Army.[26]
Adolf Eichmann and the Nazis offered the Hungarian rescue worker
Joel Brand the "Blood for Goods" deal, proposing that one million Jews be allowed to leave Hungary for any Allied-occupied country except Palestine, in exchange for goods obtained outside of Hungary. The deal would never be made because the Allies believed it to be a trick and the British press slammed it as blackmail.[29]
German submarine U-488 was depth charged and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean by U.S. warships.
On
Budget Day in the United Kingdom, Chancellor of the Exchequer
Sir John Anderson announced that the deficit for the past year was £2.76 billion. This was £89 million smaller than the deficit forecast by Anderson's predecessor, the late
Kingsley Wood, because government revenue was higher than expected. Anderson presented a budget with only minor changes from the previous year and no additional taxation.[30]
The legislative assembly of the Canadian province of
Quebec voted 55-4 to adopt a motion introduced by
René Chaloult expressing disapproval of any attempt to send conscripted men overseas.[32]
Jim Tobin of the
Boston Braves pitched a 2-0 no-hitter against the
Brooklyn Dodgers. Tobin also hit a home run during the game, becoming the third pitcher in major league history to hit a home run while throwing a no-hitter.[33]
The first practice assault in
Exercise Tiger, a series of large-scale rehearsals for
D-Day, was held on
Slapton Sands in
Devon. The exercise was attacked by nine German E-boats that killed a total of 749 American servicemen. Two landing ships were sunk including
USS LST-507.
Japanese cruiser Yūbari sank southwest of
Palau the day after being torpedoed by the American submarine Bluegill.
Died:Frank Knox, 70, American newspaper editor, publisher and Secretary of the U.S. Navy
In one of the worst
friendly fire incidents of the war,
Motor Torpedo Boat PT-346 was attacked off
Rabaul by two American Marine
Corsair planes that mistook two PT boats for Japanese gunboats. PT-346 was destroyed with nine men killed and nine wounded.
American attacks on the Japanese air base at
Truk destroyed most of the aircraft.[2]
The Canadian destroyer
HMCS Athabaskan was torpedoed and sunk in the English Channel by the German torpedo boat T24.
Japanese submarine I-183 was sunk south of the
Bungo Strait by American submarine Pogy.
^Urban, Joan Barth (1986). Moscow and the Italian Communist Party: From Togliatti to Berlinguer. London: I.B. Tarus & Co. p. 195.
ISBN978-1-85043-027-8.
The
Royal Navy carried out
Operation Tungsten, an attack on the German battleship Tirpitz anchored in northern Norway. Fifteen bombs hit the battleship but the damage inflicted was not sufficient to sink or disable the target.
The Germans began running long distance cargo flights between Polish airfields and Manchuria, flying
Junkers Ju 290 A-9 aircraft at altitudes of up to 38,000 feet to cross the Soviet Union undetected.[2]
The
RAF dropped a record 3,600 tons of bombs in a single raid on Germany, France and Belgium.[1]
General
William Slim ordered a new offensive in Burma, calling for Stopford to break through to
Kohima while the
Imphal Garrison would make sorties into Japanese-held territory around them.[2]
The
Bombay Explosion occurred in the Victoria Dock of
Bombay when the freighter Fort Stikine caught fire and was destroyed in two giant blasts that killed about 800 people.
The Japanese roadblock to the west of Kohima was broken and the encircled British XXXIII Corps was relieved after a week.[2]
German submarine U-448 was depth charged and sunk northeast of the
Azores by Allied warships.
Also, on this day, as part of the Japanese supported Axis forces led by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, fighting for India's liberation from British rule, Col. Shaukat Ali Malik of the Bahadur Group of the Indian National Army entered Moirang in present day Manipur in northeastern India and raised the flag of the Azri Hukumat e-Azad Hind for the first time on Indian soil. This is considered to be one of the 1st times in British Indian history where an army of liberation raised the national flag on Indian mainland.[20]
Operation Guidance: British submarine X24 attacked a floating dock at
Bergen in occupied Norway. The mission did not quite come off as planned when the charges were placed on a large merchant vessel instead of the dock; the ship was sunk but the dock only took minor damage. The operation was repeated on September 11 and this time the dock was sunk.
Died:Elmer Gedeon, 27, American USAAF officer and one of only two major league baseball players killed in WWII (shot down over France)
The Allied forces broke through the Japanese siege of Kohima and relieved the Royal West Kent’s. The Tanks of A Squadron 149 Regiment Royal Armoured Corps supported this breakthrough and also assisted with the evacuation of the wounded. Almost 300 wounded were evacuated from Garrison Hill on the Kohima ridge.
The Salzburg conference between Hitler and Mussolini concluded. A compromise was reached in which Mussolini agreed to continue permitting Italian troops to be trained in Germany, with the best fighters allowed to form the nucleus of the new
National Republican Army.[26]
Adolf Eichmann and the Nazis offered the Hungarian rescue worker
Joel Brand the "Blood for Goods" deal, proposing that one million Jews be allowed to leave Hungary for any Allied-occupied country except Palestine, in exchange for goods obtained outside of Hungary. The deal would never be made because the Allies believed it to be a trick and the British press slammed it as blackmail.[29]
German submarine U-488 was depth charged and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean by U.S. warships.
On
Budget Day in the United Kingdom, Chancellor of the Exchequer
Sir John Anderson announced that the deficit for the past year was £2.76 billion. This was £89 million smaller than the deficit forecast by Anderson's predecessor, the late
Kingsley Wood, because government revenue was higher than expected. Anderson presented a budget with only minor changes from the previous year and no additional taxation.[30]
The legislative assembly of the Canadian province of
Quebec voted 55-4 to adopt a motion introduced by
René Chaloult expressing disapproval of any attempt to send conscripted men overseas.[32]
Jim Tobin of the
Boston Braves pitched a 2-0 no-hitter against the
Brooklyn Dodgers. Tobin also hit a home run during the game, becoming the third pitcher in major league history to hit a home run while throwing a no-hitter.[33]
The first practice assault in
Exercise Tiger, a series of large-scale rehearsals for
D-Day, was held on
Slapton Sands in
Devon. The exercise was attacked by nine German E-boats that killed a total of 749 American servicemen. Two landing ships were sunk including
USS LST-507.
Japanese cruiser Yūbari sank southwest of
Palau the day after being torpedoed by the American submarine Bluegill.
Died:Frank Knox, 70, American newspaper editor, publisher and Secretary of the U.S. Navy
In one of the worst
friendly fire incidents of the war,
Motor Torpedo Boat PT-346 was attacked off
Rabaul by two American Marine
Corsair planes that mistook two PT boats for Japanese gunboats. PT-346 was destroyed with nine men killed and nine wounded.
American attacks on the Japanese air base at
Truk destroyed most of the aircraft.[2]
The Canadian destroyer
HMCS Athabaskan was torpedoed and sunk in the English Channel by the German torpedo boat T24.
Japanese submarine I-183 was sunk south of the
Bungo Strait by American submarine Pogy.
^Urban, Joan Barth (1986). Moscow and the Italian Communist Party: From Togliatti to Berlinguer. London: I.B. Tarus & Co. p. 195.
ISBN978-1-85043-027-8.