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• German 9.Armee retreated, allowing Red Army to move into Orel, Russia. ww2dbase [TH]
• The US advance in Sicily, Italy was halted at Troina and the Furiano River. ww2dbase [Invasion of Sicily and Italy's Surrender | TH]
• USS Nicholas and convoy arrived at Nouméa, New Caledonia. ww2dbase [Nicholas | DS]

• Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Sewage treatment plant turned over to station. ww2dbase [Barbers Point Naval Air Station | Ewa, Oahu | DS]
• Submarine USS Tinosa arrived at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii at the end of her second war patrol. ww2dbase [Tinosa | Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Pearl Harbor, Oahu | DS]

• Captain Shinshiro Soma was named the commanding officer of Settsu. ww2dbase [Settsu | CPC]

• In Operation BG 7, Italian auxiliary ship Olterra launched three manned torpedoes against Gibraltar, sinking three cargo ships. ww2dbase [CPC]

• Allied bombers attacked Naples, Italy, killing many civilians. ww2dbase [Naples Uprising | Napoli, Campania | CPC]
• Otto Skorzeny learned from the German Police Attaché that Benito Mussolini had been transported in an ambulance from the Royal Palace in Rome, Italy to one of the carabinieri barracks in Rome back on 25 Jul 1943. ww2dbase [Joachim von Ribbentrop | Rome | CPC]

• Orde Wingate arrived in London, England, United Kingdom and met Winston Churchill, with their meeting extended onto the dinner table. By evening Churchill knew he would be taking Wingate to the Quadrant Conference to discuss the acomplishments of the Chindits with US President Franklin Roosevelt. ww2dbase [Orde Wingate | Winston Churchill | London, England | CPC]

• US Marine Corps squadron VMF-214, flying Corsair fighters, provided top cover for another squadron's strafing mission against the Japanese anchorage at Faisi, Shortland Islands, Solomon Islands. VMF-214 pilots claimed 3 Japanese aircraft shot down plus 2 probables. ww2dbase [Faisi, Shortland Islands | CPC]
• The lone survivor of the sunken destroyer Kiyonami (sunk by US aircraft on 20 Jul 1943) was found and rescue in the Solomon Islands. ww2dbase [CPC]

• A radar-equipped PBY Catalina conducted a pre-dawn bombing raid of the Japanese submarine base and main camp area on Kiska Island. The single Catalina also dropped 92 empty beer bottles (for the disconcerting whistling effect they produced) on those targets. ww2dbase [PBY Catalina | Aleutian Islands Campaign | Kiska | DS]

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