1941年9月16日 | World War II Database

1941年9月16日

5 PBM Mariner aircraft and 1 PBY Catalina aircraft received radar to help these American aircraft conduct their neutrality patrols. ww2dbase [PBM Mariner | United States Neutrality Patrol | CPC]
The German XXXXI Armeekorps (mot[orized]) successfully cut off the Soviet 8th Army in the Oranienbaum Pocket southwest of Leningrad, Russia after two days of fighting. ww2dbase [Siege of Leningrad | CPC]
German submarine U-98 sank British ship Jedmoor of Allied convoy SC-42 100 miles northwest of Isle of Lewis, Scotland, United Kingdom at 2316 hours; 31 were killed, 5 survived. ww2dbase [CPC]
Italian submarine Smeraldo sank in the Mediterranean Sea to unknown cause, killing all 45 aboard. ww2dbase [CPC]
Without authorization, Hans-Joachim Marseille flew over an Australian airfield in Libya, amidst anti-aircraft fire, to deliver a message that pilot Lieutenant Pat Byers, whom he shot down two days prior, was being treated at a German hospital in Libya. ww2dbase [Hans-Joachim Marseille | CPC]

冰島

USS New Mexico arrived at Reykjavik, Iceland. ww2dbase [New Mexico | Reykjavik | CPC]

愛沙尼亞

Emden was attacked by Soviet coastal batteries based on the island of Hiiumaa, Estonia as well as four torpedo boats; the Soviets failed to cause any damage. ww2dbase [Emden | Hiiumaa | CPC]

烏克蘭

German Generals Guderian and Kleist's Panzergruppen linked up east of Kiev, Ukraine, encircling 5 Soviet Armies. ww2dbase [Operation Barbarossa | Kiev | TH]
German troops massacred Jews en masse in Vinnitsa, Ukraine. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Vinnitsa | CPC]
Romanian troops captured the heights northwest of Gross-Liebenthal district of Odessa, Ukraine. ww2dbase [Siege of Odessa | Odessa | CPC]