29 Sep 1943
- USS Snook damaged a Japanese craft with her deck gun. ww2dbase [Snook | CPC]
- Lord Gort participated in the Italian surrender ceremony in Valetta harbor in Italy. ww2dbase [John Vereker | CPC]
- The minesweeper USS Aspire was transferred to the Soviet Union under the Lend-Lease act. ww2dbase [AC]
- Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Balikpapan, Dutch Borneo. ww2dbase [Hikawa Maru | Balikpapan, Borneo | CPC]
- Escort carrier USS Bogue and her task group departed Casablanca, French Morocco and resumed their Central Atlantic patrol. ww2dbase [Bogue | Casablanca | DS]
- USS Mingo departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her second war patrol. ww2dbase [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Mingo | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]
- A fast carrier strike force built around carriers USS Essex, USS Yorktown, USS Lexington, USS Cowpens, USS Independence, and USS Belleau Wood, escorted by USS Nashville and other warships, departed US Territory of Hawaii for combat operations. ww2dbase [Lexington (Essex-class) | Nashville | Essex | J. J. Clark | Yorktown (Essex-class) | Independence | Belleau Wood | Cowpens | Pearl Harbor, Oahu | CPC]
- Allied troops captured Pompeii, Italy. Meanwhile, Marshal Badoglio met with General Eisenhower aboard HMS Nelson to sign the armistice and to discuss further plans for the war. ww2dbase [Operation Avalanche | TH]
- Italian resistance fighters and German occupation troops clashed in the Giuseppe Mazzini Square (where a German tank fired on the Italians), the Ponticelli district, the Capodichino military airfield, the Piazza Ottocalli square, and other locations in Naples, Italy. As the scale of the uprising continued to grow, Colonel Walter Schöll began negotiating with some of the Italian leaders, using captured resistance fighters as collateral. ww2dbase [Naples Uprising | Napoli, Campania | CPC]
- The keel of I-403 was laid down by Kawasaki Heavy Industries at Kobe, Japan; the project would soon be canceled, however. ww2dbase [I-400-class | Kobe, Hyogo | CPC]
- USS Harder damaged a Japanese armed trawler off Japan with her deck gun. ww2dbase [Harder | CPC]
29 Sep 1943 Interactive Map
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