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• Operation Sizilien: Tirpitz attacked the Allied base at Spitzbergen. ww2dbase [Tirpitz | CPC]
• Operation Sizilien: Scharnhorst attacked the Allied base at Spitzbergen. ww2dbase [Scharnhorst | CPC]
• USS S-28 departed for her seventh war patrol. ww2dbase [S-28 | CPC]
• Otto Skorzeny conducted a reconnaissance flight in a He 111 aircraft over Campo Imperatore at Gran Sasso in central Italy and spotted a meadow which could be used as a glider landing field. On the return flight, he narrowly escaped from an Allied air attack. ww2dbase [Joachim von Ribbentrop | CPC]
• British HMS Aurora, HMS Penelope, HMS Dido, and HMS Sirius departed Bizerte, Tunisia at 1700 hours with troops of British 1st Airborne Division. In western Italy, Allied troops landed at Pizo; the landings were attacked by troops of German Krüger Battle Group. ww2dbase [Operation Avalanche | CPC]
• Garland completed her refitting and returned to service. ww2dbase [Garland | CPC]
• USS Bailey made a sound contact off the California coast and dropped six patterns consisting of 39 depth charges with no observable results. ww2dbase [Bailey | DS]

• Philipp was arrested by the Nazi Party. ww2dbase [Philipp | CPC]

• Jürgen Stroop was made the Higher SS and Police Leader in Greece. ww2dbase [Jürgen Stroop | CPC]

• USS Tunny arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending her fourth war patrol. ww2dbase [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Tunny | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]
• Barbers Point Naval Air Station: More of Air Group 5 on board. ww2dbase [Barbers Point Naval Air Station | Ewa, Oahu | DS]

• The Italians formally announced their unconditional surrender to the Allies, leading to German reserve forces crossing the border into Italy. ww2dbase [Invasion of Sicily and Italy's Surrender | TH]
• Italian Navy Xa Flottiglia MAS based at La Spezia, Italy under Commander Junio Valerio Borghese reported the strength of 400 men. ww2dbase [Junio Valerio Borghese | CPC]

• Naka arrived at Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands. ww2dbase [Naka | Kwajalein | CPC]

• A transport of 5,006 Jews (2,293 men and boys, 2,713 women and girls) from Theresienstadt Concentration Camp in Czechoslovakia arrived at Auschwitz Concentration Camp in Poland. They were housed in the BIIb sector. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Auschwitz Concentration Camp | Oswiecim | CPC]

• Aquila VI was interned at Singapore by orders of Rear Admiral Takaichiro Enomoto. ww2dbase [Luigi Torelli | Singapore | CPC]

• USS Ranger sailed from Scapa Flow, Scotland on a sortie with the Home Fleet that ranged 350 miles northward into the Norwegian Sea east of Iceland. ww2dbase [Ranger | Orkney Islands, Scotland | DS]

8 Sep 1943 Interactive Map