1 Sep 1943
- USS Snook performed lifeguard duty for carrier aircraft airmen. ww2dbase [Snook | CPC]
- Chinese General He Yingqin tentatively planned to organize 45 divisions stationed in southern China into a cohesive force, Zebra Force, which Joseph Stilwell wished to establish. ww2dbase [Joseph Stilwell | He Yingqin | CPC]
- Rudolf von Schmettow was made the military governor of the Channel Islands for the second time, succeeding Erich Müller. ww2dbase [CPC]
- USS Cisco arrived at Brisbane, Australia. ww2dbase [Cisco | Brisbane, Queensland | CPC]
- The keel of Z45 was laid down at the DeSchiMAG shipyard in Bremen, Germany. ww2dbase [Z45 | Deutsche Schiff- und Maschinenbau AG | Bremen, Weser-Ems | CPC]
- Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Hangars A & R (main hangars) usably complete. Addition to land plane runways usably complete. ww2dbase [Barbers Point Naval Air Station | Ewa, Oahu | DS]
- Students gathered to protest at Piazza del Plebiscito, Naples, Italy. ww2dbase [Naples Uprising | Napoli, Campania | CPC]
- Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Yokosuka, Japan. ww2dbase [Hikawa Maru | Yokosuka, Kanagawa | CPC]
- German and Estonian police surrounded the Vilna ghetto in Lithuania and began deporting Jews to forced labor camps in Estonia. The underground United Partisan Organization (FPO) issued a manifesto urging the ghetto residents to resist. After an abortive clash between the FPO and German forces, the Judenrat Chairman Jacob Gens reached an agreement with the Germans to fill the required deportee quota, 5,000 Jews,in exchange for the withdraw of German forces from the ghetto. A small number of Jews were able to escape the ghetto during the failed clash; some of them joined nearby resistance groups. ww2dbase [Vilnius | CPC]
- Japanese 21st Air Flotilla at Saipan, Mariana Islands was disbanded. Its two air groups, Air Group 253 (fighters) and Air Group 751 (medium bombers) were reassigned to Rabaul, New Britain. ww2dbase [Saipan | CPC]
- Eleanor Roosevelt arrived at Auckland, New Zealand. ww2dbase [Eleanor Roosevelt | Auckland | CPC]
- Marcel Albert, flying a Yak-9 fighter, shot down a Fw 190 aircraft over Yelnya, Smolensk, Russia. ww2dbase [Marcel Albert | Yelnya, Smolensk | CPC]
- Aquila VI arrived at Keppel Harbour, Singapore and began receiving repairs. Most of her crew were sent to Pasir Panjang village to rest. ww2dbase [Luigi Torelli | Singapore | CPC]
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