11 Sep 1943
![Cruiser Savannah immediately after she was hit by a German guided bomb during the Salerno operation, 11 Sep 1943, photo 1 of 2](/images/imagemagick/tmb_battle_italy9.jpg)
![Cruiser Savannah immediately after she was hit by a German guided bomb during the Salerno operation, 11 Sep 1943, photo 2 of 2](/images/imagemagick/tmb_battle_italy11.jpg)
![Map depicting Operation Avalanche progress at Salerno, Italy as of the end of the day 11 Sep 1943](/images/imagemagick/tmb_battle_avalanche5.jpg)
![German crew of a 7.5 cm PaK 40 anti-tank gun resting in front of the Italian State Radio at the corner of Via Asiago and Via Montello, Rome, Italy, 11 Sep 1943.](/images/imagemagick/tmb_weapon_75cmpak40_16.jpg)
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- Operation Source: British midget submarines X5, X6, and X7 attacked German battleship Tirpitz in Norway. All three were destroyed, but X6 and X7 were able to place mines below the ship. ww2dbase [Tirpitz | CPC]
- Pierre Le Gloan passed away. ww2dbase [Pierre Le Gloan | CPC]
- The anti-Hitler group Bund Deutscher Offiziere was formed in Moscow, Russia by a number of German officers captured by Soviet forces since the beginning of the war. ww2dbase [TH]
- At 1500 hours, Kurt Student ordered Major Harald Mors to have a plan for the rescue of Benito Mussolini ready at his desk as soon as possible, with the plan to be executed on the following day at 0730 hours. ww2dbase [Operation Eiche | CPC]
- Italian forces in various Aegean islands surrendered to the Germans, including those at the island of Rhodes. ww2dbase [Dodecanese Campaign | AC]
- USS Bailey departed San Diego bound for San Francisco, California. ww2dbase [Bailey | DS]
- Jewish ghettos in Byelorussian cities of Minsk and Lida were liquidated over the next 3 days. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | CPC]
- German authorities raided Jews in Nice, France. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | CPC]
- US and French troops landed on the French island of Corsica in the Mediterranean Sea. ww2dbase [Corse | AC]
- USS Tunny departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. ww2dbase [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Tunny | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]
- Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Part of Torpedo Squadron 16 (VT-16) departed. Part of Bombing Squadron 16 (VB-16) departed. ww2dbase [Barbers Point Naval Air Station | Ewa, Oahu | DS]
- British 1st Airborne Division captured Brindisi and Bari, Italy without resistance; in the opposite direction, the British paratroopers also linked up with Canadian troops of British XIII Corps which had landed at Reggio Calabria eight days prior. Further north, German troops declared Rome secure. ww2dbase [Operation Avalanche | AC, CPC]
- Inigo Campioni was captured by the Germans on Rhodes, Italian Dodecanese. ww2dbase [Inigo Campioni | Rhodes, Dodecanese | CPC]
- After sighting a Japanese convoy of seven freighters, one destroyer, and three torpedo boats 90 miles southeast of Kyushu, submarine USS Spearfish maneuvered into the very center of the convoy. Within a span of four-and-a-half minutes, Spearfish fired eight torpedoes at four different ships. Four or five of the torpedoes missed, one was a hit but did not explode, and two definitely exploded. One 7,000-ton freighter was sunk and another, Army transport ship Tsuyama Maru, was so damaged by the dud that she went dead in the water. Spearfish was subjected to a depth charge attack that kept her submerged for 22 hours. The Tsuyama Maru was later towed to port and repaired. ww2dbase [Spearfish | DS]
- USS Harder attacked a Japanese convoy south of Japan, sinking cargo ship Yoko Maru, hitting her with 1 of 3 torpedoes. ww2dbase [Harder | CPC]
- Orde Wingate departed the United Kingdom for Lisbon, Portugal. ww2dbase [Orde Wingate | CPC]
![Cruiser Savannah immediately after she was hit by a German guided bomb during the Salerno operation, 11 Sep 1943, photo 1 of 2](/images/imagemagick/tmb_battle_italy9.jpg)
![Cruiser Savannah immediately after she was hit by a German guided bomb during the Salerno operation, 11 Sep 1943, photo 2 of 2](/images/imagemagick/tmb_battle_italy11.jpg)
![Map depicting Operation Avalanche progress at Salerno, Italy as of the end of the day 11 Sep 1943](/images/imagemagick/tmb_battle_avalanche5.jpg)
![German crew of a 7.5 cm PaK 40 anti-tank gun resting in front of the Italian State Radio at the corner of Via Asiago and Via Montello, Rome, Italy, 11 Sep 1943.](/images/imagemagick/tmb_weapon_75cmpak40_16.jpg)
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