14 Sep 1943




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- French commandos infiltrated Corsica to aid partisans against the Germans. ww2dbase [TH]
- Kos Island, Greece was occupied by British Royal Navy Special Boat Service troops. ww2dbase [Dodecanese Campaign | TH]
- German troops evacuated Bryansk, Russia. ww2dbase [TH]
- USS Seahorse attacked a Japanese tanker in the Palau Islands; all eight torpedoes missed. ww2dbase [Seahorse | CPC]
- HMS Howe escorted Italian battleship Vittorio Veneto and Italia to Alexandria, Egypt. ww2dbase [Howe | CPC]
- Corsair fighters of US Marine Corps squadron VMF-214 attacked Kahili Airfield on Bougainville, meeting no opposition. ww2dbase [Kahili Airfield | Buin, Bougainville | CPC]
- Destroyers USS Saufley, USS Cony, and USS Montgomery escorting supply ships SS Meredith and SS McClintock departed Tulagi, Solomon Islands bound for Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides. ww2dbase [Saufley | Tulagi, Solomon Islands | DS]
- Ugo Cavallero, the Commander-in-Chief of the Italian Supreme Command, was found dead by a gunshot in the garden of a hotel in Frascati, Lazio, Italy. It was never discovered whether he committed suicide or was assassinated by the Germans. ww2dbase [Ugo Cavallero | Frascati, Lazio | CPC, AC]
- US 180th Infantry Regiment arrived at Paestum in Italy, relieving two battalions of paratroopers of US 82nd Airborne Division; meanwhile, a US airborne battalion was dropped behind German lines nearby in an attempt to take pressure off the Salerno invasion beach. German forces continued the assaults the Allied beachheads, with main pressure placed upon the American sector, but naval gunfire and aerial bombardment gave the defenders enough firepower to hold the lines. ww2dbase [Operation Avalanche | Salerno, Campania | TH, CPC]
- Submarine USS Narwhal arrived off Kwajalein in the Marshall Islands. ww2dbase [Narwhal | Kwajalein | DS]
- USS Alabama arrived at Havannah Harbor, Efate Island, New Hebrides Islands. ww2dbase [Alabama | Port Havannah, Efate | CPC]




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