21 Sep 1943
- Picking was commissioned into service. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
- Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Davao, Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Main Article | Tabular Record of Movement | CPC]
- The southern portion of the German defensive Panther Line was breached when Red Army units crossed the Dneiper River near Dnepropetrovsk in Ukraine. ww2dbase [TH]
- German troops attacked and killed thousands of troops of Italian Acqui Division, which had refused to surrender, on Cephalonia, Greece. ww2dbase [CPC]
- Naka arrived at Wotje Atoll, Marshall Islands. ww2dbase [Main Article | Tabular Record of Movement | CPC]
- USS Bluefish attacked a Japanese ship in the Celebes Sea; all four torpedoes missed. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
- British Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Kingsley Wood, suddenly died (age 62) at his London Home on the morning he was due to announce his new Pay As You Earn taxation scheme to Parliament. ww2dbase [AC]
- The US State Department informed the manager of Hotel Hershey in Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States that the Vichy French internees currently residing at the hotel would soon be transferred out. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

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