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• US bombers attacked Mariensburg, Germany. ww2dbase [Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | CPC]
• USS Hoe searched for down American airmen in the Wake Island area. ww2dbase [Hoe | CPC]
• The American destroyer USS Buck was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-616 off Salerno, Italy. ww2dbase [AC]
• USS Puffer damaged a Japanese transport east of Borneo, Dutch East Indies, hitting her with 2 of 4 torpedoes fired. ww2dbase [Puffer | CPC]
• Oberfeldwebel Johann Boos and Oberleutnant Robert Seib of the German Kampfgeschwader 55 wing were awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. ww2dbase [CPC]

• US 8th Photo Reconnaissance Squadron successfully took photos of Rabaul, New Britain. ww2dbase [New Guinea-Papua Campaign, Phase 3 | CPC]

• Japanese aircraft attacked the Dobodura Airfield in Australian Papua, setting oil dumps on fire. On the same day, 2nd Bomb Squadron (flying B-25 and B-26 aircraft) of USAAF 22nd Bomb Group was transferred to Dobodura. ww2dbase [New Guinea-Papua Campaign, Phase 3 | Dobodura Airfield | CPC]

• After ten months in port, German Type IXC U-Boat U-505 departed Lorient, France for her tenth Atlantic patrol seeking to break her run of bad luck and bad morale. ww2dbase [U-505 | DS]

• Paul von Kleist was mentioned in the Wehrmachtbericht daily radio report. ww2dbase [Paul von Kleist | CPC]

• German submarine U-703 arrived at Harstad, Norway and dropped off two survivors of Russian freighter Dekabrist. ww2dbase [Arctic Convoys | CPC]

• Kuban, Russia was under complete Soviet control as the last German and Romanian units had evacuated to Crimea. ww2dbase [Caucasus Campaign | TH]
• Semyon Timoshenko was awarded the Order of Suvorov 1st Class for the first time. ww2dbase [Semyon Timoshenko | CPC]

• USS New Mexico departed Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington, United States. ww2dbase [New Mexico | CPC]

9 Oct 1943 Interactive Map