Diary September 11, 1943

09-1943, Diary WW2, War Diary, Year 1943 / 1 minute of reading

A Fritz-X armour piercing radio-guided bomb attached to a Do 217 bomber.

WW2 War Diary for Saturday, September 11, 1943:

Air War

Mediterranean: Do 217s of KG 100 (formerly KGr 100) commence series of attacks on Allied fleet off Salerno, using Fritz X and Hs 293 missiles. Cruisers Savannah and Uganda and battleship Warspite seriously damaged; hospital ship Newfoundland and 1 transport sunk (September 11-15).
Germany: 360 RAF bombers attacking Duesseldorf and dropping 760t of bombs.

Sea War

Mediterranean: 7,139 French and US troops transported from Algiers to Corsica (September 11 – October 1).

Mediterranean

Italy: British 8th Army capture Brindisi.
Aegean: Italian garrison of Rhodes surrenders to Germans.

Pacific

New Guinea: Allied force captures Salamaua, near Lae.

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My name is Norman 'Kretaner' and since my childhood I am interested in history and strategy games. Later, I have learned programming and the development of computer games, and finally with the Internet, also web design. I'm in the fortunate position to combine all my interests with my work and to live on a place of my choice, on Crete. All information, figures, specifications and statistics used here had been compiled from a variety of sources and the large, over decades collected, library of the author about military history, WW2 and weapons.