25 Sep 1943
- Soviet troops captured Roslavl and Smolensk, Russia. ww2dbase [TH]
- All Jewish ghettos in Byelorussia were liquidated. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | CPC]
- The last report of the US submarine Pompano was received while she was on patrol off Honshu, Japan; she was presumed to have been sunk by newly laid Japanese mines. ww2dbase [Pompano | AC]
- USS Sunfish ended her fourth war patrol. ww2dbase [Sunfish (Gato-class) | CPC]
- Shokaku arrived at Truk, Caroline Islands. ww2dbase [Shokaku | Truk | CPC]
- Yamato arrived at Truk, Caroline Islands after failing to make contact with US Navy Task Force 15. ww2dbase [Yamato | Truk | CPC]
- General Otto Fretter-Pico was named the commanding officer of German 148th Infantry Division in Italy. ww2dbase [CPC]
- Italian resistance fighters captured a stock of 250 rifles which had been previously confiscated by German authorities in Naples, Italy. ww2dbase [Naples Uprising | Napoli, Campania | CPC]
- Unryu was launched at Yokosuka, Japan. ww2dbase [Yokosuka Naval Arsenal | Unryu | Yokosuka, Kanagawa | CPC]
- USS Bluefish sank a Japanese ship south of Celebes, Dutch East Indies, hitting her with 3 of 10 torpedoes fired. ww2dbase [Bluefish | Java Sea | CPC]
- USS Wahoo sank freighter Taiko Maru in the Sea of Japan. ww2dbase [Wahoo | Sea of Japan | CPC]
- After leaving Pearl Harbor two days before for her third war patrol, submarine USS Tinosa stopped at Johnston's Island and received 11,000 gallons of fuel oil. ww2dbase [Tinosa | Johnston's Island | DS]
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