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• Mikio Furusho was born in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan. ww2dbase [Mikio Furusho | Kumamoto | CPC]

• Harold George was born in Lockport, New York, United States. ww2dbase [Harold George | Lockport, New York | CPC]

• Prince Hiroyasu was made an officer in the mine force in Kure, Japan. ww2dbase [Hiroyasu | Kure, Hiroshima | CPC]

• Haiqi hosted US President William Howard Taft. ww2dbase [Haiqi | CPC]

• Having failed to dislodge German troops on the far bank of the Aisne River in France on the previous day, the battle dwindled out into the trench warfare that would characterise WW1. ww2dbase [AC]
• Kaiser William II appointed Lieutenant General Falkenhayn, the German Minister of War, to the post of Chief of the General Staff of the Army. ww2dbase [AC]

• The keel of the oiler which would later be named Kamoi was laid down by New York Shipbuilding in Camden, New Jersey, United States. ww2dbase [Kamoi | Camden, New Jersey | CPC]

14 Sep 1921 Interactive Map

• USS S-39 was commissioned into service. ww2dbase [S-39 | CPC]

• Vi Kyuin "Wellington" Koo stepped down as the interim premier of Chinese Beiyang Government. ww2dbase [Wellington Koo | CPC]

• Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party received 6,371,000 votes in a national election, representing about 18% of the total votes, and gained 107 seats in the Reichstag. The party was now the second largest in the country. ww2dbase [Adolf Hitler | TH]

• Japanese cruiser Yubari and two destroyers engaged with Chinese cruiser Zhaohe and sloop Haizhou off the Pearl River Delta off Guangdong, China. Zhaohe and Haizhou were both damaged, and the captain of Zhaohe would later be shot for ordering a retreat from this engagement. ww2dbase [Yubari | CPC]

• Adolf Hitler departed Munich, Germany for his home in Obersalzberg in southern Germany. ww2dbase [Adolf Hitler | CPC]

• The new aircraft carrier, HMS Ark Royal, was operating west of the Hebrides, Scotland, United Kingdom when lookouts spotted the tracks of torpedoes passing astern. Her escorting destroyers counter-attacked and sank the German submarine U-39. ww2dbase [Ark Royal | AC]
• German submarine U-39 attacked HMS Ark Royal; the torpedoes swam straight at the carrier but they prematurely detonated. ww2dbase [Start of the Battle of the Atlantic | CPC]

• Japanese 106th Division under Lieutenant General Ryotaro Nakai engaged with Chinese 184th Division near Fengxin County, Jiangxi Province China. ww2dbase [Fengxin, Jiangxi | CPC]

• The world's first production helicopter, the Sikorsky VS-300, made its maiden flight. Sikorsky would go on to equip military units in both Britain and the US. ww2dbase [AC]
• Aircraft carrier USS Ranger and battleships USS New York and Texas are designated as a striking force held in reserve at Hampton Roads, Virginia in support of destroyers and Coast Guard cutters on Neutrality Patrols in the Atlantic. ww2dbase [United States Neutrality Patrol | Texas | Louisville | Ranger | Hampton Roads, Virginia | DS]

• The Japanese Imperial General Headquarters gave the orders for troops to move into Indochina on 22 Sep 1940 regardless of the state of the Franco-Japanese negotiations. British intelligence intercepted this message, but it would not be deciphered until 20 Sep 1940. ww2dbase [Indochina Campaign | CPC]
• British battleships HMS Barham and HMS Resolution, several British destroyers, and French sloops Commandant Domine and Commandant Duboc arrived at the Crown Colony of Freetown in West Africa to refuel. These warships were en route to French-controlled port of Dakar. ww2dbase [British Attacks on the French Fleet | CPC]
• German anti-submarine trawler Hinrich Wesselhoft ran aground near Bergen, Norway in the Hardangerfjord. The damage was so great that she would later be scuttled. ww2dbase [CPC]
• Italian submarine Emo attacked British tanker Saint Agnes 500 miles west of Porto, Portugal with torpedo and deck gun. ww2dbase [First Happy Time | CPC]
• Adolf Hitler postponed Operation Sea Lion once again, to 17 Sep 1940. In the evening, the British RAF mounted a major attack on several launching points for the invasion of Britain, destroying several ships. ww2dbase [Adolf Hitler | CPC]
• Douglas Bader was awarded the Distinguished Service Order. ww2dbase [Douglas Bader | CPC]
• HMS Cumberland detached from convoy escort with HM Cruisers Devonshire, Australia and HM Aircraft Carrier Ark Royal to establish patrol off Cape Verde for interception of three Vichy French cruisers attempting to reach Dakar. ww2dbase [Australia | Ark Royal | Devonshire | Cumberland | DS]

• Montcalm arrived at Dakar, French West Africa. ww2dbase [Montcalm | Dakar | CPC]
• Cruiser Georges Leygues arrived at Dakar, French West Africa. ww2dbase [Georges Leygues | Dakar | CPC]

• Walter Grabmann was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross medal. ww2dbase [Walter Grabmann | CPC]

• At 1530 hours, 150 German aircraft crossed the coast for London, England, United Kingdom; another 100 approached at 1800 hours. Most bombers were unable to reach their targets due to British fighter opposition. Overnight, there was little bombing of London. ww2dbase [Battle of Britain | London, England | CPC]

14 Sep 1940 Interactive Map

• The German Armeegruppe Mitte encircled two full Soviet Armies near Kiev, Ukraine. ww2dbase [Operation Barbarossa | TH]
• The German XXXXI Armeekorps (mot[orized]) attacked Soviet positions southwest of Leningrad, Russia, while Soviet troops counterattacked into the flanks of the German assault. ww2dbase [Siege of Leningrad | CPC]

• Hans-Joachim Marseille shot down the Australian Hurricane fighter flown by Lieutenant Pat Byers over Bardia, Libya, his 18th kill. ww2dbase [Hans-Joachim Marseille | Bardia | CPC]

• The Allied raid on Tobruk, Libya resulted in failure; 746 Allied personnel were killed, wounded, or captured; the Axis suffered 66 casualties. However, the raid on Barce, Libya was successful, destroying 16 aircraft on the ground; on the way out, the Barce raiders were strafed by Italian aircraft and lost several vehicles. ww2dbase [Raids in Libya | CPC]
• US 7th Marine Division departed Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides for Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. ww2dbase [CPC]
• HMS Zulu (Commander R. T. White), badly damaged by German aircraft, sank whilst being towed back to Alexandria, Egypt. ww2dbase [AC]
• The 3rd Marine Regiment arrived at Tutuila, Samoa. ww2dbase [CPC]
• Vice Admiral Robert Ghormley requested General George Kenney to use the US 5th Air Force based in Brisbane, Australia to put greater pressure on the Japanese base at Rabaul, New Britain. ww2dbase [CPC]
• German submarine U-515 sank British ship Harborough 40 miles east of Trinidad at 1410 hours; 5 were killed, 45 survived. ww2dbase [Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico Campaigns | CPC]
• German submarine U-91 sank Canadian destroyer HMCS Ottawa 440 miles east of St. John's, Newfoundland at 0205 hours; 109 were killed, 65 survived; HMCS Ottawa was escorting Allied convoy ON-127. ww2dbase [Second Happy Time | CPC]
• British aircraft sank Italian submarine Alabastro in the Gulf of Stora off French Algeria. ww2dbase [Alabastro | CPC]
• HMS Cumberland joined HM Cruisers Sheffield, Suffolk and London to cover passage and landing of Norwegian party at Spitzbergen, Norway (Operation Gearbox. Note: This deployment also covered passage of Russian Convoy PQ18.). ww2dbase [London | Cumberland | DS]

• US fighters (including 14 P-39D and P-39F fighters of 54th Fighter Group) and bombers from the newly-completed airfield at Adak, Aleutian Islands attacked Japanese positions on Kiska, damaging Japanese submarines RO-63 and RO-64, sinking an ammunition ship, and downing two floatplanes. ww2dbase [Kiska | CPC]

• German submarine U-457 attacked Allied convoy PQ-18 20 miles south of Spitzbergen, Svalbard, Norway; destroyer HMS Impulsive detected U-457's approach, but she failed to deter the attack; U-457 fatally damaged British tanker Atheltemplar at 0400 hours (3 were killed, 58 survived but 16 would die of wounds later; the floating burning wreck would be sunk by U-408 at 1430 hours). Shortly after, U-589 attempted to attack, but was sunk by destroyer HMS Onslow and a Swordfish aircraft from escort carrier HMS Avenger (all 44 aboard were killed). At 1235 hours, about 20 German He 111 torpedo bombers of I./KG 26 attacked in failure with 11 of them shot down. Shortly after, 12 Ju 88 attacked, again losing 11 aircraft without scoring any hits. A third round of 25 aircraft (He 111 of I./KG 26 and Ju 88 of III./KG 26) attacked, sinking US ship Mary Luckenbach (189 were killed, 1 survived; detonation of her cargo of ammunition on board damaged nearby US ship Nathanael Greene and US ship Wacosta) at the cost of 9 aircraft lost. Finally, at 1430 hours, the final wave of 20 German aircraft attacked, scoring no hits and losing one aircraft. ww2dbase [Arctic Convoys | CPC]

• 290 miles northeast of Ascension Island, U-156 remained on the surface and attempted to help the hundreds of survivors of British troopship Laconia as they awaited the arrival of rescue ships. ww2dbase [Laconia Incident | CPC]
• Norwegian merchant ship Talisman rescued 18 survivors of American freighter California, which was sunk by Italian submarine Reginaldo Giuliani on 13 Aug 1942, in the Atlantic Ocean. One of the survivors with this group had died of exposure some days earlier. ww2dbase [CPC]
• At 0052 hours, Comandante Cappellini was ordered to make rendezvous with German submarine U-506 to coordinate with the rescue of survivors of British troop ship Laconia, which was sunk by U-156 in the Atlantic Ocean. ww2dbase [Laconia Incident | Comandante Cappellini | CPC]

• USS S-43 departed Brisbane, Australia, starting her third war patrol. ww2dbase [S-43 | Brisbane, Queensland | CPC]

• The Japanese base at Rabaul, New Britain suffered an accidental ammunition explosion at about 1300 hours. ww2dbase [Rabaul, New Britain | CPC]

• Japanese troops attacked the Australian line at Ioribaiwa Ridge along the Kokoda Track in Australian Papua; the ridge was 25 miles north of Port Moresby. To the east, the Gili Gili airfield on the coast of Milne Bay was renamed Gurney Field in memorial of RAAF Squadron Leader C. R. Gurney. ww2dbase [New Guinea-Papua Campaign, Phase 2 | Port Moresby | CPC]
• US 7th Pursuit Squadron, flying P-40 fighters, arrived at 14-Mile Airfield at Port Moresby, Australian Papua. ww2dbase [Port Moresby | CPC]

• The Japanese continued to attack the defensive line held by the US Marines near Henderson Field at Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands without success. ww2dbase [Guadalcanal Campaign | Henderson Field | Lunga Point, Guadalcanal | CPC]

• Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Truk, Caroline Islands. ww2dbase [Hikawa Maru | Truk | CPC]

• 202 British bombers attacked Wilhelmshaven, Germany; 77 civilians were killed. ww2dbase [Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | Wilhelmshaven, Weser-Ems | CPC]

• In Operation GG 2, Italian auxiliary ship Olterra launched three frogmen against Gibraltar, sinking cargo ship Ravens Point. ww2dbase [CPC]

• HMS Sikh (Captain St. J. A. Micklethwait) was sunk by shore batteries during the raid on Tobruk, Libya. ww2dbase [Tobruk | AC]

• Soviet 62nd Army launched a counterattack in Stalingrad, Russia at dawn, but it would ultimately be turned back by German troops, with the Soviets hemming themselves into a narrow strip along the Volga River. From the other side of the river, Soviet 13th Guards Rifle Division crossed on barges amidst aerial and artillery bombardment to prevent German 71st Division and 76th Division from penetrating Soviet 62nd Army lines and reaching the Volga River. ww2dbase [Battle of Stalingrad | Stalingrad | TH, CPC]
• Yekaterina Budanova claimed her first aerial kill, a Bf 109 fighter, over Stalingrad, Russia; the kill was shared with fellow pilot Lydia Litvyak. ww2dbase [Yekaterina Budanova | Stalingrad | CPC]
• Lydia Litvyak shot down a German Bf 109 fighter over Stalingrad, Russia while flying a Yak-1 fighter. ww2dbase [Lydia Litvyak | Stalingrad | CPC]

• USS Washington, with USS Nicholas as an escort, arrived at Tongatabu, Tonga. ww2dbase [Washington | Nicholas | Tongatabu | DS]

14 Sep 1942 Interactive Map

• 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]

• 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]

• USS Alabama arrived at Havannah Harbor, Efate Island, New Hebrides Islands. ww2dbase [Alabama | Port Havannah, Efate | CPC]

14 Sep 1943 Interactive Map

• Allied troops captured Maastricht, Gulpen, and Meerssen in the Netherlands. ww2dbase [CPC]
• Winston Churchill approved the transfer of Oliver Leese to Southeast Asia for a high command position. ww2dbase [Oliver Leese | CPC]
• Léon Degrelle was awarded the Close Combat Clasp in Gold. ww2dbase [Léon Degrelle | CPC]
• Kamoi refueled destroyer Satsuki. ww2dbase [Kamoi | CPC]
• HMS Cumberland provided cover with HMS Howe and Eastern Fleet cruisers during air operations by HM Aircraft Carriers Victorious and Indomitable carriers on Sigli, Northern Sumatra (Operation Light). ww2dbase [Indomitable | Victorious | Cumberland | Howe | DS]

• Joseph Stilwell visited Guilin, China and ordered the nearby airfields to be abandoned and gas stores destroyed to prevent Japanese capture. ww2dbase [Operation Ichigo | Guilin, Guangxi | CPC]

• Two BQ-7 drones successfully crossed into northern Germany, but missed their targets due to poor weather conditions. ww2dbase [Operation Aphrodite and Operation Anvil | HM]

• USS Pintado arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending her second war patrol. ww2dbase [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Pintado | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]

• Canadian 5th Armoured Division and British 1st Armoured Division captured Coriano, Italy. ww2dbase [Gothic Line Offensive | Coriano, Emilia-Romagna | CPC]

• Soviet First Baltic Front, Second Baltic Front, and Third Baltic Front launched a massive assault against German Armeegruppe Nord, pushing it back to Riga, Latvia. ww2dbase [Operation Bagration | TH, CPC]

• USS Alabama escorted US carriers as carrier aircraft began attacking Japanese positions in the Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Alabama | CPC]
• USS Sunfish fired 4 torpedoes at a Japanese transport in the Yellow Sea; all torpedoes missed. ww2dbase [Sunfish (Gato-class) | Yellow Sea | CPC]
• USS Miami operated off the Philippine Islands in indirect support of the Palau Islands campaign. ww2dbase [Miami | Philippine Sea | CPC]

• 800 Gypsy children, more than 100 of whom were boys between 9 and 14 years of age, were executed at Auschwitz Concentration Camp in occupied Poland. ww2dbase [Auschwitz Concentration Camp | Oswiecim | CPC]
• Soviet troops reached the suburbs of Warsaw, Poland and began air dropping supplies to the Armia Krajowa. ww2dbase [Warsaw Uprising | Warsaw | TH]

• Three German V-2 rockets hit Britain. One of them hit the center of Walthamstow, London, England, United Kingdom at 0455 hours, killing six immediately and another one later from wounds. The resulting crater was 50 feet wide and 10 feet deep. ww2dbase [V-Weapons Campaign | Vergeltungswaffe 2 | London, England | CPC]

• Court martial proceedings against 50 African-American sailors opened on Yerba Buena Island, San Francisco, California, United States. The 50 were charged with mutiny for refusing to resume loading munitions after the Port Chicago explosion of 17 Jul 1944. ww2dbase [Port Chicago Naval Munitions Explosion | San Francisco, California | DS]
• USS Saratoga departed Puget Sound Naval Shipyard after overhaul. ww2dbase [Puget Sound Navy Yard | Saratoga | Bremerton, Washington | DS]

• Soviet and Bulgarian troops marched into eastern Yugoslavia from Bulgaria. ww2dbase [Belgrade Strategic Offensive Operation | Serbia | CPC]

14 Sep 1944 Interactive Map

• General Lu Han, commanding officer of Chinese occupation force in northern French Indochina, arrived in Hanoi, Tonkin by aircraft and established his headquarters at the Governor General's Palace. One of Lu's first orders was to summon Ho Chi Minh for a meeting, planning for the maintenance of peace. Fearful that the Chinese would buy up all the Vietnamese grain with over-valued Chinese currency, Ho pledged that he would ensure ample deliveries of grain to the Chinese occupation force, thus eliminating Chinese purchases. ww2dbase [Hanoi, Tonkin | CPC]
• British Major General Douglas Gracey, tasked with taking control of southern French Indochina from the Japanese, met with French commissioner Jean Cédile. He had no plans with meet with any Vietnamese political leaders. ww2dbase [Cochinchina | CPC]
• Viet Minh forces in Saigon, Cochinchina, French Indochina struck against the Vietnamese Trotskyist leadership, using police forces to place them under arrest. This was effectively the end of the Trotskyist influence in Vietnam. Many of the arrested would be executed. ww2dbase [Saigon, Cochinchina | CPC]

• A memorial for Subhash Chandra Bose was held in Tokyo, Japan. ww2dbase [Subhash Chandra Bose | Tokyo | CPC]

• USS Whale arrived at the Panama Canal Zone. ww2dbase [Whale | CPC]

• USS San Diego arrived at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California, United States for a scheduled overhaul. ww2dbase [Mare Island Navy Yard | San Diego | Vallejo, California | CPC]
• USS R-5 was decommissioned from service at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States. ww2dbase [R-5 | Portsmouth, New Hampshire | CPC]
• USS Washington departed Puget Sound Naval Shipyard. ww2dbase [Puget Sound Navy Yard | Washington | Bremerton, Washington | DS]

14 Sep 1945 Interactive Map

• Tang Enbo was made the commander of the Fuzhou training-logistics command. ww2dbase [Tang Enbo | CPC]

• USS Missouri arrived off Kyushu, Japan and became the flagship of Rear Admiral A. E. Smith. ww2dbase [Missouri | CPC]

• Commander John Hooper became the commanding officer of USS Cassin Young. ww2dbase [Cassin Young | CPC]

• Battleship Alabama arrived, by tow, at Battleship Memorial Park, Mobile, Alabama, United States. ww2dbase [Alabama | Mobile, Alabama | CPC]

14 Sep 1964 Interactive Map

• Georgios Petrakis passed away in Heraklion, Crete, Greece. ww2dbase [Georgios Petrakis | Heraklion, Crete | CPC]