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• German forces in Operation Citadel ran out of momentum, even though there had been some objectives reached. Hitler refused to call off the operation, which could have saved many of the units. ww2dbase [Battle of Kursk | TH]
• USS Tunny refueled at Johnston Island, United States. ww2dbase [Tunny | CPC]
• USS Flying Fish sank a Japanese sailing vessel with gunfire in the Western Pacific. ww2dbase [Flying Fish | CPC]

• 19th Bomb Squadron (flying B-25 and B-26 aircraft) of USAAF 22nd Bomb Group was transferred to Dobodura Airfield, Australian Papua. ww2dbase [Dobodura Airfield | Dobodura | CPC]

• Admiral William Halsey issued a directive for an attack in the Bougainville area in the Solomon Islands; Lieutenant General Alexander Vandegrift was to be the head of the invasion force. Elsewhere, the 1st Marine War Dog Platoon arrived in the theater in preparation of the Bougainville operations with the 2nd Marine Raider Regiment. At New Georgia, the US airfield at Segi Point was now fully operational. After sundown, US cruisers and destroyers bombarded Japanese positions at Munda, New Georgia. ww2dbase [Solomon Islands Campaign | CPC]

• Repair ship Akashi performed repair work for armed merchant cruiser Aikoku at Truk, Caroline Islands. ww2dbase [Akashi | Truk | CPC]

• A German officer was killed in Greece when a partisan fighter threw a grenade into the officer's vehicle. ww2dbase [CPC]

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

• British 8th Army captured Syracuse, Sicily, Italy and its useful harbour. Also on Sicily, General Paul Conrath's Hermann Göring Panzer Division overran the American outposts at Ponte Dirillo and were only prevented from breaking through the Allied lines by an attack by James Gavin's paratroopers from the rear. Elsewhere, Conrath personally led a column which assaulted the weakly held Piano Lupo, to get within 2,000 yards of the beach before being stopped by the defenders. ww2dbase [Invasion of Sicily and Italy's Surrender | Sicilia | AC]
• Omar Bradley arrived at Sicily, Italy while recovering from a recent hemorrhoidectomy. ww2dbase [Omar Bradley | CPC]
• HMS Howe bombarded Trapani and Favignana, Sicily, Italy. ww2dbase [Howe | Sicilia | CPC]
• USS Ancon operated off Scoglitti, Sicily, Italy as a commications ship. ww2dbase [Invasion of Sicily and Italy's Surrender | Ancon | Scoglitti, Sicilia | CPC]

• USS Yorktown (Essex-class) transited the Panama Canal. ww2dbase [Panama Canal | J. J. Clark | Yorktown (Essex-class) | DS]

• Submarine USS Thresher transited the Surigao Strait in the Philippines eastbound while running on the surface at night. ww2dbase [Thresher | Surigao Strait, Leyte | DS]

• Submarine Flier was launched at Groton, Connecticut, United States. sponsored by the wife of A. S. Pierce. ww2dbase [Flier | Electric Boat Company | Groton, Connecticut | CPC]
• USS Wahoo began a period of trials and training off California, United States. ww2dbase [Wahoo | California | CPC]

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