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• Japanese Navy Captain Takeji Ono relieved Rear Admiral Chiaki Matsuda as the commanding officer of battleship Yamato; Matsuda was reassigned to the Imperial General Staff. ww2dbase [Main Article | Tabular Record of Movement | CPC]
• USS Puffer departed Fremantle, Australia for her first war patrol in the Makassar Strait-Celebes Sea area in the Dutch East Indies. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• German 17.Armee began evacuating the Kuban bridgehead in southern Russia, while other non-Army organizations began removing their rear echelon units. ww2dbase [Main Article | TH]
• RAF aircraft bombed V-1 flying bomb launch sites on the French coast. ww2dbase [Main Article | Event | TH]

• Willy Messerschmitt met with Adolf Hitler. During the meeting, Messerschmitt pushed for further support for the Me 209 fighter project at the expense of the Me 262 fighter project. Furthermore, he agreed with Hitler's notion that Me 262 jet aircraft should be redesigned to carry bombs, thus making it a high speed bomber. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• USS Yorktown (Essex-class) entered Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on and remained there for two days. ww2dbase [Main Article | DS]
• USS Whale arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. ww2dbase [Main Article | Facility | CPC]

• British and Canadian troops engaged with troops of German Krüger Battle Group in southwestern Italy. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

7 Sep 1943 Interactive Map