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• USS Cassin Young was launched. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• USS Pompon departed Brisbane, Australia for her second war patrol. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• USS Snook fired 6 torpedoes at a Japanese transport; all torpedoes missed. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Adolf Hitler missed a chance to end the war in the Soviet Union when he refused to allow Ribbentrop to travel to Stockholm to meet with Soviet Minister Vladimir Dekanov who was willing to negotiate. On the same day, the last of the German armies which took part in the drive to the Caucasus retreated to the Crimea. In total 240,000 troops, 16,000 wounded and 27,000 civilians were evacuated along with 75,000 horses and vast numbers of vehicles and supplies. ww2dbase [TH]
• The United States Marine Corps established the 2nd Raider Regiment (Provisional) to control the 2nd and 3rd Raider Battalions during the Bougainville operation in the Solomon Islands. ww2dbase [AC]

• Naka departed Truk, Caroline Islands, escorting oiler Shiretoko and damaged aircraft transport Fujikawa Maru. ww2dbase [Main Article | Tabular Record of Movement | CPC]
• Irako departed Truk, Caroline Islands with minelayer Tsugaru and destroyer Hamakaze in escort. ww2dbase [Main Article | Tabular Record of Movement | CPC]

• USS Grayback arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. ww2dbase [Main Article | Facility | CPC]
• USS Finback arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending her sixth war patrol. ww2dbase [Main Article | Facility | CPC]
• USS Cabrilla departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her first war patrol. ww2dbase [Main Article | Facility | CPC]

• German Luftwaffe and SS personnel rescued Mussolini from Gran Sasso, Italy. ww2dbase [Main Article | Event | TH]
• British X Corps near Salerno, Italy shifted into a defensive stance. Elsewhere in Italy, Bernard Montgomery's British XIII Corps reached Castrovillari and Belvedere, 130 kilometers south of Salerno. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Several German troops were killed by resistance fighters in Naples, Italy while 4,000 Italians were deported from the Naples region (many of whom would become forced laborers). On the same day, Colonel Walter Schöll took command of the military occupation of Naples. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Junio Valerio Borghese successfully negotiated with local German authority to avoid arrest; his Italian 10th MAS Flotilla was to be attached to the German Navy. Half of the flotilla, about 200 men, dissented and were sent on leave. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• USS Permit attacked a Japanese convoy west of the Marshall Islands, sinking 2 transports and damaging an oiler; 10 torpedoes were expended during the attack. The pursuit would continue into the next day. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Orde Wingate departed Lisbon, Portugal for Cairo, Egypt. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

12 Sep 1943 Interactive Map