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• Weather data for 18 Sep 1943

• Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Manila, Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Main Article | Tabular Record of Movement | CPC]
• Mussolini declared the Repubblica Sociale Italiana in Northern Italy. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• John Basilone participated in a bond tour event in Scanton, Pennsylvania, United States. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• USS Cisco arrived at Darwin, Australia. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• US Marine Corps squadron VMF-214 attacked a Japanese convoy destined for Vella Lavella in the Solomon Islands. Pilot Chris Magee shot down 2 Japanese D3A aircraft (with a further 1 probable) during this attack. ww2dbase [CPC]

• Yamato sortied from Truk to Brown Atoll, Eniwetok in response to raids by US Navy Task Force 15 on Tarawa, Makin, and Abemama Atolls. ww2dbase [Main Article | Tabular Record of Movement | CPC]
• Shokaku sortied from Truk, Caroline Islands to Brown Island (Eniwetok), Marshall Islands with Combined Fleet under Vice Admiral Ozawa's tactical command in response to the US Task Force 15 carrier raids on Tarawa and Makin. ww2dbase [Main Article | Tabular Record of Movement | CPC]

• Yolande Beekman was delivered into German-occupied France via a Lysander aircraft before dawn. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• U-537 departed Kiel, Germany for her first war patrol. She carried Wetter-Funkgerät Land-26 weather station equipment along with meteorology expert Dr. Kurt Sommermeyer and his assistant Walter Hildebrant on board. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Headquarters of British V Corps arrived at Taranto, Italy. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Italian Navy Xa Flottiglia MAS based at Pola, Italy (occupied Pula, Yugoslavia) under Lieutenant Commander Umberto Bardelli reported the strength of 350 men. ww2dbase [CPC]

• Irako arrived at Yokosuka, Japan. ww2dbase [Main Article | Tabular Record of Movement | CPC]

• USS Bluefish sank small Japanese ship with her deck gun in the Dutch East Indies. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• USS Sunfish damaged a Japanese transport in the Pacific Ocean, hitting her with 1 of 3 torpedoes fired. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• German submarine U-711 shelled the Soviet wireless telegraph station at Pravdy in northern Russia. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• USS Corvina departed Groton, Connecticut, United States. ww2dbase [Main Article | Facility | CPC]

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