21 Sep 1943
- Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Davao, Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Hikawa Maru | CPC]
- The southern portion of the German defensive Panther Line was breached when Red Army units crossed the Dneiper River near Dnepropetrovsk in Ukraine. ww2dbase [TH]
- Picking was commissioned into service. ww2dbase [Picking | CPC]
- German troops attacked and killed thousands of troops of Italian Acqui Division, which had refused to surrender, on Cephalonia, Greece. ww2dbase [CPC]
- USS Bluefish attacked a Japanese ship in the Celebes Sea; all four torpedoes missed. ww2dbase [Bluefish | Celebes Sea | CPC]
- In the first successful use of the electric Mark 18 torpedo in combat, USS Wahoo sunk the Japanese merchant fishing vessel Hokusei Maru in the Sea of Ohkotsk. ww2dbase [Wahoo | Mark XVIII | Sea of Ohkotsk | DS]
- British Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Kingsley Wood, suddenly died (age 62) at his London Home on the morning he was due to announce his new Pay As You Earn taxation scheme to Parliament. ww2dbase [AC]
- The US State Department informed the manager of Hotel Hershey in Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States that the Vichy French internees currently residing at the hotel would soon be transferred out. ww2dbase [Hotel Hershey | Hershey, Pennsylvania | CPC]
- The newly-formed US Army 1688th Detachment set sail aboard passenger ship SS Loraine out of San Francisco, California, United States for India via Sidney and Fremantle in Australia. ww2dbase [San Francisco, California | CPC]
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