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• More than 1,000 Italian Jews from Rome were sent to Auschwitz Concentration Camp. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | CPC]
• As General Nikolai Vatutin started his attack to break out of the Bukrin bridgehead near Kiev, Ukraine, Marshal Ivan Konev attacked to cut off the German 1.Panzer Division on the Dneiper River. ww2dbase [TH]
• USS Mingo fired a spread of six torpedoes at a Japanese carrier, claiming two hits. ww2dbase [Mingo | CPC]
• Louis Mountbatten named William Slim the commanding officer of the new 14th Army. ww2dbase [William Slim | CPC]
• Light carrier Ryuho departed Sama (now Sanya), Hainan, China. ww2dbase [Ryuho | CPC]
• USS Bailey departed Pearl Harbor bound for Suva, Fiji. ww2dbase [Bailey | DS]

• The Americans conducted a heavy attack by air against the Japanese base at Wewak, Australian New Guinea. ww2dbase [New Guinea-Papua Campaign, Phase 3 | Wewak | CPC]

• Shokaku arrived at Truk, Caroline Islands. ww2dbase [Shokaku | Truk | CPC]

• Louis Mountbatten arrived in Chongqing, China. ww2dbase [Louis Mountbatten | Chongqing | CPC]

• USS Sunfish departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her fifth war patrol. ww2dbase [Sunfish (Gato-class) | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]

• USS Ranger and the Royal Navy Home Fleet crossed the Arctic Circle before arriving at Akureyri, Iceland. ww2dbase [Ranger | Akureyri | DS]

• 425 miles east of Saipan, submarine USS Saury fired four torpedoes at a convoy of three large ships with four escorts. Two explosions were heard but the ships suffered no apparent damage. ww2dbase [Saury | DS]

• The US Ninth Air Force was reformed with its headquarters at RAF Bushey Hall in Watford, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom. It was charged with gaining air superiority and destroying the German Army forces in their front lines as well as their lines of communications. ww2dbase [Watford, England | AC]

• USS St. Louis shifted from Mare Island to San Francisco, California. ww2dbase [St. Louis | San Francisco, California | DS]

• Submarine USS Tinosa arrived at Midway at the end of her third war patrol. For his performance on this patrol, Commander Daspit received the Navy Cross. ww2dbase [Midway Bases | Tinosa | Midway | DS]

16 Oct 1943 Interactive Map