US NAVY
PACIFIC—Submarine S-39 (SS-144) is damaged when she
strikes submerged reef off Rossel Island, Louisiade Archipelago.
Submarine Seawolf
(SS-197) sinks Japanese merchant passenger-cargo ship Hachigen Maru (ex-British
Wenchow) in Sibitu Passage, 05°07'N, 119°37'E.
EUROPE—Lieutenant General Dwight D. Eisenhower, USA,
Commanding General, European Theater of Operations, is appointed Commander in
Chief of Allied Expeditionary Forces; Admiral Sir Andrew B. Cunningham, RN, is
appointed Allied Naval Commander.
ATLANTIC—Unarmed U.S. freighter California is
torpedoed, shelled and sunk by Italian submarine Reginaldo Giuliani at
09°24'N,33°02'W; all hands (38 men) abandon the sinking ship under fire (see 4,
5 and 14 September).
US ARMY AIR FORCE
ICELAND—2d Lt Joseph D Shaffer (33d Fighter Squadron) and
2d Lt Elza E Shahan (27th Fighter Squadron) jointly shoot down FW- 200 off
coast of Iceland. This is first aerial victory of AAF in ETO.
US ARMY
UNITED STATES—Directive
is sent to General Eisenhower as CinC TORCH.
US MARINE CORPS
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