WE REMEMBER SEPT 10th

September 10th, 1939
FRANCE: British soldiers arrive at Perl near the French-Luxembourg border.

The BEF under Lort Gort will land 160,000 men, 24,000 vehicles and 140,000
tons of supplies during the first month. 

GERMANY: Hitler gives permission for the Luftwaffe to extend its
reconnaissance flights across the Franco-German border.

Oberst Rommel, as chief of Hitler's bodyguard, requests of the Organization
TODT, a study for a suitable venue on the western frontier of France and
Germany to build a heavily fortified FHQu (Führer Headquarters), by which
Hitler might direct an invasion of France and the Low Countries. After a
number of suggestions to places on the border Münster-Eifel region and the
Rhine Valley, which Albert Speer, as Hitler's architectural confidante
reviewed for the Führer, the decision was a made to capitalize upon the
pre-existing structures based in and around Schloss Ziegenberg near Bad
Neuheim. 
The new FHQu. would henceforth be christened in official paperwork as
“ADLERHORST.” (Russ Folsom)

POLAND:
Warsaw: Many fires are started by the bombardment including one at the
Transfiguration Hospital with several hundred wounded inside. 
German Panzers now begin a second pincer movement toward the east
The Polish army attacks the Germans along the river Bzura near Poznan and
Poles still hold out at the Hel Peninsula. In the south near Kutno the
German 30th Infantry Division suffered heavy losses when its overextended
left flank and wide front were attacked by several Polish divisions. 
General Halder noted in his diary though that "SS artillery of the Armd.
Corps herded Jews into a church and massacred them."

CANADA: Ottawa: W.L. Mackenzie King announces that Canada is now at war with
Germany. Canada makes her own declaration of war for the first time. King
notes that there are currently 4,500 soldiers in the Canadian Army (+60,000
reserves); 4,500 in the RCAF; 1,800 in the RCN
As Canada declares war on Germany. United States neutrality laws extend to
Canada. (Dave Shirlaw)
 
Sidney Allinson tells us what was headline news in Canada that day:
The Globe and Mail (newspaper) that day had the large headline, CANADA
DECLARES WAR! 
Proclamation Issued Following Solid Vote In Parliament 
Dominion Committed To Stand With Britain Against Hitler
A secondary story was headed, 
Dominions, Colonies, India, Arabs, Jews, Tribal Chiefs Answer Empire's Call.

London, Sept 10 - With the declaration of a state of war on Germany by
Canada 
today, the British Empire, with its 13,909,780 square miles, and its
population of almost 600,000,000 is now, with the single exception of Eire,
lined up in war against Germany. The greatest Empire the world has ever
known has completed the roll call.... 
The next column has this heading, 
U.S. Neutrality Ban Extended To Dominion 
Washington, Sept. 10 - President Roosevelt applied the United States 
Neutrality Law to Canada today, and therefore placed an embargo upon
shipments of arms and munitions to the Dominion of Canada... 
The Royal Canadian Air Force is comprised of 20 squadrons, 12 of them
Auxiliary (reserve) units; five of the reserve squadrons are not equipped
with any aircraft and the other seven have biplane trainers. The RCAF has 20
types of aircraft totalling 270 machines; over half, 146, are training and
transport types and only 124 could be classified as operational types. The
only first-line aircraft are 19 Hurricane Mk. I fighters and nine Battle Mk.
I day bombers; the other 242 aircraft are obsolete.  (Jack McKillop)
     The first mission by the RCAF is carried out by No. 5 (General
Reconnaissance) Squadron based at Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. A Supermarine
Stranraer biplane seaplane, serial number 908, is dispatched on a
reconnaissance patrol of the approaches to Halifax; five vessels are sighted
but no enemy activity is seen.  (Jack McKillop) 

ATLANTIC OCEAN: The US freighter SS Hybert is stopped by a German U-boat.
After 2-hours, she is released but the captain is warned not to use his
radio for 24 hours. (Jack McKillop) 
Norwegian Sea off Obrestad: The submarine HMS Oxley (Oxley Class submarine)
is mistaken for a U-boat and torpedoed by the submarine HMS Triton, the
first British Royal Navy loss of the war. The submarines had been in regular
contact when HMS Triton spotted an unidentified submarine. Believing it
might be HMS Oxley, Triton flashed recognition signals. No reply came and
after several challenges Triton fired two torpedoes that sunk Oxley. Triton
found Oxley's captain, and two other survivors. A Board of Enquiry found
that Oxley had made a navigational error and drifted off station into the
adjacent patrol area of HMS Triton. Despite being surfaced and using signal
lamps to flash a challenge and then following up with a rifle grenade, Oxley
made no reply before Triton fired two torpedoes, the reply being described
as indeterminable flashing. Two survivors picked up by Triton were found to
be the Commander and an AB from Oxley. was some way out of position and that
Triton had acted correctly. (Jack McKillop and Alex Gordon)(108)
U-13 sank SS Magdapur.
U-15 sank SS Goodwood. (Dave Shirlaw)
 

September 10th, 1940
UNITED KINGDOM:
Battle of Britain:

RAF Bomber Command: 4 Group. 77 Sqn. 1 aircraft crashed at Hardenburg,
Holland. Crew all PoW. 1 aircraft crashed on landing at Linton-on-Ouse. Crew
safe. 2 aircraft damaged by Flak. Crew safe. 
58 Sqn. 1 aircraft missing over Bremen. Crew PoW.
Bombing - Bremen shipyards - industrial targets at Berlin.
58 Sqn. Six aircraft to Bremen. Weather bad, all bombed alternatives. One
FTR. Four aircraft to Berlin. All bombed. Very successful attack. 
77 Sqn. Four aircraft to Bremen. Three bombed primary, one bombed
alternative. One damaged by Flak. Four aircraft to Berlin. Two got off, both
bombed primary and both hit by Flak. One FTR.

RAF Fighter Command: Slight activity. At night London, South Wales,
Merseyside are raided. Bomber Command raid on Eindhoven airfield knocks out
ten He 111s. 

Daylight operations included lone armed reconnaissance flights, convoy
attacks off East Anglia, bombing of coastal towns including Great Yarmouth
and Hastings and raids on West Malling and Woolwich. 
In the late afternoon a build-up is reported over France and about 300
aircraft began crossing between Dover and the North Foreland at 16:55, six
were reported to be four-engined bombers with strong fighter escort. They
swung west to stream across south London, about 30 entering the IAZ and a
small diversion heading towards Salisbury. Opposing them were 24 RAF fighter
squadrons. 
Losses: Luftwaffe, 4; RAF, 1.

London: Buckingham Palace is slightly damaged by a German bomb. 
The British War Cabinet instructs RAF bombers over Germany not to return
home with their bombs if they failed to locate their original targets.
Instead, they were to drop their bombs "anywhere" if unable to reach their
targets. This order was given in light of the destruction and terror
inflicted on Londoners during the last two nights by a succession of
Luftwaffe bombing raids. (Jack McKillop) 

GERMANY:
Daily Keynote from the Reich Press Chief:
The British air raids on Berlin and Hamburg should be played up, magnifying
all the details as much as possible, in such a way as to further validate
our retaliatory measures in the eyes of the world. Furthermore material from
the last few months should be exploited more than it has been so far, to
make plain the justification of our measures.

 
ALBANIA: During the next 10 days, the Italians will increase their forces in
Albania by 40,000 men in preparation for their invasion of Greece. 

NORTH AFRICA: 
Hurricanes of 274 Squadron (the first to operate in Africa) score their
first victories when two Italian SM 79s are destroyed.

September 10th, 1941
FRANCE: Paris: The collaborationist newspaper, L'Oeuvre describes the
burgeoning black market for food. "Nothing has been settled about how to
feed Paris. .... indispensable vegetables are swept off the board and only
the minority who can pay through the nose enjoy them. People of average
means are .. deprived, ...and have not the wherewithal to take the time to
go and eat in Normandy or Brittany.    Potatoes are .. unfindable. But the
Black Market manages to infiltrate enormous quantities for restaurants or
customers willing to pay 8 or 9 francs a kilo." 

NORWAY: Oslo: Guards with Tommy guns are patrolling the streets of Oslo
tonight after a savage crackdown by Josef Terboven. Hitler's commissioner
for Norway. Two trade union leaders have been executed after a summary court
martial and four others have been sent to gaol.
An 8pm to 5am curfew is in force. Dance halls are closed and the sale of
alcohol is forbidden.  Newspaper editors have been sacked and all meetings,
indoors and outdoors have been banned. Terboven declared martial law after
reports that the Norwegian unions were calling a general strike in
opposition to the Nazi regime. Terboven accused "communist elements" in the
unions of "disturbing the industrial peace in a criminal manner."
The underground anti-Nazi newspaper Fri Ragbevegelse has called on the
people to remain calm, but to fight "with all secret means for their
rights." 

U.S.S.R.: Guderian attacks south, and east of Kiev, reaches Konotop. The 1st
Panzer Group begins the breakout of their bridgehead over the Dniepr River
around Kremenchug. Both Army Groups Centre and South are aimed at Kiev.
Generalleutnant Walter Model’s 3 Pz. Div. (XXIV Pz.K) captures Romny. (Jeff
Chrisman)

U.S.A.: Charlie Chaplin was accused today of using the cinema to "poison the
minds of the American people to go to war". Senator Bennett Champ Clark, a
leading isolationist, told a Senate sub-committee investigating propaganda
charges against Hollywood that United Artists was dominated by Chaplin and
Alexander Korda, two British subjects, who were using it to make pro-war
propaganda. United Artists made The Great Dictator.
Chaplin, he said, had made his fortune in America, but never thought well
enough of it to become a US citizen. He claimed that British propaganda had
dragged America into the last war.

 
ATLANTIC OCEAN: The German submarine U-501 (KptLt Hugo Förster CO) is sunk
at 2330 hours in the Straits of Denmark south of Angmagsalik, Greenland, in
position 62.50N, 37.50W, by depth charges and ramming from the RCN corvettes
HMCS Chambly (Cdr. James Douglas "Chummy" Prentice RCN Commanding
Officer)and HMCS Moosejaw (Lt. Frederick Ernest Grubb RCN, CO). (Jack
McKillop)
U-111 sank SS Marken.
U-432 sank SS Muneric, SS Winterswijk and SS Stargard in Convoy SC-42
U-652 damaged SS Baron Pentland and SS Tahchee in Convoy SC-42
U-81 sank SS Sally Maersk in Convoy SC-42
U-82 sank SS Empire Hudson in Convoy SC-42
U-85 sank SS Thistleglen in Convoy SC-42. (Dave Shirlaw)

September 10th, 1942
UNITED KINGDOM: London: Churchill announces firm measures including the use
of troops, to curb the "revolutionary" activities of the Congress Party in
India.

GERMANY: Tonight RAF bombers raid Dusseldorf.

U.S.S.R.: Novorossisk is captured by units of the V.A.K. (9 Inf. Div., 73
Inf. Div., 125 Inf. Div.) (Jeff Chrisman)

MADAGASCAR: Allied troops have begun an advance to occupy all of this
Vichy-French colony. Last May the Allies occupied the port of Diego Suarez,
to forestall its use by Japan's navy. Now the Allies claim that Japanese
submarines have been using Madagascar as a fuelling base - an accusation
which Vichy denies.  Vichy Governor General Annet after five months of talks
fails to win guarantees of non-cooperation with the Japanese. The British
29th Infantry Brigade has landed at Majunga, on the west coast, followed by
the 22nd East African Brigade. They are pushing on to the capital,
Tananarive, while the 7th South African Brigade advances from Diego Suarez.
The Free French are promised that the administration of the colony will be
turned over to them once operation is completed. (Jack McKillop)

SOLOMON ISLANDS: A second airstrip, Fighter One, becomes operational on
Guadalcanal. Fighter One is a grassy field that will be used by USN and USMC
F4F Wildcats and USAAF P-400 Airacobras.  (Jack McKillop)
     In the air, the IJN dispatches 27 "Bettys" (Mitsubishi G4M, Navy Type 1
Attack Bombers) and 15 "Zekes" (Mitsubishi A6M, Navy Type 0 Carrier
Fighters) to bomb Guadalcanal. They are met by 5 USMC F4F Wildcats which
shoot down 5 "Bettys" with the loss of a Wildcat. The Americans now have
only 12 serviceable fighters on Guadalcanal.  (Jack McKillop)

TERRITORY OF ALASKA: Aleutians: Weather, photo reconnaissance, and patrol
missions are flown by the US 11th Air Force during the morning over Nazan
Bay, Tanaga, Adak and Amchitka Islands; poor weather is encountered at
Kiska, Attu, and Agattu Islands. (Jack McKillop)

U.S.A.: The German submarine U-69 lays 12 mines at the mouth of the
Chesapeake Bay. (Jack McKillop)
The Baruch Commission, tasked with investigating the availability of rubber,
warns of military and civilian collapse due to a shortage of rubber in the
U.S. As a result, the government mandates gasoline rationing in the U.S. to
limit the amount of driving thus saving rubber required for tires. (Jack
McKillop)

ATLANTIC OCEAN: Convoy ON-127 is caught be a wolfpack of 13 U-Boats. Over
the next 4 days, 12 freighters and 1 destroyer are sunk with a lost of one
U-Boat.
U-659 sank SS Empire Oil in Convoy ON-127. U-659 was damaged by depth
charges and was forced to return to base.
U-96 sank SS Sveve, SS Elisabeth van Belgie and damaged SS FJ Wolfe in
Convoy ON-127. (Dave Shirlaw)
The US freighter SS American Leader is sunk by the German auxiliary cruiser
Michel about 800 miles (1,287 km) west of the Cape of Good Hope. 47 of the
58 men aboard survive and are taken aboard the German vessel and are turned
over the Japanese in Singapore; 14 of the men die in Japanese prison
camps. (Jack McKillop)

September 10th, 1943
U.S.S.R.: The Russians land at Mariupol on the Sea of Azov capturing the
area.
In the Donets sector the Russians capture Volnovakha and Chaplino. A major
engagement begins at Novorossiysk on the Black Sea after landings.

ITALY : The US front at Salerno is quiet and the front is pushed inland.
Most of the German reserves concentrate in the British sector and local
counterattacks recapture positions lost that morning. 
Other German forces retreat north. They intend to form a defensive line
across Italy.

Germans begin to evacuate the garrisons from Sardinia. They will move first
to Corsica and then to Italy. There will be some losses to shipping and
harassment from small French units that land on Corsica. By the end of
September this troop movement will be complete.
Although now firmly established at Salerno, the Allies do not have enough
room between the coast and the Germans to allow use of the ports at Salerno
and Vietri. The U.S. 36th Infantry Division,sets about capturing high ground
from Ogliastro to Albanella. Meanwhile, the British 10 Corps pushes on at
Battipaglia to capture Montecorvino airfield while 46 Division is to clear
Salerno and the corridors through the Sorrento peninsula. However, at first
light the Germans strike first, driving 56 Division out of Battipaglia but
Montecorvino airfield is captured by 3 Coldstream Guards and 2/6th Queen's
Regiment, 169 Brigade and Faiano falls without a fight.
On 10 Corps' left, 46 Division troops end the day in a stalemate with German
forces at Cava di Tirreni. At the Gulf's southern end, the U.S. 45th
Infantry Division gets ashore virtually unmolested to support the 36th
Infantry Division - most defenders having been moved to the north against 10
Corps. General Clark believes he will soon advance on Naples. 
The British Eighth Army reaches the Catanzaro 'neck' after an advance of
about 100 miles (161 km). General Montgomery wishes to pause here but is
reluctantly persuaded to push forward to relieve pressure on the landings at
Salerno. 1 Airborne Division's patrols from Taranto reach Monopoli on the
Adriatic Coast and find it clear of Germans, but at Castellanata 10
Parachute Battalion has a sharp engagement in which the Divisional
commander, Major-General G. F. Hopkinson, is mortally wounded. 5 Corps
troops are now being shipped into Taranto from where they are intended
eventually to come under Montgomery's command. (Jack McKillop) 

US Ninth Air Force B-24 Liberators bomb a satellite airfield at Foggia. US
Twelfth Air Force's XII Bomber Command medium bombers hit railroad and road
junctions and road net in the Castelnuovo-Pescopagano-Cassino-Capua-Formia
areas; B-17 Flying Fortresses attack the Ariano intersection and highway
bridge (and bridges and roads in the area), bridges near Botena and over the
Tiber River southwest of Rome, and roads, buildings, and railroad facilities
at Isernia; XII Air Support Command and RAF airplanes of the Northwest
African Tactical Air Force blast heavy road movement north from Lauria and
cover beachheads in the Salerno area as the British Eighth Army increases
pressure on its front in an effort to prevent the Germans from concentrating
against the US Fifth Army's Salerno beachhead. German troops occupy Rome.
During the night of 10/11 September, B-25 Mitchells hit communications
centers at Corleto, Perticara, Auletta and Saptri. (Jack McKillop)

Rome: German reaction to the Italian surrender was predictably swift. Within
hours of Eisenhower's announcement of the Italian surrender, General von
Vietinghoff, the commander of the Tenth Army, today moved paratroopers and a
Panzer division to occupy Rome.
Five Italian divisions stationed around Rome appeared ready to defend the
city, but capitulated quickly as the German commanders put Operation ACHSE
(Axis) into force. Ironically, the Americans had been preparing a
division-strong airborne landing in the city - but cancelled the operation
when Marshal Badoglio protested.

Minelayer HMS Abdiel which is bringing in supplies and a holding force after
the announcement of the Italian armistice, is sunk in the port of Taranto by
German GS type magnetic mines laid the previous evening by MFP478 and S54
and S61. There are 48 casualties amongst the crew plus 120 soldiers. (Alex
Gordon)(108) 

MALTA: "Be pleased to inform Their Lordships that the Italian Fleet lies at
anchor under the guns of the Fortress of Malta." With these words Admiral
Sir Andrew Cunningham, the commander-in-chief in the Mediterranean,
signalled to the admiralty the total surrender of the Italian navy. Flying
black flags of surrender and escorted by ships of the Royal Navy, units of
the Italian fleet are anchored off Valetta's Grand Harbour. More ships are
heading for Gibraltar and other Allied ports, removing the naval threat in
the Mediterranean.

MEDITERRANEAN SEA: The Allies occupy the Dodecanese island of Castelrosso.

BURMA: US Tenth Air Force B-25 Mitchells again bomb Gokteik Viaduct; the
approaches are battered but the viaduct remains usable.  (Jack McKillop)

SINGAPORE: The Italian submarine Reginaldo Giuliani  is taken over by the
Germans.
Other Italian submarines COMMANDANTE ALFREDO CAPPELLINI (I-503) and LUIGI
TORELLI (I-504) are seized by the Japanese before being given to the Germans
as UIT24 and UIT25 respectively. (Henry Sirotin)

NEW GUINEA: The Australian 7th Division begins an advance on Lae  from
Nadzeb. The Australian 7 Division, having been flown to Nadzab in US Fifth
Air Force C-47 Skytrains, begins a push east toward Lae. (Jack McKillop)

U.S.A.: The First and Fourth Air Forces are relieved from their assignments
to the US Army's Eastern and Western defence Commands respectively and
hereafter serve primarily as training organizations for fighter units. (Jack
McKillop)

September 10th, 1944
UNITED KINGDOM: Montgomery's proposal for an airborne attack across Holland,
to become known as Market-Garden, is accepted by Eisenhower. It is based on
the assumption that only light German forces hold the area.

The US Eighth Air Force in England flies 4 missions. Numbers in parenthesis
indicate the aircraft attacking the target:
- Mission 619: 1,144 bombers and 570 fighters, in 3 forces, attack targets
in the Stuttgart, Germany area; 7 bombers are lost mostly to flak along with
5 fighters. 
(1) B-24s hit secondary targets, the marshalling yards at Ulm (247) and
Heilbronn (100); 2 others bomb targets of opportunity; 1 B-24 is lost;
escort is provided by 153 P-38 Lightnings and P-51s; 2 P-51s are lost. 
(2) B-17s bomb a tank factory at Nurnberg (173), Giebelstadt Airfield (112)
and an aircraft components plant at Furth (60); 8 others hit targets of
opportunity; 3 B-17s are lost; escort is provided by 221 P-47 Thunderbolts
and P-51s and they claim 1-0-0 aircraft in the air and 38-0-44 on the
ground; 3 P-51s are lost. 
(3) B-17s attack a motor vehicle factory at Gaggenau (140), a jet-propulsion
units plant at Zuffenhausen (116) and an engine factory at Sindelfingen
(73); 19 others hit targets of opportunity; 3 B-17s are lost; escort is
provided by 135 P-51s; they claim 1-1-0 aircraft in the air and 29-0-1 on
the ground.
- Mission 620: A B-17 flies a mission to trial the GB-4 radio/visual control
bomb against Duren, Germany
- Mission 621: 3 B-17s fly a radar and photo reconnaissance mission over
Germany; leaflets are also dropped.
- 6 B-17s drop leaflets on France, the Netherlands and Germany during the
night.
- 121 P-47s strafe airfields and ground and rail traffic in a sweep over the
Cologne, Frankfurt/Main, and Kassel areas; they claim 10-0-21 aircraft on
the ground; 8 P-47s are lost.
- 35 B-24s and C-47s fly CARPETBAGGER missions during the night.
Advance HQ, US Ninth Air Force, assigns rail lines approaching the River 
Rhine from the west, north of Karlsruhe, to be attacked by IX and XIX
Tactical Air Command fighters in the first of a series of orders setting up
rail interdiction programs to cut lines west and east of the River  Rhine in
September and early October; changes and additions to targets appear on 12
and 14 September when a list of all lines to be cut is published. 

FRANCE : Le Havre, is shelled by HMS Warspite (BB) and HMS Erebus (monitor).
About 340 B-26s and A-20 Havocs hit strongpoints and ammunition stores in
the Foret de Haye, Custines rail bridge, and a road bridge over the Mosel
River; escorting fighters provide general air cover in the Metz-Nancy area,
and support US Third Army ground forces in stemming a counterattack there;
800+ C-47s complete supply and evacuation missions; the southern invading
forces and those of the Normandy invasion meet.

BELGIUM: Canadian forces enter Zeebrugge.

LUXEMBOURG: Units of the US 1st Army enter and liberate Luxembourg City.

GERMANY: Berlin: Himmler orders the families of all deserters to be
executed.
Aachen: The first Allied vehicle, a US Jeep, crosses the border into
Germany.
Soviet submarine M-96 sunk by a mine off Narva. 

In AUSTRIA, 344 US Fifteenth Air Force B-17s and B-24s bomb 5 ordnance
depots and southeast industrial area in Vienna and 2 oil refineries in the
area. 88 B-24s escorted by P-38s and P-51s bomb the port of Trieste, Italy.
and 45 B-24s, with P-51s escorting, fly a supply mission to Lyon, France.
 
ITALY: The US 5th Army renews attacks toward the Futa and Il Giogo Passes
north of Florence.
The US Twelfth Air Force flies tactical missions in ITALY and southern
FRANCE. In Italy, B-25s and B-26s continue the campaign against railroad
bridges in the Po Valley and execute 4 attacks against supply and ammunition
dumps; fighter-bombers hit dumps and communications as the ground assault on
the Gothic Line commences during the early morning. In France, XII Tactical
Air Command fighters and fighter-bombers blast communications in the Belfort
and Dijon areas, cutting railroads and hitting several trains.

BLACK SEA: Three German submarines, U-19, U-20 and U-23, are scuttled by
their crews in the  off the coast of Turkey in position 41.16N, 31.26E. 

BURMA: Troop carrier and cargo hauls continue on a large scale tonumerous
points in the CBI; 24 US Tenth Air Force B-24s haul fuel to Kunming, China.
About 140 US Fourteenth Air Force P-40s and P-51 Mustangs on armed
reconnaissance over eastern Burma, southwestern China, and inland
southeastern China attack a huge number of targets of opportunity including
troops, aircraft, river shipping, trucks, runways, bridges, and supply
areas. 

KURILE ISLANDS: 6 US Eleventh Air Force B-25s fly shipping sweep off
Suribachi.

VOLCANO ISLANDS: US Seventh Air Force B-24s from Saipan hit Iwo Jima and
strike shipping near Iwo Jima. Eniwetok Atoll-based B-24s bomb Truk Island.

NETHERLANDS EAST INDIES: CELEBES ISLAND: US Far East Air Force B-24s pound
airfields at Langoan and Mapanget and hit Tomohon and the waterfront area of
Menado. On Halmahera Island, Lolobata and Hate Tabako Airfields are bombed
and areas along Wasile Bay strafed. B-25s, A-20s, and P-38s hit airfields
and oil storage at Namlea on Buru Island, and Amahai and Boela on Ceram
Island while B-24s hit Laha Airfield, Celebes Island. 
One B-24 strafes the Balikpapan refineries and oil storage at Lutong [(North
Borneo) small refineris and large oil storage facility] storage of 10 50,000
barrel tanks 868th Bombardment Squadron - 13th Air Force Flight originated
from Sansapor. (Robert McFaul)

NEW GUINEA: A-20s and fighters hit airfields at Samate, Sagan, Nabire,
Urarom, Manokwari, Moemi, and Ransiki.

COMMONWEALTH OF THE PHILIPPINES: Carrier-based aircraft of the USN's Task
Groups 38.1, 38.2 and 38.3 continue their attacks against Japanese
installations on Mindanao in the Philippine Islands.

PACIFIC OCEAN: USN submarine USS Sunfish (SS-281) sinks a Japanese merchant
tanker east of Quelpart (now Cheju) Island south of (South) Korea. Other
Japanese ship loses include an army tanker sunk by mine (laid by British
submarine HMS Porpoise on 8 July 1944) in the Strait of Malacca between
Sumatra and Malaya; and a merchant tanker sunk by mine off Woosung, China. 
(Jack McKillop)

PALAU ISLANDS: Carrier-based aircraft of TG 38.4 begin preinvasion air
strikes against Japanese airfields and defenses on Peleliu and Angaur
Islands in the Palau Islands. During the night, radar-equipped B-24s of the
US Thirteenth Air Force also attack targets on the two islands. (Jack
McKillop)

U.S.A.: The top songs on the pop music charts are "I'll Be Seeing You" and
"Swinging on a Star" by Bing Crosby, "I'll Walk Alone" by Dinah Shore and "A
Soldier's Last Letter" by Ernest Tubb. (Jack McKillop)

September 10th, 1945
NORWAY: Vidkun Quisling is sentenced to death for collaborating with the
Germans during the occupation. During a visit to Adolf Hitler in Berlin in
the winter of 1939-40, Quisling, the leader of the national socialist
Nasjonal Samling Party, had pointed out how valuable it would be for Germany
to occupy Norway. Immediately after the invasion, on the morning of 9 April
1940, he proclaimed himself the new head of the government and ordered the
Norwegian armed forces to stop battling the Germans but he was ignored.
Realizing that Quisling did not serve their purposes, the Germans chose to
base their administration of the country on a certain degree of
give-and-take with the existing civilian authorities. 
Eventually, the Nasjonal Samling Party was declared the only legal party and
Quisling was installed as Norwegian Prime Minister in 1942 and throughout
the war he collaborated with the Germans. He was executed on 24 October
1945. (Jack McKillop)

U.S.A.: General Jonathan M. Wainwright is awarded the Medal of Honor by
President Harry S. Truman. The citation reads, "Distinguished himself by
intrepid and determined leadership against greatly superior enemy forces. 
At the repeated risk of life above and beyond the call of duty in his
position, he frequented the firing line of his troops where his presence
provided the example and incentive that helped make the gallant efforts of
these men possible. The final stand on beleaguered Corregidor, for which he
was in an important measure personally responsible, commanded the admiration
of the Nation's allies. It reflected the high morale of American arms in the
face of overwhelming odds. His courage and resolution were a vitally needed
inspiration to the then sorely pressed freedom-loving peoples of the world."
(Jack McKillop)