The HMHS Newfoundland, a hospital ship, was hit by a German glide bomb in the Mediterranean, while the HMS Uganda was hit by a guided German bomb.
The new German areal munition technology was taking quite a toll.
The Newfoundland had to be scuttled. The Uganda was heavily damaged, but returned to service in 1944 as a Canadian ship. She'd see service again during the Korean War as the HMCS Quebec.
The US began to distribute residents of the Tule Lake Relocation Center, which was being converted to a maximum security detention center for Nisei regarded as a significant threat.
Hitler told his aid Karl Wolff that he wanted Pope Pius XII deported to Germany. On the same day, German emissary to the Vatican Ernst von Weiszacker delivered Hitler's assurances to the Vatican that its sovereignty would be respected.
German counterattacks at Salerno came within one mile of the beaches before being stopped by naval gunfire. Units from the 82nd Airborne were parachuted in as reinforcements.
In Greece, the Italian Acqui Division resisted German efforts to disarm it.
American actor David Bacon was murdered in Santa Monica. Surviving a knifing long enough to attempt to drive off, he was found barely alive in his car, wearing only a swimsuit. He left a pregnant wife. Twenty-nine years old at the time, the mystery has never been solved.
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