U.S. and Canadian forces landed on Kiska and found it abandoned.
Canadian soldier looking down the sites of a Japanese light machine gun.
There were casualties. Four American soldiers were killed by mines and 24 by friendly fire by troops operating in fog. The island was expected to be heavily defended and the Japanese withdrawal was a surprise.
Americans and New Zealanders landed on Vella Lavella in the Solomons.
U.S. troops on Vella Lavella.
The British took Taormina in Sicily. The U.S. conducted another amphibious landing on the northern Sicilian coast.
Karachev fail to the Red Army.
The Polish Uderzeniowe Bataliony Kadrowe raided Mittenheide.
