page_title: September 1943
section_title: September 20, 1943 (Monday)
hierarchical_section_title: September 1943 / September 20, 1943 (Monday)
caption_attribution_description: English: de Havilland Vampire T11 WZ507
context_page_description: The following events occurred in September 1943:
context_section_description: The British de Havilland Vampire jet fighter airplane made its first flight, taking off from and landing at an airfield at Hatfield, Hertfordshire, with designer Geoffrey de Havilland piloting.
  The mass German deportation purging of Belgium's Jewish population began, as a transport train departed for the Auschwitz concentration camp with about 1,000 prisoners.  Five more such operations would take place in 1943, and four in 1944.
  With Rome under control of German occupation forces, a representative of Germany's Reichsbank arrived at the headquarters of the Banca d'Italia, Italy's central bank, and ordered that 119 tons, nearly all of Italy's gold reserves, be placed in German custody in Milan.
  The Battle of Kaiapit ended in Allied victory.
  Allied forces began Operation Source, a series of midget submarine attacks to neutralize the heavy German warships based in northern Norway.
  The Canadian destroyer HMCS St. Croix was torpedoed and sunk in the Bay of Biscay by German submarine U-305.
  The German submarine U-338 was depth charged and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean by the Canadian corvette Drumheller, and the U-346 sank in Danzig Bay in a diving accident with the loss of 37 out of 43 crew.
caption: A British Vampire jet fighter
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