In Italy… Elements the US 5th Army continue to advance. Elements of the US 6th Corps attack Avellino. The British 10th Corps reaches Pompeii.

In Malta… General Eisenhower and Marshal Badoglio sign the armistice agreement aboard the HMS Nelson in Malta harbor.

On the Eastern Front… Soviet forces capture Kremenchug. Farther north, Rudnya on the Smolensk-Vitebsk railroad, is also taken by Soviet forces.

In Occupied Italy… The uprising in Naples continues.