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At 3:15 German troops from the 6th Parachute regiment counter-attacked 1st NZ Battalion troops but were repelled and retired by daylight.

General George Patton infamously slaps Private Charles Kuhl, who is suffering from battle fatigue, for what he perceives as cowardice. Subsequently on the 10th he slaps another private, Paul Bennett, unders similar circumstances.

The italian submarine Ascianghi is sunk after she (or possibly the German sub U-407) torpedoes the HMS Newfoundland. She is forced to surface by depth charges and then sunk by shell fire.

The largest amphibious operation of the war in terms of men landed on the beaches and of frontage. Strategically, Husky achieved the goals set out for it by Allied planners. The Allies drove Axis air and naval forces from the island

The Royal Navy began bombing Pantelleria in preparation for it's capture. The radar installations and airfields on the island presented a real threat to the following invasion of Sicily.