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WWII On This Day: September 10

What happened on September 10 during World War II? This date brings together 4 events from 1942 and 1944, with period photographs and links to the full operations documented across WW2 Theatres.

1942
A German tank commander in southern Soviet territory in June 1942, shortly before the opening of Case Blue.
Bundesarchiv Bild 101I-218-0528-30 · CC BY-SA 3.0 DE · Source
Case Blue and the Drive to the Caucasus

List leaves Army Group A

After weeks of argument over the pace and direction of the Caucasus campaign, Keitel met Wilhelm List privately on the morning of 10 September. List then withdrew from command of Army Group A. The dispute had become focused on the mountain corps and the feasibility of continuing through the passes, but its roots were broader: fuel shortages, dwindling air support and strengthening Soviet resistance had already caused List to report that the operations had lost their earlier fluidity. No permanent field commander immediately replaced him. Hitler increasingly directed the army…

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1944
Allied transport aircraft and gliders overhead while paratroops descend over the Netherlands during Operation Market Garden on 17 September 1944.
U.S. Army Air Forces / National Archives, NAID 531308 · Public domain in the United States · Source
Operation Market Garden

Montgomery puts the plan to Eisenhower

Montgomery met Eisenhower at Brussels and argued for concentrating Allied resources on a northern thrust through the Netherlands. Eisenhower approved Market Garden and gave the operation high supply priority while the Allied armies were still working with long supply lines from Normandy. Antwerp had been captured on 4 September, but the Scheldt estuary remained in German hands and the port could not yet receive Allied shipping. Market Garden therefore drew on the same limited logistical system while the approaches to Antwerp still had to be cleared.

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LVT-4 Alligator amphibious vehicles pass Terrapin amphibious vehicles near Terneuzen during the Battle of the Scheldt, 13 October 1944.
Department of National Defence / Library and Archives Canada · 13 October 1944 · Public domain in Canada · Source
The Battle of the Scheldt

Market Garden takes priority

At Brussels on 10 September Eisenhower approved Montgomery's proposal for the airborne and ground operation that became Market Garden. Air transport and logistical priority shifted toward the attempt to seize crossings through the Netherlands and establish a bridgehead beyond the Lower Rhine. Clearing the Scheldt continued as a requirement, but it lacked the operational priority and resources given to the Arnhem thrust during the middle of September.

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Fighting in Praga in September 1944, photographed on what is now Sokola Street. The Commons record gives the month rather than an exact day.
Fighting in Praga in September 1944, photographed on what is now Sokola Street. The Commons record gives the month rather than an exact day. Unknown photographer · Public domain (Poland) Source
The Warsaw Rising

The Soviet offensive resumes

On 10 September the 1st Belorussian Front and the Polish 1st Army renewed the attack on the German-held Praga bridgehead east of the Vistula. The Soviet formations had spent weeks recovering and reorganising after the long summer advance and the armoured fighting east and north-east of Warsaw. The renewed operation forced the German defence back toward the river and altered the Home Army's immediate options. Direct radio contact, artillery support and a possible crossing from the east bank became practical questions rather than distant expectations.

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