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• USS Cod arrived at Brisbane, Australia. ww2dbase [Cod | CPC]
• Orders were given by the German government to deport Danish Jews to concentration camps. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | CPC]
• RAF aircraft bombed München, Germany. ww2dbase [Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | TH]
• Louis Mountbatten departed Northolt, England, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [Louis Mountbatten | CPC]
• Eight of the ten sections of USS ABSD-1 arrived at Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides. ww2dbase [ABSD-1 | CPC]

• USS Ancon arrived at Algiers, French Algeria. ww2dbase [Ancon | Algiers | CPC]

• The Task Group centered around escort carrier USS Bogue received an intelligence decrypt bulletin indicating a possible gathering of German submarines for refueling about 300 miles north of the Azores (ironically, it would be Composite Squadron VC-9 now aboard USS Card, acting on the same intelligence bulletin, that would interrupt this fueling rendezvous two days later and sink two submarines, including the tanker submarine). ww2dbase [Conclusion of the Battle of the Atlantic | Bogue | DS]

• Destroyers USS Radford, USS Saufley, USS Lavallette, and USS Grayson completed their patrol up the New Georgia Sound (the "Slot) north of Vella Lavella and arrived at Tulagi, Solomon Islands. ww2dbase [Saufley | Tulagi, Solomon Islands | DS]

• Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Balikpapan, Dutch Borneo. ww2dbase [Hikawa Maru | Balikpapan, Borneo | CPC]

• Ar 234V-2 jet bomber suffered a fire in its wing and crashed at Rheine Airfield north of Munster, Germany, killing test pilot Flugkapitän Selle. ww2dbase [Ar 234 Blitz | Rheine, Westfalen-Nord | CPC]
• The USAAF 306th Bomb Group flying from RAF Thurleigh launched a bombing raid against industrial areas at Emden, Germany. ww2dbase [Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | RAF Thurleigh | Emden | DS]

• British commandos landed near Termoli, Italy. ww2dbase [Advance to the Gustav Line | Termoli, Molise | TH, CPC]

• Winston Churchill cabled Chiang Kaishek, informing the Chinese leader that Louis Mountbatten would soon be dispatched to Chinese to discuss an Anglo-American-Chinese joint offensive against Japanese forces in Burma. This followed another message dated 23 Sep 1943 from King George VI regarding the same topic. ww2dbase [Winston Churchill | London, England | CPC]
• USS Ranger sortied from Scapa Flow, Scotland with the Home Fleet as part of Operation Leader designed to attack German shipping in the harbor at Bodø, Norway. ww2dbase [Ranger | Orkney Islands, Scotland | DS]

2 Oct 1943 Interactive Map