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• The Soviet Dneiper bridgehead in southern Ukraine expanded to a 300-mile frontage. ww2dbase [TH]
• On the eve of the Jewish New Year, the Gestapo and Danish Nazi members began rounding up Danish Jews. A Danish businessman passed the news of the operation and passed the information to the Danish resistance, which then arranged fishing boats to ferry a large number of Danish Jews to Sweden. ww2dbase [CPC]
• USS Hoe fired 4 torpedoes at a Japanese freighter; all torpedoes missed. ww2dbase [Hoe | CPC]

• SS-Hauptsturmführer Eduard Weiter was named the commandant of Dachau Concentration Camp in southern Germany, replacing Martin Weiß. ww2dbase [Dachau Concentration Camp | Dachau, München-Oberbayern | CPC]
• The construction for U-1133 was suspended. ww2dbase [Howaldtswerke Kiel | U-1133 | Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein | CPC]

• Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Composite Squadron 24 (VC-24) on board. ww2dbase [Barbers Point Naval Air Station | Ewa, Oahu | DS]

• German troops began evacuating Naples, Italy amidst continued fighting, leaving behind a burning city historical archive and many booby traps. ww2dbase [Naples Uprising | Napoli, Campania | CPC]

• A wolfpack consisted of German submarines U-703, U-601, and U-960 attacked Soviet convoy VA-18 near the Sergey Kirov Islands in the eastern Kara Sea and sank freighter Arhangelsk. ww2dbase [Arctic Convoys | Krasnoyarsk Krai | CPC]

• Carrier Colossus was launched. ww2dbase [Colossus | CPC]

• Former French Ambassador to the United States Gaston Henri-Haye was transferred out of Hotel Hershey in Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States for his next place of internment in Warm Springs, Virginia, United States. ww2dbase [Hotel Hershey | Hershey, Pennsylvania | CPC]

30 Sep 1943 Interactive Map