1 Oct 1943

- American submarine USS Halibut tested a torpedo equipped with newly designed contact exploder. ww2dbase [Halibut | CPC]
- The US Navy Pacific Fleet deployed its first submarine wolfpack. ww2dbase [CPC]
- U-52 was decommissioned from service. ww2dbase [U-52 | CPC]
- 220 Danish Jews were arrested by the Gestapo. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | CPC]
- Oberleutnant zur See Günter Leupold was made the commanding officer of U-1059, replacing Herbert Brüninghaus. ww2dbase [U-1059 | CPC]
- Troops of German 1st Mountain Division massacred 87 people in the village of Lingiades, Greece in reliation of the assassination of Oberstleutnant Josef Salminger by Greek partisan fighters. ww2dbase [Lingiades | CPC]
- A Chinese heavy mortar regiment arrived at Ramgarh Training Center in India for training. Additionally, Chinese 1st Provisional Tank Group was formed at Ramgarh under the command of US Army Colonel Rothwell Brown; it consisted of 1,800 Chinese officers and men and 231 US officers and men, operating between 100 to 125 US-built M3A3 Stuart light tanks. ww2dbase [Ramgarh Training Center | Ramgarh, Bihar | CPC]
- The Viscount Wavell, Archibald Wavell, was made the Viceroy and Governor-General of India, succeeding the Marquess of Linlithgow, Victor Hope. ww2dbase [Archibald Wavell | CPC]
- Japanese submarine I-10 (Commander Kinzo Tonozuka) attacked an Allied convoy traveling toward Aden in the Gulf of Aden with three torpedoes, sinking Norwegian armed merchant Storviken (carrying coal) with two hits. Two crewmen were taken aboard I-10 as prisoners of war, including Finn Kjellevik, who had previously survived a sinking by German submarine U-375 in Jul 1942. ww2dbase [Gulf of Aden | CPC, HM]
- Allied troops reached Naples, Italy at 0930 hours, which had already been taken over by Italian resistance fighters. The arriving troops found the port facilities were destroyed by the Germans. ww2dbase [Naples Uprising | Naples, Campania | TH, CPC]
- USS Pompon attacked a Japanese transport in the South China Sea; all 4 torpedoes missed. ww2dbase [Pompon | South China Sea | CPC]
- In the Kara Sea off northern Russia, German submarine U-703 sank freighter Sergei Kirov of Soviet convoy VA-18 and U-960 sank escort vessel T-42. ww2dbase [Arctic Convoys | CPC]


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