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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]

• 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]

• 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