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

• Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Balikpapan, Dutch Borneo. ww2dbase [Main Article | Tabular Record of Movement | 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 [Main Article | CPC]

• British commandos landed near Termoli, Italy. ww2dbase [Main Article | 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 [Main Article | CPC]

2 Oct 1943 Interactive Map