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• HMS Eagle made rendezvous with light cruiser Liverpool. ww2dbase [Eagle | CPC]
• HMS CUMBERLAND after refuelling at Freetown, British West Africa (now Sierra Leone) sent to join HM Cruisers EXETER, ACHILLES and AJAX for continuation of interception patrols as Force G. Failed to report \ ww2dbase [Cumberland | Exeter | DS]

• In a downed aircraft, Chinese troops discovered General Yasuji Okamura's order calling off the offensive on Changsha, Hunan Province, China. Nearby, Chinese 23rd Division attacked a Japanese Navy anchorage at Yingtian (now Miluo), damaging several vessels. ww2dbase [First Battle of Changsha | Yingtian, Hunan | CPC]

• US Navy formed the Hawaiian Detachment and based it at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. ww2dbase [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]
• Joseph Rochefort arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii with the US Navy Scouting Force. ww2dbase [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Joseph Rochefort | Pearl Harbor, Oahu | CPC]

• Soviet Union forced Latvia to agree to allow Red Navy units to base in her Baltic harbors. ww2dbase [Annexation of the Baltic States | TH]

• Hitler visited Warsaw, Poland and held a victory parade. ww2dbase [Adolf Hitler | Warsaw | TH]

• Franklin Roosevelt spoke to Winston Churchill for the first time over the telephone. Roosevelt, who initiated the call, engaged Churchill in a discussion on the German attempt to attack American shipping as an attempt to sabotage British-American relations; such an effort would later found to be a mere rumor. ww2dbase [Franklin Roosevelt | CPC]

5 Oct 1939 Interactive Map