5 Oct 1939
- HMS Eagle made rendezvous with light cruiser Liverpool. ww2dbase [Eagle | CPC]
- HMS Cumberland after refueling at Freetown, British West Africa (now Sierra Leone) was sent to join cruisers Exeter, Achilles and Ajax for continuation of interception patrols as Force G. ww2dbase [Exeter | Cumberland | DS]
- Westerwald was officially commissioned into service, though she was already on a mission supporting cruiser Deutschland at this time. ww2dbase [Nordmark | CPC]
- Albatros, Greif, and Falke completed patrolling the Kattegat and Skaggerak. ww2dbase [Falke | Albatros | Greif | Skaggerak | CPC]
- 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 [Joseph Rochefort | Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | 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]
- HMS Firedrake disembarked the 16 survivors of British merchant ship Glen Farg, sunk by U-23 on the previous day, at Kirkwall, Orkney Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [Kirkwall, Scotland | CPC]
- 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]
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