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• HMS Eagle made rendezvous with light cruiser Liverpool. ww2dbase [Eagle | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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