5 Oct 1943



- USS S-28 traveled through the Onekotan Strait in the northern Kurile Islands. ww2dbase [S-28 | CPC]
- Germans completed their evacuation of Corsica, France. ww2dbase [TH]
- Remy Van Lierde shot down a German Ju 88 heavy fighter (his fifth kill) and destroyed another aircraft on the ground. ww2dbase [Remy Van Lierde | CPC]
- Manila Bay was commissioned into service. ww2dbase [Manila Bay | CPC]
- Submarine U-869 was launched. ww2dbase [U-869 | CPC]
- Joseph Stilwell ordered Sun Liren to launch an offensive in northern Burma, but Sun hesitated. ww2dbase [Sun Liren | CPC]
- Minesweeper USS Assail was transferred to the Soviet Union under the Lend-Lease Act. ww2dbase [AC]
- Ensign Robert W. Duncan of US Navy Squadron VF-5 became the first F6F Hellcat fighter pilot to shoot down two Japanese Zero fighters in a single engagement. ww2dbase [F6F Hellcat | AC]
- Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Fifteen officers and 78 men of ARGUS-10 on board. ww2dbase [Barbers Point Naval Air Station | Ewa, Oahu | DS]
- German 16th Panzer Division nearly wiped out the British bridgehead on the Biferno River near Termoli, Italy; the British bridgehead was saved by the arrival of Canadian and British tanks. ww2dbase [Advance to the Gustav Line | Termoli, Molise | CPC]
- American carrier aircraft bombed Wake Island as surface ships, including USS New Orleans (New Orleans-class), shelled the island ww2dbase [New Orleans | CPC]
- USS Wahoo sank freighter Konron Maru in the Sea of Japan off Tsushima, Japan, killing 544. ww2dbase [Wahoo | Sea of Japan | CPC]
- USS Ray departed the Panama Canal Zone. ww2dbase [Ray | CPC]
- 1,196 Polish Jewish children originally from the liquidated Bialystok ghetto in Poland were transferred from Theresienstadt Concentration Camp in occupied Czechoslovakia to Auschwitz Concentration Camp in occupied Poland. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Auschwitz Concentration Camp | Oswiecim | CPC]
- USS Yorktown (Essex-class) began two days of air strikes on Japanese installations on Wake Island. ww2dbase [J. J. Clark | Yorktown (Essex-class) | Wake | DS]




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