13 Oct 1943
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- USS S-28 arrived at Attu, US Territory of Alaska, ending her seventh war patrol. ww2dbase [S-28 | Attu | CPC]
- TBF Avengers flying from USS Card attacked and sank German Type VIIC submarine U-402 in the mid-Atlantic using the Mark 24 FIDO acoustic homing torpedo. ww2dbase [TBF Avenger | Mark XXIV | Card | U-402 | Type VII-class | Conclusion of the Battle of the Atlantic | DS]
- About 270 Allied aircraft were launched from bases in Australian Papua to attack the Japanese base at Rabaul, New Britain. Poor weather would cause the raid to be canceled. ww2dbase [New Guinea-Papua Campaign, Phase 3 | CPC]
- Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Jakarta, Java. ww2dbase [Hikawa Maru | Jakarta, Java | CPC]
- Noor Inayat Khan was captured by agents of the German Sicherheitsdienst (SD) organization in Paris, France. ww2dbase [Noor Inayat Khan | Paris | CPC]
- USS Scorpion departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her third war patrol. ww2dbase [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Scorpion | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]
- USS Nashville entered the recently completed Drydock No. 4 at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard where she remained for 3 days. ww2dbase [Nashville | Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Pearl Harbor, Oahu | DS]
- Marshal Pietro Badoglio's new Italian government announced a declaration of war against Germany. Meanwhile, US Fifth Army crossed the Volturno River in Italy. ww2dbase [Advance to the Gustav Line | TH]
- 120,000 Soviet troops moved into the Chechen–Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in southern Russia ostensibly to repair roads and bridges but in actuality in preparation to control the local Chechen and Ingush (Ghalghai) population. ww2dbase [Deportation of Caucasian, Altaic, and Turkish Peoples | CPC]




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