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• The keel of submarine Bugara was laid down. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Captain Minegoro Kameyama was named the commanding officer of repair ship Akashi. ww2dbase [Main Article | Tabular Record of Movement | CPC]

• The personnel of US Marine Corps squadron VMF-214 was moved to the Russell Islands. ww2dbase [CPC]
• US Army Air Forces 75th Bombardment Squadron of 42nd Bombardment Group, equipped with B-25 medium bombers, was transferred out of Henderson Field on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Naka departed Shanghai, China with 485 troops of Japanese 17th Division. ww2dbase [Main Article | Tabular Record of Movement | CPC]

• Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Saigon, Indochina. ww2dbase [Main Article | Tabular Record of Movement | CPC]

• The keel of landing ship No. 127 was laid down by Kawanami Kogyo. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• 1,007 Jews from the Westerbork camp in the Netherlands arrived at Auschwitz Concentration Camp in Poland. There were 87 children, 407 men and women under the age of 50 and 207 older people. After the selection 347 men and 170 women were registered. The other 409 were killed in the gas chambers. ww2dbase [Main Article | Facility | CPC]

• Dudley Pound passed away from brain tumor at the Royal Masonic Hospital in London, England, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

21 Oct 1943 Interactive Map