22 Oct 1943




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- USS Cod arrived departed Brisbane, Australia on her first war patrol. ww2dbase [Cod | CPC]
- During an RAF raid on Kassel, Germany, the RAF began Operation Corona to jam German night-fighter communications. ww2dbase [Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | TH]
- HMS Orfasy was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-68 off Freetown, Sierra Leone, British West Africa. ww2dbase [AC]
- Louis Mountbatten met with William Slim for the first time at Barrackpore in eastern India. ww2dbase [William Slim | CPC]
- US Army Air Forces 70th Bombardment Squadron of 38th Bombardment Group, equipped with B-25 medium bombers, was transferred out of Henderson Field on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. ww2dbase [Henderson Field | Lunga Point, Guadalcanal | CPC]
- Kamoi departed Surabaya, Java, Dutch East Indies with Rio de Janeiro Maru, escorted by minesweeper W-8. ww2dbase [Kamoi | Surabaya, Java | CPC]
- Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Saigon, Indochina. ww2dbase [Hikawa Maru | Saigon, Cochinchine | CPC]
- Over Kassel, Germany, the Lancaster bomber aboard which Roberts Dunstan was a crew member was damaged by two incendiary bombs dropped by a friendly Lancaster bomber flying higher above; although the bomber was further damaged by German nightfighters, it was able to return to Britain, crash landing at Bisham, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [Roberts Dunstan | Kassel, Kurhessen | CPC]
- The dam at the Möhnesee reservoir in western Germany was largely repaired. ww2dbase [Möhnesee Dam | Dambuster Raid | Soest, Westfalen-Süd | AC]
- Over Kassel, Germany, the Lancaster bomber aboard which Roberts Dunstan was a crew member was damaged by two incendiary bombs dropped by a friendly Lancaster bomber flying higher above; although the bomber was further damaged by German nightfighters, it was able to return to Britain, crash landing at Bisham, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | Kassel, Kurhessen | CPC]
- Royal Navy Destroyer HMS Hurworth was sunk after striking a mine in the Aegean Sea whilst going to the aid of the Greek destroyer Adrias which had been severely damaged by a mine that day. The ship broke in half, the fore part sinking in three minutes and the after part in eight. 134 officers and men were lost. ww2dbase [AC]
- U-537 arrived in Martin Bay, Labrador, Newfoundland and began establishing Weather Station Kurt under the direction of meteorologist Kurt Sommermeyer. Meanwhile, crew members of the submarine repaired damage caused by a storm days earlier. ww2dbase [U-537 | Weather Station Kurt | CPC]
- USS Grayback sank converted light cruiser Awata Maru in the East China Sea, hitting her with 4 of 6 torpedoes. ww2dbase [Grayback | East China Sea | CPC]
- Block 11 of Auschwitz I concentration camp held a trial that sentenced 76 men and 19 women to death; they had been transferred from the prison in Myslowitz. The trial was presided by the new head of the Kattowitz Gestapo, SS-Obersturbanfuehrer Johannes Thümmler, who was never punished after the war and passed away in old age in May 2002. ww2dbase [Auschwitz Concentration Camp | Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Oswiecim | CPC]
- British Brigadier R. E. Laycock, DSO was appointed Chief of Combined Operations in succession to Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten. ww2dbase [AC]
- USS Ranger and the Royal Navy Home Fleet arrived at Scapa Flow, Scotland. ww2dbase [Ranger | Orkney Islands, Scotland | DS]




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