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• The keel of submarine Sea Cat was laid down at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine, United States. ww2dbase [Sea Cat | CPC]
• HMT Gulland was commissioned into service. ww2dbase [Gulland | CPC]
• Light carrier Ryuho arrived at Sama (now Sanya), Hainan, China. ww2dbase [Ryuho | CPC]
• Submarine Runner was struck from the US Naval Register. ww2dbase [Runner (Gato-class) | CPC]
• USS Seahorse sank a small Japanese vessel with her deck gun south of Japan. ww2dbase [Seahorse | CPC]
• A report from German Commander-in-Chief, West Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt appeared on Adolf Hitler's desk. It described the shabby situation on the English Channel coast in France. Consequently Field Marshal Erwin Rommel would be despached by the German High Command to insect the Atlantic Wall defences and to submit a report. ww2dbase [Gerd von Rundstedt | AC]

• TBF-1 Avenger from escort carrier USS Card flown by Lt(jg) Fryatt sighted a German submarine on the surface in the mid-Atlantic. He reported that he “attacked as submarine submerged and sank it.” No German submarine was lost on this date in this area and there is no report of a similar attack (but within two days, two different U-Boats were lost almost on this spot so the attack could have been against one of these who had no chance to file a report about it). ww2dbase [Card | Conclusion of the Battle of the Atlantic | TBF Avenger | DS]

• USS Ray arrived at Brisbane, Australia. ww2dbase [Ray | Brisbane, Queensland | CPC]

• Shokaku and Zuikaku transferred designated sections of air group ashore to Truk, Caroline Islands; these air groups would soon be flown to reinforce Rabaul, New Britain. ww2dbase [Zuikaku | Shokaku | Truk | CPC]

• Patrol Boat No. 102 departed Balikpapan, Dutch East Indies to escort Tarushima Maru toward Makassar, Celebes, Dutch East Indies. ww2dbase [Stewart | Balikpapan, Borneo | CPC]

• USS Harder departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her third war patrol, this time as a member of a wolfpack. ww2dbase [Harder | Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]

• Jean Knox stepped down as the director of the British Auxiliary Territorial Service. ww2dbase [Jean Knox | England | CPC]

• The keel of submarine Springer was laid down at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California, United States. ww2dbase [Springer | Mare Island Navy Yard | Vallejo, California | CPC]
• USS St. Louis departed San Francisco, California bound for Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides. ww2dbase [Walden Ainsworth | St. Louis | San Francisco, California | DS]

30 Oct 1943 Interactive Map