30 Oct 1944




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- USS Franklin was struck by a special attack aircraft, causing serious damage. ww2dbase [Franklin | CPC]
- Allied troops captured Tholen and Goes in the Netherlands. ww2dbase [Battle of the Scheldt Estuary | CPC]
- During an audience with Navy Minister Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai, Emperor Showa noted "It is truly regrettable that it should be necessary to go to this extreme, but they have done well", referring to the suicide tokko attacks on American naval vessels. ww2dbase [Showa | CPC]
- USS Guitarro made rendezvous with submarines USS Bream and USS Raton. After sundown, the wolfpack began attacking a Japanese convoy off Cape Bolinao, Luzon, Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Guitarro | CPC]
- Squadron Leader Bill Gill of 124 squadron RAF shot down a Heinkel bomber (A1+BM0 of 4/KG53) in which Fe Theodor Warwas and his crew were killed. Gill claimed another as a probable kill but it was later entered as damaged. Gill reported that after his ammunition ran out he followed the enemy aircraft into cloud and noticed that the Heinkel aircraft's port engine had stopped and that there was no fire from the gunner. ww2dbase [HM]
- Yuen Hop was assigned to 368th Bomb Squadron of USAAF 306th Bombardment Group while in Europe. ww2dbase [Yuen Hop | CPC]
- USS Honolulu entered floating drydock ABSD-2 at Seeadler Harbor, Manus, Admiralty Islands. ww2dbase [ABSD-2 | Honolulu | Manus, Admiralty Islands | DS]
- German SS-General Hermann Höfle and leader of the Slovakian government Jozef Tiso jointly announced the victory over the uprising at Banská Bystrica, Czechoslovakia. ww2dbase [Slovak National Uprising | Banská Bystrica | CPC]
- The USAAF 306th Bomb Group flying from RAF Thurleigh launched a bombing raid against the synthetic oil facility at Gelsenkirchen, Germany but diverted to Münster due to weather and bombed the railway yards. ww2dbase [Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | RAF Thurleigh | Münster | DS]
- Cruisers USS St. Louis and Pasadena departed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii bound for Eniwetok in the Marshall Islands. ww2dbase [Pasadena | St. Louis | Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Pearl Harbor, Oahu | DS]
- USS Archerfish departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, beginning her fifth war patrol. ww2dbase [Archerfish | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]
- The German counterattack near Debrecen, Hungary was called off, with the Germans claiming 25,000 enemy troops killed and 600 tanks destroyed; Soviet forces responded by starting their own offensive in the region. ww2dbase [Budapest Strategic Offensive Operation | Debrecen | TH]
- Károly Beregfy called for all available resources in Hungary to be assigned to war efforts. ww2dbase [Károly Beregfy | Budapest | CPC]
- British 8th Army reached Forlì, Italy. ww2dbase [Gothic Line Offensive | Forlì, Emilia-Romagna | CPC]
- Destroyer Yuzuki departed Sasebo, Japan, escorting carrier Junyo and cruiser Kiso for the Manila, Luzon, Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Yuzuki | Sasebo, Nagasaki | CPC]
- Unryu arrived at Kure, Japan and became the flagship of Vice Admiral Jisaburo Ozawa's Mobile Fleet. ww2dbase [Unryu | Kure, Hiroshima | CPC]
- Landing ship No. 114 was completed and was transferred to the Japanese Army. ww2dbase [No. 101/103-class | CPC]
- USS Marcus Island departed the Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Marcus Island | CPC]
- Patrol Boat No. 102 departed Lapoc Bay at 0530 hours and arrived at San Fernando on the western coast of Luzon, Philippines at 1517 hours. The damaged transport Daihaku Maru, which Patrol Boat No. 102 had been escorting, was beached. ww2dbase [Stewart | San Fernando | CPC]
- Two BQ-7 drones were launched against targets in Germany. One crashed into the sea, and the other crashed in Sweden. ww2dbase [Operation Aphrodite and Operation Anvil | CPC]
- Light carrier Ryuho departed Kirun (now Keelung), Taiwan. ww2dbase [Ryuho | Kirun, Taihoku | CPC]
- German V-2 rocket hit the Royal Victoria Dock at Earlham Grove, West Ham, London, England, United Kingdom at 1200 hours. ww2dbase [Vergeltungswaffe 2 | V-Weapons Campaign | London, England | CPC]




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