30 Sep 1942


- Adolf Hitler publicly repeated his forecast of the destruction of the Jewry. ww2dbase [CPC]
- Soviet troops crossed the Volga River near Moscow, Russia. ww2dbase [TH]
- Repair ship Akashi completed the repair work for destroyer Shirakumo at Truk, Caroline Islands. ww2dbase [Akashi | Truk | CPC]
- After a dive bomber escorting mission, the engine of Hauptmann Hans-Joachim Marseille's Bf 109G-6 fighter caught fire southeast of El Imayid, Egypt. Unable to make it back to his airfield due to black smoke entering the cockpit, the 22-year-old "Star of Africa" attempted to bail out, but while doing so he struck the vertical stabilizer across his chest and hip. He fell to his death 7 kilometers south of Sidi Abdel Rahman, Egypt at 1142 hours. ww2dbase [Hans-Joachim Marseille | Sidi Abdel Rahman | AC, CPC]
- Submarine USS Growler arrived at Pearl Harbor and began a refit that replaced one propeller and added an Oerlikon 20mm cannon. ww2dbase [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Growler | Pearl Harbor, Hawaii | DS]
- Nachi departed Ominato Guard District, Mutsu, Aomori Prefecture, Japan in search of a nearby US task force (which was faulty intelligence). ww2dbase [Nachi | Mutsu, Aomori | CPC]
- Commandant of Auschwitz Concentration Camp Rudolf Höss forbade his SS guards to consume raw fruits, raw vegetables, and raw milk due to the typhus epidemic in the camp. ww2dbase [Auschwitz Concentration Camp | Rudolf Höss | Oswiecim | CPC]
- A transport containing 610 Jews arrived at Auschwitz Concentration Camp from the Westerbork camp in the Netherlands; 37 men and 118 women were registered into the camp, and the remaining 454 were gassed. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Auschwitz Concentration Camp | Oswiecim | CPC]
- German bombers attacked Lancing and Colchester, England, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [Battle of Britain | England | CPC]
- Battleships of US Navy Task Force 1 arrived at San Francisco, California, United States. ww2dbase [San Francisco, California | CPC]



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