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• 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]
• The facilities of the Portland Assembly Center in Oregon, United States were returned to civilian use. ww2dbase [Portland Assembly Center | CPC]

• USS S-38 arrived at Anuta, Santa Cruz Islands to wait for a PBY Catalina aircraft scheduled to pick up a sailor suffering from acute appendicitis. ww2dbase [S-38 | Anuta, Santa Cruz | CPC]

• 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 [Growler | Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | 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]

• USS Bailey rendezvoused with USS Nashville and transferred Captain Spanagel to Nashville. Captain Herman A. Spanagel relieved Captain Francis S. Craven as the commanding officer of the cruiser USS Nashville. ww2dbase [Bailey | Nashville | Bering Sea | DS]

• 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 [Rudolf Höss | Auschwitz Concentration Camp | 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 [Auschwitz Concentration Camp | Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | 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]
• The Puyallup Assembly Center in Washington, United States was handed over to the Fort Lewis Ninth Service Command to be converted into a military training facility. ww2dbase [Puyallup Assembly Center | Puyallup, Washington | CPC]

30 Sep 1942 Interactive Map