5 Oct 1942

- George Kenney ordered Kenneth Walker to stop personally participating on missions. This order would be disobeyed. ww2dbase [George Kenney | CPC]
- 6 B-17 Flying Fortress bombers of US 30th Bomb Squadron from Port Moresby, Australian Papua attacked Vunakanau airfield at Rabaul, New Britain. Simultaneously, 8 B-17 bombers of 28th Bomb Squadron attacked nearby Lakunai airfield. The attacks caused very minor damage. ww2dbase [Rabaul, New Britain | CPC]
- Task Force 17 (USS Hornet, Northampton, Pensacola, Juneau, San Diego, 3 destroyers) struck Japanese installations around the southern end of Bougainville in the Solomon Islands (Buin-Faisi-Tonolai Raid). ww2dbase [Solomon Islands Campaign | Hornet (Yorktown-class) | Pensacola | San Diego | Juneau | Northampton | CPC]
- Heinrich Himmler ordered that all Jews in concentration camps in Germany were to be transferred to Auschwitz or Majdanek concentration camps. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Heinrich Himmler | CPC]
- USS S-38 spotted a Japanese tanker at Tarawa, Gilbert Islands and fired three torpedoes at it. The torpedoes struck a lagoon and detonated before they could reach the target. ww2dbase [S-38 | Tarawa | CPC]
- USS Wahoo sighted a Japanese carrier and mis-identified her to be Ryujo. Lieutenant Commander Marvin Kennedy took a conservative attack approach that ultimately failed to intercept the carrier. ww2dbase [Wahoo | CPC]
- USS S-44 suffered leaks from damage sustained; her crew attempted repairs while escaping an attack by Japanese destroyers. ww2dbase [S-44 | CPC]
- The Soviet STAVKA arrested Major General Ivan Rukhle, recent deputy chief of the headquarters of the Stalingrad Front, and falsely charged him with treason. Rukhle would be kept at the Lubyanka prison near Moscow, Russia until 1952. ww2dbase [Lubyanka Building | Moscow | CPC]


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