2 Nov 1939
China
China
- Arthur Chin, flying a Gladiator fighter, damaged a Japanese Navy C5M reconnaissance aircraft over Wuming Airfield, Guangxi Province, China. Observer Sub-Lieutenant Yonetaro Ueda was seriously injured, but the pilot was able to nurse the damaged aircraft back to its base on Hainan Island off the southern Chinese coast. ww2dbase [Arthur Chin | Wuming, Guangxi | CPC]
- The first transport of Polish women arrived at Ravensbrück Concentration Camp in Germany. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Ravensbrück Concentration Camp | Ravensbrück, Mark Brandenburg | CPC]
- Joseph Goebbels visited Łódź, Poland. ww2dbase [Joseph Goebbels | Łódź | CPC]

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