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History on the 2nd of October

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02 Oct 1918 WW2 Claude Eatherly was born. 
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02 Oct 1930 WW2 Captain E. J. G. MacKinnon was named the commanding officer of HMS Hermes, replacing Captain J. D. Campbell. 
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02 Oct 1931 WW2 Charles Lindbergh's Lockheed Sirius floatplane was flipped by strong current at Hankou, Hubei Province, China a it was being hoisted off of HMS Hermes. A boat from the carrier rescued Lindbergh and his wife. 
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02 Oct 1935 WW2 The French Battleship Dunkerque was launched at Brest shipyard in France. 
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02 Oct 1936 WW2 Werner Mölders received the Dienstauszeichnung 4th Class award. 
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02 Oct 1936 WW2 Georg von Küchler was made the deputy president of the military court system. 
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02 Oct 1937 WW2 Japanese 2nd Brigade of the Chahar Expeditionary Force attacked Gouxian, Shanxi, China, defended by Chinese 19th Army. 
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02 Oct 1937 WW2 Japanese aircraft sank Chinese gunboat Chuyou at Jiangyin, Jiangsu Province, China. 
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02 Oct 1937 WW2 The PZInz 130 prototype amphibious tank was delivered to the Polish Army. 
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02 Oct 1939 WW2 Searaven was commissioned into service. 
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02 Oct 1939 WW2 Friedrich Ruge was awarded clasp to his Iron Cross 1st Class medal. 
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02 Oct 1940 WW2 British destroyers HMS Havock and HMS Hasty sank Italian submarine Berillo 50 miles south of Crete, Greece; all 45 aboard Berillo were rescued. 
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02 Oct 1940 WW2 British cruisers HMS Orion and HMS Sydney bombarded the Italian-controlled port of Maltezana, Stampalia, Greece. 
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02 Oct 1940 WW2 German submarine U-32 sank British ship Kayeson 400 miles west of Ireland at 1825 hours; the crew abandoned ship in lifeboats but none were seen again. 
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02 Oct 1940 WW2 George Patton was promoted to the temporary rank of brigadier general. 
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02 Oct 1940 WW2 Adolf Hitler ordered Hans Frank and other Nazi officials in occupied Poland to keep the standard of living low and to deprive the Polish population of education, for that the Polish people were now mere low laborers of Germany. Additionally, he ordered that the Polish gentry to be exterminated. 
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02 Oct 1940 WW2 A German Ju 88 bomber became lost in the darkness during an early-morning reconnaissance mission and landed at Brightlingsea, Essex, England, United Kingdom at 0630 hours and was captured. During the day, the German Luftwaffe launched 6 raids of Bf 109 and Bf 110 fighters and fighter-bombers against London and Kent in southern England; only one of the raids contained bombers. The Germans lost 5 bombers and 5 Bf 109 aircraft, while the British lost 1 fighter without the loss of its pilot. Overnight, London, Manchester, and Newcastle were bombed. 
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02 Oct 1941 WW2 The remainder of the German Armeegruppe Mitte launched Operation Typhoon, the attack on Moscow, Russia. Meanwhile, the German Panzergruppe 2 under General Guderian was split into two pincers at Sevsk, Russia; the northern pincer moved toward Bryansk while the northeastern pincer moved toward Orel. 
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02 Oct 1941 WW2 After sundown, in England, United Kingdom, German bombers attacked the Tyneside and Tees-side areas in northern England (50 were killed, 250 buildings were destroyed, shipbuilding and repairing facilities at South Shields severely damaged) and Dover area in southeastern England (10 killed). 
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02 Oct 1941 WW2 German submarine U-94 chased and attacked British tanker San Florentino 600 miles west of Ireland over a course of six hours, sinking her at 0552 hours; 23 were killed, 35 survived. 250 miles east of Iceland at 0652 hours, German submarine U-562 sank British catapult armed merchant ship Empire Wave; 29 were killed, 31 survived. At 0709 hours, west of Ireland, German submarine U-575 sank Dutch merchant ship Tuva; 1 was killed, 34 survived. 
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02 Oct 1941 WW2 British submarine HMS Perseus sank German ship Castellon 60 miles west of Benghazi, Libya. 
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02 Oct 1941 WW2 The third Messerschmitt Me 163A rocket-powered prototype aircraft, piloted by Heini Dittmar, achieved an unofficial world speed record of 623.85 mph. 
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02 Oct 1941 WW2 The keel of Britain's last battleship, HMS Vanguard, was laid down at Clydebank, Scotland, United Kingdom. 
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02 Oct 1942 WW2 US Marine 5th Defense Battalion occupied Funafuti, Ellice Islands. 
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02 Oct 1942 WW2 USS Grampus began her fourth war patrol. 
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02 Oct 1942 WW2 Heinrich Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. 
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02 Oct 1942 WW2 ShCh-307 attacked Finnish merchant ship Wanda in the Sea of Åland; both torpedoes missed. 
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02 Oct 1942 WW2 The troopship Queen Mary collided with (and sank) one of her escorts, the light cruiser HMS Curacoa, off the Irish coast with the loss of 239 lives. 
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02 Oct 1942 WW2 USAAF B-17 Flying Fortress bombers of 19th Bomb Group of US 5th Air Force from Port Moresby, Australian Papua attacked Rabaul, New Britain between 0440 and 0510 hours, damaging Japanese light cruiser Tenryu with a hit at the stern, killing 22 and wounding 26. Auxiliary repair ship Hakkai Maru would provide Tenryu with temporary repairs. 
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02 Oct 1942 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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02 Oct 1942 WW2 Repair ship Akashi completed the repair work for light cruiser Jintsu and destroyer Yugiri at Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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02 Oct 1942 WW2 Nachi arrived at Ominato Guard District, Mutsu, Aomori Prefecture, Japan. 
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02 Oct 1942 WW2 Yekaterina Budanova shot down a Ju 88 bomber and a Bf 109 fighter over Stalingrad, Russia. 
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02 Oct 1942 WW2 Bell P-59 Airacomet jet fighter took flight for the first time at Muroc Dry Lake, California, United States. The test pilot was Robert Stanley. The first turbojet-driven aircraft to be built in the USA, the P-59 fighter proved unacceptable as a stable gun platform and was quickly relegated to a training role where it would provide the USAAF with a nucleus of trained jet pilots for later aircraft. 
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02 Oct 1943 WW2 USS Cod arrived at Brisbane, Australia. 
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02 Oct 1943 WW2 Orders were given by the German government to deport Danish Jews to concentration camps. 
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02 Oct 1943 WW2 RAF aircraft bombed München, Germany. 
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02 Oct 1943 WW2 Louis Mountbatten departed Northolt, England, United Kingdom. 
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02 Oct 1943 WW2 Eight of the ten sections of USS ABSD-1 arrived at Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides. 
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02 Oct 1943 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Balikpapan, Dutch Borneo. 
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02 Oct 1943 WW2 Ar 234V-2 jet bomber suffered a fire in its wing and crashed at Rheine Airfield north of Munster, Germany, killing test pilot Flugkapitän Selle. 
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02 Oct 1943 WW2 British commandos landed near Termoli, Italy. 
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02 Oct 1944 WW2 2nd Canadian Infantry Division marched north from Antwerp, Belgium toward South Beveland, the Netherlands. 
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02 Oct 1944 WW2 USS Mingo sank four small Japanese ships with her deck gun. 
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02 Oct 1944 WW2 Friedrich Christiansen ordered a raid on the village of Putten, Gelderland, the Netherlands as retaliation for the killing of his subordinate Leutnant Sommers by resistance fighters. Many civilians were subsequently executed and 661 men were deported to labor camps. 
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02 Oct 1944 WW2 USS Wisconsin was attached to the US Navy Pacific Fleet. 
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02 Oct 1944 WW2 P-47 fighters of USAAF 386th Fighter Squadron encountered the Me 262 jet fighter flown by Oberfeldwebel Hieronymus Lauer; US pilot Val Beaudrault shot down Lauer. 
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02 Oct 1944 WW2 USS Cassin Young arrived at Ulithi, Caroline Islands. 
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02 Oct 1944 WW2 USS Marcus Island departed Palau Islands. 
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02 Oct 1944 WW2 In Lapland, Finland, General Lothar Rendulic ordered the German 20th Mountain Army to open hostilities against the Finnish III Army Corps. 
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02 Oct 1944 WW2 US 5th Army reached Monghidoro, Italy. 
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02 Oct 1944 WW2 Unryu departed Hashirajima near Hiroshima, Japan and arrived at Matsuyama, Ehime, Japan. 
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02 Oct 1944 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Davao, Philippine Islands and departed later on the same day. 
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02 Oct 1944 WW2 The Warsaw Uprising ended in failure after 63 days of fighting largely due to lack of food and ammunition. 15,200 insurgents and 200,000 civilians were killed, while the German occupation forces suffered 16,000 killed. Many buildings were destroyed in the fighting. 
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02 Oct 1944 WW2 Vsevolod Merkulov submitted a report to Lavrentiy Beria detailing the intelligence he had gained from an American atomic scientist. 
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02 Oct 1945 WW2 Dwight Eisenhower informed George Patton that Eisenhower was to announce Patton's transfer from US 3rd Army to US 15th Army on the following day. 
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02 Oct 1945 WW2 Roberts Dunstan was discharged from the Royal Australian Air Force. 
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02 Oct 1947 WW2 Capitaine de vaisseau Beaussant was named the commanding officer of Jeanne d'Arc. 
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