Air Operations, Bonin Islands
30th Heavy Bomb Group B-24s based at Saipan attack Chichi Jima.
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]Air Operations, CBI
As part of an ongoing all-out supply and troop-lift effort throughout the CBI, USAAF transport aircraft complete more than 260 effective sorties, a 1-day record so far in the region.
BURMA- 8 10th Air Force P-47s attack road bridges north of Lashio.
- 4 B-25s attack bridges in the Namhkai area.
- 49 P-47s attack bridges and occupied towns in the Bhamo area.
- More than 20 P-47s attack troops and rail targets in northern Burma.
- 7 P-47s attack Kutkai.
- 16 341st Medium Bomb Group B-25s attack Samshui and the Tienho and White Cloud airfields at Canton.
- 11 B-25s attack Pingnam.
- More than 70 14th Air Force fighter-bombers attack targets south of the Yangtze River and on into northern French Indochina.
- 8 10th Air Force P-47s attack targets between Lungling and Loiwing.
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- FEAF B-24s attack Haroekoe in the Molucca Islands.
- B-25s attack the Laha airfield on Ceram and barges and coastal villages in the Molucca Islands.
- P-38s attack the Amahai and Kairatoe airfields on Ceram, and shipping in the Molucca Islands.
| ]Air Operations, Europe
Sqn-Ldr Joseph Berry, who has destroyed 60 V-1s in his Tempest fighter, is missing over Holland.
RAF BOMBER COMMANDDaylight Ops:
Minor Ops:
- 8 Hudsons are on Resistance operations, 71 Halifaxes are on fuel-carrying flights, and 3 Liberators and 2 Wellingtons are on signals investigation patrols.
- There are no losses.
- 34 Mosquitos are sent to Brunswick, 7 to Pforzheim and 4 each to Dortmund and Frankfurt, 1 aircraft is on a Resistance operation, and there are 39 Mosquito patrols and 3 RCM sorties.
- There are no losses.
| ]Air Operations, New Guinea
- V Fighter Command P-40s attack the airfields at Otawiri and Ransiki, and small vessels along the coast.
- A 419th Night Fighter Squadron P-61 crew downs a Ki-46 'Dinah' reconnaissance plane near Sansapor at 0054 hours.
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In accordance with the decisions of the British War Cabinet, Adm Mountbatten orders that the offensive against Mandalay should be launched as quickly as possible, while the other planned operations are postponed and reduced. Mountbatten has maintained pressure on the Japanese 15th Army after its defeat in the Imphal offensive by ordering the campaign to continue during the monsoon season. Headquarters of the northern Burma sector is to guarantee the security of air communications between India and China and to re-establish land communications between the two countries.
[ | ]Eastern Front
In the area of Negotin, south of Turnu Severin, in Yugoslavia, the Russian 57th Army is engaged in a bitter battle with the German Serbia Group, part of Gen Maximilian von Weichs' Army Group F.
NORTHERN SECTORElements of the Soviet 8th Army land on Dago Island.
The 3rd Panzer Army, having identified the build up of Soviet forces on the Memel axis, redeploys 2 panzer and 1 motorized division from Jelgava to Memel.
CENTRAL SECTORThe last units of the Home Army surrender in Warsaw, bringing the bloody uprising to an end. In the fighting the Poles have lost 15,000 military and 200,000 civilian dead. The scale of atrocities committed by the SS is considerable. Calls by army generals during the fighting to curb thest excesses have been largely ignored, Kaminski only being brought to book after the battle was over. The fighting cost the Ostheer 10,000 killed, 7,000 missing and 9,000 wounded.
SOUTHERN SECTORThe 57th Army isolates part of the German Serbia Group near Negotin.
[ | ]Italy
The American II And IV Corps of 5th Army are almost entirely held up at Monte Catarelto and Monte Galletto.
[ | ]Occupied Holland
The population of the Dutch islands in the Scheldt Estuary is warned that the Allies intend to bomb the dykes and create disastrous floods.
[ | ]Occupied Poland
The brave resistance of the patriot forces in Warsaw comes to an end. Gen Tadeo Bor, leader of the insurrection in Warsaw, signs the surrender of his decimated Polish Home Army to the Germans. At least 200,000 Poles have died in 2 months in this gallant, though ill-starred venture. The Poles insist the Russians purposely delayed their advance into Warsaw so the Germans could annihilate the anti-Communist Polish Army, which they did. The pro-Moscow Lublin government denounces the 'futile uprising which cost thousands of lives.' Much of the central part of Warsaw has already been destroyed and much more will be razed to the ground at Hitler's order.
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Palau Islands
On Peleliu the US 321st Inf Regt mops up the Japanese pockets on Mount Amiangal. In the Mount Umurbrogol sector the 7th Marines are still held up by the Japanese forces determined to resist to the very last man.
On Angaur the 322nd Inf breaks off its attacks against the Japanese in the northwest of the island, in an area not more than a few hundred yards square, and begins the systematic shelling of the area.
[ | ]Western Front
In the American XIX Corps sector, the 30th Div, after a violent air and artillery preparation, opens the attack on the West Wall, the Siegfried Line, between Aachen and Geilenkirchen, northwest of Aachen.
[ | ]Images from October 2, 1944
Wounded Members of the Polish Home Army after the Surrender |
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People of Wola District Leaving Warsaw |
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Civilian Population Evicted from Warsaw |
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Central Caen in Normandy in France, 2 October 1944 |
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M4A1 Halftrack 81mm Mortar Carrier, near Overloon, Holland, October 1944 |
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A German tank in Budapest, Hungary, October 1944 |
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German Tiger Tank |
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Royal Air Force Airmen Talking with Locals |
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