3rd » World War II: In response to news of its coming liquidation, Dov Lopatyn leads an uprising in the Łachwa Ghetto Uprising and massacre called Ghetto of Lakhva, in present-day Belarus.
5th » World War II: Japanese high command orders withdrawal at Battle of Milne Bay or Milne Bay, the first major Japanese defeat in land warfare during the Pacific War.
7th » First flight of the Consolidated Aircraft or Consolidated B-32 Dominator.
7th » World War II: Australian and US forces inflict a significant defeat upon the Japanese at the Battle of Milne Bay.
9th » World War II: A Empire of Japan or Japanese floatplane Lookout Air Raids or drops incendiary bombs on Oregon.
10th » World War II: The British Army carries out an amphibious landing on Madagascar to re-launch Allied offensive operations in the Battle of Madagascar named Madagascar Campaign.
12th » World War II: RMS Laconia (1921) RMS 'Laconia', carrying civilians, Allied soldiers and Italian Prisoner of war POWs is Laconia incident torpedoed off the coast of West Africa and sinks with a heavy loss of life.
15th » World War II: U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Wasp CV-7 6 is sunk by a Japanese torpedo at Guadalcanal.
20th » The Holocaust called Holocaust in Letychiv, Ukraine. In the course of two days the German Schutzstaffel e.g SS murders at least 3,000 Jews.
21st » On the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, Nazis send over 1,000 Jews of Pidhaytsi (west Ukraine) to Belzec extermination camp.
21st » In Poland, at the end of Yom Kippur, Germans order Jews to permanently evacuate Konstantynów, Lublin Voivodeship called Konstantynów and move to the Ghetto in Biała Podlaska, established to assemble Jews from seven nearby towns, including Janów Podlaski,
21st » In Dunaivtsi, Ukraine, Nazis murder 2,588 Jews.
21st » The B-29 Superfortress makes its maiden flight.
23rd » World War II: The Actions along the Matanikau (September – October 1942) called Matanikau action on Guadalcanal begins U.S. Marines attack Japanese units along the Matanikau River.
25th » World War II: Swiss Police Instruction of September 25, 1942 this instruction denied entry into Switzerland to Jewish refugees.
26th » The Holocaust: August Frank, a higher official of the SS-Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt or SS concentration camp administration department, issues August Frank memorandum or a memorandum containing a great deal of operational detail in how Jews should be
27th » Last day of the September Actions along the Matanikau (September – October 1942) named Matanikau action on Guadalcanal as United States Marine Corps troops barely escape after being surrounded by Empire of Japan called Japanese forces near the Matanikau R