4 Oct 1939
Atlantic Ocean
Atlantic Ocean
- U-23 spotted British merchant ship Glen Farg (Master Robert Galloway Hall) at 0445 hours about 110 kilometers (about 69 miles) south-southwest of Sumburgh Head, Shetland Islands in the North Atlantic, and stopped the ship with machine gun fire. At 0600 hours, when she detected that the British was sending out distress calls, she sank the ship with one G7a torpedo and gunfire. One crew member was killed. The 16 survivors were picked up by HMS Firedrake. ww2dbase [Start of the Battle of the Atlantic | U-23 | North Sea | CPC]
- Chinese troops captured Miluo and Xinshi near Changsha, Hunan Province, China. ww2dbase [First Battle of Changsha | Hunan | CPC]
- HMS Acheron (H 45) disembarked the survivors of Belgian merchant steamer Suzon, which was sunk by German submarine U-35 three days earlier, at Brest, France. ww2dbase [Brest, Bretagne | HM]
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