US NAVY
VP 21 (PBYs), assigned to the Asiatic Fleet to provide aerial reconnaissance capability to safeguard the neutrality of the Philippines, departs Pearl Harbor for Manila, P.I. The squadron will fly via Midway, Wake, and Guam (see 25 September). Seaplane tender (destroyer) Childs (AVD-1) will provide support at Wake, the least developed place on the movement westward.
U.S. freighter Black Hawk is detained by British
authorities (see 4 October); freighter Black Eagle, detained by the
British since 12 September at the Downs, is released.
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