Today in World War II History—October 2, 1942: Off Northern Ireland, troopship HMT Queen Mary (carrying US 29th Infantry Division to Britain) collides with light cruiser HMS Curacoa, cutting it in half.
Sarah Sundin's entry for the day. She notes, further, that over 300 British sailors lost their lives due to the collision.
Also on this day, the British captured Antsirabe in Madagascar.
In the US, the Stabilization Act came into law, which allowed the President to issue executive orders fixing wages and salaries. President Roosevelt would do just that the following day, fixing the same as of September 15, 1942.
Edouard Herriot, a former French Prime Minister, and a member of the French Radical Party, was arrested on accusations that he was plotting against the Vichy government.
The U-512 was sunk off of Cayenne by a USAAF B-18. This event isn't particularly noteworthy, really, save for the fact that its the second example we've given here of wartime use of the forgotten B-18.
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