September 5th, 1941 (FRIDAY)
UNITED KINGDOM: This is how a Hurricane pilot who had run out of ammunition forced down a M.E. 109 during Saturday's battle over Kent. ...
He gunned the German, feigned an attack, and eventually forced him to land in a field. Then he circled low and dropped a packet of cigarettes to the Nazi, who picked them up and waved acknowledgement.
Daily Herald
Destroyer HMS Bicester launched. Escort carrier HMS Fencer laid down. Submarine HMS Universal laid down.
GERMANY: U-387 and U-631 laid down.
BALTIC SEA: German forces complete the occupation of Estonia, occupied by the USSR in 1940.
U.S.S.R.: Moscow: As the Germans approach, all children under the age of 12 are evacuated from the city. Soviet submarine SC-136 commissioned.
JAPAN: Admiral YAMAMOTO Isoroku, Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet, presents his "Plan Z" to the Naval Staff College. This plan describes an attack on the U.S. Territory of Hawaii by carrier-based aircraft.
COMMONWEALTH OF THE PHILIPPINES:
Marshall offers
MacArthur ">
MacArthur
a “first-class” National Guard division.
MacArthur declines and asks for more aircraft.
Initial
flight of nine B-17D's of the 14th Bombardment Squadron of the 14th
Bombardment Squadron of the 19th B.G. are transferred to the
Philippines.
AUSTRALIA: The Australians reiterate to British Prime Minister Winston Churchill the request made by Australian Prime Minister Robert W. Menzies and General Sir Thomas Blamey, General Officer Commanding Australian Imperial Force, for the relief of the Australian troops at Tobruk, Libya.
CANADA: Minesweeper
HMCS Ungava commissioned.
Minesweeper HMCS Nipigon arrived Halifax
from builder Toronto, Ontario.
Corvettes HMCS Arvida, Barrie and Dauphin
departed Sydney, Nova Scotia as escort Convoy SC-43.
Corvettes HMCS Chambly and Moose Jaw depart St John's for exercises.
The U.S. Army's Chief of Staff, General George C. Marshall, issues a memorandum giving a "Brief Periodic Estimate of the World Situation." The estimate for Japan states "beset with uncertainties, may do nothing, may attack the Maritime Provinces (the islands north of Hokkaido and all of the Sakhalin peninsula. Mike Lenox), may seek to expand to the Southwest; it is even possible that she may withdraw from the Axis. Japan also has the capability of concentrating her newly augmented forces against China and seeking a decision there. No indication or likelihood of this is seen. In the general picture and excluding China, where she must continue to fight, her most likely, but by no means certain course is inaction."
ATLANTIC OCEAN:
U-141 sinks steam trawler
Anders.
U-501 sinks SS Einvik in
Convoy SC-41.