October 3rd, 1945 (WEDNESDAY)
NETHERLANDS: While ferrying a captured Arado Ar-234 jet bomber back to Britain from Norway, the test pilot Eric Brown is forced to make an emergency landing at the USAAF station at Nordholz. More...
A fleet of Dutch minesweepers sail for the Netherlands East Indies to begin sweeping for Japanese mines.
CANADA: Submarines HMS Unruffled and Unseen departed from ASW training Digby, Nova Scotia for UK.
HMC ML 123, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129 paid off.
U.S.A.: Minesweeper USS Wheatear commissioned.