WWII: The Battle of Meligalas begins, between the Greek Resistance forces of the Greek People's Liberation Army (ELAS) and the collaborationist Security Battalions. September 14 – The Great Atlantic hurricane makes landfall in the New York City area. September 15 – WWII: The Battle of Peleliu begins in the Pacific. September 17 – WWII: Operation Market Garden: Allied airborne landings begin in the Netherlands and Germany. September 17–20 – WWII: Italian Campaign – In the Battle of San Marino, British and Empire forces take the occupied neutral republic of San Marino from the German Army. September 18 – WWII: British submarine torpedoes Japanese "hell ship" ; 5,620 drown. After German forces declare the evacuation of Estonia the day before, the Estonian national government briefly resumes control of Tallinn before the Soviet advance. September 19 – WWII: An armistice between Finland and the Soviet Union is signed, ending the Continuation War. The Battle of Hürtgen Forest begins, east of the Belgian–German border. September 22 – WWII: The Red Army captures Tallinn, Estonia. Prime Minister in Duties of the President of Estonia Jüri Uluots and 80,000 Estonian civilians manage to escape to Sweden and Germany. The evacuees include almost the entire population of Estonian Swedes. Soviet bombing raids on the evacuating ships sink several, with thousands on board. September 24 – WWII: The U.S. 45th Infantry Division takes the strongly defended city of Épinal in France before crossing the Moselle River and entering the western foothills of the Vosges. September 26 – WWII: Operation Market Garden ends in an Allied withdrawal. On the middle front of the Gothic Line, Brazilian troops control the Serchio valley region after 10 days of fighting. October October 2 – WWII: Nazi troops end the Warsaw Uprising. This is followed by the Destruction of Warsaw. October 4 – WWII: Milan Nedić's collaborationist puppet government of the Axis powers, the Government of National Salvation in Nazi-occupied Serbia, is disbanded. October 5 – WWII: Royal Canadian Air Force pilots shoot down the first German Me 262 over the Netherlands. October 6 WWII: The Battle of Debrecen starts on the Eastern Front, lasting until October 29. Milan Nedić, president of the Serbian collaborationist puppet state of the Axis powers, the Government of National Salvation, flees from Belgrade in Nazi-occupied Serbia by air together with other Serbian collaborators and German officials, via Hungary to Austria. The Holocaust: Members of the Sonderkommando