US NAVY
PACIFIC—Naval Operating Base, Auckland, New Zealand, is
established.
NORTH RUSSIA—U.S. freighter Silver Sword, in convoy
QP 14, is torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-225 at 75°41'N, 03°12'E;
rescue ships Rathlin and Zamalek pick up all hands: 32 merchant
seamen (one of whom dies later of his injuries), the 11 man Armed Guard, and 18
passengers (crewmen from freighters Peter Kerr and Honomu, sunk
on 5 July 1942 in the ill-fated PQ 17 convoy).
US ARMY AIR FORCE
FIFTH AF—In Owen Stanley Range, A‑20’s bomb and strafe
troops and installations at Sangara, Arehe, and along the Popondetta-Andemba
road, and P‑40’s strafe airfield at Kokoda, bridges on trail near Wairopi, and troops
at Myola, Efogi, and Kagi.
SOUTH PACIFIC—Adm Fitch becomes COMAIRSOPAC.
US ARMY
NEW GUINEA—127th Infantry
of U.S. 32d Division is ordered to Port Moresby.
INDIA—Base Section 2, SOS, at Calcutta, receives its first
troops from Karachi.
USSR—Stubborn street fighting is in progress in Stalingrad.
Town of Terek falls to German Army Group A.
UNITED KINGDOM—Outline plan for TORCH is issued; D Day is
set for 8 November.
US MARINE CORPS
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