US NAVY
PACIFIC—SBDs (VMSB 132), TBFs (VT 8), Marine F4Fs, and
USAAF P‑39s from Henderson Field, Guadalcanal, attack Japanese convoy, damaging
destroyers Naganami and Takanami.
Off
Guadalcanal, miscellaneous auxiliary Majaba (AG-43) is torpedoed by
Japanese midget submarine Ha.11(launched from submarine I‑20) off
Lunga Point. Destroyers Lansdowne (DD‑486) and Lardner (DD‑487)
depth charge I‑20, but the submarine escapes destruction. Ha.11, her
mission completed, is scuttled.
MEDITERRANEAN—Transport Thomas Stone (AP‑59) is
torpedoed by German submarine U‑205, western Mediterranean,
37°32'N,00°01'E.
Italian
submarine Antonio Sciesa is sunk by USAAF aircraft off coast of Libya,
32°05'N, 23°59'E.
ATLANTIC—U.S. freighter La Salle is torpedoed and
sunk with all hands (including 13 Armed Guard) by German submarine U‑159 about
350 miles southeast of the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, 40°00'S, 21°30'E.
When the merchantman, which is carrying ammunition, explodes, the cataclysmic
blast rains debris on her assailant's decks nearby, wounding three German
submariners.
U.S.
freighter West Humhaw, en route from Freetown, Sierra Leone, to
Takoradi, Gold Coast, is torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U‑161 at
04°21'N, 02°42'W. There are no casualties among the 39 man merchant crew, the
16 man Armed Guard, and the five passengers. British ML 281 rescues all
hands and transports them to Takoradi.
U.S.
freighter Nathaniel Hawthorne, enroute to New York in convoy TAG 19, is
torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U‑508 at 11°34'N, 63°26'W; the
merchantman sinks with a rapidity that does not allow lifeboats to be launched.
For his bravery as he directs his men to safety, Lieutenant Kenneth Muir, the
Armed Guard commander, is awarded the Navy Cross (posthumously) (see 9 November).
British
trawlers rescue two boatloads of survivors from U.S. freighter William
Clark, sunk by German submarine U‑354 on 4 November; HMS St.
Elstan rescues 26; HMS Cape Palliser 15. The third boat, with 23
men, is never seen again; 18 of 41 merchant seamen are lost, as are 13 of the
30 man Armed Guard.
US ARMY AIR FORCE
EIGHTH AF—34 Heavy Bombers attack U-boat pens at Brest.
TWELFTH AF—Air movement of Twelfth AF from UK to N Africa
begins. Other elements of Twelfth moving from UK and US are aboard Allied ships
approaching Algerian and Moroccan coasts.
US ARMY MIDDLE EAST AIR FORCE—376th Bomb Group begins move
from Palestine to Egypt.
FIFTH AF—A‑20’s bomb and strafe forces at Kakandeta in Owen
Stanley Range. B‑25’s attack shipping at Maklo Island and seaplanes at Lasonga Island.
ELEVENTH AF—6 B‑24’s and 2 B‑26’s attack submarine base in
Kiska Harbor, lightly damaging float fighters and a seaplane beached by storm.
A B‑17 flies reconnaissance over airfield W of Holtz Bay, and bombs submarine
base and a previously-damaged freighter in Gertrude Cove.
US ARMY
GUADALCANAL— 164th
Infantry enveloping force completes northward movement along E bank of the Nalimbiu
to Koli Pt and joins 7th Marines. Combined force then moves E along coast
without opposition to within a mile of Metapona River.
CHINA BURMA INDIA—General Stilwell, with approval of
Foreign Minister T. V. Soong, sends for General Wheeler to survey Chinese
supply situation in preparation for projected campaign in spring of 1943.
EGYPT—British pursuit of enemy is delayed in Matruh area as
heavy rainfall immobilizes supporting vehicles. Enemy seizes opportunity to
withdraw some forces. By this time, 4 German and 8 Italian divisions are ineffective
as fighting units. British have taken 30,000 prisoners, among them 9 generals.
NW AFRICA—General Giraud arrives at Gibraltar for conference
with General Eisenhower, having traveled from France by submarine and plane.
TORCH invasion armada from U.S. and U.K. closes in along North African coast.
U.S. transport Thomas Stone is torpedoed off SE Spain and disabled;
troops aboard are transferred to landing boats but do not reach Algiers until
after its surrender.
US MARINE CORPS
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