25 Nov 1942
- Chuyo was commissioned into service. ww2dbase [Chuyo | CPC]
- Over the course of the past 3 days, aircraft of the Royal New Zealand Air Force 3rd Reconnaissance Squadron, US Navy Patrol Squadron 12, US Army 12th, 68th, and 70th Fighter Squadrons, and US Army 69th Bombardment Squadron arrived at Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. ww2dbase [Guadalcanal Campaign | CPC]
- Adolf Hitler ordered the seizure of the French fleet at Toulon, France. ww2dbase [Scuttling of the French Fleet | Adolf Hitler | CPC]
- British submarine HMS Utmost (Lieutenant John Walter David Coombe) was depth charged and sunk by the Italian gunboat Groppo off Sicily, Italy. ww2dbase [AC]
- USS Raleigh and USS Bailey departed Dutch Harbor bound for Adak, Alaska. ww2dbase [Bailey | Raleigh | DS]
- USS S-35 arrived at Dutch Harbor, US Territory of Alaska, ending her fourth war patrol. ww2dbase [S-35 | Unalaska | CPC]
- Gato-class submarine USS Silversides arrived at Brisbane, Australia. Her commanding officer, Cdr C.C. Burlingame, was awarded the Silver Star for his actions during this patrol. ww2dbase [Silversides | Brisbane | DS]
- The order for Z52 was placed. ww2dbase [Deutsche Schiff- und Maschinenbau AG | Z52 | Bremen, Weser-Ems | CPC]
- The order for Z53 was placed. ww2dbase [Deutsche Schiff- und Maschinenbau AG | Z53 | Bremen, Weser-Ems | CPC]
- The order for Z54 was placed. ww2dbase [Deutsche Schiff- und Maschinenbau AG | Z54 | Bremen, Weser-Ems | CPC]
- The order for Z55 was placed. ww2dbase [Deutsche Schiff- und Maschinenbau AG | Z55 | Bremen, Weser-Ems | CPC]
- The order for Z56 was placed. ww2dbase [Deutsche Schiff- und Maschinenbau AG | Z56 | Bremen, Weser-Ems | CPC]
- Ramgarh Trainin Center in India established a special units section; it was to absorb the previously established Chinese language section. ww2dbase [Ramgarh Training Center | Ramgarh, Bengal Presidency | CPC]
- USS Honolulu arrived at Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides. ww2dbase [Honolulu | Segond Channel, Espiritu Santo | DS]
- The first deportation of Norwegian Jews to Auschwitz Concentration Camp in occupied Poland took place. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | CPC]
- He 111 aircraft from Tatsinskaya Airfield and Morozovskaya Airfield in Rostov Oblast, Russia flew 75 tons of supplies, mostly fuel, into Stalingrad, Russia. ww2dbase [Battle of Stalingrad | Tatsinskaya, Rostov | CPC]
- The American newspaper New York Times published an announcement on page ten by Rabbi Wise about the slaughter of two million Jews. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | New York | CPC]

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