12 Oct 1942
Atlantic Ocean
Atlantic Ocean
- Leonardo da Vinci sighted an aircraft in the Atlantic Ocean at 1335 hours and submerged for cover. ww2dbase [Leonardo da Vinci | CPC]
- George Kenney met with Kenneth Walker at Brisbane, Australia. ww2dbase [George Kenney | Brisbane, Queensland | CPC]
- Gato-class submarine USS Silversides arrived in her patrol area off southern Japan in the shipping lanes to and from the Japanese forward base at Truk, Caroline Islands. ww2dbase [Silversides | DS]
- Japanese cruiser Furutaka maneuvered herself in between flagship Aoba and American ships during Battle of Cape Esperance, saving the flagship but causing her own demise. ww2dbase [Furutaka | Guadalcanal Campaign | CPC]
- Destroyer Yukikaze conducted a reconnaissance mission to Ndeni, Santa Cruz, Solomon Islands. ww2dbase [Yukikaze | Ndeni, Santa Cruz Islands | CPC]
- USS Helena assisted in the sinking of Japanese heavy cruiser Furutaka and destroyer Fubuki. ww2dbase [Guadalcanal Campaign | Helena (St. Louis-class) | CPC]
- Yugure and Yura escorted Nisshin and Chitose after Battle of Cape Esperance off Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. ww2dbase [Yugure | Guadalcanal Campaign | Yura | Nisshin | Chitose | CPC]
- While in China, Milton Miles received a cable from Washington DC, United States informing him of his assignment to the OSS. The cable contained very little detail on what this assignment entailed. ww2dbase [Milton Miles | CPC]
- Pile driving for Dock No. 4 at Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, US Territory of Hawaii, began. ww2dbase [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]
- Destroyer USS Shaw and cutter USCGC Taney arrived at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii escorting 12 ships. ww2dbase [Shaw | Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Pearl Harbor, Oahu | DS]
- Polish Catholic priest Roman Sitko, a Polish Catholic priest, formerly a rector of the theological seminary in Tarnów, Poland, was killed at Auschwitz concentration camp less than two months after his arrival. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Auschwitz Concentration Camp | Oswiecim | CPC]
- Winston Churchill was presented at Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom with the Freedom of the City. ww2dbase [Winston Churchill | Edinburgh, Scotland | AC]
- The Assistant Chief of Air Staff (Policy) distributed a memorandum formally announcing the British Cabinet's decision to conduct unrestricted air warfare against Germany, Italy and Japan. ww2dbase [AC]
![Frank Forde, Douglas MacArthur, Thomas Blamey, George Kenney, Cyril Clowes, and Kenneth Walker at Seven Mile Drome, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, 12 Oct 1942](/images/imagemagick/tmb_person_blamey2.jpg)
12 Oct 1942 Interactive Map
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