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• Denver was commissioned into service. ww2dbase [Denver | CPC]

• Leonardo da Vinci sighted another submarine in the Atlantic Ocean at 2030 hours and lost contact with her at 2055 hours. ww2dbase [Leonardo da Vinci | CPC]
• Comandante Cappellini sighted a large seaplane in the Atlantic Ocean at 0812 hours; she submerged to avoid detection. At 1022 hours, another aircraft was sighted, and she submerged again. At 1512 hours, she sighted a German Junker 88; because her recognition signals had expired, she submerged to avoid a friendly fire incident. ww2dbase [Comandante Cappellini | CPC]

• Japanese cruisers bombarded Henderson Field on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. During the day, US Marine Aircraft Group 14 under Lieutenant Colonel Albert Cooley relieved Marine Aircraft Group 23 as the unit in charge of maintaining Henderson Field. ww2dbase [Henderson Field | Guadalcanal Campaign | Lunga Point, Guadalcanal | CPC]

• Repair ship Akashi completed the repair work for destroyer Minegumo at Truk, Caroline Islands. ww2dbase [Akashi | Truk | CPC]

• Sun Du was named the deputy commanding officer of the 1st Army. ww2dbase [Sun Du | CPC]

• US Navy radio intelligence officer Joseph Rochefort, serving in Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, received a telegraph from his wife noting that Rochefort's father had passed away in California, United States. ww2dbase [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Joseph Rochefort | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]
• Carrier USS Enterprise, with destroyer USS Shaw among her escorts, departed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii bound for the Solomon Islands ww2dbase [Shaw | Enterprise | Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Pearl Harbor, Oahu | DS]

• USS Nicholas made a depth charge attack on a persistent sound contact with no observable results. ww2dbase [Nicholas | DS]
• USS Nashville, USS St. Louis, USS Bailey, USS Long, and USS Bancroft sailed around the western end of the Japanese-held Attu Island at the western end of the Aleutian Island chain and shifted from their patrol area north of the Aleutians to a patrol area south of the Aleutians. ww2dbase [Bailey | St. Louis | Nashville | DS]

• The entire staff of the Soviet 339th Infantry Regiment was wiped out by German air attacks at Stalingrad, Russia. ww2dbase [Battle of Stalingrad | Stalingrad | CPC]

• Submarine USS Thresher laid two strings of 16 magnetic mines each in the approaches to Bangkok, Thailand in the first such action by a United States submarine. Two mines exploded on their own as Thresher withdrew. Thresher then began departing the area. ww2dbase [Thresher | Bangkok | DS]

• At Mare Island Naval Shipyard in California, submarine USS Narwhal’s executive officer, Lieutenant Commander Frank Latta, succeeded Commander Charles Wilkins as commanding officer. ww2dbase [Narwhal | Vallejo, California | DS]

16 Oct 1942 Interactive Map