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• USS Flying Fish sank a Japanese transport east of the Philippine Islands, hitting her with 1 of 4 torpedoes fired; she attacked another transport of the same convoy four hours later in failure, with all 3 torpedoes fired missing. ww2dbase [Flying Fish | CPC]

• US 2nd Marine Parachute Battalion landed by sea at Voza on Choiseul Island in Operation Blissful. ww2dbase [Solomon Islands Campaign | Voza, Choiseul | CPC]

• Naka arrived at Truk, Caroline Islands. ww2dbase [Naka | Truk | CPC]

• Japanese Kempeitei agents extended protection to Tran Trong Kim in Hanoi, Tonkin, French Indochina, who was being investigated by French authorities. ww2dbase [Tran Trong Kim | Hanoi, Tonkin | CPC]

• Italian destroyers FR 23 and FR 31, which were captured French destroyers previously named Tigre and Trombe, were returned to the French Navy at Bizerte, Tunisia. The high tension between Italian and French sailors led to a brawl, which was broken up by American military policemen. ww2dbase [Bizerte | CPC]

• USS Ranger entered Drydock #1 at Rosyth, Scotland. ww2dbase [Ranger | Rosyth, Scotland | DS]

• USS Luce arrived at Bremerton, Washington, United States. ww2dbase [Luce | Bremerton, Washington | CPC]
• USS Honolulu entered Drydock #2 at Mare Island Naval Shipyard. ww2dbase [Honolulu | Vallejo, California | DS]

28 Oct 1943 Interactive Map