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• USS Enterprise departed Nouméa, New Caledonia with welders still working aboard. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• USS Skipjack attacked a Japanese transport off the Palau Islands; all four torpedoes missed. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Buin, Bougainville. ww2dbase [Main Article | Tabular Record of Movement | CPC]
• Germany withdrew 25 submarines from the North Atlantic to attack the Allied shipping off North Africa; on the same day, submarine U-173 damaged destroyer USS Hambleton, oiler USS Winooski and troopship USS Joseph Hewes near Casablanca, French Morocco, sinking Joseph Hewes and killing 100. On land, the French garrison at Casablanca officially surrendered to the Americans. ww2dbase [Main Article | AC]
• German 13.Panzer Division managed to avoid encirclement near Ordshonikidse, Ukraine. ww2dbase [CPC]
• Allied troops pushed all Axis troops out of Egypt. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• British 36th Infantry Brigade landed at Bougie, Algeria unopposed. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Bernard Montgomery was made a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• The Japanese force at Gavaga Creek, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, under a combined US Marine and US Army attack since 9 Nov, began to fall back toaward the Metapona River to avoid envelopment. Meanwhile, the US Army 182nd Infantry Regiment (less the 3rd Batalion) arrived at Guadalcanal. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Chuichi Nagumo was named the commanding officer of the Sasebo Naval District. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• USS S-31 departed Dutch Harbor, US Territory of Alaska. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• USS Helena made rendezvous with a convoy of transports off San Cristobal, Solomon Islands and escorted the convoy to Guadalcanal. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Vichy France became occupied by German and Italian troops in order to defend against a potential Allied invasion. The American embassy in Vichy was seized by German troops by force. ww2dbase [Main Article | TH, CPC]
• Italian naval infantry landed on Corsica, France in Operation C2. ww2dbase [AC, CPC]

• Captain Takahiko Kiyota, commanding officer of Nachi, was promoted to the rank of rear admiral in preparation for assignment as a cruiser division commander. ww2dbase [Main Article | Tabular Record of Movement | CPC]

• USS Haddock fired 4 torpedoes at transport Venice Maru in the Yellow Sea, sinking her with one hit. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• The 5,681-ton Norwegian merchant steamer Alaska, damaged by German submarine U-510 on 31 Oct, arrived at Lisbon, Portugal. The Alaska's master, Berge Mevatne, later received the Krigskorset (The War Cross with Sword), the highest Norwegian war decoration, which had only been awarded to 19 in the merchant marine, for his bravery during the rescue of the survivors of French troopship Président Doumer which led to his own ship being damaged. ww2dbase [HM]

• German 6.Armee succeeded in reaching the Volga River in Stalingrad, Russia, with a 600-yard frontage near the Red October steel factory. In Germany, Hitler announced during Beer Hall Putsch celebration that Stalingrad, Russia was almost in German hands, but that he did not want to keep the city just because of its name. ww2dbase [Main Article | TH]

• USS Alabama began her shakedown cruise in the Chesapeake Bay on the east coast of the United States. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

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