13 Nov 1944
![USS West Virginia in floating drydock USS ABSD-1 off Aessi Island, Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides, 13 Nov 1944](/images/imagemagick/tmb_ship_westvirginia9.jpg)
![Alaska off Philadelphia, 13 Nov 1944, photo 1 of 2](/images/imagemagick/tmb_ship_alaska9.jpg)
![Alaska off Philadelphia, 13 Nov 1944, photo 2 of 2](/images/imagemagick/tmb_ship_alaska10.jpg)
![WAVES personnel boarding a R4D-6 transport aircraft while en route to Naval Air Station, Olathe, Kansas, United States, 13 Nov 1944](/images/imagemagick/tmb_other_wave116.jpg)
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- The Japanese Army Fugaki Squadron, based in the Philippine Islands, conducted its first tokko mission with five converted Ki-67-I Kai To-Go aircraft, without success. ww2dbase [Philippines Campaign, Phase 1, the Leyte Campaign | CPC]
- Colonel George E. Price received the go-ahead for Project Extraversion, which called for four YP-80A jet aircraft to move to the front lines of the European Theater of Operations for combat testing. ww2dbase [P-80 Shooting Star | CPC]
- Escort carrier USS Bogue and her task group departed Bermuda for three days of anti-submarine exercises against friendly Italian submarine Onice. ww2dbase [Onice | Bogue | Port Royal Bay | DS]
- Attun Palalin, also known as Private Teruo Nakamura of the Japanese Army 4th Takasago Volunteer Unit, was declared dead on Morotai, Dutch East Indies. ww2dbase [Attun Palalin | Morotai, Maluku Islands | CPC]
- General Philippe LeClerc's Free French troops attacked to the Upper Rhine out of Alsace, France. ww2dbase [Advance to the Rhine | Philippe Leclerc | Alsace | TH]
- USS Caiman departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her first war patrol. ww2dbase [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Caiman | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]
- Landing ship No. 115 was completed and was transferred to the Japanese Army. ww2dbase [No. 101/103-class | CPC]
- Shortly after midnight, USS Nicholas made sonar contact with a submarine detected by radar the previous evening. Nicholas made a depth charge attack that sank Japanese Type-B1 submarine I-38. Later, cruiser USS St. Louis and destroyers USS Nicholas and USS Taylor arrived at Kossol Roads, Palau. ww2dbase [Nicholas | DS]
- USS Ticonderoga launched Air Group 80 aircraft for strikes on Manila and surrounding targets on Luzon, Philippine Islands; 2 men and 4 aircraft were lost. ww2dbase [Ticonderoga | DS]
- Civil air service was restored to London, England, United Kingdom for the first time since Sep 1939 when Railway Air Services began flight operations on a Croydon-Liverpool-Belfast route. ww2dbase [London, England | AC]
- German forces withdraw from Skopje, Yugoslavia. ww2dbase [Belgrade Strategic Offensive Operation | Skopje, Macedonia | TH]
![USS West Virginia in floating drydock USS ABSD-1 off Aessi Island, Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides, 13 Nov 1944](/images/imagemagick/tmb_ship_westvirginia9.jpg)
![Alaska off Philadelphia, 13 Nov 1944, photo 1 of 2](/images/imagemagick/tmb_ship_alaska9.jpg)
![Alaska off Philadelphia, 13 Nov 1944, photo 2 of 2](/images/imagemagick/tmb_ship_alaska10.jpg)
![WAVES personnel boarding a R4D-6 transport aircraft while en route to Naval Air Station, Olathe, Kansas, United States, 13 Nov 1944](/images/imagemagick/tmb_other_wave116.jpg)
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