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• Anticipating Adolf Hitler's wishes, Erich Raeder asked his staff officers to evaluate the possibility of an invasion of Britain. ww2dbase [Erich Raeder | CPC]
• Repair ship Akashi was assigned to the Combined Fleet. ww2dbase [Akashi | CPC]
• Koichi Shiozawa was promoted to the rank of admiral. ww2dbase [Koichi Shiozawa | CPC]
• Chuichi Nagumo was promoted to the rank of vice admiral. ww2dbase [Chuichi Nagumo | CPC]
• Captain Katsuji Hattori was made the commanding officer of Kamoi. The ship was assigned to the newly established Fourth Fleet which was to be based in Truk, Caroline Islands. ww2dbase [Kamoi | CPC]

• Vice Admiral Boshiro Hosogaya succeeded Vice Admiral Ichiro Sato as the commanding officer of the Ryojun Military Port (previously known as Port Arthur; now Lushunkou, Liaoning Province, China), Kwantung Leased Territory in northeastern China. Rear Admiral Isamu Takeda was named Hosogaya's chief of staff. ww2dbase [Ryojun Guard District | Lushunkou, Liaoning | CPC]

• Captain Teruo Akiyama was named the commanding officer of Naka. ww2dbase [Naka | CPC]
• Captain Zensuke Kanome was named the commanding officer of Tenryu. ww2dbase [Tenryu | CPC]
• Masafumi Arima became the commanding officer of Yokohama Naval Air Corps. ww2dbase [Masafumi Arima | Kanagawa | CPC]
• Captain Kaku Harada was named the commanding officer of Settsu. ww2dbase [Settsu | CPC]
• Captain Sukeyoshi Yatsushiro was named the commanding officer of Nachi. ww2dbase [Nachi | CPC]
• Masaichi Niimi was promoted to the rank of vice admiral and was made the commandant of the Japanese Navy Academy at Etajima, Japan. ww2dbase [Masaichi Niimi | Etajima, Hiroshima | CPC]

• Vice Admiral Tamotsu Takama was named the chief of staff of Chinkai Guard District in southern Korea. ww2dbase [Chinkai Guard District | Chinkai, Gyeongsangnam | CPC]

• Jews living in Reichsgau Wartheland (former Polish territory, annexed into Germany) began to be deported into the General Government region of former Poland. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | CPC]

• Vice Admiral Ibo Takahashi was named the commanding officer of the Mako naval port at Pescadores islands, Taiwan. Rear Admiral Akira Matsuzaki was named his Chief of Staff. ww2dbase [Mako Guard District | Mako, Hoko | CPC]
• Raizo Tanaka stepped down as the Chief of Staff of the Mako naval port at Pescadores islands, Taiwan. ww2dbase [Raizo Tanaka | Mako, Hoko | CPC]

• USS Squalus was decommissioned from service at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine, United States. ww2dbase [Sailfish | Kittery, Maine | CPC]

15 Nov 1939 Interactive Map