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• USS Kete arrived at Saipan, Mariana Islands. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• The Royal Canadian Navy corvette Shawinigan was torpedoed off Newfoundland and went down with all 91 hands. ww2dbase [AC]
• Allied troops crossed the Saar River on the border of France and Germany. ww2dbase [TH]
• French 2nd Armored Division captured Strasbourg, France while French First Army captured Mühlhausen in Alsace, France. ww2dbase [TH]
• Chinese troops captured Mengka, Yunnan Province, China. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• USS Yorktown (Essex-class) arrived at Ulithi, Caroline Islands. ww2dbase [Main Article | DS]
• USS Alabama arrived at Ulithi, Caroline Islands. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Destroyer Yukikaze arrived at Kure, Japan. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• USS Chester bombarded Iwo Jima, Japan. ww2dbase [Main Article | DS]
• Landing ship No. 116 was completed and was transferred to the Japanese Army as SB No. 103. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• The keel of landing ship No. 172 was laid down by Kawanami Kogyo. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• The first B-29 bombing raid against Tokyo, Japan from Tinian in the Mariana Islands took place; 88 American aircraft participated in this mission. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Japanese Navy officially accepted M6A Seiran seaplane for service. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• The Japanese Army SB craft formerly known as Navy landing ship No. 111 was sunk by US aircraft at Masbate island, Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Landing ship No. 141 was sunk by US aircraft at Masbate, Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Landing ship No. 160 was sunk by US aircraft at Masbate, Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• German V-2 rocket hit McCullum Road, Poplar in East End of London, England, United Kingdom at 2030 hours. 18 were killed and 53 were injured. ww2dbase [Main Article | Event | CPC]
• In Britain, the batteries in Suffolk and Essex coastal areas brought down 11 V-1 flying bombs during the evening and another German He 111 aircraft was brought down by a Mosquito night fighter of 456 Squadron flown by Flight Officer Fred Stevens RAAF and Flight Officer Andy Kellett RAAF who had chased the German aircraft for 20 minutes. The Heinkel aircraft of 1/KG53, with its V-1 flying bomb still attached, fell into the sea ten miles off Egmond Aan Zee, the Netherlands. However, the Mosquito aircraft from the same Unit was posted missing, the reasons for the loss have never been found, it was thought at the time that it was lost due to damage sustained in its target's explosion. ww2dbase [Main Article | Event | HM]

• USS Escolar was officially listed as lost. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

24 Nov 1944 Interactive Map