28 Nov 1943
- The Teheran Conference began between Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill. ww2dbase [Tehran Conference | TH]
- USS Wake Island anchored at Bremerton, Washington, United States to take on supplies. ww2dbase [Wake Island | CPC]
- Lieutenant General Walter Krueger, commanding officer of US Sixth Army, established on Fergusson Island, Australian Papua the Alamo Scouts, an all volunteer elite unit consisting of small teams which could operate deep behind enemy lines to gather intelligence for the Sixth U.S. Army. ww2dbase [Walter Krueger | AC]
- Repair ship Akashi completed the repair work for cruiser Maya at Truk, Caroline Islands. ww2dbase [Akashi | Truk | CPC]
- 10 RAF Mosquito aircraft attacked Essen, Germany. ww2dbase [Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | Essen | CPC]
- British Eighth Army forced a second bridgehead across the Sangro River in Italy; German Generalmajor G. H. von Ziehlberg was seriously wounded in the action. ww2dbase [Advance to the Gustav Line | TH, CPC]
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