28 Nov 1944
- US Ninth Army reached the Roer River in Germany. ww2dbase [TH]
- French First Army surrounded Burnhaupt-le-Bas, France, but not before most of German LXIII Korps escaped. ww2dbase [TH]
- Albania was liberated by the Albanian partisans. ww2dbase [CPC]
- Allies began to operate the port in Antwerp, Belgium. ww2dbase [Battle of the Scheldt Estuary | Antwerp | CPC]
- Anglo-Indian troops captured Kalewa, Burma. ww2dbase [Battle of Meiktila-Mandalay | Kalewa | CPC]
- Louis Mountbatten sent Air Marshal Richard Peirse and Lady Auchinleck back to England when their affair became common knowledge in India. ww2dbase [AC]
- German troops captured Monte Belvedere 61 kilometers southwest of Bologna, Italy. ww2dbase [Battle of Monte Castello | Monte Castello, Emilia-Romagna | CPC]
- USS Archerfish surfaced south of Tokyo Bay, Japan at 1718 hours. At 1800 hours, the incomplete Japanese aircraft carrier Shinano departed Yokosuka, Japan, 2,175 officers and crew, 300 shipyard workers, and 40 civilians on board; she was escorted by destroyers Hamakaze, Yukikaze, and Isokaze and submarine chaser Cha-241. At 2034 hours, Archerfish sighted Inamba Shima about 90 miles south of the entrance to Tokyo Bay. At 2048 hours, Archerfish's radar detected a contact approaching from the north. At 2140 hours, commanding officer Commander Joseph Enright identified the target as an unknown aircraft carrier. A message was sent to Commander Submarines Pacific Vice Admiral Charles A. Lockwood in Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, who on the following day would order all submarines in the area to converge on this target. ww2dbase [Yokosuka Naval Arsenal | Shinano | Hamakaze | Yukikaze | Archerfish | Yokosuka, Kanagawa | CPC]
- USS Preston guarded carriers while the carriers launched strikes against Luzon, Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Preston (Fletcher-class) | CPC]
- USS Wake Island arrived at San Francisco, California, United States. ww2dbase [Wake Island | San Francisco, California | CPC]

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