30 Nov 1943




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- USS Tang was delivered to the US Navy. ww2dbase [Tang | CPC]
- Destroyer Yuzuki was assigned to Destroyer Division 30 of Destroyer Squadron 3 of the Eighth Fleet. ww2dbase [Yuzuki | CPC]
- Remy Van Lierde shot down a German Bf 110 fighter, which was his sixth and final kill. ww2dbase [Remy Van Lierde | CPC]
- Light carrier Ryuho departed Manila, Luzon, Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Ryuho | CPC]
- USS Flying Fish departed for her eighth war patrol with Lieutenant Commander R. D. Risser in command. ww2dbase [Flying Fish | CPC]
- Léon Degrelle was awarded the Close Combat Clasp in Bronze. ww2dbase [Léon Degrelle | CPC]
- USS Luce began a period of anti-submarine patrol off Attu in the Aleutian Islands. ww2dbase [Luce | CPC]
- After dark, Australian Beaufort aircraft from Goodenough Island off the tip of Australian Papua attacked Rabaul, New Britain. ww2dbase [New Guinea-Papua Campaign, Phase 3 | Rabaul, New Britain | CPC]
- In the early morning, a US Navy PBY aircraft sank Japanese passenger ship Himalaya Maru 10 miles south of New Hanover Island in the Bismarck Islands. Many of the 2,400 passengers were killed, while the rest were rescued by other ships in the convoy. ww2dbase [New Hanover, New Ireland | CPC]
- 4 RAF Mosquito aircraft attacked Essen, Germany. ww2dbase [Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | Essen | CPC]
- USS Gar arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. ww2dbase [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Gar | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]
- USS Harder arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending her third war patrol. ww2dbase [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Harder | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]
- Kamoi departed Car Nicobar, Andaman Islands. ww2dbase [Kamoi | Car Nicobar, Andaman Islands | CPC]
- British troops captured Fossacesia, Italy. ww2dbase [Advance to the Gustav Line | Fossacesia, Abruzzo | CPC]
- Rudolf Höss served his final day as the commandant of Auschwitz Concentration Camp in occupied Poland. ww2dbase [Auschwitz Concentration Camp | Rudolf Höss | Oswiecim | CPC]
- Vice Admiral Ryozo Fukuda was named the commanding officer of Takao Guard District in southern Taiwan. ww2dbase [Takao Guard District | Takao | CPC]
- Submarine Golet was commissioned into service at Manitowoc, Wisconsin, United States with Lieutenant Commander James M. Clement in command. ww2dbase [Golet | Manitowoc, Wisconsin | CPC]




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