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History on the 1st of November

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01 Nov 1911 WW2 The first recorded aerial bombing occurred when Italian pilot Lieutenant Guilio Gavotti threw four 2kg grenades over the side of his Taube reconnaissance aircraft on a Turkish camp at Ain Zara, Libya at the altitude of 185 meters. He failed to cause any casualties. 
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01 Nov 1914 WW1 Begin of Battle of Coronel
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01 Nov 1916 WW2 Boris Shaposhnikov was awarded the Order of St. Anna, 2nd Class. 
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01 Nov 1916 WW1 Begin of Ninth Battle of the Isonzo
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01 Nov 1918 WW2 Masafumi Arima was assigned to destroyer Uzuki. 
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01 Nov 1918 WW2 Major General Toyoshi Ono was named the chief of staff of the Japanese Chosen Army in occupied Korea. 
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01 Nov 1920 WW2 Kenkichi Ueda was awarded Order of the Rising Sun 3rd Class and Order of the Golden Kite 4th Class. 
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01 Nov 1921 WW2 Chuichi Nagumo was named the chief of staff of the First Minelayer Flotilla. 
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01 Nov 1921 WW2 Kiyoshi Ito was born in Murakami, Niigata, Japan. 
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01 Nov 1923 WW2 The value of the German Mark decreased to the level that it now cost about 4,000,000,000 Marks to exchange for US$1. 
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01 Nov 1926 WW2 Joseph Goebbels was appointed the Nazi Party Gauleiter of Berlin, Germany. 
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01 Nov 1929 WW2 Josias joined the Nazi Party. 
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01 Nov 1929 WW2 Captain Isoroku Yamamoto was relieved as the commanding officer of Akagi; the successor was unknown. 
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01 Nov 1929 WW2 The conversion of a Tosa-class battleship hull to a fleet carrier completed at Sasebo Naval Arsenal, Japan. She was commissioned into Japanese Navy service as Kaga. In her original configuration, she sported three flight decks that form a series of ramps at the bow. 
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01 Nov 1929 WW2 Captain Yoshio Hachiya was named the commanding officer of Tenryu. 
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01 Nov 1929 WW2 Captain Yoshiyuki Niiyama, commanding officer of Nachi, took on a dual role as the commanding officer of cruiser Myoko. 
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01 Nov 1930 WW2 Arthur Greiser joined the Nazi Party. 
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01 Nov 1930 WW2 Maximilian von Weichs was promoted to the rank of Oberst. 
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01 Nov 1931 WW2 DipL.-Ing Kurt Tank, Germany's most prolific and innovative aircraft designer, was appointed as chief of design and flight-testing at the obscure aircraft manufacturer Focke-Wulf. 
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01 Nov 1932 WW2 Eva Braun attempted suicide by shooting herself in the chest with her father's pistol. 
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01 Nov 1933 WW2 Captain Masao Kanazawa was named the commanding officer of Tenryu. 
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01 Nov 1934 WW2 Cruiser Köln began two months of repairs at Wilhelmshaven, Germany. 
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01 Nov 1934 WW2 Rear Admiral Kohei Ochi was named the chief of staff of Chinkai Guard District in southern Korea. 
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01 Nov 1934 WW2 Rear Admiral Tsuyoshi Kobata was named the Chief of Staff of the Mako naval port at Pescadores islands, Taiwan. 
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01 Nov 1935 WW2 Lieutenant Commander Wakita was named the commanding officer of destroyer Yuzuki. 
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01 Nov 1935 WW2 Han Deqin was assigned to the Military Committee in Chongqing, China. 
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01 Nov 1936 WW2 Tetsuzo Iwamoto promoted to the rating of mechanic 1st class. 
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01 Nov 1937 WW2 Hugo Sperrle was promoted to the rank of General der Flieger. 
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01 Nov 1937 WW2 Giosuè Carducci was commissioned into service. 
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01 Nov 1937 WW2 The Sihang Warehouse in Shanghai, stubbornly defended by the Chinese for four days, was evacuated between 0000 and 0200 hours. The 376 Chinese officers and men were allowed to evacuate into the international zone across the southern shore of the Suzhou River but were kept imprisoned until the outbreak of the Pacific War in 1941. 
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01 Nov 1938 WW2 German newspaper Kinzigwacht declared the town of Gelnhausen, Germany Judenfrei, "Free of Jews", after the town's synagogue closed its doors and the Jews forced to moved out. 
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01 Nov 1938 WW2 Quintin Brand was promoted to the rank of air commodore while commanding the No. 12 Group. 
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01 Nov 1938 WW2 Wilhelm Keitel was promoted to the rank of Generaloberst. 
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01 Nov 1938 WW2 The trial of the Partido Obrero de Unification Marxista (POUM) leaders in Barcelona, Spain was completed; two of the defendants were acquitted but four others were sentenced to imprisonment. The revolutionary anti-Stalinist Marxist POUM was formed in 1935 as the result of the merger of the Workers and Peasants Bloc (BOC), led by Joaquin Maurin, and Izquierda Comunista (Left Communist Party), led by Andres Nin. 
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01 Nov 1938 WW2 Viktor Abakumov was named the head of the 2nd Section of the 2nd Department of the GUGB of the Soviet NKVD. 
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01 Nov 1939 WW2 Hans-Joachim Marseille reported to Jagdfliegerschule 5 in Schwechat, Austria for training and was given the rank of Fähnrich. 
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01 Nov 1939 WW2 Heinkel demonstrated the first jet aircraft He 178 to the German Air Ministry, but the German officials were not impressed. 
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01 Nov 1939 WW2 The German military complained that the Soviet Union purchases too much war materials from Germany, which was hampering with the German ability to prepare for a war against France; it was acknowledged, however, the import of Soviet oil was vital. 
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01 Nov 1939 WW2 Georg von Küchler was named the commanding officer of 11th Army. 
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01 Nov 1939 WW2 Captain Aritomo Goto was relived as the commanding officer of battleship Mutsu. 
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01 Nov 1939 WW2 Captain Shutoku Miyazato was named the chief equipping officer of repair ship Akashi. Miyazato would supervise the installation of five cranes and various tools and equipment aboard the ship. 
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01 Nov 1940 WW2 11,000 Italian mountain troops marched for the pass at Metsovo, Greece but were trapped by 2,000 Greek troops, who knew the terrain far better than the Italians, in the Vovousa Valley 5 miles before they reached the pass. In southern Greece, British destroyers Ajax landed more troops at Suda Bay, Crete while under attack by Italian bombers. Meanwhile, Turkey declared neutrality in the Italo-Greek war. 
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01 Nov 1940 WW2 The British mined the Bay of Biscay off France. 
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01 Nov 1940 WW2 German bombers attacked British shipping in the Thames Estuary in southern England, United Kingdom, sinking Letchworth (1 killed), sinking minesweeping trawler HMT Tilbury Ness (10 killed), and heavily damaging sloop HMS Pintail (10 killed, 3 wounded); one German bomber was shot down by the anti-aircraft ship Royal Eagle. On the same day, a force of around ten Italian BR.20 bombers escorted by forty CR.42 fighters set off to attack the docks at Harwich, England; eight of the bombers were claimed as destroyed by the RAF, which contributed to the Italian decision to withdraw from the Battle of Britain in the next few weeks. 
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01 Nov 1940 WW2 German submarine U-124 sank British ship Empire Bison 400 miles northwest of Ireland at 0706 hours, killing 30 crew and 1 gunner. 6,067 tons of scrap steel and 94 trucks, all from the United States, were lost with the ship. 4 survivors were rescued by Danish merchant ship Olga S. 
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01 Nov 1940 WW2 British sloop HMS Black Swan was damaged by a mine in the Firth of Forth, Scotland. She would remain under repair until Apr 1941. 
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01 Nov 1940 WW2 Adolf Galland was promoted to the rank of Oberstleutnant. 
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01 Nov 1940 WW2 Chuichi Nagumo was named the commandant of the Japanese naval war college. 
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01 Nov 1940 WW2 Rear Admiral Keizo Tanimoto replaced Rear Admiral Isamu Takeda as the chief of staff of Vice Admiral Boshiro Hosogaya (Ryojun Military Port, northeastern China). 
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01 Nov 1940 WW2 The German Oflag IV-C prisoner of war camp at the Colditz Castle, until now a transit camp, was redesignated an actual holding camp as Polish prisoners of war were transferred there from nearby Oflag IV-A and Oflag VIII-B. 
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01 Nov 1940 WW2 During this month, Japanese Navy began receiving the carrier version of the A6M Zero fighter. 
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01 Nov 1940 WW2 Captain Shunji Izaki was named the commanding officer of Settsu. 
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01 Nov 1941 WW2 Roosevelt placed the US Coast Guard under the control of US Navy for the duration of national emergency. 
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01 Nov 1941 WW2 American PBY Catalina aircraft provided air cover for Atlantic convoy ON 30. 
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01 Nov 1941 WW2 Three US destroyers, screening Atlantic convoy HX 157, carried out depth charge attacks on sound contacts off St. John's, Newfoundland. 
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01 Nov 1941 WW2 General der Gebirgstruppe Rudolf Konrad was named the commanding officer of the German 7th Mountain Division. 
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01 Nov 1941 WW2 Drum was commissioned into service. 
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01 Nov 1941 WW2 After sundown, the Red Army evacuated the first group, 4,230 men, of the 28,000 men from the Hanko Peninsula, Finland to Leningrad, Russia via naval vessels. On the return trip to Hanko, Soviet minelayer Marti and minesweeper T-210 were damged by mines, and submarine Kalev was lost, probably to a mine as well. 
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01 Nov 1941 WW2 German submarine U-68 sank British ship Bradford City 300 miles off German South-West Africa at 0654 hours; all 45 aboard survived in 2 lifeboats. U-68 accidentally collided with the sinking ship but did not suffer serious damage. 
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01 Nov 1941 WW2 Zhao Chengshou began to distance himself from the Japanese and the Chinese collaborators. 
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01 Nov 1941 WW2 Heinrich Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein was made the commanding officer of the 9th Squadron in the German Nachtjagdgeschwader 2 wing. 
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01 Nov 1941 WW2 On this date, Japan time, the Combined Fleet Order No. 1 was issued for additional radio communications to be generated to make US cryptanalytic efforts more difficult. Meanwhile, on the other side of the international date line, Joseph Rochefort's cryptanalytic team of the US Navy in Pearl Harbor, Territory of Hawaii reported that all Japanese Navy call signs had changed. 
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01 Nov 1941 WW2 US Navy formed the Pacific Escort Force at Pearl Harbor to protect transports and certain merchant vessels carrying troops and valuable military cargoes between Hawaii and the Far East. 
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01 Nov 1941 WW2 Japanese Navy Captain Gihachi Takayanagi (former commanding officer of battleship Ise) relieved Rear Admiral Shutoku Miyazato as the Chief Equipping Officer of Battleship No. 1, as Miyazato was being transferred to become the Chief of Personnel for Kure Naval District. 
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01 Nov 1941 WW2 Troops of the German 11.Armee captured Simferopol, Russia. To the southwest in Sevastopol, the Soviet 30th Coastal Battery bombarded the German 132nd Infantry Division at 1230 hours near the village of Bazarchik, slowing its preparations for an assault. 
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01 Nov 1941 WW2 HMS Eagle arrived at Liverpool, England, United Kingdom. 
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01 Nov 1941 WW2 A newly issued Typhoon fighter of British No. 56 Squadron plunged into the ground near East Harling, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom, killing Pilot Officer J. F. Deck. Subsequent investigations revealed that he had suffered from carbon monoxide poisoning leading to the entire Typhoon fleet being grounded for modifications to cockpit sealing and the fitting of improved extended exhausts, although the problem was never satisfactorily resolved. 
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01 Nov 1941 WW2 US Marine Corps established the 2nd Joint Training Force at Camp Elliot, California, United States under Major General Clayton B. Vogel. It was composed of the US Marine Corps 2nd Marine Division and the US Army 3rd Infantry Division. 
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01 Nov 1942 WW2 Aboard Yamato, a festive dinner was held for all captains stationed at Truk to celebrate the victory at the Battle of Santa Cruz. 
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01 Nov 1942 WW2 German III.Panzer Korps captured Alagir on the Terek River in the Caucasus in southern Russia. 
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01 Nov 1942 WW2 Hiroaki Abe was promoted to the rank of vice admiral. 
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01 Nov 1942 WW2 Rommel began to devise a plan to withdraw his forces at El Alamein, Egypt westward to Fuka, but he would not activate the plan yet. 
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01 Nov 1942 WW2 After sundown, men of the 2nd Battalion of US 7th Marine Regiment advanced east across the base of Koli Point to the Metapona River on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands to investigate reported Japanese activity. 
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01 Nov 1942 WW2 Captain Yoshio Kamei was named the commanding officer of submarine tender Taigei. 
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01 Nov 1942 WW2 Japanese Navy air units received new numbered designations; for example, the Tainan Air Group was renamed Air Group 251. 
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01 Nov 1942 WW2 US 8th Pursuit Squadron saw its first combat mission over New Guinea island, shooting down two Japanese Zero fighters while losing one P-40 fighter. 
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01 Nov 1942 WW2 Kittyhawk fighters of No. 112 Squadron RAF spotted 30 German Stuka dive bombers with Bf 109 fighters in escort in North Africa. In the ensuing engagement, 7 Stuka aircraft were shot down by surprise before Bf 109 fighters would react; only 1 Kittyhawk fighter was lost in this attack. 
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01 Nov 1942 WW2 Tenryu arrived at Shortland Island, Solomon Islands. Later in the day, reassigned to a supply unit, she embarked food, ammunition, and troops of Japanese 38th Infantry Division. 
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01 Nov 1942 WW2 Repair ship Akashi completed the repair work for cruiser Chikuma at Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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01 Nov 1942 WW2 USS Sunfish arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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01 Nov 1942 WW2 US freighter Hugh Williamson and British freighter Empire Sky departed Hvalfjörður, Iceland in Operation FB. 
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01 Nov 1942 WW2 The first tents were erected in what was to become the "Tent City" to augment the barracks at Ramgarh Training Center. 
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01 Nov 1942 WW2 USS Grayback fired two torpedoes at a Japanese destroyer in the Solomon Sea; both torpedoes missed. 
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01 Nov 1942 WW2 About 600 Dutch Jews and 977 German Jews from Berlin were gassed at the Auschwitz Concentration Camp. 
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01 Nov 1943 WW2 The US 15th Air Force was formed commanded by Major General J. H. Doolittle with its headquarters in Tunis, Tunisia. 
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01 Nov 1943 WW2 The town of Ota in Gunma Prefecture, Japan absorbed the nearby town of Shimanogo. 
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01 Nov 1943 WW2 USS Scorpion began a reconnaissance mission of Farallon de Pajoras island, Mariana Islands. 
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01 Nov 1943 WW2 Lieutenant General Brehon Somervell received a report from front line engineers in Burma which requested more men and machinery but warned of unforeseen obstacles could significantly delay the project. 
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01 Nov 1943 WW2 Chinese troops mounted a small offensive in northern Burma, but this attack would achieve little. 
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01 Nov 1943 WW2 Light carrier Ryuho departed Sama (now Sanya), Hainan, China. 
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01 Nov 1943 WW2 Per Admiral Mineichi Koga's orders, Vice Admiral Jisaburo Ozawa transferred 150 aircraft of Carrier Division 1 temporarily to the airfields at Rabaul, New Britain. 
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01 Nov 1943 WW2 A Japanese patrol found a group of Australian and native coast watchers on New Britain. Sergeant Lambert Carlson was killed, Captain John Murphy was captured, and the others escaped. 
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01 Nov 1943 WW2 Men of the US 3rd Marine Division landed at Torokina Point on the northern coast of Empress Augusta Bay, Bougainville, Solomon Islands; the beach was defended only by a small 300-strong garrison, but the effective Japanese defense surprised the attackers. In response of the invasion, Japanese aircraft from Rabaul, New Britain, attacked the US fleet, damaging destroyer USS Wadsworth (killing 2), but at the heavy cost of 16 A6M fighters lost. The Japanese dispatched a counter-invasion force consisted of Cruiser Division 4 (Vice Admiral Takeo Kurita) and transports carrying thousands of troops; the fleet was en route to Rabaul when it was detected by a B-24 Liberator bomber (Lieutenant Robert Sylvernale) while heading toward the western approach of Saint George's Channel between New Britain and New Ireland. 
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01 Nov 1943 WW2 USS Saratoga launched two sorties against Japanese positions on Bougainville, Solomon Islands in support of the landings. 
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01 Nov 1943 WW2 USS Princeton launched two sorties against Japanese positions on Bougainville, Solomon Islands in support of the landings. 
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01 Nov 1943 WW2 Lieutenant-General Philip Christison's XV (Indian) Corps comprising 5th and 7th Indian Divisions and the 81st (West African) Division, which had arrived in India in Aug 1943, assumed responsibility for the operational control of Arakan, Burma. 
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01 Nov 1943 WW2 Naka departed Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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01 Nov 1943 WW2 The pro-Allied government in southern Italy established Brigata Marina naval infantry unit, drawing men from both the army and the navy. 
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01 Nov 1943 WW2 Nachi arrived at Ominato Guard District, Mutsu, Aomori Prefecture, Japan. 
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01 Nov 1943 WW2 German troops in the Crimea were cut off by land as Soviet troops made a landing across the Strait of Kerch in Russia. 
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01 Nov 1943 WW2 Allied convoy RA-54A departed the Kola Inlet near Murmansk, Russia. 
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01 Nov 1943 WW2 At a dinner at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Joseph Stalin told Cordell Hull that the Soviet Union would be willing to engage Japan in a war after Germany was defeated. 
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01 Nov 1943 WW2 USS Luce departed Bremerton, Washington, United States. 
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01 Nov 1944 WW2 Jinwei Wang passed away. 
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01 Nov 1944 WW2 USS Blackfin sank Japanese cargo ship Unkai Maru #12. 
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01 Nov 1944 WW2 Commandos and Royal Marines landed on Walcheren Island in the Netherlands to aid clearing German troops from Scheldt Estuary, capturing the towns of Vlissingen and Westkapelle. 
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01 Nov 1944 WW2 Lord Gort was appointed the High Commissioner of the British Mandate of Palestine. 
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01 Nov 1944 WW2 The Fletcher-class destroyer USS Abner Read was sunk by a Japanese dive bomber attack in Leyte Gulf, Philippine Islands. 
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01 Nov 1944 WW2 Vice Admiral Denshichi Okawachi was named the commanding officer of the Southwest Area Fleet and the 3rd Southern Expeditionary Fleet; Rear Admiral Kaoru Arima was named his chief of staff. 
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01 Nov 1944 WW2 USS Ray attacked a five-ship Japanese convoy, sinking cargo ship Horai Maru No. 7 and damaging a small tanker; all 3 torpedoes fired in this attack found their targets. 
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01 Nov 1944 WW2 USAAF pilots 1st Lieutenant Walter Groce and 2nd Lieutenant William Gerbe, Jr., both flying P-47 fighters, shared credit for the downing of a German Me 262 jet fighter. 
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01 Nov 1944 WW2 USS Luce departed Manus, Admiralty Islands. 
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01 Nov 1944 WW2 Japanese troops reached Guilin, China. 
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01 Nov 1944 WW2 In Germany, Buchenwald Concentration Camp's satellite camp Dora became an independent camp called Mittelbau-Dora; it was to become an underground aircraft and V-weapon production site. 
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01 Nov 1944 WW2 British forces entered Salonika (Thessaloniki), Greece. 
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01 Nov 1944 WW2 USS Dragonet departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her first war patrol. 
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01 Nov 1944 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Part of Night Air Group 90 on board. 
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01 Nov 1944 WW2 USS Barbero attacked a Japanese patrol boat with her deck gun in the Dutch East Indies, causing no damage. 
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01 Nov 1944 WW2 Italian Navy Xa MAS reported a strength of 7,615 men. 
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01 Nov 1944 WW2 Italian "Folgore" parachute regiment was officially renamed "1° Reggimento Arditi Paracadutisti 'Folgore'", differing from the prior name by the preceding "1°". Lieutenant Colonel Edvino Dalmas renamed the regiment's commanding officer. 
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01 Nov 1944 WW2 Nobukiyo Nambu arrived at the headquarters of the 6th Fleet at the Sasebo Submarine Base, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. 
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01 Nov 1944 WW2 The gas chamber at Auschwitz Concentration Camp in Poland was used for the last time, killing 206 Jews. 
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01 Nov 1944 WW2 Roosevelt Roads Naval Base in Puerto Rico was downgraded to naval station status. 
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01 Nov 1944 WW2 A German V-2 rocket hit Eglington Road in Woolwich, London, England, United Kingdom at 0210 hours, killing 7 people. At 0510 hours, another rocket hit Friern Road in Camberwell, London, killing 24 and injuring 17. A third rocket hit Shardeloes Road in Deptford, London at 1830 hours, killing 31, seriously injuring 62, and lightly injuring 90. Two other rockets hit London that day, though causing little damage. 
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01 Nov 1944 WW2 USS Wake Island arrived at Norfolk, Virginia, United States. 
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01 Nov 1945 WW2 British Intelligence reported that Adolf Hitler most likely committed suicide on 30 Apr 1945 in Berlin, Germany after marrying Eva Braun. 
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01 Nov 1945 WW2 Submarine S-31 was struck from the US Naval Vessels Register. 
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01 Nov 1945 WW2 Hamilton was decommissioned from service. 
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01 Nov 1945 WW2 This date was the scheduled launch day for Operation Olympic, the invasion of Kyushu, Japan, which never took place. 
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01 Nov 1945 WW2 USS San Diego entered drydock No. 2 at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California, United States. 
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01 Nov 1945 WW2 US Navy approved the swept-wing design element for the new XP-86 jet fighter. 
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01 Nov 1945 WW2 USS Marblehead was decommissioned from service. 
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01 Nov 1945 WW2 Allied repatriation ship Hikawa Maru departed Wake Island after embarking about 1,000 Japanese troops. 
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