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History on the 29th of November 1941

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29 Nov 1941 WW2 Operation Crusader: Italian Ariete Division overran the New Zealand 21st Battalion at Point 175 in Libya. 
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29 Nov 1941 WW2 US Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Stark directed that defense recommendations made by Major Alfred R. Pefley was to be implemented immediately, consisting mostly of the construction of defensive gun positions on various Pacific islands. 
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29 Nov 1941 WW2 US Marine Corps Major Walter L. J. Bayler arrived at Wake Island with a detachment of Marines from Marine Aircraft Group 21 to set up air base communication facilities. 
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29 Nov 1941 WW2 Japanese ambassador in Germany Hiroshi Oshima reported that, on the previous day, Joachim von Ribbentrop had verbally promised a German declaration of war on the United States should Japan and the US enter a state of war. 
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29 Nov 1941 WW2 Russian partisan fighter Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya was publicly executed by hanging by the Germans. 
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29 Nov 1941 WW2 The German 4th Motor Torpedo Boat Flotilla attacked Allied convoy FN.564 off the coast of East Anglia, England, United Kingdom, sinking British tanker Asperity and freighters Empire Newcomen and Cormarsh. 
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29 Nov 1941 WW2 German submarine U-43 sank British ship Thornliebank 240 miles north of the Azores islands at 0411 hours, killing all 75 aboard. The navigator of U-43 was injured by showering debris. 
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29 Nov 1941 WW2 German 7th Panzer Division completed the evacuation of the Yakhroma bridgehead near Moscow, Russia; 45 were killed in the unsuccessful attempt to cross the Moskva-Volga canal. 
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29 Nov 1941 WW2 Soviet destroyer Slavny, destroyer Stoiki, troop ship Iosif Stalin, and other vessels, escorted by 5 minesweepers, 4 torpedo boats, and 7 submarine chasers, departed Kronstadt, Russia for Hanko, Finland to evacuate troops. German aircraft discovered the force, attacked, and sank icebreaker ship Oktyabr. 
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29 Nov 1941 WW2 US Navy river gunboats Luzon and Oahu departed Shanghai, China for Manila, Philippine Islands. 
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29 Nov 1941 WW2 British aircraft from Malta sank Italian tanker Berbera and damaged Italian tanker Volturno at Navarino (now Pylos), Greece. 
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29 Nov 1941 WW2 British Royal Navy Force B (cruiser HMS Ajax, cruiser HMS Neptune, destroyer HMS Kimberly, and destroyer HMS Kingston) under the command of Rear Admiral Bernard Rawlings arrived in Malta. 
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29 Nov 1941 WW2 The British Royal Air Force's No. 151 Wing, which had been conducting successful combat missions in Northern Russia, handed over its Hurricane fighters to Lieutenant Colonel Boris Safonov's Soviet 72nd Air Regiment before sailing back home. 
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