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History on the 11th of November 1941

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11 Nov 1941 WW2 I-68 joined the Advance Expeditionary Force for the Pearl Harbor attack; she departed Saeki, Japan for Kwajalein, Marshall Islands. 
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11 Nov 1941 WW2 German government report published on this date noted there were 700,000 Soviet prisoners of war employed as forced laborers. 
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11 Nov 1941 WW2 American Lend-Lease program expanded to include Free France based in Britain. 
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11 Nov 1941 WW2 American destroyer Edison, en route to escort Atlantic convoy ON 34, depth charged sound contact. 
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11 Nov 1941 WW2 American destroyer Decatur, escorting Atlantic convoy HX 159, depth charged sound contact off the Grand Banks, Newfoundland. 
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11 Nov 1941 WW2 German submarine U-580 collided with target ship Angelburg and sank 33 miles west of Klaipeda, Lithuania by accident; 12 were killed, 32 survived. 
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11 Nov 1941 WW2 British Hudson aircraft of No. 53 Squadron RAF damaged German submarine U-203 with four depth charges in the Bay of Biscay at 1415 hours. 
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11 Nov 1941 WW2 German submarine U-561 sank Panamanian ship Meridian at 2335 hours, killing all 26 aboard. 
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11 Nov 1941 WW2 After dark, Soviet destroyers Stoiki and Leningrad, minelayer Ural, troop transport Andrei Zhdanov, and three minesweepers departed the island of Gogland (known in Finnish as Suursaari) in the Gulf of Finland for the Hanko Peninsula in southern Finland. After Andrei Zhdanov was sunk by a mine (7 were killed, 66 survived) and Leningrad damaged by a mine, the convoy abandoned its mission to evacuate Soviet troops from Hanko and sailed back to Gogland. 
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11 Nov 1941 WW2 Ten Japanese submarines departed from Yokosuka Naval Base in Japan for Kwajalein of the Marshall Islands, where they would proceed for US Territory of Hawaii. 
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11 Nov 1941 WW2 Kaga entered the drydocks at Sasebo Naval Shipyard, Japan. 
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11 Nov 1941 WW2 Robert Johnson completed aviation cadet training and began his service with the US Army at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States. 
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