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History on the 1st of November 1944

History
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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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