November 1942

November 1, 1942 (Sunday)

November 2, 1942 (Monday)

November 3, 1942 (Tuesday)

November 4, 1942 (Wednesday)

  • The Matanikau Offensive ended in American victory.
  • German submarine U-132 was sunk in the Atlantic Ocean by the explosion of the British cargo ship Hatimura, which had just been torpedoed by U-442.
  • German submarines U-169 and U-416 were commissioned.

November 5, 1942 (Thursday)

  • Fighting in and around Stalingrad forced the city's power plant to shut down.[8]
  • German submarine U-408 was depth charged and sunk north of Iceland by an American Catalina.
  • German submarines U-647, U-658 and U-712 were commissioned.
  • Born: Pierangelo Bertoli, singer-songwriter and poet, in Sassuolo, Italy (d. 2002)
  • Died: George M. Cohan, 64, American songwriter and entertainer

November 6, 1942 (Friday)

November 7, 1942 (Saturday)

November 8, 1942 (Sunday)

November 9, 1942 (Monday)

  • German forces invaded Tunisia without opposition from nearby French troops.[11]
  • Canada, Cuba and Mexico broke off diplomatic relations with Vichy France.[13]
  • The American troopship Leedstown, immobilised in the Mediterranean Sea the previous day by an attack from the Luftwaffe, was finished off by a torpedo from German submarine U-331.
  • Died:

November 10, 1942 (Tuesday)

November 11, 1942 (Wednesday)

November 12, 1942 (Thursday)

  • The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal began.
  • The Koli Point action ended in American victory.
  • U.S. Congress approved the drafting of men 18 and 19 years old.[11]
  • Eddie Rickenbacker and five others were rescued in the Pacific Ocean after being lost adrift at sea for three weeks. The men had stayed alive on a diet of a few oranges retrieved from their plane when it went down, some fish they'd managed to catch and a seagull that Rickenbacker had grabbed with his bare hands.[19]
  • Guatemala broke off diplomatic relations with Vichy France.[13]
  • German submarine U-272 sank off Hela after colliding with U-634.
  • German submarine U-660 was depth charged and damaged north of Oran by British warships and had to be scuttled.
  • German submarines U-360 and U-648 was commissioned.
  • Died: Laura Hope Crews, 62, American actress

November 13, 1942 (Friday)

November 14, 1942 (Saturday)

  • Japanese battleship Hiei was sunk by enemy vessels during the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal.
  • Italian cargo liner Scillin was sunk by the British submarine Sahib while transporting over 800 Allied prisoners of war from North Africa to Italy, killing almost all of them. Britain kept the cause of the sinking a secret until 1996.
  • German submarines U-595 and U-605 were depth charged and sunk in the Mediterranean by British aircraft.
  • German submarines U-231 and U-733 were commissioned.

November 15, 1942 (Sunday)

November 16, 1942 (Monday)

November 17, 1942 (Tuesday)

November 18, 1942 (Wednesday)

November 19, 1942 (Thursday)

  • The Soviets launched Operation Uranus, a counterattack aimed at surrounding Axis forces at Stalingrad.
  • The Battle for Velikiye Luki began on the Eastern Front.
  • Operation Freshman: A British airborne force landed using gliders in Norway with the intent of sabotaging a chemical plant in Telemark that the Germans could use for their atomic weapons programme. Neither of the two aircraft-glider forces were able to land near their objective and the operation ended in failure with 41 killed.
  • Died: Bruno Schulz, 50, Polish writer, artist, literary critic and art teacher (shot by a Nazi)

November 20, 1942 (Friday)

November 21, 1942 (Saturday)

November 22, 1942 (Sunday)

November 23, 1942 (Monday)

  • Operation Uranus ended in decisive Soviet victory with the German 6th Army completely encircled at Stalingrad.
  • The Governor General of French West Africa agreed to accept the authority of François Darlan. This brought the strategically valuable port city of Dakar under Allied control.[28]
  • German U-boat U-172 torpedoed and sank the British merchant ship SS Benlomond off the coast of Brazil. Chinese second steward Poon Lim survived and would spend 133 days adrift on a raft in the South Atlantic.
  • Died:
    • Hernando Siles Reyes, 60, 37th President of Bolivia
    • Tomitarō Horii, 52, Japanese general (drowned while attempting to canoe down the Kumusi River during the Battle of Buna–Gona);

November 24, 1942 (Tuesday)

November 25, 1942 (Wednesday)

November 26, 1942 (Thursday)

November 27, 1942 (Friday)

November 28, 1942 (Saturday)

November 29, 1942 (Sunday)

November 30, 1942 (Monday)

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