Frying Pan To Fire

MON 2 NOV 1942
Pacific
Fleet Air Wing 6 (Captain Douglass P. Johnson) is established at Seattle, Washington, for multi-engine aircraft training.

Small reconnaissance seaplane from Japanese submarine I-[sic] reconnoiters Efate Island, New Hebrides.

Destroyer Conyngham (DD-371) and transport Fuller (AP-14) are damaged in collision in Sealark Channel, Guadalcanal.

Submarine Seawolf (SS-197) sinks Japanese water tender Gifu Maru west-southwest of Cape San Augustin, Mindoro, P.I., 06°14'N, 126°07'E.

Submarine Tambor (SS-198) lays mines in Hainan Strait, Tonkin Gulf.

Submarine Tautog (SS-199) sows mines south of Cape Padaran, French Indochina.

USAAF B-17s sink Japanese army cargo ship Yasukawa Maru off Buna, New Guinea, 07°16'S, 156°00'E.

Atlantic
Dutch motorship Zaandam is torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-174 at 01°25'N, 36°22'W. Lost with the ship are men who have survived the loss of U.S. freighters: 18 (12 merchant seamen and 6 Armed Guard sailors) from Chickasaw City (sunk 7 October 1942), 15 sailors from Swiftsure (8 October 1942), 6 men from& Coloradan and 15 from Examelia (9 October 1942) (see 24 January 1943).