Fake News

December

TUE 1 DEC 1942
Pacific
As a result of damage received in the Battle of Tassafaronga, heavy cruiser Northampton (CA-26) sinks at 09°12'S, 159°50'E; Japanese destroyer Takanami goes down about 10 miles south-southwest of Savo Island, 09°18'S, 159°56'E.

Submarine Peto (SS-265) sinks Japanese transport Konei Maru north of the Bismarck Archipelago. [sic: should be 1943 --- Peto did not begin her 1st war patrol until 2 April 43.]

Japanese destroyer Isonami is damaged by planes (USAAF B-25s, B-26s, A-20s, and P-400s are all involved in raids on Buna) off Buna, New Guinea.

Atlantic
Fleet Air Wing 15 (Captain George A. Seitz) is established at Norfolk, Virginia, for service at Port Lyautey, French Morocco.

Survivors (16) from unarmed U.S. schooner Star of Scotland, shelled and sunk by German submarine U-159 on 13 November, reach Angola after an open-boat voyage of 1,040 miles.