WED 11 NOV 1942
Pacific
Small reconnaissance seaplane from Japanese submarine I-7 reconnoiters Vanikoro, Solomons; small reconnaissance seaplane from I-21 reconnoiters Nouméa, New Caledonia; and small reconnaissance seaplane from I-9 reconnoiters Espiritu Santo.
Transport Zeilin (AP-9) is damaged by dive bombers off Lunga Point, Guadalcanal, 09°24'S, 160°02'E.
Submarine Haddock (SS-231) sinks Japanese merchant cargo ship Venice Maru in center of Yellow Sea, between China and Korea, 35°36'N, 123°44'E.
Submarine Tautog (SS-199) is damaged by depth charges in Makassar Strait, 01°22'N, 119°31'E, and is forced to terminate her patrol.
Japanese armed merchant cruiser Hokoku Maru is sunk by Indian Navy minesweeper RINS Bengal and Dutch merchant tanker Ondina south-southwest of Cocos Islands, 20°00'S, 93°00'E.
Japanese transport Kobe Maru is sunk in collision with army cargo ship Tenzan Maru 87 miles off the Yangtze River estuary; Tenzan Maru then founders and sinks, too.
Atlantic
Casablanca surrenders to U.S. forces. Allied-French armistice is signed.
Mechanized artillery transport Lakehurst (APM-9) is damaged when accidentally rammed by cargo ship Titania (AK-55) in Safi harbor, French Morocco.
German submarine U-173 torpedoes and sinks transport Joseph Hewes (AP-50) and torpedoes destroyer Hambleton (DD-455) and oiler Winooski(AO-38) off Fedala Roads, North Africa.
Mediterranean
German troops occupy France, south to the Mediterranean Sea.
Italian troops land on Corsica and move into France.
Naval Operating Base, Oran, is established.
Indian Ocean
First survivors from U.S. freighter Marcus Whitman, sunk by Italian submarine Leonardo da Vinci on 9 November, reach coast of Natal, South Africa, in the merchantman's motor lifeboat; the remainder will arrive within the next few hours. All hands (41-man merchant complement and the 11-man Armed Guard) reach safety.
military events 75 yrs. ago:
On this day in 1942, Congress approves lowering the draft age to 18 and raising the upper limit to age 37.
In September 1940, Congress, by wide margins in both houses, passed the Burke-Wadsworth Act, and the first peacetime draft was imposed in the history of the United States. The registration of men between the ages of 21 and 36 began exactly one month later. There were some 20 million eligible young men—50 percent were rejected the very first year, either for health reasons or because 20 percent of those who registered were illiterate.
But by November 1942, with the United States now a participant in the war, and not merely a neutral bystander, the draft ages had to be expanded; men 18 to 37 were now eligible. Blacks were passed over for the draft because of racist assumptions about their abilities and the viability of a mixed-race military. But this changed in 1943, when a “quota” was imposed, meant to limit the numbers of blacks drafted to reflect their numbers in the overall population, roughly 10.6 percent of the whole. Initially, blacks were restricted to “labor units,” but this too ended as the war progressed, when they were finally used in combat.
By war’s end, approximately 34 million men had registered; 10 million had been inducted into the military.
"20% of those who registered were illiterate". Many of the "health reasons" were the preventable effects of poverty & the resulting poor nutrition. America really used to be great, didn't it? Make her great again by bringing back the old days!! (And while we're bringing things back, let's start drafting some of those so-called Millennial bastards!)
No comments:
Post a Comment