Death From Above & The Surface

SUN 29 NOV 1942
Pacific
USAAF B-17s damage Japanese destroyers Shiratsuyu and Makigumo in Vitiaz Strait off New Britain.

Aircraft from Henderson Field sink Japanese cargo ships Azusa Maru and Kiku Maru, Wickham Anchorage, New Georgia.

Indian Ocean
U.S. freighter Sawokla is sunk by torpedo and gunfire of German auxiliary cruiser Michel (Schiffe 28) at approximately 28°00'S, 54°00'E, about 400 miles southeast of Madagascar, while en route from Colombo, Ceylon, to Cape Town, South Africa; 16 of the 41-man crew are killed in the attack, as are four of the 13 Armed Guard sailors. Michel rescues 25 crewmen, five Armed Guard sailors and the five passengers (see 30 November).