SUN 1 NOV 1942
Patrol Wings are redesignated Fleet Air Wings.
Pacific
District patrol craft YP-205 is lost after grounding off Saba Island, 18°30'N, 65°00'W. [This, like everything else, is fucking bullshit: a) Saba Island is in the Caribbean Sea, not the Pacific Ocean; b) The latitude & longitude given are northwest of the British Virgin Islands from Saba Island. Is it any fucking wonder U.S. warships, even 75 yrs. later, can't seem to avoid collisions at sea?]
Japanese merchant cargo ship Biwa Maru is lost to unknown cause, 13°30'N, 109°21'E.
Atlantic
U.S. freighter George Thatcher, bound for French Equatorial Africa, is torpedoed by German submarine U-126, 01°45'S, 07°30'E, and abandoned; five crewmen and five Armed Guard sailors, as well as eight soldier passengers, perish in the attack. Free French corvettes rescue the survivors (34 merchant seamen, 10 Armed Guard sailors and four Army passengers) and transport them to their original destination, Port Noire (see 3 November 1942).
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