THU 12 NOV 1942
Pacific
Naval Battle of Guadalcanal opens: TF 67 (Rear Admiral Richmond K. Turner) unloading troops in Lunga Roads, Guadalcanal, under the protection of air and surface forces, is attacked by Japanese land attack planes. Heavy cruiser San Francisco (CA-38) is damaged when hit by a crashing bomber; destroyer Buchanan (DD-484) is hit by friendly fire.
Submarine Grenadier (SS-210) damages Japanese army cargo vessel Hokkai Maru off the south coast of French Indochina, 11°18'N, 109°02'E.
Japanese oiler Naruto is damaged by aircraft (nationality unspecified) off Shortland Island.
Mediterranean
Naval Operating Base, Casablanca, Morocco, is established.
Transports Tasker H. Bliss (AP-42), Hugh L. Scott (AP-43), and Edward Rutledge (AP-52) are torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-130 off French Morocco.
Caribbean
Gunboat Erie (PG-50) is torpedoed by German submarine U-163, Caribbean Sea, 12°03'N, 68°58'W, and is beached northwest of Willemstad, Curacao, N.W.I., to prevent sinking (see 28 November and 5 December).
Submarine chaser SC-330 accidentally collides with, and sinks, merchant vessel Rogist seven miles southeast of Cape Charles, Virginia, Lighthouse.
(maybe;
we can't
account for
your taste).
We downloaded it from
the Los Angeles Public Library
a few mos. ago.
(53:47) of author James Hornfischer on Book TV.
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