Please Do Not Dive Into The Reef

WED 4 NOV 1942
Pacific
TG 65.4 cruisers and destroyers bombard Japanese positions near Koli Point, Guadalcanal.

Small reconnaissance seaplane from Japanese submarine I-31 reconnoiters Suva, Fiji Islands; small reconnaissance seaplane from I-9 reconnoiters Nouméa, New Caledonia.

Japanese submarine RO-65 is sunk when she accidentally dives into a reef while seeking to avoid attack, Kiska harbor, 51°58'N, 177°33'E.

Mediterranean
Submarines Shad (SS-235), Gunnel (SS-253), Herring (SS-233), Barb (SS-220), and Blackfish (SS-221) are deployed to reconnoiter French North African waters off Rabat, Fedala, Casablanca, Safi, and Dakar, in advance of Operation TORCH.

Arctic Convoys
U.S. freighter John H. B. Latrobe, proceeding independently from Reykjavik, Iceland, to Archangel, USSR, is attacked by HE 115s at 74°37'N, 02°00'E. Withering Armed Guard gunfire disrupts the attack by the enemy floatplanes and none of the seven torpedoes launched strike home; strafing, however, slightly damages the merchantman, and 3 of the 25-man Armed Guard are wounded. John H.B. Latrobe returns to Reykjavik for repairs.

U.S. freighter William Clark, proceeding independently from Hvalfjordur, Iceland, to Murmansk, USSR, is torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-354 at 71°05'N, 13°20'W. Survivors abandon ship into three lifeboats (see 7 November 1942).