Saturday, December 2, 2017

Rio!

WED 2 DEC 1942
Atlantic
Naval Operating Base and Naval Air Facility, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, are established.

U.S. steamship Coamo is torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-604 off Bermuda; some survivors from the 186 men on board manage to escape on rafts (see 3 December).

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