FRI 5 NOV 1943
Pacific
TF 38 (Rear Admiral Frederick C. Sherman) aircraft attack Rabaul. Planes from carrier Saratoga (CV-3) and small carrier Princeton (CVL 23) bomb Japanese warships (Rear Admiral Takagi Takeo) damage heavy cruisers Atago, Takao, Maya, Chikuma, and Mogami; light cruisers Noshiro and Agano; and destroyers Fujinami and Amagiri.
Submarine Halibut (SS-232) damages Japanese carrier Junyo, Bungo Channel, 32°19'N, 132°58'E; heavy cruiser Tone tows the damaged ship to Kure.
USAAF B-24s sink Japanese fishing vessel No.1 Kanto Maru seven miles north of Kieta, 06°15'S, 155°25'E.
Atlantic
PB4Ys (VB 107) and USAAF B-25s sink German submarine U-848, 480 miles southwest of Ascension Island, 10°09'S, 18°00'W.
Open cargo lighter YCK-2 is lost, cause unspecified, 45°47'N, 58°57'W.*
*Moved from the Pacific heading, as the coördinates are a bit east of Halifax, N.S. If you care.
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