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[Apollo11]

Hi all,

Good morning!


Leo "Apollo11"

[Zovs]

Good morning folks!

World War II Today: November 15

1939 (Wednesday)
The German pocket-battleship Admiral Graf Spee sinks the merchantman Africa Shell off Mozambique.

British steamer Woodtown hits a mine.

Von Ribbentrop informs the Dutch and Belgian government that he now considers the matter of their peace proposal to be closed.

President Franklin Roosevelt lays cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, DC.

US Interior Department motorship North Star departs Boston for Antarctic expedition under Adm. Richard Byrd.

1940 (Friday)
67 RAF Wellington, Whitley, and Hampden bombers attack Hamburg, doing extensive damage to the city and shipyards, with no loss of aircraft.

The prototype de Havilland Mosquito takes off for the first time; designed as a bomber fast enough to dispense with defensive armament, it has a top speed of 400 mph (644 km/h).

RAF squadrons deploy from their bases in the Middle East to Greece under the command of Air Vice-Marshal J D’Albiac.

Blenheims and Wellingtons of the Western Desert Air Force attack targets deep inside enemy territory, and Lysanders and Blenheims provide complete reconnaissance of Italian defenses at Sidi Barrani.

The Warsaw Ghetto, containing over 400,000 Jews, is sealed off.

Keitel and Badoglio meet at Innsbruck to discuss military cooperation between Germany and Italy.

1941 (Saturday)
In temperatures of -20°C, Army Group Centre resumes its offensive against Moscow, employing Panzer Groups 1, 2 and 3, as well as the 2nd, 4th and 9th Armies.

The de Havilland Mosquito light bomber enters service with No. 105 Sqn at RAF Swanton Morley, Norfolk. However, it was on 31 May 1942 that the Mosquito took part in its first operational raid (Cologne).

A Japanese special negotiator arrives in Washington.

Canadian troops reinforce the garrison of Hong Kong.

German submarine U-583 sunk with all hands after a collision with U-153 in the Baltic.

1942 (Sunday)
Japanese suffer a major naval defeat, losing one battleship (Kirishma), one destroyer and seven transport ships (naval battle of Guadalcanal), while the US Navy looses three destroyers.

German submarine U-98 sunk with all hands off Gibraltar.

German submarine U-259 sunk with all hands off Algiers.

Admiral Darlan changes side, appointed General Giraud to command French Forces in Africa. The allied use of Darlan causes much controversy and only ends with his assassination.

1943 (Monday)
The allied expeditionary air force is formed in Britain for the invasion of Europe.

Mark Clark calls off the U.S. Fifth Army’s offensive. The British counter-attack on Leros fails as the Luftwaffe flies 600 sorties a day. A State of emergency is declared in Milan as unrest in northern Italy continues. The Germans take 1,750 hostages; machine guns are in the streets and 8pm curfew enforced.

The 2nd Tactical Air Force (2nd TAF) is formed; this in turn forms part of the Allied Expeditionary Air Force (AEAF), commanded by Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory, in preparation for the invasion of mainland Europe.

Hitler issues directive for Operation Citadel, the attack on the Kursk salient..

1944 (Wednesday)
As the Allied offensive ground on west of the Rhine River, dozens of German tank and infantry divisions gathered in assembly areas northwest of the city of Cologne and in the thick forest cover of the Eiffel mountains.

US Eighth Army, in its first assault, lands on Mapia Islands in the East Indies.

The U.S. Fifth Army in Italy captured Modigliana.

Japanese landing craft depot ship Akitsu Maru was torpedoed and sunk in the Korea Strait by the submarine USS Queenfish, killing over 2,000.

Premiere of war film Thirty Seconds over Tokyo, starring Spencer Tracy, Robert Walker, and Van Johnson.

[btd64]

Good morning my friends....GP

[RangerJoe]

Good morning folks!

World War II Today: November 15

1941 (Saturday)
In temperatures of -20°C, Army Group Centre resumes its offensive against Moscow, employing Panzer Groups 1, 2 and 3, as well as the 2nd, 4th and 9th Armies.
A nice and refreshing temperature which ensures that there are few annoying insects and other such creatures bothering people and animals . . .

German submarine U-583 sunk with all hands after a collision with U-153 in the Baltic.
Too bad more of this did not happen!

1942 (Sunday)
Japanese suffer a major naval defeat, losing one battleship (Kirishma), one destroyer and seven transport ships (naval battle of Guadalcanal), while the US Navy looses three destroyers.
"This is Ching Lee, I am coming through!"

1943 (Monday)

The 2nd Tactical Air Force (2nd TAF) is formed; this in turn forms part of the Allied Expeditionary Air Force (AEAF), commanded by Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford "Big Wing" Leigh-Mallory, in preparation for the invasion of mainland Europe.

Hitler issues directive for Operation Citadel, the attack on the Kursk salient.
Nope, it started on July 5th and ended when Sicily was invaded . . .
https://www.history.com/topics/world-wa ... e-of-kursk
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/world- ... manys.html

1944 (Wednesday)

Premiere of war film Thirty Seconds over Tokyo, starring Spencer Tracy, Robert Walker, and Van Johnson.
I always did like that movie!

Also:
15 Nov 1891

Germany

Erwin Rommel was born in Heidenheim an der Brenz near Ulm in the Duchy of Swabia in the Kingdom of Wüttemberg in southwestern Germany. ww2dbase [Erwin Rommel | Heidenheim an der Brenz | CPC]

15 Nov 1907

Claus von Stauffenberg was born. ww2dbase [Claus von Stauffenberg | CPC]

15 Nov 1920

Nagato was commissioned into service. ww2dbase [Nagato | CPC]

15 Nov 1931

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was ordained at the St. Matthew's Church in Berlin, Germany. ww2dbase [Dietrich Bonhoeffer | CPC]
https://ww2db.com/person_bio.php?person_id=565

“Many years later, after Niemöller had been imprisoned for eight years in concentration camps as the personal prisoner of Adolf Hitler, he penned these infamous words:
First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out -
because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionist, and I did not speak out -
because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out -
because I was not a Jew.
And then they came for me -
and there was no one left to speak for me.”
― Eric Metaxas, Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy

https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/6 ... bonhoeffer

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15 Nov 1936

The German Condor Legion went into action for the first time, supporting further Nationalist operations to capture Madrid. ww2dbase [The Spanish Civil War | CPC]

https://ww2db.com/event/today

Thank you Orm!

I think that your source is just a little off for the date of Operation Citadel . . .

[Apollo11]

Hi all,

Good morning!


Leo "Apollo11"

[Orm]

Hey.

[BBfanboy]

The target of US 8th Army's first attack hardly seems worthwhile ...

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[RangerJoe]

The day is not quite over, I hope that everyone is having a nice and safe weekend.

Here is the World War 2 history for today:

16 Nov 1935

Germany

The Blohm und Voss shipyard in Hamburg, Germany received the contract for laying down the hull of the future battleship Bismarck; the construction number was BV 509. ww2dbase [Blohm und Voss | Bismarck | Hamburg | CPC]
The order for the construction of Prinz Eugen was awarded to Germaniawerft of Kiel, Germany. ww2dbase [Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft | Prinz Eugen | CPC]

16 Nov 1936

Spanish Nationalist Colonel José Varela's troops had forced a bridgehead over the River Manzanares en route to Madrid, Spain. They would capture almost three quarters of the University City in the coming week before being stopped by Spanish Republican militias. ww2dbase [The Spanish Civil War | AC]

16 Nov 1937

China

Chiang Kaishek ordered Chinese government ministries and agencies to depart from the capital city of Nanjing within the next three to four days. ww2dbase [Battle of Nanjing and the Rape of Nanjing | Nanjing | CPC]

16 Nov 1939

In Egypt, Major General Michael O'Mare Creagh replaced Major General P. C. S. "Hobo" Hobart as GOC of the Mobile Division (Later 7th Armoured). ww2dbase [AC]

16 Nov 1940

American destroyer Punkett intercepted German tanker Phrygia; Phrygia's crew scuttled the ship to avoid capture. ww2dbase [CPC]
The Greek 3rd Army Corps broke through the Italian 9th Army defensive line at Korcë, Albania. Far to the south, 4,230 British troops arrived at Pireaus, Greece by sea. ww2dbase [Balkans Campaign | CPC]
German submarine U-65 sank British ship Fabian with torpedo and her deck gun 250 miles southwest of Sierra Leone, killing 6. 33 survivors were briefly interrogated, given food and water, and placed in lifeboats; they would later be rescued by British tanker British Statesman. ww2dbase [CPC]
German submarine U-137 sank British ship Planter 30 miles north of Ireland at 2015 hours; 13 were killed and 60 survivors were picked up by British destroyer HMS Clare. ww2dbase [CPC]
British anti-submarine trawler HMT Arsenal collided with Polish destroyer Burza 4 miles south of Toward, Clyde River estuary, Scotland, United Kingdom. Arsenal sank as her depth charges were detonated, which damaged HMS Arrow which came to rescue survivors. Tug Superman also participated in the rescue. ww2dbase [CPC]
Heinz Guderian was named commander of Panzer Group 2. ww2dbase [Heinz Guderian | AC]

16 Nov 1941

Japanese carrier fleet exercised in the Kurile Islands. ww2dbase [CPC]
Canadian troops arrived at Hong Kong. ww2dbase [CPC]
German 3rd Panzer Party established a crossing over the Lama River 70 miles west of Moscow, Russia. ww2dbase [Battle of Moscow | CPC]
British corvette HMS Marigold damaged German submarine U-433 with depth charges 50 miles east of Gibraltar at 2255 hours. After U-433 surfaced, Marigold continued to attack her with guns. U-433's crew scuttled the boat after suffering 6 killed; the 38 survivors were captured. ww2dbase [CPC]

Japan

Obsolete Japanese battleship Settsu began to sail around the Inland Sea in Japan to generate fake radio communication messages at different ports. ww2dbase [Attack on Pearl Harbor | Settsu | Detailed Timetable | CPC]
Crown Prince Yi Un was attached to the training department of the Japanese Army. ww2dbase [Yi Un | CPC]

Russia

The German 11.Armee captured Kerch, Russia. Soviet Deputy Navy Commissar Admiral Gordei Levchenko was arrested after being deemed responsible for this defeat. ww2dbase [Battle of Sevastopol | Kerch, Krym | TH, CPC]

16 Nov 1942

American destroyers sank German submarine U-173 off Casablanca, French Morocco. ww2dbase [Operation Torch | CPC]
The first US Marine night fighter squadron, VMF(N)-531, was commissioned at Cherry Point, North Carolina, United States under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Frank Schwable. ww2dbase [CPC]

Australian Papua

The US 128th Infantry Regiment began an attack on Japanese positions south of Buna, Australian Papua. The 1st Battalion (Colonel McCoy) attacked along the coast from Embogo and crossed the Samboga River, while the 3rd Battalion (Colonel Miller) attacked inland from Simemi. Their objectives were the air strips at the centre of the Japanese eastern defences. On the first day opposition was minor but their sole supply line, consisting of six barges ferrying supplies from the airstrip at Ponondetta further to the east, was destroyed when Japanese Zero fighters strafed the barges, destroying their loads of ammunition, medicine and critically, the artillery and mortars. With the loss of the barges further movement was delayed until 19 Nov 1942 as troops and stores had to come by foot. ww2dbase [New Guinea-Papua Campaign, Phase 2 | Buna | AC]

Italy

The Italian Air Force merged its "Loreto" combat engineers battalion and the 1st Air Force Paratroop Unit to form the 1st Air Force Assault Regiment "Amedeo d'Aosta" at Marsala, Sicily, Italy. ww2dbase [Marsala, Sicilia | CPC]

United States

Joseph Rochefort was transferred to the US Navy Office of the Chief of Naval Operations based in Washington DC, United States. Later in the day, he wrote a personal letter to his former subordinates in Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, noting that his relief was the result of politics, and asking them to be loyal to his successor William Goggins, who was not part of the bureaucratic in-fighting. ww2dbase [Joseph Rochefort | Washington | CPC]
LST-412 was launched at the Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyard in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. ww2dbase [LST-412 | Baltimore, Maryland | CPC]

16 Nov 1943

Greek island Leros again surrendered to the Germans; Germans carried out severe reprisals against the Italians who cooperated with British forces. ww2dbase [Dodecanese Campaign | CPC]
US 705th Railway Grand Division, the 758th Railway Shop Battalion, and the 721st, 725th, 726th, 745th, and 748th Railway Operating Battalions were transferred to British India to assist in the expansion of railway systems from India to Burma. ww2dbase [CPC]

Caroline Islands

The US submarine Corvina was torpedoed and sunk by the Japanese submarine I-176 south of Truk, Caroline Islands. I-176 launched three Type95 torpedoes with two hitting Corvina. All 82 aboard Corvina were lost. ww2dbase [Corvina | Type 95 | Truk | AC]

Dutch East Indies

Patrol Boat No. 102 (ex USS Stewart) arrived at Surabaya, Dutch East Indies at 1350 hours. ww2dbase [Stewart | Surabaya, Java | CPC]

16 Nov 1944

USS Trepang departed for her second war patrol. ww2dbase [Trepang | CPC]
US First and Ninth Armies began attacking east of Aachen, Germany, aimed at the Roer Dams. ww2dbase [TH]
With sufficient ports now usable by the Allies in Europe, the Red Ball Express was shut down. ww2dbase [TH]
USS Ray fired two torpedoes at a grounded Japanese transport in the Philippine Islands; both torpedoes missed. ww2dbase [Ray | CPC] Did any torpedoes hit a truck?
Battleship USS Maryland with cruisers USS St. Louis and USS Columbia and destroyers USS Nicholas, USS Taylor, USS Lang, USS McCord, USS Trathen, USS Hazelwood, and USS MacDonough arrived at Leyte Gulf, Philippines and joined a task group patrolling the gulf’s entrance. ww2dbase [Maryland | St. Louis | Columbia | Nicholas | DS]

16 Nov 2015

United States

US President Barack Obama announced his intention to awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Minoru Yasui posthumously. ww2dbase [Minoru Yasui | Washington | CPC]

Minoru Yasui
https://ww2db.com/person_bio.php?person_id=1111

Korean Crown Prince Yi Un
https://ww2db.com/person_bio.php?person_id=360

Joseph Rochefort did not graduate high school until 1948! He consulted on Tora! Tora! Tora! and the 1976 version of Midway.
https://ww2db.com/person_bio.php?person_id=726

https://ww2db.com/event/today/11/16

[Orm]

Morning Gentlemen. Ladies.

[Apollo11]

Hi all,

Good morning!


Leo "Apollo11"

[btd64]

Lots of good stuff being posted here....GP

[btd64]

Good afternoon everyone ....GP

[Orm]

Morning, Gentlemen. Ladies.

[Apollo11]

Hi all,

Good morning!


Leo "Apollo11"

[Zovs]

Good morning folks!

World War II Today: November 18

1939 (Saturday)
The Dutch ship Simon Bolivar hits an ‘un-notified’ mine in the North Sea, killing 80. Several other neutral ships also sunk by mines.

IRA (Irish Republican Army) detonates four small bombs in Piccadilly, London, but no one is injured.

Martial Law is declared in Prague and a number of other Czech towns.

German aircraft sighted off the east coast of Britain and over the Firth of Forth.

1940 (Monday)
Heavy fighting takes place around Koritza. The Italians are forced back across the River Kalamas.

Luftwaffe carries out daylight raids on the West Country and widespread night attacks.

RAF attacks the synthetic oil works at Leuna.

1941 (Tuesday)
At 6am ‘Operation Crusader’, the British Eighth Army, an assortment of British, Commonwealth, Indian, and other Allied servicemen commanded by Lt. Gen. Alan Cunningham (from November 26 by Lt. Gen. Neil Ritchie), launched a surprise military operation from Egyptian territory against Axis forces in Eastern Libya (Cyrenaica). Operation Crusader, part of the wider Western Desert Campaign in North Africa (June 1940 to February 1943), had as its goal lifting the siege of Tobruk, put in place by the Axis on April 10, 1941. Tobruk was an important Libyan Mediterranean supply port for whoever held it. At the moment it was still in the hands of the British 70th Infantry Division, a stubborn contingent of largely British, Australians, and Poles, after German and Italian forces under German Gen. Erwin Rommel, commander of Panzergruppe Afrika, which included the German Afrika Korps and the Italian XXI Corps, had expelled most of the British Eighth Army from Libya in Operation Sunflower (Unternehmen Sonnenblume, February to May 1941). Rommel, who arrives back from Rome that day, is caught by surprise, allowing the British XXX Corps to advance 50-miles and capture the axis airfield 10 miles south of Sidi Rezegh. The Germans, believing that the British are about to encircle Bardia, send the Afrika Korps on a wild goose chase in that direction.

Gen. Sir Alan Brooke replaces Field Marshal John Dill as British Chief of the Imperial General Staff.

Diet passes hostility resolution against United States.

1942 (Wednesday)
Laval is given absolute power by Vichy in Africa.

Eighth Air Force Heavy Bomber Mission No. 21: 65 aircraft dispatched to attack U-boat base at La Pallice, and 26 on a diversionary sweep. 19 aircraft attack La Pallice, 13 attack Lorient and 19 attack the U-boat base at St. Naizaire. One aircraft lost.

British 8th Army enters Cyrene.

1943 (Thursday)
A German counter offensive recaptures Zhitomir.

Eighth Air Force Heavy Bomber Mission No. 132: 102 aircraft sen to attack the airfield at Oslo/ Kjeller and industrial areas at Oslo. Nine aircraft lost.

Heaviest RAF Bomber Command raid over Germany to date sees 350 4,000lb bombs dropped on Berlin. Other areas also pounded in the biggest RAF operation so far.

German submarine U-718 sunk after a collision with U-476 off Bornholm.

1944 (Saturday)
A German hospital ship, Tubingen is sunk accidentally by allied aircraft in the Adriatic, but luckily no wounded were onboard. The British express regret to the German authorities about the mistake.

Inmates of Janowska concentration camp near Lwów (at this time in German-occupied Poland), staged an uprising that ultimately failed. Leon Weliczker and several other prisoners had run errands for the camp guards, and were accustomed to bringing firewood into the guard houses. On the evening of the 19th, two groups of prisoners attacked guards in two different locations, stole their machines guns, and started a breakout. The 6,000 remaining Jewish residents of Janowska camp were killed over the next four days and on November 23, Lwów (now Lviv in the Ukraine) was declared Judenrein (“clean of Jews”).

The U.S. Third Army crosses the German frontier. Metz is cut off and surrounded by the U.S. Third Army’s, XX Corps.

Submarine USS Blackfin picks up captured Japanese cryptographic equipment, technical equipment, and secret documents from Filipino resistance fighters on Mindoro.

Japanese submarine I-41 was sunk off Leyte by American warships and aircraft.

[RangerJoe]

Yesterday, the 17th of November, on that day:

17 Nov 1887

United Kingdom

Bernard Montgomery was born in Kennington, London, England, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [Bernard Montgomery | London, England | CPC]

17 Nov 1899

Hawaii

Naval Station, Honolulu, the new US Navy facility in the Hawaiian Islands, was officially opened. ww2dbase [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Honolulu, Oahu | DS]

17 Nov 1931

China

Japanese troops attacked Qiqihar, Nenjiang Province, China. Chinese troops, out-gunned, attempted to hold defensive lines against Japanese artillery bombardment and cavalry charges. ww2dbase [Battle of Qiqihar | Qiqihar, Nenjiang | CPC]

17 Nov 1934

Ukraine

The first manufacturing drawing of the fuselage of the later-christened Hurricane fighter was completed. ww2dbase [ | CPC]

17 Nov 1939

Supreme Allied War Council approved a plan for British and French war production. ww2dbase [TH]
Plans were made for British and French troops to move into Belgium to counter a possible German invasion, but reconnaissance parties were denied entry into Belgium to avoid provoking Germany. ww2dbase [TH]

China

Japanese troops landed at Fangcheng and Beihai in Guangxi Province, China. ww2dbase [Guangxi | CPC]

17 Nov 1940

Adolf Galland claimed his 53rd, 54th, and 55th victories. ww2dbase [Adolf Galland | CPC]
British Air Chief Marshal Hugh Dowding was removed as the head of RAF Fighter Command after losing a political struggle with Sholto Douglas and other Big Wing proponents. ww2dbase [Hugh Dowding | CPC]

17 Nov 1941

US Congress amended the Neutrality Act of 1939, thus allowing American merchant ships to be armed and allowing them to enter war zones. ww2dbase [CPC]
The United States delivered escort carrier Archer to the United Kingdom, the first of 38 escort carriers that would be delivered during the war under Lend-Lease. ww2dbase [CPC]
The Reichskommissariat Ostland was established under Alfred Rosenberg to administer territories taken from the Soviet Union. ww2dbase [Alfred Rosenberg | TH]
German troops near Moscow, Russia fought Central Asian troops for the first time (Soviet 44th Cavalry Division) at Musino, Russia, 70 miles west of the capital. German artillery blunted the cavalry charges, with the Germans claiming 2,000 killed. ww2dbase [Battle of Moscow | TH]
Japanese Navy Admiral Yamamoto revealed the Pearl Harbor attack plan to the naval leadership. ww2dbase [Attack on Pearl Harbor | Detailed Timetable | CPC]

Germany

Following twelve months of illness, depression and strain at the Luftwaffe's increasing losses on the Eastern Front, Generaloberst Ernst Udet, the German Director General of Air Armament, commited suicide by shooting himself while on the phone with his girlfriend, Inge Bleyle. Udet, Germany's second highest fighter ace of the First World War (behind the Red Baron) with 62 kills, had already lost favour with Hitler after the air force's performance in the Battle of Britain. The official version was that he had died whilst testing a "new weapon" and Jagdgeschwader 3 was named in his honour. Udet was accorded a state funeral at which he was eulogised by Hermann Göring, who described him as his "best friend". ww2dbase [Ernst Udet | AC] The new weapon?

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Japan

Kaga arrived at Saeki Bay off Oita, Japan and embarked 100 aerial torpedoes. ww2dbase [Kaga | Oita | CPC]

United Kingdom

The ration of canned meat, canned fish, and canned beans began in the United Kingdom; this was announced 15 days earlier by the British Minister of Food. ww2dbase [AC]

United States

Japanese special envoy Kurusu Saburo arrived in Washington DC and met with US Secretary of State Cordell Hull. ww2dbase [Saburo Kurusu | Washington | CPC]

17 Nov 1942

American troops captured Gafsa, Tunisia and British 36th Brigade engaged German forces at Djebel Abiod, Tunisia. German General Walter Nehring arrived in Tunis, Tunisia to lead a counterattack against the Allies. The Italians formally absorbed the French Protectorate of Tunisia into the borders of Italian North Africa. ww2dbase [Advance into Tunisia | CPC]
British Admiral Sir Max Horton was appointed the Commander-in-Chief of Western Approaches Command. ww2dbase [AC]
Archibald Wavell gave up the amphibious component to the planned assault on Arakan Peninsula, Burma (largely due to the lack of landing craft, the majority of which were assigned to Operation Torch in North Africa and to the Pacific Theater), and told Noel Irwin to focus on ground assault through Mayu Hills only. ww2dbase [First Battle of Arakan | CPC]

Australian Papua

Allied troops advanced in Australian Papua towards Buna and Gona. Meanwhile, the 3rd Battalion of Japanese 229th Infantry Regiment and 300 reinforcements landed near Gona. ww2dbase [New Guinea-Papua Campaign, Phase 2 | CPC, AC]

United States

Auxiliary Aircraft Carrier USS Bogue departed Puget Sound, Washington bound for San Diego, California. ww2dbase [Bogue | Puget Sound, Washington | DS]

17 Nov 1943

Shokaku's commanding officer Captain Hiroshi Matsubara was relieved; the successor was unknown. ww2dbase [Shokaku | CPC]
Australian 9th Division launched an offensive to take Sattelberg, New Guinea. ww2dbase [New Guinea-Papua Campaign, Phase 3 | CPC]
Bataan (Independence-class) was commissioned into service. ww2dbase [Bataan (Independence-class) | CPC]

Caroline Islands

Japanese submarine I-176 fired three Type 95 torpedoes at an un-identified enemy submarine south of Truk in the Caroline Islands, claiming two hits. The target was believed to be USS Corvina. ww2dbase [Corvina | Type 95 | Truk | CPC]

Dutch East Indies

Patrol Boat No. 102 entered Drydock No. 1 at Repair Facility No. 103 in Surabaya, Dutch East Indies to receive a new propeller. ww2dbase [Stewart | Surabaya, Java | CPC]

17 Nov 1944

Japanese physicist Yoshio Nishina reported to his army liaison officer Major General Nobuji that the atomic bomb research project under him had not made much progress in the past nine months. This was partly because his cyclotron could not operate at full power due to the poor quality vacuum tubes. ww2dbase [Yoshio Nishina | CPC]
USS Becuna damaged four Japanese ships: tanker San Luis Maru, tanker Tokuwa Maru, a transport, and cargo ship. ww2dbase [Becuna | CPC]

17 Nov 1945

Pacific Ocean

USS Wesson took USS DD-224 under tow due to DD-224's fuel pump problems. The pair headed toward Apra Harbor, Guam for repairs. ww2dbase [Stewart | CPC]

https://ww2db.com/event/today/11/17

[BBfanboy]

Ranger Joe: Tobruk was an important Libyan Mediterranean supply port for whoever held it. At the moment it was still in the hands of the British 70th Infantry Division, a stubborn contingent of largely British, Australians, and Poles

AHA! Finally, an explanation of why 70th ID arrives in India with virtually no fighting troops and never gets any! In the database there are no Regiments that join 70th ID.

[BBfanboy]

Ranger Joe: The United States delivered escort carrier Archer to the United Kingdom

The "Archer" (formerly Mormacland) was owned by the British but modified to a Long Island Class CVE. Problems with the engines affected her use as a CVE so she war relegated to an aircraft transport role.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Archer_(D78)

[RangerJoe]

Ranger Joe: Tobruk was an important Libyan Mediterranean supply port for whoever held it. At the moment it was still in the hands of the British 70th Infantry Division, a stubborn contingent of largely British, Australians, and Poles

AHA! Finally, an explanation of why 70th ID arrives in India with virtually no fighting troops and never gets any! In the database there are no Regiments that join 70th ID.

Well, I guess that the Australians were shifted elsewhere and the Poles were not at war with Japan. What is not shown in WITP:AE is that the British would move entire brigades from one division to another division.

[RangerJoe]

INP!!!!