A 60-year-old mystery Congress honors the 2 dozen airmen who disappeared over the Bermuda Triangle By Elisabeth Goodridge Associated Press...
Unearthing artifacts of WW II's horror Archeologists find doomed victims' items at Nazi camp By Ryan Lucas Associated Press Published November...
Nov 18, 1942 -USAAF B-17s damage Japanese destroyers Umikaze and Kawakaze off Buna, New Guinea. -British submarine HMS Trusty sinks Japanese army...
Nov 17, 1941 -Congress amends the Neutrality Act of 1939 by Joint Resolution; U.S. merchant ships can now be armed and can enter war zones....
Nov 16, 1942 -U.S. Army 32nd Division and Australian 7th Division land south of Buna, New Guinea. Submarine Haddock (SS-231) sinks Japanese...
In the January 2006 edition of World War II History magazine, there is an article about Captain Forrest "Tex" Baird and some of his duties in the...
The President of the United States in the name of The Congress takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to SCHONLAND, HERBERT EMERY Rank...
The President of the United States in the name of The Congress takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to *CALLAGHAN, DANIEL JUDSON Rank...
Nov 15, 1942 -Naval Battle of Guadalcanal ends as TF 64 repulses Vice Admiral Kondo's force. Battleship South Dakota (BB-57) is damaged by gunfire...
Nov 14, 1941 -Marines are ordered withdrawn from Shanghai, Peiping, and Tientsin, China. Nov 14, 1942 -Naval Battle of Guadalcanal continues as...
Nov 13, 1939 -British steamship Sirdhana, bound for Hong Kong, blunders into British minefield off Singapore; 10 U.S. citizens (a troupe of...
Nov 12, 1942 -Naval Battle of Guadalcanal opens: TF 67 (Rear Admiral Richmond K. Turner) unloading troops in Lunga Roads, Guadalcanal, under the...
Nov 11, 1942 -Small reconnaissance seaplane from Japanese submarine I-7 reconnoiters Vanikoro, Solomons; small reconnaissance seaplane from I-21...
From DANFS (Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships) DD-680 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------...
Nov 10, 1941 -Commander in Chief Asiatic Fleet (Admiral Thomas C. Hart) receives permission to withdraw river gunboats from the Yangtze and USMC...
Nov 9, 1942 -Destroyer Russell (DD-414) rescues that portion of the crew of U.S. freighter Edgar Allen Poe who abandoned ship after she was...
I vaugely remembered reading something about the Yamato beaching herself at Okinawa and using her 18.1in guns as shore batteries so I went "in...
Nov 8, 1940 -Admiral Nomura Kichasaburo is appointed Japanese Ambassador to the United States. -U.S. freighter City of Rayville is sunk by mine...
Nov 7, 1940 -British freighter Cambridge is sunk by mine (laid by German auxiliary minelayer Passat on 31 October-1 November) off Wilson's...
Big....While I was flying back into Oakland from Chicago in '95, we came in over the bay and from left to right sat the USS Abraham Lincoln...
