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• Soviet troops recaptured Kiev, Ukraine. ww2dbase [Battle of Kiev | TH]
• USS Scorpion arrived off Agrihan Island, Mariana Islands. ww2dbase [Scorpion | CPC]
• USS Wake Island was commissioned into service with Captain Hames R. Tague in command. ww2dbase [Wake Island | CPC]
• Alfred Jodl met with Nazi party Gauleiters in Munich, Germany; he noted that the Allied terror raids on German cities must be stopped, otherwise morale of the German people would be overly damaged, and it would be fertile grounds for subversive activities. ww2dbase [Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | CPC]
• Submarine Manta was launched, sponsored by the wife of Michael J. Bradley. ww2dbase [Manta | CPC]
• Carriers USS Essex, USS Bunker Hill, and USS Independence with battleships USS Washington, USS Massachusetts, USS South Dakota, USS Alabama, USS Indiana, USS Tennessee, USS Maryland, and USS Colorado with cruisers USS Portland, USS Mobile, USS Santa Fe, and USS Birmingham escorted by destroyers USS Nicholas, USS Fletcher, USS LaVallette, USS Jenkins, USS Taylor, and USS Radford arrived at Nandi Bay, Fiji. ww2dbase [Maryland | Nicholas | Portland | Colorado | Essex | Massachusetts | Bunker Hill | South Dakota | Washington | DS]

• 26 B-24 bombers with P-38 fighters in escort attacked Rapopo Airfield at Rabaul, New Britain; 58 Japanese fighters rose in defense. The Americans lost 5 P-38 fighters. ww2dbase [New Guinea-Papua Campaign, Phase 3 | Rabaul, New Britain | CPC]

• Patrol Boat No. 102 arrived at Tarakan, Dutch East Indies at 1000 hours. ww2dbase [Stewart | Tarakan, Borneo | CPC]

• USS Alabama arrived at Fiji. ww2dbase [Alabama | CPC]

• German Type IXC U-Boat U-505 arrived at Lorient, France with damage from an attack by British destroyers. ww2dbase [U-505 | Loirent, Bretagne | DS]

• Submarine USS Growler arrived at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii after her seventh war patrol was cut short by worsening material problems. ww2dbase [Growler | Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Pearl Harbor, Hawaii | DS]
• After a routine overhaul that included complete overhauls of all four main engines and replacing a faulty SJ radar transmitter, submarine USS Spearfish was ready for sea. She departed Pearl Harbor on her ninth war patrol. ww2dbase [Spearfish | Pearl Harbor, Oahu | DS]

• USS Bailey arrived at Efate, New Hebrides. ww2dbase [Bailey | Havannah Harbor, Efate | DS]

7 Nov 1943 Interactive Map