2 Nov 1891
- Helmuth Weidling was born.
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2 Nov 1893
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
- Victor Crutchley was born in Chelsea, London, England, United Kingdom.
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2 Nov 1912
United States
United States
- Henry Arnold successfully established radio telegraph connection from his Wright C Speed Scout S. C. No. 10 aircraft with units on the ground about 9.7 kilometers, or 6 miles, away while in flight over Fort Riley, Kansas, United States.
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2 Nov 1914
- In German East Africa, the Indian Expeditionary Force B went ashore at an undefended beach near Tanga at the northern end of the Northern Railway.
- The United Kingdom extended the blockade by declaring the North Sea to be a military area.
- Boris Shaposhnikov was awarded the Order of St. Vladimir, 4th Class with Swords and Bow.
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2 Nov 1920
- Franklin Roosevelt was defeated as a US Vice Presidential candidate.
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2 Nov 1931
- US Marine Corps Squadrons VS-15M and VS-14M embarked in the aircraft carriers USS Lexington and USS Saratoga respectively, the first US Marine squadrons to be assigned to carriers, as part of the organisation in Aircraft, Battle Force. They were to remain carrier-based until late 1934 giving US Marine Corps pilots necessary experience in a realm of naval aviation which, previously, had been largely denied to them.
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2 Nov 1935
- Do 18A prototype flying boat was lost over the Baltic Sea during high speed tests.
» In-depth article - Nürnberg was commissioned into service.
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2 Nov 1936
- The Spanish Nationalists captured Brunete near Madrid, Spain.
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2 Nov 1938
- Arbitration of Vienna gave Hungary southeastern Slovakia and Ruthenia.
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2 Nov 1939
- The first transport of Polish women arrived at Ravensbruck Concentration Camp.
» In-depth article - Joseph Goebbels visited Lodz, Poland.
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2 Nov 1940
- British destroyer HMS Antelope attacked German submarine U-31 with depth charges, killing 2. Forced to the surface, the crew of U-31 scuttled the submarine before abandoning her. As HMS Antelope rescued the 43 German survivors, the wrecked hull of U-31 drifted into her, causing damage that would keep HMS Antelope under repair until Dec 1940. U-31 had previously been sunk by British aircraft on 11 Mar 1940, but was later raised and put back into action; she was the only German submarine to be sunk twice during the war.
- Turkey moved 37 divisions to the Bulgarian border and warned Bulgaria not to participate in the Italo-Greek war. Meanwhile, Italian troops reached the main Greek defensive line on the Kalamas River between Elia and Kalamas. Off Suda Bay, Crete, as British warships departed after unloading troops, Italian bombers scored near misses against them but failed to cause damage.
» In-depth article - British destroyer HMS Intrepid hit a mine off Hartlepool, Durham, England, United Kingdom, damaging both of her engines; she would remain under repair until late Dec 1940.
- British minesweeping trawler HMT Rinovia hit a mine and sank 10 miles south of St. Austell, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, killing 15.
2 Nov 1941
- German 132nd Infantry Division attacked toward Sevastopol, Ukraine and was halted at Bakhchisaray by Soviet 8th Naval Brigade. Nearby, ships of the Soviet Black Sea Fleet evacuated troops from Yalta, Yevpatoria, and Feodosiya, transporting them to Sevastopol; cruiser Voroshilov was damaged by German aircraft during this effort.
» In-depth article - German submarine U-208 sank British ship Larpool 250 miles southwest of Cape Race, Newfoundland at 0526 hours; 26 were killed, 17 survived.
- British submarine HMS Proteus made the first successful radar attack by a submarine as she damated Italian tanker Tampico off Andros 50 miles southeast of Athens, Greece. Italian torpedo boats Monzambano and Castelfidardo counterattacked and chased off the British submarine.
- Tatsuta Maru arrived at Honolulu, US Territory of Hawaii, embarked Japanese nationals who wished to return to Japan due to the rapidly deteriorating US-Japan relations, and then departed for Japan; she would become the last passenger ship to leave the US before the start of the Pacific War.
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» Tabular Record of Movement - Over 2,000 enslaved Jews from Zagare, Poland attacked their Lithuanian guards, wounding seven. As reprisal, 150 of them were shot on the spot, and the rest were executed later.
- Hugh Woods and William L. Boyd of the China National Air Corporation (CNAC) made the first flight over the Hump, the China-Burma air supply route.
- Wake Island received reinforcement from the US Marine Corps 1st Defense Battalion in Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. The island's defense now consisted of 15 officers and 373 enlisted Marines.
» In-depth article - Light cruiser Voroshilov was damaged by two 250-kilogram bombs from German aircraft, flooding a magazine, causing a fire in turret No. 3, and jamming the rudder.
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- In Britain the Minister of Food announced an extension of food rationing to include canned meat, canned fish and canned beans to become effective from 17 Nov 1941.
- Aircraftsman Charles Leonard Wheatley received the George Medal for gallantry while putting out a fire threatening to detonate high explosive bombs on a crash-landed Manchester bomber.
2 Nov 1942
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- 13.Panzer of German III Panzer Korps reached what will be the farthest point to the southeast reached by the German military when it was halted by Soviet forces 5 miles outside Ordshonikidze, Azerbaijan.
- Operation Supercharge was launched at El Alamein, Egypt, destroying many Axis tanks and guns. Axis tanks counterattacked at 1100 hours, which failed to stop the Allied advances. During the night, Rommel requested permission from Hitler to fall back, which was denied on the next day.
» In-depth article - USS S-31 departed the Kurile Islands waters and sailed for the Aleutian Islands.
» In-depth article - Two 155mm gun batteries, one of the US Army and the other US Marine Corps, landed in the Lunga Perimeter on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands.
» In-depth article - German submarine U-586 sank British freighter Empire Gilbert of Operation FB southwest of Jan Mayen island, Norway at 0118 hours; 60 were killed, 3 survived. In Iceland, US Liberty ship William Clark and British freighter Empire Scott departed; they were also of Operation FB.
» In-depth article - US 503rd Parachute Battalion was redesignated as the 2nd Battalion, 509th infantry Regiment prior to participating in Operation Torch.
- Shokaku depart Truk, Caroline Islands screened by Destroyer Division 4 with the damaged Zuiho and Chikuma, for Japan for permanent repairs.
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» Tabular Record of Movement - Repair ship Akashi completed the repair work for carrier Shokaku at Truk, Caroline Islands.
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2 Nov 1943
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- 1,870 Jews from labor camp in Szopienice, Katowice, Poland arrived at Auschwitz. 463 men and 28 women were registered into the camp; the rest were sent to the gas chambers.
- Four Japanese cruisers and six destroyers from Rabaul moved against the US Marine invasion of Bougainville in the Solomon Islands, engaging American warships at 0230 hours in Empress Augusta Bay. Americans struck first, scattering the Japanese formation, but the Japanese were able to regroup and force the American ships to withdraw. Though the action was inconclusive, the Japanese failed to disrupt American operations on Bougainville.
» In-depth article - Japanese troops occupied the undefended Chinese city of Changde.
» In-depth article - USS Scorpion completed a reconnaissance mission of Farallon de Pajoras island, Mariana Islands.
» In-depth article - One of the ten sections of USS ABSD-1 sank at Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides during assembly, killing 13.
» In-depth article - USS Seahorse sank Japanese cargo ships Chihaya Maru and Ume Maru south of Japan; nine torpedoes were expended during this attack, seven of which hit.
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- The US 15th Air Force made its operational debut when 139 B-17 and B-24 bombers operating from Tunisian bases (and escorted on part of the route by P-38 Lightning aircraft) attacked the Messerschmitt subsidiary at Wiener-Neustadt in occupied Austria. The attack caused heavy damage to the plant and deprived the Luftwaffe of an estimated 250 Bf 109G-6 deliveries over the next two months.
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- Allied troops reached the German defensive Barbara Line in Italy.
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- Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Sasebo, Japan.
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2 Nov 1944
- Satoshi Inoguchi passed away.
» In-depth article - Canadian forces captured Zeebrugge, which was the last pocket of German occupation in Belgium.
» In-depth article - Canadian 2nd Division withdrew from its Walcheren, the Netherlands bridgehead. Nearby, Allied troops captured Wissenkerke and Zoutelande.
» In-depth article - All eligible German males were ordered to enlist in the Volkssturm under penalty of military court-martial.
- Bombers of the No. 550 Squadron RAF attacked Düsseldorf, Germany.
» In-depth article - HMS Colsay was sunk by a German "Neger" human torpedo at Ostend, Belgium.
- In accordance with Dwight Eisenhower's plan, Bernard Montgomery ordered a complete redeployment of his Army Group in Europe. First Canadian Army now assumed responsibility for the front from the sea to the Reichsward near Kleve in Germany, whilst Second British Army was ordered to clear the Germans west of the Maas River from the huge pocket between Venray and Roermond in the Netherlands, and then to take over the American front north of Geilenkirchen in Germany known as the Heinberg Salientl.
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- USS Ticonderoga departed Ulithi, Caroline Islands.
» In-depth article - USS Franklin arrived at Ulithi, Caroline Islands for temporary repairs.
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- Soviet units entered the suburbs of Budapest, Hungary.
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- Light carrier Ryuho arrived at Kure, Japan.
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- USS Barbero sank Japanese transport Kuramasan Maru in the Dutch East Indies, hitting her with 2 of 9 torpedoes fired.,
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- Viktor Abakumov reported to Lavrentiy that up to 1 Nov 1944 his SMERSH personnel in Poland had arrested 499 persons, 82 of whom were already transferred to the Soviet Union while the remaining were detained at the Bialystok city prison in Poland.
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- Allied convoy RA-61 departed the Kola Inlet near Murmansk, Russia.
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- Four German V-2 rockets hit London, England, United Kingdom on this date. One of them hit outside of a mental hospital at Banstead, killing 3 and seriously injuring 11. Another hit Deptford, killing 31.
- After halting the Soviet advance near Kresevo, Yugoslavia, German 2.Panzerarmee established a defensive line west of Belgrade.
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2 Nov 1945
- Hulbert was decommissioned from service.
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» In-depth article - S-46 was decommissioned from service.
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- Lavrentiy Beria ordered Vsevolod Merkukov, Viktor Abakukov, and Sergei Kruglov to investigate a list of 105 important German prisoners of war for the possibility of placing them on public trial; the three would find that 85 of them could be tried.
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- USS Mero completed her shakedown cruise and was placed in a floating drydock for transit down the Mississippi River.
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2 Nov 1946
- Captain Burton Biggs was named the commanding officer of USS Saint Paul.
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2 Nov 1948
China
China
- Chinese communist forces captured Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China.
2 Nov 1949
- Konstantin Rokossovsky was promoted to the rank of Marshal of Poland.
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2 Nov 1950
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2 Nov 1965
- H. V. Evatt passed away.
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2 Nov 1985
- Volodymyr Kubijovyč passed away.
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