29 Nov 1900
- Mildred Gillars was born.
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29 Nov 1930
- The Do X aircraft's flight from Germany to the United States was canceled in Lisbon, Portugal due to an accidental fire that damaged the port wing.
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29 Nov 1937
- USS Pollack departed Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine, United States.
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29 Nov 1939
- Residents of Soviet-occupied Poland had Soviet citizenship forced on them.
- British destroyers HMS Kingston, HMS Icarus, and HMS Kashmir forced German submarine U-35 to surface and surrender in the North Sea with depth charges. U-35's crew scuttled the submarine to prevent capture.
» In-depth article - Finnish diplomats in Moscow, Russia made the final pleas to avoid war. At midnight, Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov ordered the invasion to commence.
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29 Nov 1940
- General Freyberg's British and New Zealand troops occupied all of Crete.
» In-depth article - Draft plan issued by German military leaders for the invasion of the Soviet Union.
- German destroyers Galster, Lody, and Beitzen departed from Brest, France and raided British shipping off southern England, United Kingdom. British tug Aid, Free French tug Abeille, and British barge BHC10 were attacked and sunk. Royal Navy destroyers HMS Javelin, HMS Jersey, HMS Jackal, HMS Jupiter, and HMS Kashmir intercepted the raiders and engaged in combat 20 miles south of the Lizard peninsula in Cornwall; HMS Javelin was sunk by two torpedoes from Lody (46 killed), but she was successfully towed to Devonport for repairs. The Germans suffered no casualties.
- New Zealand cruiser HMNZS Leander bombarded a factory and a radio station at Banda Alulu, Italian Somaliland at 1038 hours. Italian aircraft counterattacked without success.
- Italian submarine Delfino attacked Greek destroyer Spetsai south of Piraeus near Athens, Greece, without success.
- British minesweeping trawler HMT Calverton hit a mine and sank in the mouth of the Humber Estuary in England, United Kingdom, killing 2.
29 Nov 1941
- US Navy river gunboats Luzon and Oahu departed Shanghai, China for Manila, Philippine Islands.
- Operation Crusader: Italian Ariete Division overran the New Zealand 21st Battalion at Point 175 in Libya.
» In-depth article - US Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Stark directed that defense recommendations made by Major Alfred R. Pefley was to be implemented immediately, consisting mostly of the construction of defensive gun positions on various Pacific islands.
- US Marine Corps Major Walter L. J. Bayler arrived at Wake Island with a detachment of Marines from Marine Aircraft Group 21 to set up air base communication facilities.
» In-depth article - Japanese ambassador in Germany Hiroshi Oshima reported that, on the previous day, Joachim von Ribbentrop had verbally promised a German declaration of war on the United States should Japan and the US enter a state of war.
» In-depth article - Russian partisan fighter Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya was publicly executed by hanging by the Germans.
- The German 4th Motor Torpedo Boat Flotilla attacked Allied convoy FN.564 off the coast of East Anglia, England, United Kingdom, sinking British tanker Asperity and freighters Empire Newcomen and Cormarsh.
- German submarine U-43 sank British ship Thornliebank 240 miles north of the Azores islands at 0411 hours, killing all 75 aboard. The navigator of U-43 was injured by showering debris.
- British aircraft from Malta sank Italian tanker Berbera and damaged Italian tanker Volturno at Navarino, Greece. Meanwhile, British Royal Navy Force B (cruiser HMS Ajax, cruiser HMS Neptune, destroyer HMS Kimberly, and destroyer HMS Kingston) under the command of Rear Admiral Bernard Rawlings arrived in Malta.
» In-depth article - German 7th Panzer Division completed the evacuation of the Yakhroma bridgehead near Moscow, Russia; 45 were killed in the unsuccessful attempt to cross the Moskva-Volga canal.
» In-depth article - Soviet destroyer Slavny, destroyer Stoiki, troop ship Iosif Stalin, and other vessels, escorted by 5 minesweepers, 4 torpedo boats, and 7 submarine chasers, departed Kronstadt, Russia for Hanko, Finland to evacuate troops. German aircraft discovered the force, attacked, and sank icebreaker ship Oktyabr.
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29 Nov 1942
- Air Vice Marshal J. O. Andrews became the commanding officer of the No. 12 Group RAF.
- The United States began to ration coffee.
- Despite serious wounds, RAF Pilot Officer Ron Middleton flew his Stirling bomber back from Turin allowing four crewmen to bale out over Kent before he ran out of fuel. Knowing he could not land and anxious to avoid civilian casualties, he turned the aircraft towards the coast and went into the English Channel with two seriously wounded crewmen still on board. Their bodies were recovered on the next day but Middleton's was not found until it is washed up on the coast in the following February. He was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross.
- The Soviet Transcaucasus Front launched an offensive against the Germans along the Terek River in the Caucasus region in southern Russia; it was to be halted within days.
» In-depth article - Top American leadership in Washington DC agreed to relieve the 1st Marine Division on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands with the US Army 25th Infantry Division. After sundown, off Tassafaronga Point, US Navy vessels turned back a small group of Japanese destroyers attempting to supply the Japanese garrison.
» In-depth article - Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Yokosuka, Japan for her 8th voyage with the Japanese Navy.
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» Tabular Record of Movement - USS Pollack arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending her fourth war patrol.
» In-depth article - Repair ship Akashi completed the repair work for destroyer Murasame at Truk, Caroline Islands.
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» Tabular Record of Movement - Light cruiser Voroshilov bombarded German troop positions near Feodonisi, Ukraine and was damaged by German naval mines.
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29 Nov 1943
- American B-29 bombers attacked the Nakajima factory outside Tokyo, Japan.
» In-depth article - The second session of AVNOJ, the Anti-fascist council of national liberation of Yugoslavia, was held in Jajce to determine the post-war ordering of the country.
- 21 RAF Mosquito aircraft attacked Bochum, Cologne, and Düsseldorf in Germany.
» In-depth article - The Japanese ship, Suez Maru, carrying troops as well as 200 Japanese, 422 British, and 127 Dutch sick and wounded, was torpedoed by submarine USS Bonefish in the Java sea. Many were trapped in the holds and drowned, but others take to the water. A Japanese minesweeper in escort picked up nearly 300 of its own nationals but left between 200 and 250 Allied prisoners threshing in the sea. The minesweeper then began shooting the defenceless swimmers. Of the 549 British and Dutch prisoners, there was only one survivor, Kenneth Thomas, who was picked up twenty-four hours later by an Australian ship.
- Rear Admiral Ryunosuke Kusaka was named the chief of staff of the Japanese Navy 11th Air Fleet.
» In-depth article - USS Cod attacked Japanese merchant ships but was not able to observe the results.
» In-depth article - USS Rock completed a journey down the Mississippi River and arrived at New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.
» In-depth article - USS Mingo entered Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States for overhaul.
» In-depth article - USS Snook fired a total of 26 torpedoes at a Japanese convoy over a three hour period; 9 torpedoes hit, sinking Japanese passenger ship Yamafuku Maru and cargo ship Shiganoura Maru and damaging one escort vessel off the Mariana Islands.
» In-depth article - Hornet (Essex-class) was commissioned into service.
» In-depth article - USS Pompon departed Fremantle, Australia for her third war patrol.
» In-depth article - Light carrier Ryuho arrived at Manila, Luzon, Philippine Islands.
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29 Nov 1944
- Soviet and Yugoslavian troops crossed the Danube River, taking large swathes of southwestern Hungary.
- USS Wake Island took on two new air squadrons and departed San Francisco, California, United States.
» In-depth article - Destroyer Yukikaze rescued survivors of carrier Shinano in the Inland Sea in Japan.
» In-depth article - USS Sennet departed Balboa, Panama Canal Zone.
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29 Nov 1945
- The Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia was declared with Marshal Tito as its first president.
» In-depth article - Films of concentration camp atrocities were shown at the Nuremberg Trials in Germany.
» In-depth article - Fox was decommissioned from service.
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29 Nov 1947
- The United Nations General Assembly votes to partition Palestine (The Partition Plan).
29 Nov 1950
- Zhanshan Ma passed away.
» In-depth article - USS Flying Fish was reclassified an auxiliary research submarine and her designation changed from SS-229 to AGSS-229.
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29 Nov 1955
- USS Charr departed Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California, United States.
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29 Nov 1962
- Erik Scavenius passed away.
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29 Nov 1963
- USS Charr arrived at San Diego, California, United States.
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