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• Yamato received Mitsubishi F1M2 aircraft from Nagato, then set sail for Operation SHO-I-GO. ww2dbase [Main Article | Tabular Record of Movement | CPC]
• USS Franklin launched strikes in the Manila Bay area at Luzon, Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• USS Hoe arrved at Fremantle, Australia, ending her sixth war patrol. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• USS Baya arrived at Fremantle, Australia, ending her first war patrol. ww2dbase [Main Article | AC]
• USS Sennet completed her training exercises off Connecticut and Rhode Island, United States. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Japanese fleets set sail for the Philippine Islands in search of a decisive confrontation with the US Navy. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• US 83rd Infantry Division became part of the VIII Corps of the First Army of US 12th Army Group. ww2dbase [CPC]
• The prototype Lockheed XP-58 aircraft, a two-seat bomber version of the P-38 Lightning fighter, was delivered to Wright Field for US Army Air Force acceptance tests, but maintenance proved such a liability that no further development was undertaken and construction of a second prototype was abandoned. ww2dbase [Main Article | AC]
• In an one-on-one conversation between Adolf Hitler and Otto Skorzeny, Skorzeny narrated the kidnapping of Miklós Horthy, Jr. and the attack on Castle Hill in Budapest, Hungary on 15 Oct 1944. Later in the same conversation, Hitler revealed to Skorzeny the plans for the Ardennes Offensive and asked him to plan a commando operation behind enemy lines in captured uniforms. When questioned the legal concerns of wearing enemy uniforms, Hitler told him that German intelligence informed him that the Americans had done the same in the Aachen, Germany area. Hitler ordered Skorzeny to have complete the planning by 2 Dec 1944. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• A Heinkel III aircraft from German Air Force 1/KG53 (5K+ER) crashed into the North Sea off Zandvoort, the Netherlands; one of the crew Obergefreiter Walter Hasler was drowned getting free on the aircraft, the rest were picked up. ww2dbase [HM]

• USS Permit fired 2 torpdoes at a Japanese patrol craft at Truk, Caroline Islands; both torpedoes missed. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• The German 485 Mobile Artillery Detachment, responsible for launching V-2 rockets, arrived at the Hague, the Netherlands. It immediately began to set up their equipment for a renewed rocket campaign against London, England, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [Main Article | Event | CPC]
• The Canadian II Corps launched an attack on Fort Frederick Hendriks, close to the mouth of the Scheldt, opposite Vlissingen (Flushing), The Netherlands. The Fort fell after three days heavy fighting. ww2dbase [Main Article | AC]

• USS Wasp set sail for Ulithi, Caroline Islands. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Manila, Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Main Article | Tabular Record of Movement | CPC]

• Belgian Florent Victor Paul Van Rolleghem, a Lancaster bomber pilot with No. 103 Squadron RAF based at RAF Elsham Wolds in Elsham, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom, was awarded the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) having flown 70 operations in 18 months and never once failing to bomb his target. ww2dbase [AC]
• Two V-1 flying bombs were brought down by British pilot Flight Officer Johnny Johnson. Two people were killed and 69 were injured by the blast of a V-1 flying bomb exploded at the Orsett Road-Derby Road junction in Grays, Essex, England, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [Main Article | Event | HM]

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