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• Britain advised Italy that Italy would continue to be bombed by the RAF until they stepped out of the war. ww2dbase [TH]
• German troops were now only 50 miles from the oil fields in Grozny as they captured Nalchik in southern Russia. ww2dbase [Caucasus Campaign | TH]
• USS Grenadier deployed naval mines in the Tonkin Gulf. ww2dbase [Grenadier | CPC]
• Leading British religious and political figures held a public meeting to voice their outrage at the Nazi German treatment of Jews. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill sent a message to the meeting, denouncing the German "vile crimes". ww2dbase [Winston Churchill | CPC]
• Walter Krupinski was awarded the Knight's Cross medal. ww2dbase [Walter Krupinski | CPC]
• USS Skipjack attacked a Japanese oiler off the Palau Islands; all three torpedoes missed. ww2dbase [Skipjack | CPC]

• Alpino Bagnolini sighted an illuminated freighter in the Atlantic Ocean at 0010 hours. An intercepted radio signal identified the ship as the Portuguese ship Cujaba, but in actuality the ship could have been the Brazilian ship Cuyaba. The Italian commanding officer Ferdinando Corsi chose not to pursue the target. ww2dbase [Alpino Bagnolini | CPC]

• Submarine USS Saury arrived at Brisbane, Australia. ww2dbase [Saury | Brisbane | DS]

• Repair ship Akashi performed repair work for destroyer Teruzuki at Truk, Caroline Islands. She also began the repair work for cruiser Chikuma. ww2dbase [Akashi | Truk | CPC]

• US freighter Richard H. Alvey and British freighter Empire Galliard departed Iceland in Operation FB. ww2dbase [Arctic Convoys | CPC]

• Destroyer USS Shaw arrived at Vila Harbor, Efate, New Hebrides. ww2dbase [Shaw | Port Vila, Efate | DS]

• USS Whale patrolled the waters south of Bungo Channel between the islands of Shikoku and Kyushu, Japan. ww2dbase [Whale | CPC]

• 16,000 Ukrainian Jews of Pinsk Ghetto in Poland (now in Belarus) were massacred two days after Heinrich Himmler ordered the liquidation of this ghetto. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Pinsk | CPC]

• USS Copahee arrived at San Diego, California, United States and began an overhaul. ww2dbase [Copahee | San Diego, California | CPC]
• Submarine Cisco was laid down at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine, United States. ww2dbase [Cisco | Kittery, Maine | CPC]
• USS S-41 arrived at San Diego, California, United States. ww2dbase [S-41 | San Diego, California | CPC]
• Destroyer USS Saufley departed Norfolk, Virginia bound for New York, New York. ww2dbase [Saufley | Norfolk, Virginia | DS]

29 Oct 1942 Interactive Map