29 Oct 1942
- 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]
- 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]
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