29 Oct 1943
![US Navy Signalman 2nd Class Kenneth Mitchell of battleship Colorado sending a message with semaphore flags, 29 Oct 1943; Signalman 3rd Class John Wilson on telescope](/images/imagemagick/tmb_ship_colorado12.jpg)
![USS Alabama firing in exercise somewhere in the South Pacific, 29 Oct 1943; note secondary guns of USS South Dakota in foreground](/images/imagemagick/tmb_ship_alabama22.jpg)
![Early model Mark XIII torpedo after bodies (motors & guidance) on the deck of escort carrier USS Copahee upon delivery to Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, 29 Oct 1943.](/images/imagemagick/tmb_57d05ef918d55.jpg)
- Spanish volunteers from the recently disbanded German 250th Infantry Division began to arrive in Spain. ww2dbase [CPC]
- Colonel General Hans-Valentin Hube replaced Eberhard von Mackensen as the commander of the German 1.Panzerarmee. ww2dbase [CPC]
- USS Seahorse sank a small Japanese vessel with her deck gun south of Japan. ww2dbase [Seahorse | CPC]
- US Task Force 38 sortied from Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides in support of the Bouganville, Solomon Islands invasion. ww2dbase [Solomon Islands Campaign | CPC]
- After four days in drydock, escort carrier USS Bogue was floated out of Drydock No. 4 at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia. Bogue would spend the next several days dockside completing her overhaul. ww2dbase [Norfolk Navy Yard | Bogue | Portsmouth, Virginia | DS]
- B-24 bombers, escorted by P-38 fighters, attacked Vunakanau Airfield at Rabaul, New Britain. 72 A6M fighters rose to defend. The Japanese lost at least 7 fighters in combat. ww2dbase [New Guinea-Papua Campaign, Phase 3 | Rabaul, New Britain | CPC]
- 63rd Bomb Sauadron (flying B-24 aircraft) of USAAF 43rd Bomb Group was transferred from Port Moresby to Dobodura Airfield, Australian Papua. ww2dbase [Dobodura Airfield | Dobodura | CPC]
- US Marine Corps squadron VMTB-233, equipped with SBD dive bombers and TBF torpedo bombers, was transferred out of Henderson Field on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. ww2dbase [Henderson Field | Lunga Point, Guadalcanal | CPC]
- Haruki Isayama was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general. ww2dbase [Haruki Isayama | CPC]
- Seven internees of the Stanley Internment Camp in Hong Kong were executed by the Japanese administration for their secret possession a radio transmitter. ww2dbase [Stanley Prison and St Stephen's College | CPC]
- SS Loraine, carrying troops of US Army 1688th Detachment, arrived at Bombay, India. ww2dbase [Bombay | CPC]
- Kamikaze departed Otaru, Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan to escort a convoy. ww2dbase [Kamikaze | Otaru, Hokkaido | CPC]
- USS Bailey arrived at Wellington, New Zealand. ww2dbase [Bailey | Wellington | DS]
- Kamoi departed Singapore. ww2dbase [Kamoi | Singapore | CPC]
- Japan released Walter Auconi and other Italian officers and men formerly of submarine Comandante Cappellini from the Sime Road prisoners of war camp. ww2dbase [Comandante Cappellini | Singapore | CPC]
- Lieutenant General Shinpachi Kondo was named the chief of staff of the Taiwan Army. ww2dbase [CPC]
- USS St. Louis departed Mare Island, conducted sea trials off the Golden Gate, and returned to San Francisco, California. ww2dbase [St. Louis | San Francisco, California | DS]
![US Navy Signalman 2nd Class Kenneth Mitchell of battleship Colorado sending a message with semaphore flags, 29 Oct 1943; Signalman 3rd Class John Wilson on telescope](/images/imagemagick/tmb_ship_colorado12.jpg)
![USS Alabama firing in exercise somewhere in the South Pacific, 29 Oct 1943; note secondary guns of USS South Dakota in foreground](/images/imagemagick/tmb_ship_alabama22.jpg)
![Early model Mark XIII torpedo after bodies (motors & guidance) on the deck of escort carrier USS Copahee upon delivery to Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, 29 Oct 1943.](/images/imagemagick/tmb_57d05ef918d55.jpg)
![United States Coast Guardsmen assist in the recovery of a damaged PB2Y Coronado that partially capsized after losing a wing float on landing in Jamaica Bay, New York, United States, 29 Oct 1943](/images/imagemagick/tmb_56230bdc3d0c7.jpg)
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