16 Nov 1941
- Japanese carrier fleet exercised in the Kurile Islands. ww2dbase [CPC]
- Canadian troops arrived at Hong Kong. ww2dbase [CPC]
- British Lieutenant Colonel Geoffrey Keyes' team, tasked with capturing or assassinating Erwin Rommel in Libya, hid during daylight and moved into positions after sundown. ww2dbase [Operation Crusader | CPC]
- German 3rd Panzer Party established a crossing over the Lama River 70 miles west of Moscow, Russia. ww2dbase [Battle of Moscow | CPC]
- British corvette HMS Marigold damaged German submarine U-433 with depth charges 50 miles east of Gibraltar at 2255 hours. After U-433 surfaced, Marigold continued to attack her with guns. U-433's crew scuttled the boat after suffering 6 killed; the 38 survivors were captured. ww2dbase [CPC]
- Allied convoy PQ-3 departed Hvalfjörður, Iceland in stormy weather. ww2dbase [Arctic Convoys | Hvalfjörður | CPC]
- Obsolete Japanese battleship Settsu began to sail around the Inland Sea in Japan to generate fake radio communication messages at different ports. ww2dbase [Attack on Pearl Harbor | Settsu | Detailed Timetable | CPC]
- Crown Prince Yi Un was attached to the training department of the Japanese Army. ww2dbase [Yi Un | CPC]
- On this Sunday, a Catholic Mass was secretly held in a dark aisle between bunks on the second floor of Block 4 at Auschwitz Concentration Camp. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Auschwitz Concentration Camp | Oswiecim | CPC]
- The German 11.Armee captured Kerch, Russia. Soviet Deputy Navy Commissar Admiral Gordei Levchenko was arrested after being deemed responsible for this defeat. ww2dbase [Battle of Sevastopol | Kerch, Krym | TH, CPC]

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