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• Japanese resistance ended on Tarawa and Makin atolls in the Gilbert Islands. ww2dbase [Gilbert Islands Campaign | TH]
• USAAF fighter pilot Chuck Yeager departed for Britain. ww2dbase [Charles Yeager | CPC]
• Kaiyo was commissioned into service. ww2dbase [Kaiyo | CPC]
• In a meeting between Chinese and American leadership in Cairo, Egypt, Chiang Kaishek demanded American supplies for the Chinese war effort; believing that the demands were unreasonable and observing that Chiang would not budge, George Marshall simply stormed out of the meeting. ww2dbase [Cairo Conference | CPC]

• German submarine U-516 hit the unescorted American steam tanker Elizabeth Kellogg with a torpedo 150 miles north of Cristóbal, Panama in the Caribbean Sea at 0935 hours. 10 were killed; the 38 survivors were picked up by tanker USAT Y-10 and submarine chaser USS SC-1017. ww2dbase [Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico Campaigns | Caribbean Sea | CPC]

• Destroyer USS Saufley escorted another convoy of LSTs to Empress Augusta Bay, Bougainville, Solomon Islands. ww2dbase [Saufley | Bougainville, Solomon Islands | DS]

• Destroyer Yukikaze arrived at Truk, Caroline Islands. ww2dbase [Yukikaze | Truk | CPC]
• Irako arrived at Truk, Caroline Islands at 1550 hours. ww2dbase [Irako | Truk | CPC]
• Naka departed Ponape, Caroline Islands. ww2dbase [Naka | Ponape | CPC]

• FR.11 was damaged by Allied bombing at Toulon, France and sank to the bottom. ww2dbase [Toulon Military Port | Jean de Vienne | Toulon, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur | CPC]

• 383 RAF aircraft (365 Lancaster, 10 Halifax, and 8 Mosquito) attacked Berlin, Germany. ww2dbase [Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | Berlin | CPC]
• The second Ta 152B prototype aircraft took flight in Germany. ww2dbase [Ta 152 | CPC]

• Allied troops attacked across the Sangro River, Italy in strength. ww2dbase [Advance to the Gustav Line | TH]

• Tomokazu Kasai was assigned to a front line fighter squadron based at Matsuyama airfield, Shikoku, Japan. ww2dbase [Tomokazu Kasai | Matsuyama, Ehime | CPC]

• The USAAF commenced operations with the new P-51A fighter in Asia when eight P-51 fighters from Claire Chennault's 23rd Fighter Group escorted B-25 Mitchell bombers in an attack on the Japanese airfield in Shinchiku Prefecture (now Hsinchu), Taiwan. ww2dbase [Shinchiku Airfield | P-51 Mustang | Shinchiku | AC]

• George Washington Carver was transferred to the US Army. ww2dbase [George Washington Carver | CPC]

23 Nov 1943 Interactive Map