30 Nov 1944




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- USS Gar arrived at Mios Woendi, Biak Islands, ending her fourtheenth war patrol. ww2dbase [Gar | CPC]
- Destroyer Yuzuki arrived at Manila, Luzon, Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Yuzuki | CPC]
- Sakawa was commissioned into service. ww2dbase [Sakawa | CPC]
- U-869 was detached from the German Navy 4th Submarine Flotilla. ww2dbase [U-869 | CPC]
- Ivan Bagramyan was awarded the Order of the Red Banner for the second time. ww2dbase [Ivan Bagramyan | CPC]
- USS Sterlet arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending her second war patrol. ww2dbase [Sterlet | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]
- Japanese Navy landing ship No. 184 Transferred to the Army, SB craft.was completed and was transferred to the Army as a SB craft. ww2dbase [No. 101/103-class | CPC]
- Landing ship No. 146 was launched. ww2dbase [No. 101/103-class | CPC]
- USS Sunfish sank Japanese transport Dairen Maru in the Yellow Sea, hitting her with 1 of 5 torpedoes fired. ww2dbase [Sunfish (Gato-class) | Yellow Sea | CPC]
- USS Preston guarded carriers while the carriers launched strikes against Luzon, Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Preston (Fletcher-class) | CPC]
- Destroyer USS Shaw arrived in Leyte Gulf and anchored in San Pedro Bay. ww2dbase [Shaw | San Pedro Bay, Leyte | DS]
- Former commandant and guards of Majdanek Concentration Camp were put on trial in Poland. ww2dbase [Majdanek Concentration Camp | Nuremberg Trials and Other Trials Against Germany | Lublin | CPC]
- At a cost of £9,000,000 (excluding the cost of her guns and their mountings), Britain's last Battleship, HMS Vanguard, was launched at Clydebank, Scotland, United Kingdom. Too late to see service in World War II, Vanguard would eventually be completed in Apr 1946. ww2dbase [Clydebank, Scotland | AC]
- German V-2 rocket at Shooters Hill, London, England, United Kingdom at 0100 hours, killing 23. ww2dbase [Vergeltungswaffe 2 | V-Weapons Campaign | London, England | CPC]
- Production of P-40 fighters ceased. ww2dbase [P-40 Warhawk | CPC]
- Anti-submarine Hunter-Killer Task Group 22.2 (TG 22.2) centered around escort carrier USS Card with the TBM Avengers and FM-2 Wildcats of Composite Squadron VC-12 embarked and screened by destroyer escorts USS Baker, Bronstein, Thomas, Breeman, Coffman, and Bostwick was reformed at Norfolk, Virginia. TG 22.2 departed for the Central Atlantic that same day. ww2dbase [Norfolk Navy Yard | Card | Norfolk, Virginia | DS]




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