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Porter off Mare Island Navy Yard, California, United States, 4 Nov 1941	Cruiser USS Honolulu exercising in Hawaiian waters, 5 Nov 1941. Note her dark blue Measure 1 paint in anticipation of war. This paint led to the ship’s nickname “Blue Goose” that stuck with her throughout her career.	Cruiser USS Omaha (right) laying off the seized German blockade runner Odenwald in the South Atlantic, 6 Nov 1941. The Odenwald had been disguised as the US-flag ship Willmoto carrying rubber from Japan to Germany.	US Navy prize crew aboard the seized German blockade runner Odenwald in the South Atlantic, 6 Nov 1941. The Odenwald had been disguised as the US-flag ship Willmoto carrying rubber from Japan to Germany.

A parade of Soviet tanks near the Yermolova Theatre (seen in background), Moscow, Russia, 7 Nov 1941	KV-1 tank on a street in Moscow, Russia, 7 Nov 1941	Soviet military parade at the Red Square in Moscow, Russia, 7 Nov 1941	T-20 Komsomolets armored tractors on parade, Kuybyshev Square, Kuybyshev (now Samara), Russia, 7 Nov 1941

B-17C Fortress I bomber in British Royal Air Force markings in flight over Puget Sound, Washington, United States, 8 Nov 1941; note Vashon and Maury Islands in background	Long Island, probably off Norfolk, Virginia, United States, 10 Nov 1941; note seven SOC-3A and one F2A aircraft on deck	Vertical aerial photograph of Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, 10 Nov 1941; note Battleship Row on top, USS Lexington at bottom, and PBY aircraft at upper right	W. N. Simons and Robert F. Cooke, honorary keel layers of submarine Tunny, posing with the sign at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States, 10 Nov 1941

Carrier HMS Ark Royal listing badly after a torpedo from German submarine U-81 opened a large hole in her starboard side east of Gibraltar, 13 Nov 1941.	Legion sailing alongside of Ark Royal in attempt to evacuate the carrier's crew, 13 Nov 1941, photo 1 of 2	Legion sailing alongside of Ark Royal in attempt to evacuate the carrier's crew, 13 Nov 1941, photo 2 of 2	Russian civilians digging trenches in Moscow, Russia, 15 Nov 1941

Japanese Navy Vice Admiral Jisaburo Ozawa, Commander-in-Chief of the Southern Expeditionary Fleet, Saigon, French Indochina, 16 Nov 1941	Japanese Ambassador Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura and Special Envoy Saburo Kurusu with US Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Washington, United States, 17 Nov 1941	Alfred Rosenberg speaking at a press conference regarding his appointment to the eastern territories, 19 Nov 1941; also present were Gauleiter Alfred Meyer and state press chief Wilhelm Weiss	An Italian soldier surrendering to an Indian soldier in North Africa at the onset of Operation Crusader, eastern Libya, Nov 1941