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November 22nd, 1942

UNITED KINGDOM: Herbert Morrison, the ebullient Cockney home secretary, was promoted to the war cabinet tonight. He replaces his fellow socialist Sir Stafford Cripps who is demoted to minister of aircraft production. Mr. Churchill will now feel more at ease. Sir Stafford has lately been inclined to tell him how to run the war, and as leader of the Commons he has also rubbed MPs up the wrong way.

Mr. Churchill and Sir Stafford, an austere vegetarian lawyer, were uneasy bedfellows. The foreign secretary, urbane Anthony Eden, is the new leader of the house.

FRANCE: The USAAF Eighth Air Force’s VIII Bomber Command flies Mission 22: 68 B-17 Flying Fortresses and eight B-24 Liberators are dispatched to hit the Keroma U-boat pens at Lorient; only 11 B-17 Flying Fortresses find a gap in the 10/10 cloud cover and bomb at 1410 hours local without loss. (Jack McKillop)

During the night of 22/23 November, an RAF Bomber Command aircraft drops leaflets over Paris. (Jack McKillop)

GERMANY: During the night of 22/23 November, RAF Bomber Command dispatches 222 aircraft, 97 Lancasters, 59 Wellingtons, 39 Halifaxes and 27 Stirlings, to bomb Stuttgart; 191 aircraft bomb and ten, five Lancasters, three Wellingtons and two Halifaxes are lost, 4.5 per cent of the force. A thin layer of cloud and some ground haze conceals Stuttgart and the Pathfinders are not able to identify the centre of the city. Heavy bombing develops to the southwest and south and the outlying residential districts of Vaihingen, Rohr, Mohringen and Plieningen, all about 5 miles (8 kilometers) from the centre, are hit. Eighty eight houses are destroyed and 334 seriously damaged; 28 people are killed and 71 injured. (Jack McKillop)

POLAND: The Nazis liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Dunilowicze by herding the Jews into a large barn and then murder all 888 men, women, and children.

U.S.S.R.: A Soviet counteroffensive against the German armies pays off as the Red Army traps about a quarter-million German soldiers south of Kalach, on the Don River, within Stalingrad. As the Soviets’ circle tightened, German General Friedrich Paulus, commander of the Sixth Army, requests permission from Berlin to withdraw. German Chancellor Adolf Hitler will not allow a withdrawal and it is then only a matter of time before the Germans will be forced to surrender.. (Jack McKillop)

ALGERIA: U.S. Major General Mark Clark, Deputy Commander in Chief Allied Force, acting on orders from U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, agrees to recognize French Admiral Jean-Francois Darlan as High Commissioner for French North Africa providing he acts in accordance with American wishes. (Jack McKillop)

LIBYA: USAAF Ninth Air Force P-40s patrol over the Derna area. (Jack McKillop)

TUNISIA: The 36th Brigade of the 78th Division, British First Army, repels an attack at Djebel Ahiod. The 11th Brigade of the 78th Division completes concentration at BC)dja. French and U.S. troops reoccupy Gafsa. (Jack McKillop)

BURMA: Six B-24 Liberators of the USAAF Tenth Air Force’s India Air Task Force inflict heavy damage on the railroad center at Mandalay. (Jack McKillop)

NEW GUINEA: The Australian 25th Brigade, Maroubra Force, continues toward Gona, Papua New Guinea; two battalions move in to attack and are forced to withdraw with heavy casualties. The U.S. 126th Infantry Regiment (-) attacks through the Australian 16th Brigade, Maroubra Force, toward Sanananda; the 16th Brigade will not attempt any forward moves until the Americans have secured the Soputa-Sanananda-Killerton Track junction. Major Richard Boeremb’s detachment (elements of the 1st Battalion) moves along the road as the 3d Battalion advances on the flanks along secondary trails. After nightfall, fresh Japanese forces attack Company L, flanking on the right, to insure safety of food supply dump in line of advance and are driven off. From Soputa, the 2d Battalion of 126th Infantry Regiment moves forward to assist the 2d Battalion of 128th, crossing to the east bank of the Girua River on rafts during the evening. On the Warren Force front, the 3d Battalion of 128th Infantry Regiment secretly pulls back to positions just behind the 1st Battalion, though Company I holds former position astride trail just west of New Strip. (Jack McKillop)

In Papua New Guinea, USAAF Fifth Air Force A-20 Havocs attack trails around Sanananda while B-26 Marauders hit the Buna area; B-17 Flying Fortresses and B-25 Mitchells bomb the airfield at Lae and barges between Lae and Salamaua. (Jack McKillop)

PACIFIC OCEAN: USAAF Fifth Air Force B-17 Flying Fortresses and B-25 Mitchells attack warships 68 nautical miles (126 kilometers) southwest of Arawe, New Britain Island, Bismarck Archipelago and elsewhere in the Solomon Sea. USAAF Fourteenth Air Force aircraft on a shipping strike sink a Vichy French ship east of Haiphong harbor, French Indochina. (Jack McKillop)
SOLOMON ISLANDS: The attempt to build an airfield at Aola Bay on Guadalcanal is ended. The units involved in Admiral Turner’s brainchild are shifted to Koli Point, east of Lunga, where they will successfully complete an airfield.

On Guadalcanal, the 182d and 164th Infantry Regiments again meet strong resistance while attempting to push west and are unable to advance. The 8th Marine Regiment prepares to attack through the 164th Infantry. (Jack McKillop)

TERRITORY OF ALASKA: ALEUTIAN ISLANDS: A USAAF Eleventh Air Force B-24 Liberator flies reconnaissance over Agattu and Japanese-held Kiska and Attu Islands; bombers and fighters are alerted for a mission tomorrow to find and destroy a reported five vessel convoy. (Jack McKillop)

CANADA: Corvette HMCS Regina arrived Belfast for refit. (Dave Shirlaw)

U.S.A.:
Destroyer escort USS Stewart launched.

Submarine USS Puffer launched.

Destroyer USS Terry launched.

Corvette USS Action commissioned. (Dave Shirlaw)

ATLANTIC OCEAN:
U-163 sank SS Apalóide in Convoy BRN-3.

U-181 sank SS Alcoa Pathfinder.

U-505 met U-tanker U-462 in order to transfer off the IIWO who had been wounded in an attack on the boat on 10 November. U-505 also took the opportunity to take aboard fuel and a Metox device. (Dave Shirlaw)