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- From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker)
- Subject: 50 Years Ago: Thursday, 12 November, 1942
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 14:40:21 GMT
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- From military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker)
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- Thursday, 12 November, 1942
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- On Guadalcanal, Marines eliminate 450 Japanese soldiers surrounded at Gavaga
- Creek. The Marines are reinforced by 6,000 US soldiers from the New
- Hebrides and New Caledonia. The ships which landed these fresh troops are
- forced to withdraw by the approach of a Japanese fleet.
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- A night action develops off Guadalcanal, in which the American fleet loses
- the cruisers Atlanta and Juneau and four destroyers, with two cruisers and
- two more destroyers damaged. Two Japanese destroyers are sunk, and the
- battleship Hiei is crippled and later sunk by aircraft.
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- British paratroopers land at Bone airfield in Algeria, capturing it before
- a similar German plan could be executed. German troops begin arriving at
- Tunis and Bizerta, commanded by General von Arnim.
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- The US 9th Army Air Force is formed in North Africa.
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- Germany states that Toulon, held by a French garrison, will not be entered,
- and that the French fleet will not be taken.
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- Tobruk falls to the Eighth Army.
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- Japanese forces retreating from Oivi, New Guinea, cross the Kumusi River.
- General Horii is drowned.
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- "We have a new and extremely accurate American mortar and one fort at Oran
- decided to resist. A combat team brought up mortars and gave the fort a
- pasting which would not have been possible with the mortars of the last
- war, and it surrendered almost at once..." - Lt. Gen. Eisenhower
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