Air Operations, North Africa

The RAF attacks on the Libyan bases of Benghazi, Berka and Benina continue.

Australia, Politics

The government presents its war budget for the coming year. Twenty percent of the national income is to be devoted to war expenditure and is to be financed by considerable increases in taxation.

Battle of the Atlantic

• U-103 attacks Convoy OB-244 and sinks the British steamer Daydawn (4768t) and the Greek steamer Victoria (6085t) about 250 miles west of Bloody Foreland. 2 crewmen are lost on the Daydawn, 36 survivors are picked up by the British corvette Rhododendron. All 27 crew members of the Greek ship are picked up by the British destroyer Castleton.
• The British steamer Dakotian sinks on a mine in Dale Roads, Milford Haven. The entire crew is rescued.

German Raiders

The German armed merchant cruiser Pinguin sinks the British steamer Port Brisbane (8739t) in the Indian Ocean with the loss of 1 of her crew. 61 on board are made prisoners of war.

Greek-Albanian Front

The Greeks enter Koritza, an important town in southeastern Albania. They capture 2,000 prisoners, 135 guns and 600 machine guns. Almost all the invading Italian forces have now been driven back to Albania.

German and Italian state officials attending the funeral of Rome police chief and prominent Fascist Party member Arturo Bocchini on 21 November 1940. From left to right, Karl Wolff, Reinhard Heydrich, Adelchi Serena, Heinrich Himmler, Emilio De Bono, Rodolfo Graziani, and Hans Georg von Mackensen.

Funeral of Rome Police Chief Arturo Bocchini

Secret War

The Dies Committee Report on German espionage and 'fifth column' activity in Britain is published.

United States, Home Front

The Dies report on German and Communist espionage and subversive activities is published. As in the similar investigations which have been made in Britain, the strength of these disruptive elements is wildly overestimated and accompanied with calls for preventive measures.