Axis Diplomacy

On the fifth anniversay of its drafting, the Anti-Comintern Pact is renewed in Berlin. Signing are German, Italy, Japan, Hungary, Manchukuo (the Japanese-controlled part of Northern China previously called Manchuria), Spain and now also Bulgaria, Croatia, Denmark, Finland, Rumania, Slovakia and the puppet Chinese government at Nanking.

Denmark, Home Front

There are demonstrations in Copenhagen to protest Denmark's forced adherence to the Anti-Comintern Pact.

Eastern Front

(?)In the Moscow sector, northwest of the capital, the Germans take Istra.[MORE]

Germany, Home Front

The first prototype of the Me-262 fighter fails to take off with 2 experimental jet engines and 1 piston engine. (See July 18, 1941.)

Italian East Africa

The British forces take Tadda Ridge, 7 miles from Gondar.

Mediterranean

• In covering sorties by Allied cruiser forces against Italian re-supply convoys heading for Libya, the battleship Barham is hit by 4 torpedoes and blows up in an attack delivered by U-331 under the command of Lt Hans-Diedrich Freiherr von Tiesenhausen. 862 men lose their lives. 449 survivors are rescued by the British destroyers Jervis, Jackal, Nizam and Hotspur.

  HMS Barham after being torpedoed by U-331 off Sollum, Libya

  The Barham about to capsize

  The explosion of the Barham

• The British destroyer Thrasher sinks the Italian armed merchant cruiser Attilo Deffenu (3510t) near Brindisi.

North Africa

Over the next two days the German panzer divs dissipate their strength in attacks on British positions around Capuzzo and Sidi Azeiz.[MORE]

Sidi Rezegh, 25 November 1941

Pacific

• The US Navy begins to establish compulsory convoying of merchant vessels.
• American ships off Formosa (Taiwan) sight a Japanese military convoy presumably en route for Malaya.