Air Operations, Aleutians

8 28th Composite Bomb Group B-24s, 1 B-17 and 18 XI Fighter Command P-38s and P-39s attack various targets at Kiska including a transport that is left sinking, a corvette and a freighter that are damaged. Several floatplanes are strafed on the water.

Air Operations, Europe

• 7 Mosquitos are sent to a diesel enging works at Hengelo, Holland and to Bremen, Essen and Trier; all aircraft bomb, not necessarily their targets, with no losses.

• 237 aircraft are sent to Osnabrück: 101 Wellingtons, 68 Lancasters, 38 Stirlings and 30 Halifaxes.
• Pathfinders succeed in marking the Dummer See, a large lake northeast of the target used for a run-in point; Osnabrü is then found and marked; bombing is well concentrated with most in the center and southern portions of the city; reports from the ground say 149 houses are destroyed, 530 seriously damaged and 2,784 lightly damaged; 6 industrial facilities are destroyed and 14 others suffer damage; 65 people are killed and 151 injured.
• 2 Halifaxes, 2 Lancasters and 2 Stirlings are lost.
• The RAF hits Osnabrück in a night raid.

Air Operations, Libya

• USAMEAF B-24s attack Benghazi harbor.
• 2 B-24s are lost to attacks by Axis fighters.

Atlantic

The commander of the Italian submarine Barbarigo reports that he has sunk an American Idaho Class battleship off west Africa. In fact, the 'battleship' was a corvette. This same commander, Enzo Grossi, had reported another 'battleship' sinking the previous May off Brazil. That was a merchant ship. The Barbarigo will be lost in June, 1943.

Eastern Front

Army Group A captures the oil-producing center of Malgobek, an important oil-producing center, near Mazdok, in the Caucasus. The advance continues toward the Terek.

The Luftwaffe is back over Stalingrad in force, bombing Soviet positions. With his bunker under heavy fire, Chuikov moves his headquarters to the Tractor factory, itself threatened by German attacks. The 10th NKVD Division is pulled out of the line, having been reduced to a handful of men.

As the struggle for Stalingrad drags on, Weichs stresses to Paulus that the 62nd Army must be overcome as soon as possible to enable the 6th Army to transfer forces to its exposed flanks. It is just as apparent to the German High Command as it is to the Stavka that the forces of Army Group B are stretched too thin and the 6th Army is in an extremely exposed position.

Urban Combat, Stalingrad, Oct 1942

New Guinea

A small party from the US 32nd Div begins to move over the Kapa Kapa Trail. This route is about 25 miles southwest of the Kokoda Trail and the terrain is even worse.

North Africa

Montgomery issues his first directives for the offensive aimed at El Alamein being prepared by the 8th Army.

Occupied Norway

Marshal law is declared in Trondheim by Reich Commissioner Josef Terboven. Norwegian resistance fighters have been sabotaging military installations.

Pacific

The US tanker Larry Doheny (7038t) is torpedoed by the Japanese submarine I-25 off the coast of Oregon and abandoned. 2 of the 34-man crew and 4 of the 8 Armed Guard die in the attack. The survivors are rescued by the seaplane tender Coos Bay (AVP-25). The Larry Doheny sinks the next day.

United States, Production and Supply

An additional Lend-Lease agreement is signed in Washington by representatives of the USA and the USSR which formalizes a massive aid program to the Russians. Between now and July 1943 it is planned to deliver 4,400,000,000 tons of supplies to the Soviet Union, 75 percent by sea, the rest through Iran.