Air Operations, Bismarcks

• 348th Fighter Group P-47s attack barges and ground targets at Talasea.
• V Fighter Command P-40s attack the Gasmata area.
• More than 170 Japanese Navy carrier aircraft—40 B5N 'Kate' dive bombers, 45 D3A 'Val' dive bombers, 82 A6M Zeros, and 6 reconnaissance planes—are ordered to depart their ships to bolster the 373 Japanese Navy and Army aircraft already at Rabaul. All the carrier aircraft will arrive by November 1.

Air Operations, CBI

• 7 308th Heavy Bomb Group B-24s attack Mangshih.
• 3 11th Medium Bomb Squadron B-25s and 7 449th Fighter Squadron P-38s attack Fort Bayard.
• 2 11th Medium Bomb Squadron B-25s attack shipping in the South China Sea.
• 6 P-40s attack a warehouse and revetments at Yoyang.

Air Operations, Europe

• XII Air Support Command A-36s attack gun emplacements and several highways and bridges between Rome and the battel area.
• During a mission to the Rome area, 27th Fighter-Bomber's 522nd Fighter-Bomber Squadron A-36s down 6 Bf-100s between 1100 and 1130 hours.
• During an afternoon engagement over Civita Castellana, A-36s from the 86th Fighter-Bomber's 526th Fighter-Bomber Squadron down 3 Bf-109s.
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Air Operations, New Guinea

348th Fighter Group P-47s strafe coastal tagets around Sio.

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Air Operations, Solomons

19 AirSols TBFs, 38 SBDs, and 46 fighters attack the Kara airfield on Bougainville followed by 19 XIII Bomber Command B-24s attacking the same target. 21 TBFs, 38 SBDs, and 32 fighters attack the airfield at Ballale.

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Battle of the Atlantic

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The German submarine U-220 is sunk by aircraft (VC-1) from the US escort carrier Block Island (CVE-21) in the North Atlantic area.

U-220

Class	Type XB
CO	Oberleutnant zur See Bruno Barber
Location	North Atlantic
Cause	Air attack
Casualties	56
Survivors	None

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Eastern Front

As Russian advances continue, Berlin radio admits 'the main German defenses have been broken'.

SOUTHERN SECTOR


The IV Corps of the 6th Army launches a counterattack from Nikopol against the flank of 4th Ukrainian Front.

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Italy

In the US 5th Army's British X Corps area, the 46th and 7th Armored Divisions begin their attack on Monte Massico and Monte Santa Croce. In the VI Corpa area, the 168th Division of the 34th Divsiion finds that the enemy has abandoned the hill south of Ailano.

In the British 8th Army area, heavy rainfall forces Gen Montgomery to postpone the planned attack by the XIII Corps along the axis Vinchiaturo-Isernia. The V Corps continues unsuccessful efforts to expand the Trigno bridgehead in [ | ]
the coastal sector.

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New Zealand, Home Front

Butter is rationed.

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Pacific

The US submarine Flying Fish (SS-229) sinks the Japanese fleet oiler Koryu Maru (589t) north of Palau.

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United States, Home Front

530,000 coal miners go on strike. On November 1 Roosevelt commandeers the mine. The strike ends 2 days later.

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Scenes from October 28, 1943

Action at the Airfield on Munda

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