Air Operations, Bismarcks

35 V Bomber Command B-25s and B-26s attack Cape Gloucester.

Air Operations, CBI

• 6 11th Medium Bomb Squadron B-25s attack targets at Amoy and Swatow, and along the nearby coast.
• 24 14th Air Force P-40s air-drop ammunition and food to Chinese Army troops encircled at Changte and attack ground targets on the return flight.

Air Operations, Europe

• 21 Mosquitos are sent to Bochum, Cologne and Düsseldorf and there are 9 OTU sorties.

Air Operations, Gilberts

A VF-18 F6F downs a G4M 'Betty' bomber at sea at 1245 hours.

Air Operations, New Guinea

6 V Bomber Command B-24s attack a barracks at Manokwari.

Air Operations, Solomons

• 21 XIII Bomber Command B-24s attack Kieta.
• 18 42nd Medium Bomb Group B-25s and AirSols P-39s and SBDs attack targets on the Bougainville coast.
• Construction work begins on the Piva Uncle airfield on Bougainville.

Battle of the Atlantic

The German submarine U-86 is sunk by aircraft (VC-19) from the US escort carrier Bogue (CVE-9) east of the Azores Islands.

Eastern Front

There is fierce fighting in the Kiev Salient. SS Panzers are in action.

The Stavka orders Vatutin to place the 1st Ukrainian Front on the defensive. To support the hard hit forces in the Berdichev and Korosten areas the 1st Guards Army begins to move into the line between the 38th and 60th Armies.

Italy

8th Army's battle on the Sangro continues with reasonable progress for the attacks. The British 4th Arm Bde, with effective air support, begins the attack on the hills north of the Sangro. Mozzogrogna is taken and Fossacesia also falls later in the day. The US VI Corps begins a limited operation on its right flank.

New Britain

4 US destroyers bombard Japanese positions on the south coast, near Gasmata.

New Guinea

The Australians pursue the enemy along the coast of the Huon peninsula capturing Gusika and Bonga, once an important Japanese supply base, in their advance from Finschafen. Sio farther north is shelled by Allied warships.

Occupied Yugoslavia

The National Partisan Assembly appoints Tito to the rank of Marshal.

Pacific

The US destroyer Perkins (DD-377) is sunk after a collision with an Australian troopship in the eastern New Guinea area.

Images from November 29, 1943

Marines from the 1st Parachute Battalion on the beach at Koiari, Bougainville, 29 November 1943

Marine Paratroops on Bougainville

New Zealand gunners, from 6 NZ Field Regiment, in action. on the Sangro River front in Italy, 29 November 1943

New Zealand Gunners in Action

A New Zealand gun crew on their way to the forward areas of the Sangro River sector of the Italian battlefront, 29 November 1943

New Zealand Gun Crew on the Move

After the enemy's retreat, an Italian civilian searches among the ruins of his home in the town of Atessa, Italy, 29 November 1943

Italian Civilian Searches Ruins of his Home

"Virgin's Delight" Douglas-Long Beach B-17F-50-DL Flying Fortress 42-3352. Shot down by fighters and crashed into the North Sea off the coast of Germany on the November 29, 1943 mission to Bremen,Germany. 8 KIA, 2 POW (MACR 1186 Photo taken during raid on Marienburg, Germany)

B-17F "Virgin's Delight" Shot Down

Amin al-Husayni, alongside SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Waffen SS Karl-Gustav Sauberzweig, greeting Bosnian SS volunteers, part of the 13th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Handschar (1st Croatian) in November 1943.

Amin al-Husayni Greeting Bosnian Volunteers