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In Sunda Strait, between Java & Sumatra, another devastating blow for Allied navies: Australian cruiser HMAS Perth & American heavy cruiser USS Houston both sunk by Japanese after fierce night battle.
Air-raid sirens sounded across Los Angeles last night: American observers reported "enemy planes" above the city & anti-aircraft units opened fire with machine-guns & artillery.
British General Adrian Carton De Wiart- a one-handed, one-eyed Great War veteran sent to advise the Yugoslavian army- has been captured by Italian forces after his plane crashed into the Mediterranean.
Improved Red Army tactics have led Finnish officers to speculate that USSR is receiving German military advisers. In fact, Soviets have captured Finnish ski warfare manuals, which they're studying:
1500 Jewish Austrians have been deported by SS to a detention camp in Nisko, occupied Poland; Nazis hope to make Vienna "Jew-free" by March.
The Polish Air Force has ceased to exist as a unified structure. German Luftwaffe can now bomb Polish cities & military without resistance.
British propaganda proclaims fascists will be defeated, as in the past: "We beat 'em before… we'll beat 'em again!"
From Italy to China to the Philippines, US govt. have committed to giving every soldier a Thanksgiving turkey dinner- sometimes canned.