SS Pennsylvania Sun after being torpedoed by U-571 on this date in 1942. It did not sink but was taken under tow at first and the proceeded under its own power to a U.S. port. The U576 would go down off Cape Hatteras after being attacked by aircraft and a merchant ship.
The Soviets abandoned Boguchar and Millerovo as Case Blue advanced.
The Akutan Zero was recovered.
New Zealanders take the western edge of Ruweisat Ridge outside of El Alamein but British armor does not arrive as planned, and they are forced back in a pitched battle. The Indians take the east end of the ridge.
The German armed merchant ship Michel attacks the British passenger/cargo ship SS Gloucester Castle sinking it off of the coast of Angola. The attack was without warning and devastating, and it led to its captain, Helmuth von Ruckteschell being sentenced after the war to a ten-year sentence for war crimes based on the attack having been without warning on an unarmed ship. Having said that, the ship did pick up survivors who were later interned by the Japanese.
The U582 sunk the SS Empire Attendant off of the Canary Islands, and the U201 sunk the SS British Yeoman. Both ships had been part of the dispersed OS-33
Von Ruckteschell did not serve the full ten years as he died of a heart condition, while imprisoned, in 1948 at age 58.
The submarine USS Grunion sank Japanese submarine chasers Ch-25 and Ch-27, and damaged the Ch-26, in an attack on their anchorage at Kiska.
In an odd event, two B-17s and six P-38s went down in Greenland when they ran into bad weather and had their communications jammed by U-boats. All of the crewmen survived and were rescued.
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