Today in World War II History—October 31, 1943: Over New Georgia in the Solomon Islands, US Navy F4U Corsair accomplishes first night air radar-guided victory, shooting down a Japanese G4M1 bomber.
Sarah Sundin, whose blog also reports that on this day the US rendered all airfields in southern Bougainville inoperable.
The IS-2 was accepted into Soviet service. Nearly 4,000 of the Soviet heavy tank were built.
The Red Army severed the German rail link to Crimea.
The U.S. Army took Mondragone in Italy.
The Tuna Canyon Detention Center in California, which had held over 2,000 Japanese, German, and Italian immigrants, and Japanese Peruvians was closed as the inmates were transferred to different facilities.
The U-306, U-584 and U-732 were sunk in the Atlantic.
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