Task Force 38's aircraft attacked the Imperial Japanese Navy squadron detected the day prior, resulting in the Japanese sustaining damage to 4 heavy cruisers, 2 light cruisers and 2 destroyers. Ten American planes were lost.
Ground based B-24s hit Rabaul and the squadron later that day.
The 3d Marine Division defeated a counterattack on Bougainville by the Japanese Army's 23d Regiment.
The French Resistance set off bombs in the Peugeot factor at Sochaux. The target was regarded as France's third most important one by the British Ministry of Economic Warfare due to its production of machinery used for tank turret production.
The Red Army began to encircle Kiev.
Offensive operations by the U.S. 5th Army on the Reinhard Line in Italy fail. The British 8th Army captured Vasto, Palmoli and Terrebruna.
Also on the Italian peninsula, four areal bombs hit Vatican City. IT was never clear whose air force was responsible, but a RAF crew had released bombs after developing engine trouble while not quite knowing where it was.
A gendarme on duty reported:
I distinctly heard the continuous noise of an aircraft flying at low altitude. I could not see it, prevented by the darkness. From the noise of the engine it seemed to me that the aircraft was coming from the northeast. It flew over the Vatican Railway Station and then went a little further away and immediately turned back. I almost immediately heard a hiss and a prolonged burst that gave me the impression of the almost simultaneous explosion of several bombs. The first of them fell on the escarpment near the boundary wall of the Vatican City State on the side of St. Peter's Station; the second one fell on the terrace of the Mosaic Studio; a third one behind the Governorate Palace and a fourth one in the Vatican Gardens in a location that I could not identify at the moment.
Sarah Sundin notes:
80 Years Ago—Nov. 5, 1943: Capt. Clark Gable leaves England, having flown 5 missions with the US Eighth Air Force, with footage for his documentary, Combat America.
The U.S. 56th Fighter Group, flying P-47s, became the first Eighth Air Force fighter group credited with 100 enemy aircraft destroyed.
German Catholic Priest Benhard Lichtenberg, 67 years of age, died while being transported in a cattle car to Dachau. 4, 000 mourners attended his funeral in Berlin.
An outspoken anti-Nazi, he was beatified in 1996.
Congress passed the Connally Resolution, which stated:
Senate Resolution 192-Seventy-Eighth Congress, November 5, 1943
Resolved, That the war against all our enemies be waged until complete victory is achieved.
That the United States cooperate with its comrades-in-arms in securing a just and honorable peace.
That the United States, acting through its constitutional processes, join with free and sovereign nations in the establishment and maintenance of international authority with power to prevent aggression and to preserve the peace of the world.
That the Senate recognizes the necessity of there being established at the earliest practicable date a general international organization, based on the principle of the sovereign equality of all peace-loving states, and open to membership by all such states, large and small, for the maintenance of international peace and security
That, pursuant to the Constitution of the United States, any treaty made to effect the purposes of this resolution, on behalf of the Government of the United States with any other nation or any association of nations, shall be made only by and with the advice and consent of the Senate of the United States, provided two-thirds of the Senators present concur.
The German submarine U-848 was depth charged and sunk by an American aircraft off Ascension Island in the South Atlantic Ocean.
Guadalcanal Diary was released.
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