A seaplane tender in Aleutian waters trains a 40mm battery on an unidentified aircraft, November 4, 1943.
The U.S. War Department concluded that attacking Japan from mainland China was impracticable. Therefore, the island strategy was solidly recommended.
An uprising broke out at the Szebnie concentration camp in Poland following the execution of over 1,000 of its prisoners. The SS rapidly suppressed it and the inmates are shipped to Auschwitz.
The Red Army broke out of its Dniepr bridgeheads.
A newly arrived Japanese Imperial Navy task force consisting of ten cruisers and ten destroyers is spotted by the U.S. Navy near Rabaul resulting in Task Force 38 preparing to strike it from the air.
The Allies achieve full lateral communications through Isernia in Italy.
From Sarah Sundin's blog:
Today in World War II History—November 4, 1943: Plutonium processing plant opens at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, for atomic bomb development as the X-10 graphite reactor reaches criticality.
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