A task force centered on the USS Enterprise left Pearl Harbor in order to deliver twelve Marine Corps F4F aircraft to Wake Island. But for this, the Enterprise would have been at Pearl Harbor on December 7.
The Enterprise would complete that mission on December 4, and then it turned around to return to Pearl Harbor. It would have arrived there on December 6 but for bad weather.
The Enterprise's departure was known to the Japanese, due to reporting from a consulate based intelligence officer they had there. At this time, this meant, due to reassignments and repairs, only one carrier remained in Pearl Harbor.
The Army concluded the Carolina Maneuvers.
A brand new, at that time, Jeep and a 37mm anti tank gun in the Carolina Maneuvers.
The maneuvers were massive in scale, involving 350,000 men.
The direction things were moving in was obvious, inside at least the Government.
German general Johann von Ravenstein was captured by New Zealanders in North Africa, making him the first German general officer to become a prisoner of war during World War Two.
The Soviets retook Rostov on Don.
The O-21 at Gibraltar.
The Dutch submarine O-21 sank the German U-95.
