Saturday, November 29, 1941. A November Saturday

Navy defeated Army in the 1941 Army Navy Game, which was played in Philadelphia.  98,497 people attended the game.

The program featured a photo of the bow of the USS Arizona noting that no battleship had every been sunk from the air, which at that point was no longer true, given the sinking of the Bismarck.  Of course, those claiming that could take comfort from that operation featuring surface ships which did participate in damaging the Bismarck.

On the same day, Glen Miller's Chattanooga Choo Choo reached the number 1 position on the Billboard charts.

The Saturday Evening Post featured an illustration of Rockwell's average man soldier Willie Gillis, in home in bed while on leave.

The Germans completed Operation Uzice putting an end to the Republic of Uzice in Yugoslavia.

A German victory over Chetnik and Yugoslavian partisan forces was as foregone conclusion, but the fact that they had to commit forces to occupied territory to accomplish it was significant.  They were also suffering setbacks in Crimea.

The Italians overran the New Zealand 21st Battalion at Point 175 in North Africa.

Some Gave All: Monument to returning partisans, France.

Some Gave All: Monument to returning partisans, France.:

Monument to returning partisans, France.

A French monument to six French partisans who returned by parachute and lost their lives on May 9, 1944.

I'm unfamiliar with this incident, but a large percentage of these operations were unsuccessful due to the penetration of the British SOE by the Germans. The SOE was only one of several British secret service organizations during the war and was not a full time professional one.  Following the war it investigated the penetration and somewhat, but not fully, determined what had occurred, although it also operated to cover up the event as well.

This monument indicates that the captured Frenchmen were deported to Germany where they must have been subsequently executed at some point.