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Njaco
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November 22 Friday
MEDITERRANEAN: Greek 3rd Army Corps finally takes Korçë, 10 miles inside Albania, after a week of heavy fighting against Italian 9th Army. They capture 2000 prisoners and 135 field guns and 600 machineguns. However, the Greeks are poorly motorised and have no armour, allowing the Italians to withdraw and regroup. Almost all the invading Italian forces have now been driven back to Albania.
ATLANTIC OCEAN: British destroyers HMS "Faulknor" and HMS "Forester" approached Vichy French destroyer "Boulonnais" and freighter "Charles Plumier" off Spanish Morocco. "Boulonnais" backed off from the engagement, thus allowing "Charles Plumier" to be captured. "Charles Plumier" would later be pressed into British service as amphibious command ship HMS "Largs" commissioned into the Royal Navy in November 1941 and will serve as Command Ship for almost every major Allied amphibious landing in Europe including Operations Torch, Husky and Overlord.
German submarine U-123 sank British ship "Cree" 365 miles west of Ireland shortly after midnight, killing the entire crew of 45.
UNITED KINGDOM: British motor launch ML.127 hit a mine and sank in the Thames Estuary in southern England, killing all 11 aboard.
NORTH AFRICA: Italian aircraft bombed Alexandria, Egypt, damaging British tanker "Zahra".
EASTERN EUROPE: The first execution by shooting took place at Auschwitz Concentration Camp; 40 men from Katowice, Poland were shot between 0000 and 0020 hours by SS men in retaliation of assault on a police official.
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MEDITERRANEAN: Greek 3rd Army Corps finally takes Korçë, 10 miles inside Albania, after a week of heavy fighting against Italian 9th Army. They capture 2000 prisoners and 135 field guns and 600 machineguns. However, the Greeks are poorly motorised and have no armour, allowing the Italians to withdraw and regroup. Almost all the invading Italian forces have now been driven back to Albania.
ATLANTIC OCEAN: British destroyers HMS "Faulknor" and HMS "Forester" approached Vichy French destroyer "Boulonnais" and freighter "Charles Plumier" off Spanish Morocco. "Boulonnais" backed off from the engagement, thus allowing "Charles Plumier" to be captured. "Charles Plumier" would later be pressed into British service as amphibious command ship HMS "Largs" commissioned into the Royal Navy in November 1941 and will serve as Command Ship for almost every major Allied amphibious landing in Europe including Operations Torch, Husky and Overlord.
German submarine U-123 sank British ship "Cree" 365 miles west of Ireland shortly after midnight, killing the entire crew of 45.
UNITED KINGDOM: British motor launch ML.127 hit a mine and sank in the Thames Estuary in southern England, killing all 11 aboard.
NORTH AFRICA: Italian aircraft bombed Alexandria, Egypt, damaging British tanker "Zahra".
EASTERN EUROPE: The first execution by shooting took place at Auschwitz Concentration Camp; 40 men from Katowice, Poland were shot between 0000 and 0020 hours by SS men in retaliation of assault on a police official.
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