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Greek resistance cripples Axis supply line
Wednesday, November 25, 1942 www.onwar.com
British SOE dropping supplies to resistance members [photo at link]
In Occupied Greece... Greece resistance workers from two rival Greek organizations led by British SOE agents blow up a viaduct on the Athen-Salonika railway at Gorgopotamos. Many of the supplies sent to Rommel in the past used this route.
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November 25th, 1942
UNITED KINGDOM: Minesweeper HMS Orestes launched.
HS Miaoulis (ex-HMS Modbury) commissioned. (Dave Shirlaw)
GERMANY:
U-995, U-1223 laid down.
U-275, U-533 commissioned. (Dave Shirlaw)
NORWAY: Bergen Jews are deported to Auschwitz.
GREECE: The railroad viaduct (the Georgeopotomous Bridge) on the Athens to Salonika route is blown up by Greek resistance. The British SOE has led two rival Greek organizations in the action. Many of Rommel’s supplies bound for North Africa have used this route.
MEDITERRANEAN SEA: U class submarine HMS Utmost is depth charged by Italian destroyer Groppo in the Mediterranean off Marittimo and sunk. There are no survivors. (Alex Gordon)(108)
ASW trawler HMS Leyland sunk in a collision off Gibraltar. (Dave Shirlaw)
PACIFIC OCEAN: The Japanese 18th Army (Lt-Gen Adachi) arrives in the South-West Pacific theatre. (Michael Alexander)
CANADA: Algerine-class minesweepers HMS Coquette (ex-HMCS Bowmanville), HMS Courier (ex-HMCS Arnprior), HMS Felicity (ex-HMCS Copper Cliff), HMS Flying Fish (ex-HMCS Tillsonburg), HMS Golden Fleece (ex-HMCS Humberstone), HMS Lioness (ex-HMCS Petrolia), HMS Prompt (ex-HMCS Huntsville), HMS Lysander (ex-HMCS Hespeler), HMCS New Liskeard and HMCS Fort Frances ordered from Ontario shipyards.
Minesweeper HMCS Transcona commissioned.
Corvette HMCS Cobourg laid down Midland, Ontario. (Dave Shirlaw)
U.S.A.: The motion picture Gentleman Jim is released. Directed by Raoul Walsh, this biography of boxer Jim Corbett stars Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith, Jack Carson, Alan Hale, William Frawley, Ward Bond and Arthur Shields. (Jack McKillop)
Santa Fe: The decision was taken today to take over a 50,000-acre site at Los Alamos, in the Jemez mountains in New Mexico, 20 miles from here, to house a secret laboratory for research into the atomic bomb. The site, formerly a boarding school for boys, is on top of a 7,200-foot plateau.
The site was chosen by the director, Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, appointed in spite of his left-wing politics. Dr. Oppenheimer says that his two great loves are physics and desert country; now he can enjoy both at once.
During WW II, the Military Intelligence Service (MIS) produced numerous documents, most commonly known are the Intelligence Bulletins. The Military Intelligence Special Series continues with “Artillery in the Desert.” (William L. Howard)
Minesweeper USS Skylark commissioned. (Dave Shirlaw)
ATLANTIC OCEAN: A lookout on U-566 broke his arm and the commander of U-608 was also injured as a result of very bad weather. (Dave Shirlaw)