Action of 1 November 1944: A naval battle was fought in theKvarner Gulf off Croatia between a Royal Navy destroyer flotilla and aKriegsmarine force of two corvettes and a destroyer. The result was a British victory as all three German ships were sunk.
Canadian Defence MinisterJames Ralston resigned his post after Prime MinisterWilliam Lyon Mackenzie King rejected Ralston's plea for imposition of the draft for overseas service. The schism within King's cabinet brought about theConscription Crisis of 1944 which threatened to topple King's government.[1]
The American destroyerAbner Read was sunk inLeyte Gulf by a Japanese kamikaze attack.
The British frigateWhitaker was torpedoed and damaged offMalin Head, Ireland by German submarineU-483 and rendered a constructive total loss.
Japanese destroyerAkikaze was torpedoed and sunk west ofCape Bolinao, Philippines by the American submarinePintado when she intercepted torpedoes intended for the aircraft carrierJun'yō.
RAF Bomber Command sent 749 aircraft to conduct the last major raid onBochum. Over 4,000 buildings were destroyed and nearly 1,000 people were killed.[6]
The German garrison atMiddelburg surrendered to the Allies.[5]
The Italian government announced the formation of a private army about six divisions strong, to enter into the war on the Allied side.[8]
The provisional government of France struck down all of the country's anti-Semitic laws. Implementation of this measure was difficult when it came to returning Jews to their former occupations and giving them back their homes and confiscated property.[8]
In Liverpool, the largestpenicillin factory in the world began production.[8]
TheAir battle over Niš occurred overNiš, Serbia between the Air Forces of the United States and the Soviet Union. For an unknown reason, AmericanP-38s attacked Soviet ground troops and then came under attack themselves fromYak fighters of the Soviet Air Force. It is unclear exactly what happened or why, since documents related to the incident apparently remain classified in both countries.[9]
The American submarineAlbacore struck a mine and sank offHokkaido.
Joseph Goebbels announced theV-2 rocket campaign for the first time.Winston Churchill followed suit and finally announced that England had been under rocket attack, providing the people of London with an explanation for all the mysterious explosions of recent weeks.[10][11]
Over 10,000 Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Uzbeks, Tatars, and some White Russians rally inGhulja and declare independence as theSecond East Turkistan Republic.
The Japanese destroyersAkebono,Akishimo,Hatsuharu andKiso were all bombed and sunk by U.S. Navy aircraft in and around theCavite Naval Yard in Manila, while destroyerOkinami was sunk 8 nautical miles west of the city.
Japanese submarineI-12 washedgehogged and sunk east of Hawaii by American warships.
Civil air service returned toLondon for the first time since September 1939.[5]
Japanese aircraft carrierShin'yō was torpedoed and sunk in the Yellow Sea by the American submarineSpadefish.
While part ofconvoy Hi-81, the Japanese landing craft depot shipMayasan Maru was sunk in theEast China Sea by the American submarinePicuda. Some 3,856 lives were lost in one of the highest maritime casualty counts of the war.
Prisoner of warLouis Zamperini makes a radio broadcast onRadio Japan to his family and confirmed that he was still alive after reports of his death following the crash of theGreen Hornet B-24 Liberator on May 27, 1943.[21]
Canadian Parliament assembled in a special meeting to debate theconscription crisis. Prime MinisterWilliam Lyon Mackenzie King said that it had not become necessary to require drafted troops to serve overseas and that to do so "would occasion the most serious controversy that could arise in Canada. I can think of no course fraught with greater danger to our war effort, to say nothing of the unity and strength of Canada today and for generations to come, than a general election at this late stage of the war on the conscription issue. Until it is apparent conscription for overseas forces is necessary, the government would not be justified in taking the risk of widespread national dissention."[1]
The British submarineStratagem was depth charged and sunk in theStrait of Malacca by the Japanese submarine chaserCH 35.
The government ofFerenc Szálasi in Hungary fledBudapest to escape encirclement by the Soviets and re-established itself inSopron.[24]
TheTerrace Mutiny began when Canadian soldiers based inTerrace, British Columbia began disobeying orders and seizing weapons after hearing rumors that conscripts might be deployed overseas. The mutiny was largely censored by authorities and it did not come to be well known by the general public.
About 1,000 Canadian soldiers from the military camp inVernon, British Columbia paraded through the city shouting, "Down with conscription."[25]
A GermanV-2 rocket struck the intersection ofHigh Holborn andChancery Lane in theHolborn section of London, killing 6 and wounding 292. Then, in the worst V-2 attack of the war, another one landed across the street from theWoolworths department store inNew Cross, South London and killed 168.[5][26]
French Canadian nationalistRené Chaloult said during a political meeting thatQuebec should secede from Canada if the province was not allowed to decide its own policies on conscription.[29]
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