U.S. Navy Department (November 25, 1942)
South Pacific.
On November 23:
A U.S. Marine patrol on Guadalcanal killed 70 Japanese and captured 5 machine guns in an enemy encampment on the north slope of Mambulo. Marine casualties were 2 wounded.
Dive bombers and fighters from Guadalcanal attacked enemy installations at Munda on the western end of New Georgia Island. A direct hit was scored on a warehouse.
The Pittsburgh Press (November 25, 1942)
Nazis make big air raids on ports and ships off Algeria
By Edward W. Beattie, United Press staff writer
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Japs try to hold inner defenses at Buna
By Brydon C. Taves, United Press staff writer
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WPB chief relieves Army and Navy control over war production
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Thousands demand added rations; U.S. ruling on quota awaited
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By the United Press
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By the United Press
Somewhere in the world, it will be Thanksgiving Day for American men from 8 a.m. today until 7:30 a.m. Friday EWT.
Thanksgiving Day came first to the fighting men in the Fiji Islands at 8 a.m. today. For those in the Samoa zone just across the international date line, Thanksgiving will end at 7:30 a.m. Friday.
In terms of Eastern Time, Thanksgiving starts as follows in various zones around the world:
| 8:30 a.m. Wednesday | New Zealand |
| 9 a.m. | Solomons and New Caledonia |
| 10 a.m. | Australia and New Guinea |
| 1 p.m. | China |
| 2:30 p.m. | India |
| 4:30 to 6 p.m. | Middle East and Lower Africa |
| 7 p.m. | North Africa and Great Britain |
| 9 p.m. | Iceland |
| 11:30 p.m. | Greenland and Newfoundland |
| Midnight to 3 a.m. Thursday | United States, Caribbean and Panama |
| 4 to 5 a.m. | Alaska |
| 5:30 a.m. | Hawaii |
| 7:30 a.m. Friday | Samoa |
Deliveries will be cut drastically; many services ruled out; 1942 Christmas unaffected
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Lourenço Marques, Mozambique, East Africa –
A U.S. vessel identified here as the Alcoa Pathfinder has been torpedoed and sunk, it was revealed today. Fifty survivors reached the coast south of Lourenço Marques yesterday.
U.S. Army HQ, Hawaiian Department –
Maj. Gen. Willis H. Hale of Pittsburg, Kansas, Commander of the 7th Air Force, was awarded a Distinguished Service Medal today for his brilliant and skillful handling of Army bombers against the Jap fleet in the Battle of Midway.
On last Thanksgiving Day, we were grateful that America was still at peace. If we had known then what was to occur a few days later at Pearl Harbor, our sentiments would have been, to say the least, different.
As another Thanksgiving comes around, there is much to mourn, and much future grief and travail to expect. But there is much indeed for which to feel gratitude.
The war is very, very far from being won. But all of us owe thanks for the great victories in the Pacific by our fleets and aircraft, for the dexterous acquisition of Morocco and Algeria and now, prospectively, of Dakar, for the formidable expansion of our armed services, for the almost magical conversion and enlargement of American industry. Also, and eminently, for the stonewall resistance of the Russians, for the RAF’s devastating assaults on Germany and Italy, for the staunch endurance of the Chinese, and the growing solidarity of the Americas.
But there is another thing that will be foremost in many minds as the events of a turbulent year are reviewed on Thanksgiving Day. We mean the cool bravery, the grudgeless shouldering of hardship, the splendid discipline and audacious leadership with which our young men – and many not so young – have repudiated in action those now almost forgotten lamentations that this country had gone soft, flabby, decadent.
For men like Adm. Halsey and Mark Clark, Eisenhower and Rickenbacker, Stilwell and Chennault, Bulkeley and his “expendables” MacArthur and Wainwright, Doolittle and Buzz Wagner, Callaghan and Colin Kelly, for unnumbered nameless heroes both living and dead at Wake Island and off Midway, in the Coral Sea and the Aleutians, on and around the Solomons and New Guinea, in bombers plaguing Europe and submarines plaguing Japan, in the impatient garrisons of Iceland and Panama and Britain, aboard close-hunted convoys and on the eerie beaches of the dark continent – for such men, in all admiration and humility, we give thanks.