FRANCE: The USAAF"> USAAF Eighth Air Force's VIII Bomber Command flies Mission 22: 68 B-17 Flying Fortresses and eight B-24 Liberators are dispatched to hit the Keroma U-boat pens at Lorient; only 11 B-17 Flying Fortresses find a gap in the 10/10 cloud cover and bomb at 1410 hours local without loss.

During the night of 22/23 November, an RAF Bomber Command aircraft drops leaflets over Paris.

GERMANY: During the night of 22/23 November, RAF Bomber Command dispatches 222 aircraft, 97 Lancasters, 59 Wellingtons, 39 Halifaxes and 27 Stirlings, to bomb Stuttgart; 191 aircraft bomb and ten, five Lancasters, three Wellingtons and two Halifaxes are lost, 4.5 per cent of the force. A thin layer of cloud and some ground haze conceals Stuttgart and the Pathfinders are not able to identify the centre of the city. Heavy bombing develops to the southwest and south and the outlying residential districts of Vaihingen, Rohr, Mohringen and Plieningen, all about 5 miles (8 kilometers) from the centre, are hit. Eighty eight houses are destroyed and 334 seriously damaged; 28 people are killed and 71 injured.

POLAND: The Nazis liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Dunilowicze by herding the Jews into a large barn and then murder all 888 men, women, and children.

U.S.S.R.: A Soviet counteroffensive against the German armies pays off as the Red Army traps about a quarter-million German soldiers south of Kalach, on the Don River, within Stalingrad. As the Soviets' circle tightened, German General Friedrich Paulus, commander of the Sixth Army, requests permission from Berlin to withdraw. German Chancellor Adolf Hitler will not allow a withdrawal and it is then only a matter of time before the Germans will be forced to surrender..

ALGERIA: U.S. Major General Mark Clark, Deputy Commander in Chief Allied Force, acting on orders from U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, agrees to recognize French Admiral Jean-Francois Darlan as High Commissioner for French North Africa providing he acts in accordance with American wishes.

LIBYA: USAAF Ninth Air Force P-40s patrol over the Derna area.

TUNISIA: The 36th Brigade of the 78th Division, British First Army, repels an attack at Djebel Ahiod. The 11th Brigade of the 78th Division completes concentration at BC)dja. French and U.S. troops reoccupy Gafsa.

BURMA: Six B-24 Liberators of the USAAF Tenth Air Force's India Air Task Force inflict heavy damage on the railroad center at Mandalay.

NEW GUINEA: The Australian 25th Brigade, Maroubra Force, continues toward Gona, Papua New Guinea; two battalions move in to attack and are forced to withdraw with heavy casualties. The U.S. 126th Infantry Regiment (-) attacks through the Australian 16th Brigade, Maroubra Force, toward Sanananda; the 16th Brigade will not attempt any forward moves until the Americans have secured the Soputa-Sanananda-Killerton Track junction. Major Richard Boeremb's detachment (elements of the 1st Battalion) moves along the road as the 3d Battalion advances on the flanks along secondary trails. After nightfall, fresh Japanese forces attack Company L, flanking on the right, to insure safety of food supply dump in line of advance and are driven off. From Soputa, the 2d Battalion of 126th Infantry Regiment moves forward to assist the 2d Battalion of 128th, crossing to the east bank of the Girua River on rafts during the evening. On the Warren Force front, the 3d Battalion of 128th Infantry Regiment secretly pulls back to positions just behind the 1st Battalion, though Company I holds former position astride trail just west of New Strip.

In Papua New Guinea, USAAF Fifth Air Force A-20 Havocs attack trails around Sanananda while B-26 Marauders hit the Buna area; B-17 Flying Fortresses and B-25 Mitchells bomb the airfield at Lae and barges between Lae and Salamaua.

PACIFIC OCEAN: USAAF Fifth Air Force B-17 Flying Fortresses and B-25 Mitchells attack warships 68 nautical miles (126 kilometers) southwest of Arawe, New Britain Island, Bismarck Archipelago and elsewhere in the Solomon Sea. USAAF Fourteenth Air Force aircraft on a shipping strike sink a Vichy French ship east of Haiphong harbor, French Indochina.

On Guadalcanal, the 182d and 164th Infantry Regiments again meet strong resistance while attempting to push west and are unable to advance. The 8th Marine Regiment prepares to attack through the 164th Infantry.