JOINT BASE CHARLESTON, S.C. –
Oct. 31, 1941 - German submarine U-552 sunk USS Reuben James (DD- 245), which was escorting Convoy HX 156, with the loss of 115 lives, becoming the first U.S. ship lost to enemy action in World War II.
Nov. 1, 1841 - "Mosquito Fleet" commanded by Lt. Cmdr. J. T. McLaughlin, carried 750 Sailors and Marines into the Everglades to fight the Seminole Indians.
Nov. 2, 1968 - Operation Search Turn began in Mekong Delta.
Nov. 3, 1943 - Battleship Oklahoma, sunk at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, was refloated.
Nov. 4, 1971 - USS Nathanael Greene (SSBN-636) launched a Poseidon C-3 missile in the first surface launch of a Poseidon missile.
Nov. 5, 1945 - Ensign Jake C. West from VF-41, made the first jet landing on board a carrier, USS Wake Island (CVE-65).
Nov. 6, 1941 - On Neutrality Patrol, USS Omaha (CL-4) and USS Summers (DD-381) intercepted the German blockade runner Odenwald disguised as U.S. freighter and boarded her after the German crew abandoned the ship. The crew brought the ship to San Juan, Puerto Rico, where the boarding party was awarded salvage shares.