November 20-24
Mediterranean, Italy
The Allies resume the offensive toward Rome but halt at the defenses of the Gustav Line. The British establish a small bridgehead across the Sangro River by the 24th.

A Sherman searches out the enemy during the Allied drive to Rome in November

November 22-26
Politics, Allies
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and China's Chiang Kaishek meet in Cairo, Egypt. They mainly consider postwar planning for China and Burma. A second conference, between December 4-7,draws up a schedule for the Pacific 'island-hopping'; campaign.

November 24
Sea War, Pacific
A Japanese submarine sinks the US escort carrier Liscombe Bay off Makin Island, claiming 644 lives.

November 25
Sea War, Pacific
At the Battle of Cape St. George, a Japanese destroyer-transport force is attacked by five US destroyers after landing troops at Buka, next to Bougainville. The Japanese lose three vessels during the last surface action in the Solomons.

November 28
Politics, Allies
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin meet in Tehran, Iran. Top priority is given to Operation Overlord, the cross-Channel invasion of German-occupied Europe, and a landing in southern France, Operation Anvil, in May 1944. The Soviets have been lobbying for the opening of the Second Front for some time.

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