World War II Chronicle: December 1, 1942
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On the front page we learn that Maj. Gen. Russel P. Hartle, commanding general of V Corps, is filling in for Gen. Eisenhower as commander of European Theatre of Operations, United States Army. Also, submarine skipper Lt. Cmdr. Thomas Klakring has earned his first (of three) Navy Crosses… Page two reports that San Francisco has been warned that a Japanese bombing attack is possible… On page three, National League owners are fighting over how many night games will be played next season…
First-hand accounts of the North African landings on page six… Sports section begins on page 18… Page 31 features a story of a planeload of wounded Guadalcanal Marines surviving 10 days at sea on a single fish. Lt. Col. Randolph McCall Pate is among the shipwrecked men. Pate enlisted in the Army in 1918 before entering the Virginia Military Institute and accepting a commission in the Marine Corps. He participated in the Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa campaigns and took over as commanding general of the 1st Marine Division just before the armistice during the Korean War
Evening star. (Washington, D.C.), December 1, 1942. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1942-12-01/ed-1/
