Timeline Friday 31 October 1941

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Friday 31 October 1941

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Events on Friday 31 October 1941 1

1941 Sinking of USS Reuben James The first US warship sunk in the Second World War A German U-boat torpedoed the destroyer USS Reuben James while it escorted a convoy west of Iceland. About 100 crew died, and Woody Guthrie wrote a song about the sinking.

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