Aguadilla due to excessive speed on a downgrade; 16 are killed, 50 injured. November 10 – WWII: Ammunition ship disintegrates from the accidental detonation of 3,800 tons of cargo, in the Seeadler Harbor fleet anchorage at Manus Island. 22 small boats are destroyed, 36 nearby ships damaged, 432 men are killed and 371 more are injured. November 11 – Operational ships of the French Navy re-enter their base at Toulon. November 12 – WWII: Operation Catechism – is sunk by British Royal Air Force Lancaster bombers near Tromsø. Estimated casualties range from 950 to 1,204. November 14 – WWII:American submarine torpedoes Japanese aircraft carrier Akitsu Maru in the East China Sea; 2,246 drown. November 16 – WWII: U.S. forces begin the month-long Operation Queen in the Rur Valley. November 18 The Popular Socialist Youth is founded in Cuba. WWII: American submarine torpedoes Japanese landing craft depot ship ; 3,546 drown. November 22 Conscription Crisis: Prime Minister of Canada William Mackenzie King agrees a one-time conscription levy in Canada for overseas service. Laurence Olivier's film Henry V, based on Shakespeare's play, opens in London. It is the most acclaimed and the most successful movie version of a Shakespeare play made up to this time, and the first in Technicolor. Olivier both stars and directs. November 24 – WWII: German forces evacuate from the West Estonian Archipelago. November 27 RAF Fauld explosion: Between 3,450 and 3,930 tons (3,500 and 4,000 tonnes) of ordnance explodes at an underground storage depot in Staffordshire, England, leaving about 75 dead and a crater across and deep. The blast is one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history, and the largest on UK soil. Operation Tigerfish: Royal Air Force bombing of Freiburg im Breisgau kills 2,800. November 29 – WWII: American submarine sinks Japanese aircraft carrier Shinano, the largest carrier built to this date, and will remain through the twentieth century the largest ship sunk by a submarine. December December 1 – Edward Stettinius, Jr. becomes the last United States Secretary of State of the Roosevelt administration, filling the seat left by Cordell Hull. December 3 – WWII: Fighting breaks out between Communists and royalists in newly liberated Greece, eventually leading to a full-scale Greek Civil War. The Home Guard (United Kingdom) is stood down. December 7 The Convention on International Civil Aviation is signed in Chicago, creating the International Civil Aviation Organization. The Arab Women's Congress