http://www.usaaf.net/chron/42/nov42.htm says:
(Tenth Air Force):
CHINA AIR TASK FORCE (CATF): 9 B-25s and 7 P-40s feint at Hong Kong, then fly to the Gulf of Tonkin and sink a freighter and damage 2 others near Haiphong, French Indochina.
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