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- Hitler publicly announced that the war against the Soviet Union is all but over. ww2dbase [TH]
- Georg von Bismarck was named the commanding officer of the 20th Panzer Division. ww2dbase [Georg von Bismarck | CPC]
- The keel of trawler Anticosti was laid down. ww2dbase [Anticosti | CPC]
- The Jager Report (issued on 1 Dec 1941) noted that 1,169 adult male, 1,840 adult female, and 717 children, all Jews, were killed in Svenciany, Lithuania for a total of 3,726 people. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | CPC]
- A trade agreement was signed between Turkey and Germany under which the latter would get no deliveries of chrome until 1943. ww2dbase [AC]
- No. 601 Squadron RAF mounted a mission with four P-39 Airacobra aircraft, strafing German barges near Dunkerque, France. This was to be the final Airacobra mission with the RAF. ww2dbase [P-39 Airacobra | Dunkerque, Nord-Pas-de-Calais | CPC]
- Luigi Longanesi Cattani was named the commanding officer of Leonardo da Vinci, relieving Ferdinando Calda. ww2dbase [Leonardo da Vinci | CPC]
- A detachment of Soviet NKVD troops prevented a company of German Brandenburg 800 Division saboteurs from destroying the Istra Water Reservoir near Moscow, Russia. ww2dbase [Moscow | CPC]
- Allied convoy QP-1 arrived at Scapa Flow, Scotland, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [Arctic Convoys | Scapa Flow | Scapa Flow, Scotland | CPC]
- Vannevar Bush met with President Franklin Roosevelt and Vice-President Henry Wallace about the progress of the Uranium Committee. Bush described the progress of the British Military Application of Uranium Detonation (MAUD) Committee and what was known about what progress the Germans were making. Roosevelt approved an expedited atomic program and a Top Policy Group that included Wallace and Bush to control it. ww2dbase [Vannevar Bush | Henry Wallace | Franklin Roosevelt | White House | Operation Trinity and Manhattan Project | White House, Washington DC | CPC]




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