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• US Army Lieutenant General Eichelberger was ordered to Papau, New Guinea, to capture Buna. ww2dbase [New Guinea-Papua Campaign, Phase 2 | CPC]
• USS Arizona was struck from the Naval Vessel Register. ww2dbase [Arizona | CPC]
• Armidale was decommissioned from service. ww2dbase [Armidale | CPC]
• Stuart was decommissioned from service. ww2dbase [Stuart | CPC]
• The US 1st Marine Aviation Engineer Battalion relieved the US 6th Naval Construction Battalion on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. ww2dbase [Guadalcanal Campaign | CPC]
• Heinrich Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein was named the commanding officer of IV./Nachtjagdgeschwader 5. ww2dbase [Heinrich | CPC]
• Walter Stettner von Grabenhofen was named the commanding officer of 1st Mountain Division. ww2dbase [Walter Stettner von Grabenhofen | CPC]
• USS Bailey Departed Adak, Alaska. ww2dbase [Bailey | DS]

• Ariake and Yugure arrived at Rabaul, New Britain, Bismarck Islands. ww2dbase [Yugure | Rabaul, New Britain | CPC]

• at 0303 hours (local time): Badly damaged by two torpedo hits in the Battle of Tassafaronga, cruiser USS Northampton sank in Iron Bottom Sound north of Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. Destroyers Drayton and Fletcher took on 870 of her survivors in less than an hour. ww2dbase [Northampton | Guadalcanal Campaign | Savo Sound, Solomon Islands | CPC]
• USS Honolulu departed the Guadalcanal area bound for Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides. ww2dbase [Honolulu | Solomon Islands | DS]

• Haruki Isayama stepped down as the Chief of Staff of the 15th Army stationed in occupied Burma and was made the commanding officer of the 26th Infantry Regiment stationed in Hokkaido, Japan. ww2dbase [Haruki Isayama | CPC]

• Kamoi departed Mili, Marshall Islands. ww2dbase [Kamoi | Mili | CPC]

• Germany established the Camp for the custody of Polish youth in Łódź (Polen-Jugendverwahrlager Litzmannstadt), Poland. ww2dbase [Łódź | CPC]

• Soviet Navy Commissar Nikolai Kuznetsov wrote to the Military Council of the Black Sea Fleet demanding a report on why so many servicemen were being arrested on false charges. ww2dbase [CPC]

• German 10th Panzer Division launched a counterattack in Tunisia, pushing back British 11th Brigade. Meanwhile, British 2nd Parachute Brigade crossed Miliane River south of Oudna airfield and continued northwest toward El Fedja. ww2dbase [Advance into Tunisia | CPC]
• The "Grado" Battalion of the "San Marco" naval infantry regiment of Italian Navy was attached to German Army units in Tunisia. ww2dbase [CPC]

• Ira Eaker was named the commanding officer of the US Eighth Air Force in Britain, replacing Carl Spaatz. ww2dbase [Ira Eaker | CPC]

• Ira Hayes was promoted to the rank of private first class. ww2dbase [Ira Hayes | CPC]

1 Dec 1942 Interactive Map