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• 527 RAF aircraft (307 Lancaster and 220 Halifax) attacked Leipzig, Germany. ww2dbase [Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | TH]
• General Shunroku Hata, commander-in-chief of the Japanese formation China Expeditionary Army, received a message from the Imperial General Headquarters in Tokyo, Japan that the Japanese leadership was disturbed by the American air strike on Taiwan on 25 Nov 1943. ww2dbase [CPC]
• Light carrier Ryuho arrived at Singapore. ww2dbase [Ryuho | CPC]

• Gato-class submarine USS Silversides departed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on her eighth war patrol. ww2dbase [Silversides | Pearl Harbor, Oahu | DS]

• New Zealand troops attacked Orsogna, Italy on the Gustav Line. ww2dbase [Advance to the Gustav Line | Orsogna, Abruzzo | CPC]

• Submarine USS Spearfish departed Jaluit Atoll bound for Wotje Atoll, Marshall Islands. ww2dbase [Spearfish | Jaluit | DS]

• West of Palau, submarine USS Tinosa torpedoed and sank the 6,600-ton passenger-cargo ship Azuma Maru. ww2dbase [Tinosa | Philippine Sea | DS]

• Allied convoy JW-54B arrived at Arkhangelsk, Russia. ww2dbase [Arctic Convoys | Arkhangelsk | CPC]

• Kamoi arrived at Singapore. ww2dbase [Kamoi | Singapore | CPC]

• USS Ranger arrived at the Boston Navy Yard, Massachusetts. ww2dbase [Boston Navy Yard | Ranger | Boston, Massachusetts | DS]

3 Dec 1943 Interactive Map