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• USS Sea Cat claimed partial credit in the sinking of a 5,000-ton Japanese ship; the credit was removed after the war. ww2dbase [Sea Cat | CPC]
• USS Gar began her fifteenth war patrol. ww2dbase [Gar | CPC]
• Song Ziwen was named the acting chief of the Executive Yuan. ww2dbase [Song Ziwen | CPC]

• USS St. Louis arrived at Seeadler Harbor, Manus, Admiralty Islands. ww2dbase [St. Louis | Manus, Admiralty Islands | DS]

• USS Spot departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her first war patrol. ww2dbase [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Spot | Pearl Harbor, Oahu | CPC]
• Barbers Point Naval Air Station: First overall of Mk 13 torpedo completed at the newly upgraded torpedo shop. ww2dbase [Barbers Point Naval Air Station | Ewa, Oahu | DS]
• USS Proteus arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. ww2dbase [Proteus | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]
• Submarine USS Tinosa departed Pearl Harbor on her eighth war patrol. ww2dbase [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Tinosa | Pearl Harbor, Oahu | DS]

• USS Whale arrived in the Ryukyu Islands, Japan. ww2dbase [Whale | Okinawa | CPC]

• Destroyer USS Shaw escorted the landing of supplies at Baybay on the west side of Leyte Island, Philippines. ww2dbase [Philippines Campaign, Phase 1, the Leyte Campaign | Shaw | Baybay, Leyte | DS]

• The US publication Time reported that Tito had announced a provisional socialist Yugoslavian government from Moscow, Russia. ww2dbase [Josip Tito | Moscow | TH, CPC]

• Escort carrier USS Bogue with VC-95 embarked and her task group departed New York on an offensive ant-submarine patrol in the shipping approaches to the northeastern United States. ww2dbase [Bogue | Conclusion of the Battle of the Atlantic | New York City, New York | DS]

4 Dec 1944 Interactive Map