5 Dec 1939
- U-56 ended her fourth patrol. ww2dbase [U-56 | CPC]
- U-23 began her fifth war patrol. ww2dbase [U-23 | CPC]
- HMS Cumberland in company with HMS Ajax intercepted German ship Ussukuma which scuttled 400 miles south of Buenos Aires, Argentina. ww2dbase [Cumberland | DS]
- Heavy fighting took place between Soviet Army and Finnish Army in the Karelia region in southern Finland. ww2dbase [The Winter War | TH, CPC]
- Look Magazine published 26 of war time photographs of Warsaw, Poland taken by Julien Bryan. ww2dbase [Julien Bryan | CPC]
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