5 Dec 1942
- Renshaw was commissioned into service. ww2dbase [Renshaw | CPC]
- HMS Canna was destroyed by a fire at Lagos, Nigeria, British West Africa. ww2dbase [AC]
- Executive Order No. 9-27 was issued in the United States, placing all services under the provisions of the Selective Service Act. ww2dbase [CPC]
- Captain Mitsuharu Ueda was named the commanding officer of Tenryu. ww2dbase [Tenryu | CPC]
- USS Nicholas departed Nouméa, New Caledonia escorting a convoy bound for Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. ww2dbase [Nicholas | DS]
- Leonardo da Vinci sighted several Spanish fishing vessels in the Atlantic Ocean at 1530 hours. The Italian submarine made rendezvous with one of them and took on several fish, which would be prepared for the evening's dinner. ww2dbase [Leonardo da Vinci | CPC]
- Destroyer Yukikaze departed Truk, Caroline Islands to escort carrier Hiyo to Japan. ww2dbase [Yukikaze | Truk | CPC]
- Leonardo da Vinci arrived at Bordeaux, France at 1600 hours, ending a war patrol. ww2dbase [Leonardo da Vinci | Bordeaux, Aquitaine | CPC]
- Graf Zeppelin was towed to Kiel, Germany. ww2dbase [Deutsche Werke Kiel | Graf Zeppelin | Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein | CPC]
- The SS authorities organized a general selection among the prisoners of the female camp BIa in Auschwitz II-Birkenau Concentration Camp, which lasted all day, after which 2,000 young, healthy and fit to work women prisoners were killed in gas chambers. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Auschwitz Concentration Camp | Oswiecim | CPC]
- Despite heavy fog, 17 He 111 and about 50 Ju 52/3m aircraft were able to fly 150 tons of supplies into Stalingrad, Russia. ww2dbase [Battle of Stalingrad | Stalingrad | CPC]
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