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• U-869 departed Norway for the Atlantic Ocean for her first and only war patrol. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Germans troops withdrew from Jülich, Germany. ww2dbase [TH]
• The first unpowered prototype of the J8M Shusui/Ki-200 aircraft took flight. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• USS Astoria arrived at Ulithi, Caroline Islands. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Japanese troops captured Tushan, Jiangsu Province, China. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• USS Ray arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending her sixth war patrol. ww2dbase [Main Article | Facility | CPC]

• In Hungary, Soviet SMERSH operatives attached to 2nd Ukrainian Front arrested Dutch operative Gerrit van der Waals of British SOE, who had naively turned himself in to the approaching Soviet forces thinking the Soviets would help him return to Britain. His fellow Hungarian operative also under the employment of SOE Karoly Schandl was similarly detained. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• The keel of landing ship No. 173 was laid down by Kawanami Kogyo. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

8 Dec 1944 Interactive Map