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

• USS Astoria arrived at Ulithi, Caroline Islands. ww2dbase [Astoria (Cleveland-class) | Ulithi | CPC]

• Japanese troops captured Tushan, Jiangsu Province, China. ww2dbase [Operation Ichigo | Tushan, Jiangsu | CPC]

• USS Ray arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending her sixth war patrol. ww2dbase [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Ray | Pearl Harbor, Oahu | 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 [Budapest Strategic Offensive Operation | CPC]

• The keel of landing ship No. 173 was laid down by Kawanami Kogyo. ww2dbase [No. 101/103-class | CPC]

• Destroyer USS Shaw assumed anti-submarine patrol at the eastern opening of Surigao Strait in the Philippines. ww2dbase [Philippines Campaign, Phase 1, the Leyte Campaign | Shaw | Leyte Gulf, Leyte | DS]

8 Dec 1944 Interactive Map