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• Weather data for 21 Dec 1942

• USS S-28 arrived at Dutch Harbor, US Territory of Alaska. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• USS S-35 suffered electrical fires during a storm, forcing her to end the war patrol early. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• British and Commonwealth troops crossed the Indian-Burmese border, moving into Japanese-controlled Arakan Peninsula. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Kurt Zeitzler asked Adolf Hitler for permission for Friedrich Paulus' German 6.Armee, encircled within Stalingrad, Russia, to break out to meet Erich von Manstein's relief efforts from the outside. Hitler rejected it, noting that German troops were to hold Stalingrad. ww2dbase [Main Article | TH]

• Tatsuta Maru arrived at Mako, Pescadores and departed later in the same day. ww2dbase [Main Article | Facility | Tabular Record of Movement | CPC]

21 Dec 1942 Interactive Map