22 Dec 1939
- Werner Mölders and Hans von Hahn became the first German fighter pilots to shoot down British Hurricane fighters. ww2dbase [Werner Mölders | CPC]
- Friedrich-Wilhelm Müller was awarded the Iron Cross 1st Class medal. ww2dbase [Friedrich-Wilhelm Müller | CPC]
- Zhou Zhikai, flying an I-15bis fighter, shared a victory with his squadron commander Captain Jiang Weihua for the downing of a G4M bomber of Japanese 15th Kokutai over Liuzhou, Guangxi, China. ww2dbase [Zhou Zhikai | Liuzhou, Guangxi | CPC]
- Finnish Army Group Talvela overran Soviet 75th division in hand to hand combat at Ägläjärvi (Russian: Yaglyayarvi) on the Karelian Isthmus. ww2dbase [The Winter War | Ägläjärvi | CPC]
- Field Marshal Mannerheim of Finland authorized to launch the offensive planned by Generals Österman and Öhqvist presented to him on the previous day. ww2dbase [Carl G. E. Mannerheim | CPC]
- US Navy awarded a US$7,000,000 contract to build two new graving docks at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii; the future Dock No. 2 was to be large enough to hold a battleship, while Dock No. 3 was to be made for destroyers and submarines. ww2dbase [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]
- Alpino Bagnolini was completed in Taranto, Italy. ww2dbase [Alpino Bagnolini | Taranto, Apulia | CPC]
- USS Helena arrived at Annapolis, Maryland, United States. ww2dbase [Helena (St. Louis-class) | Annapolis, Maryland | CPC]
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