22 Dec 1943




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- Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Roi. ww2dbase [Hikawa Maru | CPC]
- Allies designated Tito as the Allied commander in Yugoslavia. ww2dbase [Josip Tito | TH]
- Germany threatened punishment of Allied prisoners of war in retaliation for the Soviet war crimes trial in Kharkov, Ukraine. ww2dbase [Nuremberg Trials and Other Trials Against Germany | TH]
- 51 RAF aircraft attacked 2 flying-bomb sites between Abbeville and Amiens in France. One of them was destroyed, but the other was spared as the air crews failed to locate it at night. ww2dbase [CPC]
- A small number of RAF Mosquito bombers attacked Frankfurt and Bonn in Germany. ww2dbase [Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | CPC]
- A German aircraft sighted Allied convoy JW-55B sailing north from Britain toward Murmansk, Russia. ww2dbase [Battle of the North Cape | CPC]
- Remy Van Lierde was assigned to the Central Gunnery School at RAF Sutton Bridge in Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [Remy Van Lierde | CPC]
- Hitler instituted a National Socialist Leadership Staff at Supreme Headquarters under General Hermann Reinecke with the role of training Political Officers (Commissars) to all major military units. ww2dbase [Adolf Hitler | AC]
- Kamoi arrived at Padang, Sumatra, Dutch East Indies. ww2dbase [Kamoi | Padang, Sumatra | CPC]
- The USAAF 306th Bomb Group flying from RAF Thurleigh launched a bombing raid against rail facilities at Osnabruck, Germany. ww2dbase [RAF Thurleigh | Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | Osnabruck | DS]
- Indian 19th Brigade attacked Villa Grande, Italy. ww2dbase [Advance to the Gustav Line | Villa Grande, Abruzzo | CPC]
- Robert Johnson shot down a German Bf 109G fighter over Almelo, the Netherlands. ww2dbase [Robert Johnson | Almelo | CPC]
- Destroyer USS Saufley departed Nouméa, New Caledonia bound for Tulagi, Solomon Islands. ww2dbase [Saufley | Nouméa | DS]
- Allied convoy JW-55A arrived at Arkhangelsk, Russia and convoy RA-55A departed Kola Inlet near Murmansk, Russia. ww2dbase [Arctic Convoys | Murmansk | CPC]
- Ed Dyess was killed in a plane crash in Burbank, California, United States. ww2dbase [Ed Dyess | Burbank, California | CPC]
- USS Lexington (Essex-class) arrived at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard for repairs of torpedo damage. ww2dbase [Lexington (Essex-class) | Puget Sound Navy Yard | Bremerton, Washington | DS]




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