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• Tatsuta Maru departed Manila, Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Tatsuta Maru | CPC]

• Japanese troops fell back from the eastern bank of the Mayu River in Arakan Peninsula in Burma. ww2dbase [First Battle of Arakan | Arakan | CPC]

• Submarine USS Thresher fired a spread of five torpedoes at a convoy of medium-sized freighters north of Surabaya, East Java, Dutch East Indies. Japanese army transport No.1 Tokiwa Maru was sunk, one freighter was damaged, and one escaped. ww2dbase [Thresher | Java Sea | DS]

• 100-knot winds hit Reykjavík, Iceland, moving even anchored-down United States Coast Guard cutters in the harbor. ww2dbase [Reykjavík | CPC]

• Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Yokosuka, Japan. ww2dbase [Hikawa Maru | Yokosuka, Kanagawa | CPC]

• Kamoi departed Taroa, Marshall Islands. ww2dbase [Kamoi | Taroa | CPC]

• USS Grayback sank four Japanese barges in the Solomon Sea with her deck gun. ww2dbase [Grayback | Solomon Sea | CPC]
• Submarine USS Spearfish detected two Japanese cargo ships steaming in the Bismarck Sea. Spearfish fired four torpedoes with unobserved results, although postwar analysis credited Spearfish with two 7,000-ton cargo ships damaged. ww2dbase [Spearfish | Bismarck Sea | DS]

• With the slaughter of over 12,000 horses, the Germans in Stalingrad, Russia received their last meat rations. ww2dbase [Battle of Stalingrad | Stalingrad | TH]
• All ships of Allied convoy JW-51A arrived in the Kola Inlet near Murmansk, Russia; this convoy suffered no losses. ww2dbase [Arctic Convoys | Murmansk | CPC]

25 Dec 1942 Interactive Map