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• Concentration camp doctors at Birkenau began sterilization experiments on female prisoners. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | CPC]
• Chiang Kaishek cabled Washington DC in the United States, complaining of Archibald Wavell's uncooperativeness regarding a possible coordinated offensive in Burma. ww2dbase [Chiang Kaishek | CPC]
• USS Bailey arrived at Dutch Harbor, Alaska. ww2dbase [Bailey | DS]

• Comandante Cappellini sighted a submarine in the Atlantic Ocean at 0500 hours; she submerged to avoid detection. ww2dbase [Comandante Cappellini | CPC]

• Yugure, Urakaze, Tanikaze, Isonami, Inazuma, and Arashio arrived at Rabaul, New Britain, Bismarck Islands. ww2dbase [Yugure | Arashio | Tanikaze | Rabaul, New Britain | CPC]

• Repair ship Akashi began refitting light cruiser Sendai at Truk, Caroline Islands. ww2dbase [Akashi | Truk | CPC]

• Alfred Flatow, German Olympic gymnast, passed away in Theresienstadt Concentration Camp in occupied Czechoslovakia. ww2dbase [Theresienstadt Concentration Camp | Terezín, Cechy | CPC]

• Tatsuta Maru arrived at Balikpapan, Borneo and took on fuel. ww2dbase [Tatsuta Maru | Balikpapan, Borneo | CPC]

• USS Haddock departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her third war patrol. ww2dbase [Haddock | Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]

• Zuikaku arrived at Yokosuka, Japan and prepared to receive a Type 21 radar. ww2dbase [Zuikaku | Yokosuka, Kanagawa | CPC]

• Nikolai Kamanin, flew his first WW2 combat sortie, over Velikiye Luki, Leningrad Oblast (now in Pskov Oblast), Russia. ww2dbase [Nikolai Kamanin | Velikiye Luki, Leningrad | CPC]

• Robert Johnson and fellow members of the USAAF 61st Fighter Squadron arrived at Camp Kilmer at Piscataway and Edison, New Jersey, United States. ww2dbase [Robert Johnson | Edison, New Jersey | CPC]

28 Dec 1942 Interactive Map