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• US 2nd Marine Raider Battalion's "Carlson's Patrol" came to a conclusion at Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. ww2dbase [Guadalcanal Campaign | CPC]
• US President Franklin D. Roosevelt closed down the Works Progress Administration, because of the high levels of wartime employment in the United States. ww2dbase [Franklin Roosevelt | CPC]
• Nine Blenheim bombers attacking Tunisian airfields were jumped by 50 German Bf.109 fighters. All nine were destroyed, the last to fall being flown by the leader, Wing Commander Hugh Malcolm, aged 25, who was awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross. ww2dbase [AC]
• USS Flying Fish attacked a Japanese destroyer in the Pacific Ocean, hitting her with 1 of 6 torpedoes fired and claimed a sinking. ww2dbase [Flying Fish | CPC]
• USS Nicholas and convoy arrived at Nouméa, New Caledonia. ww2dbase [Nicholas | DS]

• Leonardo da Vinci sighted a large aircraft in the Atlantic Ocean at 0823 hours and submerged. At 0823 hours, she sighted another aircraft and submerged. At 1058 hours, she spotted yet another, and once again submerged. ww2dbase [Leonardo da Vinci | CPC]

• Tanikaze arrived at Rabaul, New Britain, Australian Territory of New Guinea. ww2dbase [Tanikaze | Rabaul, New Britain | CPC]
• Kumano arrived at Rabaul and disembarked Army troops transported from Manila, Philippines. ww2dbase [Kumano | Rabaul, New Britain | DS]

• Yugure, Naganami, and Makinami arrived at Shortland Islands, Solomon Islands. ww2dbase [Yugure | Shortland Islands | CPC]

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

• B-24 bombers of US 12th Air Force bombed Naples, Italy; they were the first American aircraft to operate against Italy. The Church of Santa Chiara was damaged in the attack, damaging much of the interior decorations put in between 1742 and 1762. ww2dbase [B-24 Liberator | Bombing of Rome, Naples, and Other Cities | Napoli, Campania | TH, CPC]

• In Warsaw, Poland, Zofia Kossak-Szczucka and Wanda Krahelska-Filipowicz set up the Zegota anti-German resistance organization. ww2dbase [Warsaw | CPC]

• British 2nd Parachute Battalion linked up with US troops near Medjez-el-Bab in northern Tunisia. ww2dbase [Advance into Tunisia | Medjez-el-Bab | CPC]

4 Dec 1942 Interactive Map