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• USS Wasp's aircraft attacked Japanese positions on Taiwan and in the Ryukyu Islands. ww2dbase [Wasp (Essex-class) | CPC]
• USAAF pilot Donald Bryan damaged a German Ar 234 aircraft. ww2dbase [CPC]
• Patrol Boat No. 102 detached from convoy SASHI-38. ww2dbase [Stewart | CPC]

• US forces captured Stavelot, Belgium, while the Germans surrounded Bastogne and captured St. Vith. ww2dbase [Battle of the Bulge | TH]

• Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Air Group 42 returned to station. ww2dbase [Barbers Point Naval Air Station | Ewa, Oahu | DS]

• Italian Marshal Rodolfo Graziani and General Mario Carloni inspected troops of the 4th Alpine Division "Monte Rosa" in the Garfagnana area of Toscana, Italy. ww2dbase [Battle of Garfagnana | Toscana | CPC]

• USS Whale attacked a Japanese trawler in the Ryukyu Islands, Japan; all 4 torpedoes missed. ww2dbase [Whale | Okinawa | CPC]

• U-1233 arrived at Bergen, Norway. ww2dbase [U-1233 | Bergen | CPC]

• USS Preston guarded carriers while the carriers launched strikes against Luzon, Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Preston (Fletcher-class) | CPC]
• Destroyer USS Brown picked up the only survivors to be found from the sunken USS Monaghan floating with a life raft. They were Doil Carpenter, Robert Darden, Evan Fenn, William Kramer, Joseph McCrane, and James Story ww2dbase [Monaghan | Typhoon Cobra | DS]

• USS Bennington transited the Panama Canal. ww2dbase [Bennington | Panama Canal | DS]

• While escorting a supply convoy for Mangarin Bay in the Philippine Islands, USS Kimberly came under Japanese aerial attack; her gunners claimed to have shot down one and assisted in the downing of two others. ww2dbase [Kimberly | Philippines Campaign, Phase 1, the Leyte Campaign | Mangarin Bay | CPC]

• Henry Arnold was promoted to the temporary rank of General of the Army. ww2dbase [Henry Arnold | CPC]
• USS Ancon completed her repairs at Charleston Navy Yard in South Carolina, United States. ww2dbase [Ancon | Charleston, South Carolina | CPC]
• USS Shangri-La arrived at Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia, United States, completing her shakedown cruise. ww2dbase [Norfolk Navy Yard | Shangri-La | Portsmouth, Virginia | CPC]

• Tambor-class submarine USS Tautog arrived at Midway on her way to her thirteenth war patrol. ww2dbase [Tautog | Midway | DS]

21 Dec 1944 Interactive Map