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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]

• Light carrier Ryuho arrived at Truk, Caroline Islands. ww2dbase [Ryuho | Truk | CPC]

• 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]

22 Dec 1943 Interactive Map