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• The British government called up 250,000 new conscripts. ww2dbase [TH]
• The Vietnam People's Army was formed, initially as an anti-Japanese resistance force. ww2dbase [CPC]
• German V-2 rocket hit Chelmsford, Essex, England, United Kingdom, seriously injuring one person. ww2dbase [V-Weapons Campaign | Vergeltungswaffe 2 | CPC]
• Two Ukrainian peasants, Hermann and Emma Kurras, were executed after a trial for hiding thirteen Jews who had escaped from a concentration camp. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | CPC]
• US 83rd Infantry Division became part of the XIX Corps of US Ninth Army while being attached to the British 21st Army Group. ww2dbase [CPC]
• USS Hoe fired 3 torpedoes at a Japanese tanker at periscope depth; all torpedoes missed. ww2dbase [Hoe | CPC]
• M26 Pershing heavy tanks were ordered to be deployed to forward US Army units. ww2dbase [M26 Pershing/M46 | CPC]

• In Bastogne, Belgium, the German surrender demand is rebuffed by General McAuliffe with the famous response "Nuts!"; meanwhile, the US Third Army shifted its axis of advance in attempt to relieve Bastogne. In Germany, Rundstedt suggested a tactical withdrawal, but the suggestion was refused by Hitler. ww2dbase [Battle of the Bulge | TH]

• P-40 and P-51 fighters of US 14th Air Force attacked Tianhe Airfield in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China, claiming several Japanese fighters shot down. ww2dbase [Tianhe Airfield | Guangzhou, Guangdong | CPC]

• Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Air Group 43 arrived on board. ww2dbase [Barbers Point Naval Air Station | Ewa, Oahu | DS]

• The Soviet occupation administration in Hungary issued an order for the round up, and ultimately for the deportation, of ethnic Germans in Hungary. ww2dbase [Budapest Strategic Offensive Operation | CPC]

• Destroyer Shigure disembarked the 147 survivors of Unryu (sank three days prior) at Sasebo, Japan. ww2dbase [Unryu | Sasebo, Nagasaki | CPC]
• USS Whale attacked a Japanese trawler in the Ryukyu Islands, Japan; all 3 torpedoes missed. ww2dbase [Whale | Okinawa | CPC]
• Landing ship No. 117 was completed and was transferred to the Japanese Army. ww2dbase [No. 101/103-class | CPC]
• Kamoi departed Yokosuka, Japan at 0652 hours, escorted by auxiliary submarine chaser CHa-211, submarine chaser Toshi Maru No. 1, and auxiliary minesweeper Hagoromo Maru; she arrived at Shimizu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan at 1731 hours. ww2dbase [Kamoi | Yokosuka, Kanagawa | CPC]

• USS Shamrock Bay was assigned to US Navy 7th Fleet. ww2dbase [Shamrock Bay | CPC]

• Gato-class submarine USS Silversides departed Midway on her twelfth war patrol in company with submarine USS Tautog. ww2dbase [Tautog | Silversides | Midway | DS]

22 Dec 1944 Interactive Map