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• Hitler ordered a halt to attacks on Leningrad in northern Russia, instead ordering that the city be starved into submission. ww2dbase [Siege of Leningrad | TH]
• German submarine U-124 sank British ship Empire Stream 500 miles north of the Azores islands at 0744 hours; 8 were killed, 27 survived. ww2dbase [CPC]
• John Kennedy enlisted in the US Navy. ww2dbase [John Kennedy | CPC]
• The Jager Report (issued on 1 Dec 1941) noted that 215 adult male, 229 adult female, and 131 children, all Jews, were killed in Jahiuna, Lithuania for a total of 575 people. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | CPC]
• Captain Tsunekichi Fukuzawa was named the commanding officer of repair ship Akashi. ww2dbase [Akashi | CPC]

• Morosini sighted a large bomber in the Atlantic Ocean at 0854 hours; she submerged to avoid detection. ww2dbase [Morosini | CPC]

• USS New Mexico departed at Reykjavik, Iceland. ww2dbase [New Mexico | Reykjavik | CPC]

• Zuikaku was commissioned into service with her Chief Equipping Officer Captain Yokokawa Ichibei remaining as the commanding officer She departed Kobe, Japan to join the 1st Air Fleet at Kure to the west. ww2dbase [Zuikaku | Kobe, Hyogo | CPC]

• German and Romanian troops reached the Perekop Isthmus in Russia and began to cut off the Crimean Peninsula. ww2dbase [Krym | CPC]

• Georges Boris, the Free French liaison with the BBC, spoke on air and called on all French people to stop the Germans from taking French goods. ww2dbase [CPC]

• The keel of submarine Sunfish was laid down at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, California, United States. ww2dbase [Mare Island Navy Yard | Sunfish (Gato-class) | Vallejo, California | CPC]

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