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• Hitler publicly announced that the war against the Soviet Union is all but over. ww2dbase [TH]
• Georg von Bismarck was named the commanding officer of the 20th Panzer Division. ww2dbase [Georg von Bismarck | CPC]
• Vannevar Bush took the British Military Application of Uranium Detonation (MAUD) Committee Report to US President Franklin Roosevelt, who agreed to work together with the British to develop atomic weapons. ww2dbase [Operation Trinity and Manhattan Project | CPC]
• The keel of trawler Anticosti was laid down. ww2dbase [Anticosti | CPC]
• The Jager Report (issued on 1 Dec 1941) noted that 1,169 adult male, 1,840 adult female, and 717 children, all Jews, were killed in Svenciany, Lithuania for a total of 3,726 people. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | CPC]
• A trade agreement was signed between Turkey and Germany under which the latter would get no deliveries of chrome until 1943. ww2dbase [AC]

• No. 601 Squadron RAF mounted a mission with four P-39 Airacobra aircraft, strafing German barges near Dunkerque, France. This was to be the final Airacobra mission with the RAF. ww2dbase [P-39 Airacobra | CPC]

• A detachment of Soviet NKVD troops prevented a company of German Brandenburg 800 Division saboteurs from destroying the Istra Water Reservoir near Moscow, Russia. ww2dbase [CPC]

• Allied convoy QP-1 arrived at Scapa Flow, Scotland, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [Arctic Convoys | Scapa Flow | CPC]

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