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• USS Sea Cat claimed partial credit in the sinking of a 5,000-ton Japanese ship; the credit was removed after the war. ww2dbase [Sea Cat | CPC]
• USS Gar began her fifteenth war patrol. ww2dbase [Gar | CPC]
• Song Ziwen was named the acting chief of the Executive Yuan. ww2dbase [Song Ziwen | CPC]

• USS Spot departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her first war patrol. ww2dbase [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Spot | CPC]
• Barbers Point Naval Air Station: First overall of Mk 13 torpedo completed at the newly upgraded torpedo shop. ww2dbase [Barbers Point Naval Air Station | DS]
• USS Proteus arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. ww2dbase [Proteus | CPC]

• USS Whale arrived in the Ryukyu Islands, Japan. ww2dbase [Whale | CPC]

• The US publication Time reported that Tito had announced a provisional socialist Yugoslavian government from Moscow, Russia. ww2dbase [Josip Tito | TH, CPC]

4 Dec 1944 Interactive Map