5 Dec 1942


- Renshaw was commissioned into service. ww2dbase [Renshaw | CPC]
- HMS Canna was destroyed by a fire at Lagos, Nigeria, British West Africa. ww2dbase [AC]
- Executive Order No. 9-27 was issued in the United States, placing all services under the provisions of the Selective Service Act. ww2dbase [CPC]
- Captain Mitsuharu Ueda was named the commanding officer of Tenryu. ww2dbase [Tenryu | CPC]
- Destroyer Yukikaze departed Truk, Caroline Islands to escort carrier Hiyo to Japan. ww2dbase [Yukikaze | Truk | CPC]
- Graf Zeppelin was towed to Kiel, Germany. ww2dbase [Deutsche Werke Kiel | Graf Zeppelin | Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein | CPC]
- The SS authorities organized a general selection among the prisoners of the female camp BIa in Auschwitz II-Birkenau Concentration Camp, which lasted all day, after which 2,000 young, healthy and fit to work women prisoners were killed in gas chambers. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Auschwitz Concentration Camp | Oswiecim | CPC]
- Despite heavy fog, 17 He 111 and about 50 Ju 52/3m aircraft were able to fly 150 tons of supplies into Stalingrad, Russia. ww2dbase [Battle of Stalingrad | Stalingrad | CPC]



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