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• Karl Wiligut was born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary. ww2dbase [Karl Wiligut | Vienna | CPC]

• Chu Kudo was born. ww2dbase [Chu Kudo | CPC]

• Giovanni Messe was born. ww2dbase [Giovanni Messe | CPC]

• László Bárdossy was born. ww2dbase [László Bárdossy | CPC]

• Harold Alexander was born. ww2dbase [Harold Alexander | CPC]

• Kenkichi Ueda was made the chief of staff to the 8th Division. ww2dbase [Kenkichi Ueda | CPC]

10 Dec 1916 Interactive Map

• Russian revolutionary forces captured Rostov, Russia. Kaledin's Cossacks refused to fight and he had no choice but to appeal to General Alekseev to help retake the town. ww2dbase [AC]
• Erwin Rommel was awarded the Pour le Mérite. ww2dbase [Erwin Rommel | CPC]

• Paul Wenneker was released from Dutch internment even though he had officially been released in Jan 1918. ww2dbase [Paul Wenneker | CPC]

• The keel of S-36 was laid down at the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation shipyard in San Francisco, California, United States. ww2dbase [Bethlehem San Francisco Shipyard | S-36 | San Francisco, California | CPC]

10 Dec 1918 Interactive Map

• Vice Admiral Kesataro Kawahara stepped down as the commanding officer of the Ryojun Military Port (previously known as Port Arthur; now Lushunkou, Liaoning Province, China), Kwantung Leased Territory in northeastern China. ww2dbase [Ryojun Guard District | Lushunkou, Liaoning | CPC]

10 Dec 1922 Interactive Map

• Chiang Kaishek was elected back into power. ww2dbase [Chiang Kaishek | CPC]

• Hiroaki Abe was promoted to the rank of commander. ww2dbase [Hiroaki Abe | CPC]
• Tamon Yamaguchi was promoted to the rank of commander. ww2dbase [Tamon Yamaguchi | CPC]
• Commander Sakai was named the commanding officer of destroyer Yuzuki. ww2dbase [Yuzuki | CPC]
• Baron Masaki Shibayama was promoted to the rank of captain and remained the commanding officer of Kamoi. ww2dbase [Kamoi | CPC]

• Captain Isoroku Yamamoto, future head of the Combined Fleet, became the new commanding officer of carrier Akagi. ww2dbase [Akagi | CPC]
• Captain Yorio Sawamoto was named the commanding officer of Tenryu. ww2dbase [Tenryu | CPC]
• Masafumi Arima was named the Vice Chief Gunnery Office of battleship Haruna. ww2dbase [Masafumi Arima | CPC]
• Rear Admiral Kaoru Matsushita was made the commanding officer of Maizuru work department in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. ww2dbase [Maizuru Naval Arsenal | Maizuru, Kyoto | CPC]
• Chiaki Matsuda was promoted to the rank of lieutenant commander and was assigned to the Bureau of Personnel in the Navy Ministry. ww2dbase [Chiaki Matsuda | Tokyo | CPC]
• Minoru Ota was assigned to First Expeditionary Fleet as a staff officer. ww2dbase [Minoru Ota | CPC]

• Vice Admiral Eijiro Hamano was named the commanding officer of the Mako naval port at Pescadores islands, Taiwan. ww2dbase [Mako Guard District | Mako, Hoko | CPC]

10 Dec 1928 Interactive Map

• The Siamese constitution came into effect. ww2dbase [Bangkok | CPC]

• All concentration camps in Germany were transferred under the Inspekteur der KL (Inspector for Concentration Camps, or IKL), who was a part of the SS organization; the only exception was the Kislau Concentration Camp, which remained under the Interior Ministry of Baden. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | CPC]

• General Jiro Minami succeeded General Takashi Hishikari as the Governor-General of Kwantung Leased Territory and the commanding officer of the Japanese Kwantung Army in northeastern China. ww2dbase [Jiro Minami | CPC]

• Talented Vickers tank designer, Sir John Carden, was killed when the Belgian airliner in which he was travelling crashes near Biggin Hill, England, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [AC]
• British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Samuel Hoare and French Prime Minister Pierre Laval secretly agreed on a plan to end the Italo-Ethiopian war by with terms strongly favoring Italy. ww2dbase [Hoare-Laval Pact | CPC]

• The keel for the new Brooklyn-class cruiser St. Louis was laid at Newport News Shipbuilding Company, Newport News, Virginia. ww2dbase [Newport News Shipbuilding | St. Louis | Newport News, Virginia | DS]

10 Dec 1936 Interactive Map

• Chiang Kaishek rejected Tang Shengzhi's request to negotiate with the Japanese for an evacuation of Nanjing, China. Having received no response to the ultimatum issued on the previous day that expired at noon, the Japanese began the assault at 1300 hours. General Iwane Matsui's order to attack included the wording "[y]ou are to observe military regulations to the letter, to set an example for the future.... Anyone who loots or starts a fire, even accidentally, will be severely punished." ww2dbase [Battle of Nanjing and the Rape of Nanjing | Nanjing | CPC]

• Kaga departed Sasebo, Japan. ww2dbase [Kaga | Sasebo, Nagasaki | CPC]
• Japanese transport Shinsho Maru disembarked troops of No. 1 Yokosuka Special Naval Landing Force near Nagoya, Japan on an amphibious assault exercise. ww2dbase [Nagoya, Aichi | CPC]

• USS Permit transited the Panama Canal. ww2dbase [Panama Canal | Permit | CPC]

10 Dec 1937 Interactive Map

• The Lockheed Hudson took flight for the first time. The Hudson would later become the first American-built aircraft to be used operationally by the RAF in World War II. Based on the Electra civil airliner, it was ordered by the British Purchasing Commission as early as in Jun 1938 and deliveries began arriving in the UK in Jan 1939. Pressed into service for Maritime Patrol and Anti-Shipping missions, the type saw wide-spread service around the world and was also operated by the RCAF, RAAF, RNZAF, and both the USAAF and US Navy. ww2dbase [A-29 Hudson | AC]

• Italian physicist Professor Enrico Fermi received the Nobel prize for Physics in Stockholm, Sweden for his work on radioactive elements. Instead of returning home he then fled to the United States with his family (his wife was Jewish) and would later contribute to the Manhatten Project. ww2dbase [Stockholm | AC]

10 Dec 1938 Interactive Map

• Chinese troops launched an attack on Henglingguan Pass south of Jiangxian in northern China; the Japanese troops at the strong point would be driven off by the month's end. ww2dbase [Winter Offensive | CPC]
• Soviet 7th Army, while attacking Finnish defense fortifications, received flanking fire from coastal batteries on the island of Saarenpää; in response, Soviet battleship Oktjabrskaja Revolutsija bombarded the island, but failed to hit the batteries due to heavy fog. In the Gulf of Finland and the Gulf of Bothnia, Soviet submarines sank three ships going in and out of Finnish ports; two of them actually flew German flags. ww2dbase [The Winter War | CPC]

• Georg von Bismarck was named the commanding officer of the 20th Rifle Brigade. ww2dbase [Georg von Bismarck | CPC]
• Before dawn, colonial troops of the Libyan 1st Division withdrew from Maktila, Egypt. In the afternoon, Indian 4th Infantry Division and British 7th Royal Tank Regiment captured Sidi Barrani, pushing Italian 4th Blackshirt Division and another Libyan colonial division into the desert. ww2dbase [Operation Compass | CPC]
• A shell fired randomly across the English Channel from one of Germany’s massive 280mm rail guns fell within a few feet of the British 13.5in "Peacemaker" rail gun at Martin Mill, England, United Kingdom severely damaging one of its bogies and mortally wounding one of the Royal Marine gunners. ww2dbase [AC]

• USS R-1 departed Groton, Connecticut, United States with Submarine Squadron 3 of Submarine Division 42. ww2dbase [R-1 | Groton, Connecticut | CPC]
• USS R-5 departed New London, Connecticut, United States for Cocos Solo, Panama Canal Zone. ww2dbase [R-5 | New London, Connecticut | CPC]

• Thomas Phillips passed away. ww2dbase [Thomas Phillips | CPC]
• Operation Crusader: The siege of Tobruk, Libya was lifted. ww2dbase [Operation Crusader | CPC]
• Japanese Destroyer Squadron 6 conducted amphibious invasion on Wake and Wilkes islands in failure, losing one destroyer and three other craft to shore battery and one destroyer to US aircraft, making them the first Japanese ships to be sunk in the Pacific War; this invasion was the only time in the Pacific War that shore defenders overcame an amphibious landing. In the air, USMC Captain Elrod shot down a Japanese G3M2 Type 96 land attack aircraft at Wake, which was the first USMC air-to-air kill of the Pacific War. On the same day, Japanese aircraft destroyed a 125-ton dynamite cache, and the resulting explosion caused damage to coastal batteries. ww2dbase [Battle of Wake Island | CPC]
• Aircraft from USS Enterprise sank Japanese submarine I-70 in Hawaiian waters. ww2dbase [Attack on Pearl Harbor | Detailed Timetable | CPC]
• German spy Karel Richter was executed at Wandsworth Prison in Britain. ww2dbase [TH]
• In the Mariana Islands, 1,400-strong landing party of the Japanese Navy 5th Defense Force from Saipan landed on Dungcas Beach at Guam. At the same time, 5,500 men of the Japanese South Seas Detached Force landed at Tumon Bay, near Merizo, and at Talafofo Bay. US military governor of Guam, Captain McMillin, surrendered the island to the Japanese Navy commanding officer. Two patrol craft, thirteen lighters, one dredge, three barges, and one auxiliary vessel at Guam were turned over to the Japanese. ww2dbase [Invasion of Guam | CPC]
• British troops withdrew onto Hong Kong island after the defensive Gin Drinker's Line collapsed. ww2dbase [Battle of Hong Kong | AC]
• USS R-1 patrolled the New England coast of northeastern United States. ww2dbase [R-1 | CPC]
• Winston Churchill transferred Burma under the operational command of Archibald Wavell in India. ww2dbase [Archibald Wavell | CPC]
• The Japanese Navy 11th Air Fleet was reorganized to contain three air flotillas, a destroyer division, three transports, and two Special Naval Landing Forces. ww2dbase [CPC]
• Joachim von Ribbentrop ordered the German chargé d'affaires in Washington DC, United States to avoid provoking the United States, as Adolf Hitler would like to declare war on the United States first. ww2dbase [Joachim von Ribbentrop | CPC]
• Soviet troops encircled three German divisions at Livny, south of Moscow, Russia. ww2dbase [Battle of Moscow | CPC]
• German submarine U-130 attacked Allied convoy SC-57 200 miles southwest of Ireland just before midnight at the end of the day, sinking British transport Kurdistan, British transport Kirnwood, and Egyptian transport Star of Luxor. ww2dbase [CPC]
• Captain Karou Umetani of light carrier Hosho received a US submarine sighting report and decided to launch aircraft to hunt for the submarine even though the late launch meant he would have to turn on the flight deck lights after dark when the aircraft returned. No hostile submarines made use of the flight deck lights to attack the carrier, but the landing operations caused Hosho to be separated from the fleet. ww2dbase [Hosho | CPC]
• Russian ship Kuzbass and tug Arcos, Stragglers of Allied convoy QP-3, were found by Soviet ice breaker Fyodor Litke, rescue ship Squall, and Soviet patrol ship SKR-19 at 0900 hours. ww2dbase [Arctic Convoys | CPC]

• USS New Mexico accidentally rammed and sank US freighter Oregon south of the Nantucket Lightship off Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, United States, killing 17. ww2dbase [New Mexico | CPC]

• Joseph Rochefort and his team in Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii began working on decrypting the main Japanese Navy operational code. ww2dbase [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Joseph Rochefort | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]
• After three days of patrolling around the Hawaiian island of Oahu, USS St. Louis arrived at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. ww2dbase [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | St. Louis | Pearl Harbor, Oahu | DS]

• Hans-Joachim Marseille shot down the South African P-40 fighter piloted by Lieutenant B. G. S. Enslin near El Adem, Libya at 0850 hours. It was his 31st kill. ww2dbase [Hans-Joachim Marseille | El Adem | CPC]

• Japanese submarine I-58 spotted British battleship HMS Prince of Wales and battlecruiser HMS Repulse off British Malaya, launched five torpedoes, but all of them missed; beginning at 1117 hours, Japanese aircraft began to attack. Overwhelmed, HMS Repulse was sunk at 1233 hours (513 killed), followed by HMS Prince of Wales at 1318 hours (327 killed); destroyers HMS Electra, HMS Express, and HMS Vampire rescued 1,862 survivors. On land, the British commanders dispatched the 1st Battalion of the 14th Punjab Regiment and the 2nd Battalion of the 1st Gurkha Rifles regiment to Changlun and Asun in northern British Malaya to counter the Japanese advance; contact was made at Changlun at 2100 hours, where two Japanese tanks were destroyed before the Punjabi troops fell back toward Asun. ww2dbase [Invasion of Malaya and Singapore | Kongo | Haruna | Kumano | Takao | Atago | Prince of Wales | Repulse | I-58/I-158 | South China Sea | CPC]

• Cavite Navy Yard in the Philippine Islands was heavily damaged by Japanese aircraft; destroyers Peary and Pillsbury, submarines Seadragon and Sealion, and submarine tender Otus were damaged; ferry Santa Rita was sunk; minesweeper Bittern was destroyed by fire; about 60% of US Navy Asiatic Fleet's torpedoes were destroyed at Cavite. A PBY Catalina aircraft, fleeing from the attack on Cavite Navy Yard, was attacked by three Zero fighters; gunner Chief Boatswain Payne shot down one of the Zero fighters, thus scoring the US Navy's first verifiable air-to-air kill of a Japanese aircraft in the Pacific War. Elsewhere, Japanese aircraft attacked Manila Bay area, damaging American freighter Sagoland. Finally, Japanese troops of the 2nd Taiwan Regiment of the 48th Division landed on Camiguin Island and at Gonzaga, Vigan, and Aparri on Luzon Island. ww2dbase [Invasion of the Philippine Islands | CPC]
• While guarding transports which disembarked troops on Luzon, Philippine Islands, Naka was attacked by US B-17 bombers, P-35A fighters, and P-40B fighters, receiving slight damage from strafing. ww2dbase [Naka | CPC]
• Saburo Sakai, flying an A6M Zero fighter, shot down a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber flown by Captain Colin Kelly in the Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Saburo Sakai | CPC]

• USS Gar arrived at San Diego, California, United States. ww2dbase [Gar | San Diego, California | CPC]
• USS Flying Fish was commissioned into service with Lieutenant Commander Glynn Donaho in command. ww2dbase [Flying Fish | CPC]
• Franklin Roosevelt tore up a letter he drafted for Winston Churchill intending to delay Churchill's request for a conference as he heard news of the Japanese sinking of HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse off Malaya and realized the urgency of having to plan for a campaign against the Japanese. ww2dbase [First Washington Conference | Washington | CPC]
• USS S-26 departed New London, Connecticut, United States. ww2dbase [S-26 | New London, Connecticut | CPC]

10 Dec 1941 Interactive Map

• Yekaterina Budanova shot down two Bf 110 fighters. ww2dbase [Yekaterina Budanova | CPC]
• No. 1 Demolition Squadron, PPA (Popski's Private Army), commanded by Major Vladimir Peniakoff, became operational as a British Special Forces unit, formed specifically to raid Axis fuel supply lines in North Africa. ww2dbase [AC]
• The repair work on light cruiser Voroshilov, damaged by mines on 29 Nov 1942, began. ww2dbase [Voroshilov | CPC]
• S-36 received a message noting that her base, the Cavite Navy Yard in the Philippine Islands, had been attacked. ww2dbase [S-36 | CPC]
• USS Nicholas departed Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands bound for Nouméa, New Caledonia. ww2dbase [Nicholas | DS]

• Ambra launched three manned torpedoes and ten frogmen against Algiers, French Algeria in Operation NA 1, sinking one cargo ship and damaging two other cargo ships; all Italian torpedo crew members and frogmen were captured at the end of the operation. ww2dbase [Ambra | Algiers | CPC]

• Submarine USS Growler arrived at Brisbane, Australia at the completion of her third war patrol. During this patrol, Growler operated off the east coast of New Ireland, Bismarck Islands in the lanes between Truk and Rabaul but sank no shipping. ww2dbase [Growler | Brisbane, Queensland | DS]

• Amagiri and Yugure arrived at Shortland Islands, Solomon Islands at 0700 hours. ww2dbase [Amagiri | Yugure | Shortland Islands | CPC]
• Destroyers USS Saufley and USS DeHaven arrived at Tulagi in the Solomon Islands. ww2dbase [Saufley | Tulagi, Solomon Islands | DS]

• Satoru Anabuki, flying Ki-43 fighter "Fubuki", shot down a Hurricane fighter over Chittagong, India (now Bangladesh), his fifth victory. ww2dbase [Satoru Anabuki | Chittagong | CPC]

• The Italian Air Force established the Air Force Assault Engineer Battalion within 1st Air Force Assault Regiment. ww2dbase [CPC]

• Destroyer Yukikaze arrived at Kure, Japan. ww2dbase [Yukikaze | Kure, Hiroshima | CPC]

• At Nouméa, New Caledonia, Rear Admiral Walden Ainsworth assumed command of Task Force 67, USS Louisville flagship. ww2dbase [Walden Ainsworth | Louisville | Nouméa | DS]

• USS Columbia arrived at Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides. ww2dbase [Columbia | Espiritu Santo | CPC]
• Destroyers USS Lansdowne and Shaw arrived at Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides. ww2dbase [Lansdowne | Shaw | Segund Channel, Espirtu Santo | DS]

• USS Wahoo attacked a Japanese convoy consisted of one tanker and two freighters with one escorting destroyer in the Pacific Ocean, sinking freighter Kamoi Maru with 3 of 4 torpedoes. ww2dbase [Wahoo | CPC]

• Three transports arrived at Auschwitz Concentration Camp. The first was from the Netherlands with 927 Jews; 39 men and 3 women were registered, and 885 were gassed. The second was from Berlin, Germany with 1,060 Jews; 137 men and 25 women were registered, and 898 were gassed. The third was from Malkinia, Poland with about 2,500 Jews; 524 were registered and about 1,976 were gassed. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Auschwitz Concentration Camp | Oswiecim | CPC]

10 Dec 1942 Interactive Map

• 25 RAF Mosquito aircraft attacked Leverkusen, Germany. ww2dbase [Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | CPC]
• Lieutenant Commander Masamichi Terauchi was named the commanding officer of destroyer Yukikaze. ww2dbase [Yukikaze | CPC]
• At Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Commander Robert Keith relieved Commander Andrew Hill as commanding officer of USS Nicholas. Later that day, Nicholas departed Pearl Harbor bound for San Francisco, California, United States. ww2dbase [Nicholas | DS]

• Submarine USS Tinosa stopped at Darwin, Australia where she took on 39,000 gallons of fuel oil before pressing on toward Fremantle. ww2dbase [Tinosa | Darwin | DS]

• 64th Bomb Squadron (flying B-24 aircraft) of USAAF 43rd Bomb Group was transferred from Port Moresby to Dobodura Airfield, Australian Papua. ww2dbase [Dobodura Airfield | Dobodura | CPC]

• Torokina Airfield at Bougainville, Solomon Islands was declared fully operational after a short 40-day construction. 17 F4U aircraft of US Marine Corps squadron VMF-216 became the first to officially arrive at the airfield, although the airfield had already received two unscheduled emergency landings on 24 Nov 1943 and 8 Dec 1943. ww2dbase [Solomon Islands Campaign | Cape Torokina, Bougainville | CPC]

• René-Émile Godfroy was forced into retirement. ww2dbase [René-Émile Godfroy | CPC]

• Karl von Le Suire issued the order to destroy the town of Kalavryta, Greece as retribution for the killing of 78 German soldiers by Greek ELAS partisan fighters. This would result in the Massacre of Kalavryta thre days later, which saw the death of about 700 Greek civilians. ww2dbase [Karl von Le Suire | Kalavryta, Western Greece | CPC]

• British Eighth Army, with Canadian elements, crossed the Moro River in Italy and entered "The Gully", capturing Vino Ridge. To the west, US troops captured the heights surrounding the Mignano Gap in Italy. ww2dbase [Advance to the Gustav Line | TH, CPC]

• The keel of landing ship No. 129 was laid down by Kawanami Kogyo. ww2dbase [No. 101/103-class | CPC]

• Irako arrived at Saipan, Mariana Islands. ww2dbase [Irako | Saipan | CPC]

• Allen Dulles, OSS Station chief in Switzerland, reported to Washington details of the development of a new German U-boat fitted with Schnorkel underwater breathing devices. ww2dbase [AC]

• USS Wake Island arrived at San Francisco, California, United States. ww2dbase [Wake Island | San Francisco, California | CPC]

10 Dec 1943 Interactive Map

• US Third Army captured Haguenau and Sarreguemines in northeastern France. ww2dbase [TH]
• Destroyer Yuzuki departed Manila, Luzon, Philippine Islands, escorting troop convoy TA No. 9 for Ormoc, Leyte, Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Yuzuki | CPC]
• Adolf Hitler arrived at the Adlerhorst headquarters in Wetterau, Germany. ww2dbase [Adolf Hitler | CPC]
• USS Nicholas detached from the Hollandia bound convoy and steered toward Seeadler Harbor, Manus, Admiralty Islands. ww2dbase [Nicholas | DS]

• The world's longest Bailey bridge (at the length of 1,154 feet) was completed over the Chindwin River in Burma by the Anglo-Indian troops. ww2dbase [Battle of Meiktila-Mandalay | CPC]

• USS Ticonderoga departs Ulithi, Caroline Islands with Task Group 38.3. ww2dbase [Ticonderoga | Ulithi | DS]
• USS Marcus Island departed Kossol Roads, Palau Islands. ww2dbase [Marcus Island | Palau | CPC]
• USS Alabama departed Ulithi, Caroline Islands. ww2dbase [Alabama | Ulithi | CPC]
• USS Wasp departed Ulithi, Caroline Islands. ww2dbase [Wasp (Essex-class) | Ulithi | CPC]
• USS Yorktown (Essex-class) departed Ulithi, Caroline Islands to rejoin the fleet east of the Philippines. ww2dbase [Yorktown (Essex-class) | Ulithi | DS]

• Patrol Boat No. 102 departed Quy Nhon, Annam, French Indochina at 0558 hours. ww2dbase [Stewart | Quy Nhon, Annam | CPC]

• USS Haddock arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending her tenth war patrol. ww2dbase [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Haddock | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]

• Unryu arrived at Kure, Japan. ww2dbase [Unryu | Kure, Hiroshima | CPC]
• Japanese Navy landing ship No. 185 was completed and was transferred to the Army as a SB craft. ww2dbase [No. 101/103-class | CPC]
• Kamoi entered drydocks at Yokosuka, Japan for repairs. ww2dbase [Kamoi | Yokosuka, Kanagawa | CPC]

• Submarine USS Spearfish departed Saipan and resumed her twelfth war patrol. ww2dbase [Spearfish | Saipan | DS]

• Emden was refloated in the Oslofjord, Norway after having run aground on the previous day. ww2dbase [Emden | Oslofjord | CPC]

• USS Preston guarded carriers while the carriers launched strikes against Luzon, Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Preston (Fletcher-class) | CPC]

• The Soviet Foreign Commissariat began to expel US and UK intelligence personnel from Romania. ww2dbase [CPC]

• Allied convoy RA-62 departed the Kola Inlet near Murmansk, Russia. ww2dbase [Arctic Convoys | Murmansk | CPC]

10 Dec 1944 Interactive Map

• USS DD-224 completed fuel pump problems and departed Apra Harbor, Guam. ww2dbase [Stewart | Apra Harbor | CPC]

• USS Miami arrived at Long Beach, California, United States. ww2dbase [Miami | Long Beach, California | CPC]
• Jack Heyn married Evelyn "Jonnie" Johnson. ww2dbase [Jack Heyn | CPC]

• USS Sennet began her participation in the Operation Highjump Antarctic expedition. ww2dbase [Sennet | CPC]

• Chiang Kaishek departed Fenghuangshan Airfield, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China at 1400 hours for Taiwan aboard C-54 transport "Zhongmei" piloted by Yi Fuen. Communist general Ye Jianying in Guangdong Province in southern China requested permission to intercept the C-54 aircraft, but he would never launch his fighters as his superiors failed to respond to his request. ww2dbase [Fenghuangshan Airfield | Chiang Kaishek | Chengdu, Sichuan | CPC]

• Adrian Pelt of the Netherlands was appointed the United Nations Commissioner of Libya. ww2dbase [CPC]

10 Dec 1949 Interactive Map

• USS Hawkbill was recommissioned into service. ww2dbase [Hawkbill | CPC]

• Shigeru Yoshida stepped down as the Prime Minister of Japan after a unfavorable outcome in a vote of no confidence. ww2dbase [Shigeru Yoshida | Tokyo | CPC]

• Napoleon Zervas passed away. ww2dbase [Napoleon Zervas | CPC]

• Princess Aisin Gioro Huisheng's remains were discovered at Mount Amagi in Japan with a bullet wound to the head. ww2dbase [CPC]

• USS Wasp arrived at Boston, Massachusetts, United States. ww2dbase [Wasp (Essex-class) | Boston, Massachusetts | CPC]

• Chen Cheng stepped down from his position as the head of the Legislative Yuan of the Republic of China. ww2dbase [Chen Cheng | CPC]

• USS Wasp completed a period of carrier qualifications off Jacksonville, Florida, United States. ww2dbase [Wasp (Essex-class) | Jacksonville, Florida | CPC]

• Battleship Iowa was opened to tourists as a museum ship at Port of Richmond, California, United States. ww2dbase [Iowa | Los Angeles, California | CPC]

10 Dec 2011 Interactive Map

• Daniel Inouye was transferred from the George Washington University Hospital in Washington DC, United States to nearby Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington DC, United States. ww2dbase [Daniel Inouye | Washington | CPC]

10 Dec 2012 Interactive Map