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• HMS Snapdragon was bombed and sunk by the Luftwaffe northwest of Benghazi, Libya. ww2dbase [AC]

• USS S-35 disembarked a sick sailor at Adak, US Territory of Alaska and set sail for Kiska. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Workers at Dock No. 4 at Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, US Territory of Hawaii began pouring concrete. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• The P.119 prototype fighter took its first flight. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Tatsuta Maru departed Nagasaki, Japan. ww2dbase [Main Article | Tabular Record of Movement | CPC]

• USS Albacore returned to the site of Tenryu's sinking, which took place on the previous day, and observed wooden crates, 85 empty oil drums, and other debris floating in the water. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Erich von Manstein's units reached a point 30 miles south of Stalingrad, Russia, which would be the extent of their advance. ww2dbase [Main Article | TH]

• Chief Petty Officers Wally Hammond and Don Lister, having previously escaped from Germany, successfully crossed the border into Switzerland. They were prisoners of war of Oflag IV-C at Colditz Castle in Germany. ww2dbase [CPC]

• Captured French sloop La Batailleuse departed Bizerte, Tunisia with an Italian crew for La Spezia, Italy. ww2dbase [CPC]
• Captured French sloop Commandant Rivière departed Bizerte, Tunisia with an Italian crew for La Spezia, Italy. ww2dbase [CPC]

19 Dec 1942 Interactive Map