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• HMS Cumberland provided distant cover with HM Battleship Anson and HM Destroyers Forester, Icarus, Impulsive, HM Escort Destroyers Blankney and Chiddingfold for passage of Russian Convoy JW51B. ww2dbase [Cumberland | Anson | DS]

• USS S-28 arrived at Dutch Harbor, US Territory of Alaska. ww2dbase [S-28 | Unalaska | CPC]
• USS S-35 suffered electrical fires during a storm, forcing her to end the war patrol early. ww2dbase [S-35 | CPC]

• British and Commonwealth troops crossed the Indian-Burmese border, moving into Japanese-controlled Arakan Peninsula. ww2dbase [First Battle of Arakan | Arakan | CPC]

• Comandante Cappellini departed Le Verdon-sur-Mer, Aquitaine, France at 0930 hours and arrived at La Pallice, La Rochelle, France at 1900 hours. ww2dbase [Comandante Cappellini | Le Verdon-sur-Mer, Aquitaine | CPC]

• Kurt Zeitzler asked Adolf Hitler for permission for Friedrich Paulus' German 6.Armee, encircled within Stalingrad, Russia, to break out to meet Erich von Manstein's relief efforts from the outside. Hitler rejected it, noting that German troops were to hold Stalingrad. ww2dbase [Battle of Stalingrad | TH]

• Submarine USS Saury ended her fifth war patrol at Pearl Harbor, Hawai'i. She was then ordered to the Mare Island Navy Yard for a badly needed overhaul. ww2dbase [Saury | Pearl Harbor, Oahu | DS]

• USS St. Louis and convoy arrived at Nouméa, New Caledonia. ww2dbase [St. Louis | Nouméa | DS]

• Tatsuta Maru arrived at Mako, Pescadores and departed later in the same day. ww2dbase [Mako Guard District | Tatsuta Maru | Mako, Hoko | CPC]

• After two weeks of maneuvers and shakedown, escort carrier USS Card departed San Diego, California bound for Puget Sound, Washington. ww2dbase [Card | San Diego, California | DS]

21 Dec 1942 Interactive Map