21 Dec 1944




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- USS Wasp's aircraft attacked Japanese positions on Taiwan and in the Ryukyu Islands. ww2dbase [Wasp (Essex-class) | CPC]
- USAAF pilot Donald Bryan damaged a German Ar 234 aircraft. ww2dbase [CPC]
- US forces captured Stavelot, Belgium, while the Germans surrounded Bastogne and captured St. Vith. ww2dbase [Battle of the Bulge | TH]
- Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Air Group 42 returned to station. ww2dbase [Barbers Point Naval Air Station | Ewa, Oahu | DS]
- Italian Marshal Rodolfo Graziani and General Mario Carloni inspected troops of the 4th Alpine Division "Monte Rosa" in the Garfagnana area of Toscana, Italy. ww2dbase [Battle of Garfagnana | Toscana | CPC]
- USS Whale attacked a Japanese trawler in the Ryukyu Islands, Japan; all 4 torpedoes missed. ww2dbase [Whale | Okinawa | CPC]
- USS Preston guarded carriers while the carriers launched strikes against Luzon, Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Preston (Fletcher-class) | CPC]
- Destroyer USS Brown picked up the only survivors to be found from the sunken USS Monaghan floating with a life raft. They were Doil Carpenter, Robert Darden, Evan Fenn, William Kramer, Joseph McCrane, and James Story ww2dbase [Monaghan | Typhoon Cobra | DS]
- USS Bennington transited the Panama Canal. ww2dbase [Panama Canal | Bennington | DS]
- While escorting a supply convoy for Mangarin Bay in the Philippine Islands, USS Kimberly came under Japanese aerial attack; her gunners claimed to have shot down one and assisted in the downing of two others. ww2dbase [Kimberly | Philippines Campaign, Phase 1, the Leyte Campaign | Mangarin Bay | CPC]
- USS Ancon completed her repairs at Charleston Navy Yard in South Carolina, United States. ww2dbase [Ancon | Charleston, South Carolina | CPC]
- Henry Arnold was promoted to the temporary rank of General of the Army. ww2dbase [Henry Arnold | CPC]




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