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• USS Wasp's aircraft attacked Japanese positions on Taiwan and in the Ryukyu Islands. ww2dbase [Main Article | 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 [Main Article | TH]

• Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Air Group 42 returned to station. ww2dbase [Main Article | 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 [Main Article | CPC]

• USS Whale attacked a Japanese trawler in the Ryukyu Islands, Japan; all 4 torpedoes missed. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• USS Preston guarded carriers while the carriers launched strikes against Luzon, Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• USS Ancon completed her repairs at Charleston Navy Yard in South Carolina, United States. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Henry Arnold was promoted to the temporary rank of General of the Army. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

21 Dec 1944 Interactive Map