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• USS Mingo attacked a Japanese convoy between Singapore and Brunei, Borneo, damaging an escorting gunboat and sinking tanker Manila Maru. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• USS Snook began her eighth war patrol. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• US 2nd Armored Division, with British help, stopped German 2.Panzer Division just 4 miles from the Meuse River in Belgium. ww2dbase [Main Article | TH]
• A surprise Luftwaffe attack on Bastogne, Belgium bombed Anthony McAuliffe's headquarters and the 10th Armored aid station. The three–storey building collapsed on top of the wounded patients and set the ruins on fire. Nurse Renée Lemaire was killed together with twenty-five seriously wounded patients, burnt to death in their beds. Soldiers rushing to pull away debris found themselves also machine gunned by the low-flying bombers. ww2dbase [Main Article | AC]

• The small US and British military missions previously sent to eastern Czechoslovakia to aid the Slovak National Uprising were captured by the Germans. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Yokosuka, Japan. ww2dbase [Main Article | Tabular Record of Movement | CPC]
• Kamoi departed Oshima Bay, Japan at 0818 hours and arrived at Naoshima, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan at 2328 hours. ww2dbase [Main Article | Tabular Record of Movement | CPC]

• Three baby girls were born in the Auschwitz Concentration Camp in occupied Poland. ww2dbase [Main Article | Facility | CPC]

25 Dec 1944 Interactive Map