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• US submarines reported the sinking of 27 enemy vessels throughout the Pacific and Far Eastern waters. ww2dbase [CPC]
• USS Makin Island departed Manus, Admiralty Islands. ww2dbase [Makin Island | DS]
• USS Wake Island arrived at Manus Island, Admiralty Islands. ww2dbase [Wake Island | CPC]

• USS Luce departed Huon Gulf, Australian New Guinea. ww2dbase [Luce | Huon Gulf | CPC]
• Casablanca-class escort carrier USS Steamer Bay departed Seeadler Harbor as part of a task unit of 17 escort carriers bound for Kossol Passage in the Palau Islands. ww2dbase [Steamer Bay | Manus, Admiralty Islands | DS]
• Destroyer USS Saufley and attack transport USS Olmsted arrived at Aitape, New Guinea. ww2dbase [Saufley | Aitape, New Guinea | DS]

• US troops began pushing German troops back in the Ardennes region, thus ending the German offensive. ww2dbase [Battle of the Bulge | TH]

• 17 P-51 fighters of US 14th Air Force attacked Tianhe Airfield in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China, claiming 10 Japanese fighters destroyed; 2 P-51 fighters were shot down. ww2dbase [Tianhe Airfield | Guangzhou, Guangdong | CPC]

• USS Gar arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending her fifteenth and final war patrol. ww2dbase [Gar | Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]

• Axis troops captured Pian di Coreglia, Italy and would penetrate the Allied lines by 25 kilometers by the afternoon. The presence of fresh Indian troops, however, stopped the Axis momentum. ww2dbase [Battle of Garfagnana | Pian di Coreglia, Toscana | CPC]

• Landing ship No. 132 was sunk by a US destroyer at Iwo Jima, Japan. ww2dbase [No. 101/103-class | Iwo Jima | CPC]

• USS Caiman detected a small Japanese armed ship in the South China Sea and fired 3 torpedoes; they failed to hit the target. ww2dbase [Caiman | South China Sea | CPC]
• USS Barbero was damaged by a Japanese aircraft. ww2dbase [Barbero | CPC]

• USS Honolulu shifted to the Norfolk Navay Yard at Portsmouth, Virginia where overhaul repairs were begun. ww2dbase [Norfolk Navy Yard | Honolulu | Portsmouth, Virginia | DS]

27 Dec 1944 Interactive Map