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

• USS Luce departed Huon Gulf, Australian New Guinea. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• US troops began pushing German troops back in the Ardennes region, thus ending the German offensive. ww2dbase [Main Article | 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 [Main Article | CPC]

• USS Gar arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending her fifteenth and final war patrol. ww2dbase [Main Article | Facility | 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 [Main Article | CPC]

• Landing ship No. 132 was sunk by a US destroyer at Iwo Jima, Japan. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• USS Barbero was damaged by a Japanese aircraft. ww2dbase [Main Article | 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 [Main Article | CPC]

27 Dec 1944 Interactive Map