27 Dec 1944



- 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]
- 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 [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Gar | 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]




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