28 Dec 1942

- Concentration camp doctors at Birkenau began sterilization experiments on female prisoners. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | CPC]
- Chiang Kaishek cabled Washington DC in the United States, complaining of Archibald Wavell's uncooperativeness regarding a possible coordinated offensive in Burma. ww2dbase [Chiang Kaishek | CPC]
- Yugure, Urakaze, Tanikaze, Isonami, Inazuma, and Arashio arrived at Rabaul, New Britain, Bismarck Islands. ww2dbase [Arashio | Tanikaze | Yugure | Rabaul, New Britain | CPC]
- Repair ship Akashi began refitting light cruiser Sendai at Truk, Caroline Islands. ww2dbase [Akashi | Truk | CPC]
- Alfred Flatow, German Olympic gymnast, passed away in Theresienstadt Concentration Camp in occupied Czechoslovakia. ww2dbase [Theresienstadt Concentration Camp | TerezĂn, Cechy | CPC]
- Tatsuta Maru arrived at Balikpapan, Borneo and took on fuel. ww2dbase [Tatsuta Maru | Balikpapan, Borneo | CPC]
- USS Haddock departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her third war patrol. ww2dbase [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Haddock | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]
- Nikolai Kamanin, flew his first WW2 combat sortie, over Velikiye Luki, Leningrad Oblast (now in Pskov Oblast), Russia. ww2dbase [Nikolai Kamanin | Velikiye Luki, Leningrad | CPC]
- Robert Johnson and fellow members of the USAAF 61st Fighter Squadron arrived at Camp Kilmer at Piscataway and Edison, New Jersey, United States. ww2dbase [Robert Johnson | Edison, New Jersey | CPC]


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