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• Concentration camp doctors at Birkenau began sterilization experiments on female prisoners. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
• Chiang Kaishek cabled Washington DC in the United States, complaining of Archibald Wavell's uncooperativeness regarding a possible coordinated offensive in Burma. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Repair ship Akashi began refitting light cruiser Sendai at Truk, Caroline Islands. ww2dbase [Main Article | Tabular Record of Movement | CPC]

• Alfred Flatow, German Olympic gymnast, passed away in Theresienstadt Concentration Camp in occupied Czechoslovakia. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Tatsuta Maru arrived at Balikpapan, Borneo and took on fuel. ww2dbase [Main Article | Tabular Record of Movement | CPC]

• USS Haddock departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her third war patrol. ww2dbase [Main Article | Facility | CPC]

• Nikolai Kamanin, flew his first WW2 combat sortie, over Velikiye Luki, Leningrad Oblast (now in Pskov Oblast), Russia. ww2dbase [Main Article | 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 [Main Article | CPC]

28 Dec 1942 Interactive Map