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• USS Kete arrived north of Okinawa, Japan. ww2dbase [Kete | CPC]
• USS Gunnel ended her seventh war patrol. ww2dbase [Gunnel | CPC]
• USS Nicholas delivered two Australian cruisers to Kossol Roads, Palau and departed immediately for Leyte Gulf, Philippines. ww2dbase [Nicholas | DS]

• The Infantry Landing Ship Empire Javelin was torpedoed and sunk by the German Submarine U-772 in the English Channel. Among the passengers were 208 officers and 624 enlisted men of the main body of the newly raised US 15th Army. Most were rescued by the French frigate L'Escarmouche, but thirteen men were reported as missing in action and 20 others sustained injuries. ww2dbase [English Channel | AC]

• Destroyer USS Saufley and attack transport USS Olmsted departed Aitape, New Guinea on their return voyage to Manus, Admiralty Islands. ww2dbase [Saufley | Aitape, New Guinea | DS]

• Destroyer USS Shaw departed Aitape, New Guinea bound for Lingayen Gulf, Luzon, Philippines. ww2dbase [Philippines Campaign, Phase 2 | Shaw | Aitape, New Guinea | DS]

• American troops began gaining ground in their counteroffensive in the Battle of the Bulge. Adolf Hitler ordered renewed offensives in Alsace and Ardennes regions against the advice of his generals. ww2dbase [Battle of the Bulge | TH]

• Escort carrier USS Bogue and her task group arrived at Port Royal Bay, Bermuda. ww2dbase [Bogue | Port Royal Bay | DS]

• The first 150 Jewish prisoners from Buchenwald Concentration Camp arrived at the HASAG Leipzig subcamp near the village of Flösenberg, Germany. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | HASAG Leipzig | Flösenberg, Bayreuth | CPC]
• The USAAF 306th Bomb Group flying from RAF Thurleigh launched a bombing raid against Siegburg, Germany but the group overshot and bombed the target of opportunity of Koblenz. ww2dbase [Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | RAF Thurleigh | Koblenz | DS]

• 21st Brigade of Indian 8th Infantry Division arrived on the western end of the German Gothic Line in Toscana, Italy. ww2dbase [Battle of Garfagnana | Toscana | CPC]

• Light carrier Ryuho departed Kure, Japan for Moji, Japan. ww2dbase [Ryuho | Kure, Hiroshima | CPC]
• Kamoi departed Kure, Japan at 0715 hours and arrived off Hesaki Lighthouse at 1719 hours. ww2dbase [Kamoi | Fukuoka | CPC]

28 Dec 1944 Interactive Map