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History on the 1st of December

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01 Dec 1910 WW2 Louis Slotin was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. 
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01 Dec 1910 WW2 Vice Admiral Hikohachi Yamada succeeded Vice Admiral Baron Sadayasu Tomioka as the commanding officer of the Ryojun Naval District (previously known as Port Arthur; now Lushunkou, Liaoning Province, China), Kwantung Leased Territory in northeastern China. Vice Admiral Tadamichi Kamaya was named Yamada's chief of staff. 
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01 Dec 1910 WW2 Prince Hiroyasu was promoted to the rank of captain and was made the commanding officer of armored cruiser Asahi. 
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01 Dec 1910 WW2 Vice Admiral Hikojiro Ijichi was named the commanding officer of the Mako naval port at Pescadores islands, Taiwan. 
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01 Dec 1911 WW2 Chuichi Nagumo was promoted to the rank of sublieutenant. 
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01 Dec 1911 WW2 Rear Admiral Sukeshiro Hanabusa replaced Vice Admiral Tadamichi Kamaya as the chief of staff of Vice Admiral Hikohachi Yamada (Ryojun Naval District, northeastern China). 
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01 Dec 1911 WW2 Captain Morihide Tanaka was named the Chief Equipping Officer of Settsu. 
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01 Dec 1911 WW2 Vice Admiral Kotaro Koizumi was named the commanding officer of the Mako naval port at Pescadores islands, Taiwan. 
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01 Dec 1912 WW2 Hiroaki Abe was promoted to the rank of ensign. 
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01 Dec 1912 WW2 Vice Admiral Hajime Sakamoto succeeded Vice Admiral Hikohachi Yamada as the commanding officer of the Ryojun Naval District (previously known as Port Arthur; now Lushunkou, Liaoning Province, China), Kwantung Leased Territory in northeastern China. Rear Admiral Sadaichi Hiraoka was named Sakamoto's chief of staff. 
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01 Dec 1912 WW2 Prince Hiroyasu attended Japanese Navy War College. 
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01 Dec 1912 WW2 Captain Morihide Tanaka was officially named the commanding officer of Settsu; he had been the ship's Chief Equipping Officer since Dec 1911. 
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01 Dec 1912 WW2 Captain Shibakichi Yamanaka was named the commanding officer of Settsu, and Settsu was assigned to Battleship Division 1. 
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01 Dec 1912 WW2 Henry Arnold was transferred to the Aeronautical Division of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer of the US Army in Washington DC, United States. 
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01 Dec 1913 WW2 Tamon Yamaguchi was promoted to the rank of ensign. 
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01 Dec 1913 WW2 Chuichi Nagumo enrolled at the Japanese naval war college. 
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01 Dec 1913 WW2 Kichisaburo Nomura was promoted to the rank of commander. 
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01 Dec 1913 WW2 Captain Takeshi Kimura was named the commanding officer of Settsu. 
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01 Dec 1913 WW2 Vice Admiral Tadamichi Kamaya was named the commanding officer of the Mako naval port at Pescadores islands, Taiwan. Vice Admiral Kotaro Tanaka was named his Chief of Staff. 
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01 Dec 1914 WW2 Chuichi Nagumo was promoted to the rank of lieutenant and was assigned to battleship Kirishima. 
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01 Dec 1914 WW2 Captain Yasujiro Nagata was named the commanding officer of Settsu. 
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01 Dec 1916 WW2 Chuichi Nagumo was attached to the Fourth Fleet. 
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01 Dec 1916 WW2 Admiral Teijiro Kuroi succeeded Vice Admiral Takeshi Takarabe as the commanding officer of the Ryojun Military Port (previously known as Port Arthur; now Lushunkou, Liaoning Province, China), Kwantung Leased Territory in northeastern China. 
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01 Dec 1916 WW2 Destroyer Kashi was launched at Maizuru Naval Arsenal, Japan. 
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01 Dec 1916 WW2 Prince Hiroyasu was promoted to the rank of vice admiral. 
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01 Dec 1916 WW2 Masafumi Arima was promoted to the rank of ensign. 
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01 Dec 1916 WW2 Captain Chikatami Honda was named the commanding officer of Settsu, and Settsu was placed in reserve at Kure, Japan for a scheduled period of refitting. 
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01 Dec 1916 WW2 Vice Admiral Kichitaro Togo was named the commanding officer of Chinkai Guard District in southern Korea. 
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01 Dec 1916 WW2 Vice Admiral Tatsuo Matsumura was named the commanding officer of the Mako naval port at Pescadores islands, Taiwan. 
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01 Dec 1917 WW2 Hiroaki Abe was promoted to the rank of lieutenant. 
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01 Dec 1917 WW2 Ise was commissioned into service. 
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01 Dec 1917 WW2 Mississippi was commissioned into service. 
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01 Dec 1917 WW2 Nobutake Kondo enrolled at the Japanese Naval War College. 
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01 Dec 1917 WW2 Settsu completed a period of refitting and joined Battleship Division 2 of the First Fleet. Captain Sukejiro Inutsuka was named the commanding officer of Settsu. 
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01 Dec 1917 WW2 Rear Admiral Heigo Teraoka was named the chief of staff of Chinkai Guard District in southern Korea. 
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01 Dec 1918 WW2 Tamon Yamaguchi was promoted to the rank of lieutenant. 
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01 Dec 1918 WW2 Chuichi Nagumo studied an advanced course at the Japanese naval war college. 
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01 Dec 1918 WW2 The Danish-Icelandic Act of Union was signed, establishing Iceland as a fully sovereign state in a personal union with Denmark for 25 years. 
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01 Dec 1918 WW2 Vice Admiral Tatsuo Matsumura succeeded Admiral Teijiro Kuroi as the commanding officer of the Ryojun Military Port (previously known as Port Arthur; now Lushunkou, Liaoning Province, China), Kwantung Leased Territory in northeastern China. 
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01 Dec 1918 WW2 Masafumi Arima was promoted to the rank of sublieutenant. 
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01 Dec 1918 WW2 Vice Admiral Hiromi Tadokoro was named the commanding officer of Chinkai Guard District in southern Korea. 
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01 Dec 1918 WW2 Rear Admiral Yoshitada Mikami was named the Chief of Staff of the Mako naval port at Pescadores islands, Taiwan. 
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01 Dec 1918 WW2 Joseph Rochefort reported to the headquarters of the United States Naval Auxiliary Reserve at the ferry terminal in Manhattan, New York, New York, United States. 
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01 Dec 1919 WW2 Isoroku Yamamoto was promoted to the rank of commander. 
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01 Dec 1919 WW2 Hiroaki Abe became a staff officer with Japanese Navy 3rd Fleet. 
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01 Dec 1919 WW2 Furious was decommissioned from service. 
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01 Dec 1919 WW2 Nobutake Kondo, having just graduated from the Japanese Naval War College, was promoted to the rank of lieutenant commander. 
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01 Dec 1919 WW2 Prince Hiroyasu was named the commanding officer of the 2nd Fleet. 
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01 Dec 1919 WW2 Tenryu was named the flagship of Destroyer Squadron 2 of Japanese 2nd Fleet. 
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01 Dec 1919 WW2 Masafumi Arima enrolled in torpedo school in Japan. 
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01 Dec 1919 WW2 Hiroshi Nemoto was enrolled in the Japanese Army War College. 
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01 Dec 1919 WW2 Vice Admiral Tomojiro Chisaka was named the commanding officer of Chinkai Guard District in southern Korea. 
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01 Dec 1919 WW2 General Goro Shiba was named the commanding officer of the Taiwan Army. On the same day, Rear Admiral Shigeushi Nakagawa was named the commanding officer of the Mako naval port at Pescadores islands, Taiwan. 
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01 Dec 1920 WW2 Chuichi Nagumo was promoted to the rank of lieutenant commander and was named the commanding officer of destroyer Momi. 
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01 Dec 1920 WW2 Prince Hiroyasu was named a member to the Supreme War Council. 
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01 Dec 1920 WW2 Masafumi Arima was assigned to Kongo. 
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01 Dec 1920 WW2 Vice Admiral Kazuyoshi Yamaji was named the commanding officer of Chinkai Guard District in southern Korea. 
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01 Dec 1920 WW2 Admiral Naomi Taniguchi was named the commanding officer of the Mako naval port at Pescadores islands, Taiwan. 
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01 Dec 1920 WW2 Bruce Fraser greeted officers returning from Soviet captivity at Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom. 
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01 Dec 1921 WW2 Vice Admiral Kesataro Kawahara succeeded Vice Admiral Naoe Nakano as the commanding officer of the Ryojun Military Port (previously known as Port Arthur; now Lushunkou, Liaoning Province, China), Kwantung Leased Territory in northeastern China. 
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01 Dec 1921 WW2 Tenryu was recommissioned into service and was assigned to Destroyer Squadron 1 of Japanese 1st Fleet. Captain Noriyoshi Yoko was named her commanding officer. 
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01 Dec 1921 WW2 Masafumi Arima was promoted to the rank of lieutenant. 
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01 Dec 1922 WW2 Chuichi Nagumo was assigned to the Navy Ministry. 
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01 Dec 1922 WW2 The Japanese-controlled Ryojun Military Port (previously known as Port Arthur; now Lushunkou, Liaoning Province, China), Kwantung Leased Territory in northeastern China was decommissioned from service. 
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01 Dec 1922 WW2 Prince Hiroyasu was promoted to the rank of admiral. 
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01 Dec 1922 WW2 Captain Hajime Matsushita was named the commanding officer of Tenryu. 
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01 Dec 1922 WW2 Masafumi Arima was assigned to destroyer Ashi. 
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01 Dec 1922 WW2 Admiral Saburo Hyakutake was named the commanding officer of Chinkai Guard District in southern Korea. 
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01 Dec 1923 WW2 Isoroku Yamamoto was promoted to the rank of captain. 
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01 Dec 1923 WW2 Hiroaki Abe was promoted to the rank of lieutenant commander. 
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01 Dec 1923 WW2 West Virginia was commissioned into service. 
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01 Dec 1923 WW2 Nobutake Kondo was promoted to the rank of commander. 
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01 Dec 1923 WW2 Shinichi Oguri was promoted to the rank of captain, and he was formally named the commanding officer of Tenryu. 
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01 Dec 1923 WW2 Masafumi Arima was assigned to Iwate. 
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01 Dec 1924 WW2 Tamon Yamaguchi was promoted to the rank of lieutenant commander. 
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01 Dec 1924 WW2 Chuichi Nagumo was promoted to the rank of commander. 
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01 Dec 1924 WW2 Captain Yoshio Takita was named the commanding officer of Tenryu. 
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01 Dec 1924 WW2 Captain Kumagoro Migita was named the commanding officer of Settsu. 
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01 Dec 1924 WW2 Rear Admiral Naojiro Honshuku was named the chief of staff of Chinkai Guard District in southern Korea. 
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01 Dec 1924 WW2 Rear Admiral Shinichi Oguri was named the Chief of Staff of the Mako naval port at Pescadores islands, Taiwan. 
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01 Dec 1925 WW2 Commander Choji Inoue, commanding officer of Naka, was promoted to the rank of captain. 
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01 Dec 1925 WW2 Tenryu was placed in reserve at Kure, Japan. captain Isao Monai was named her commanding officer. 
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01 Dec 1926 WW2 Mineichi Koga was promoted to the rank of captain. 
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01 Dec 1926 WW2 Nobutake Kondo was named the chief of staff of the Japanese Navy Combined Fleet. 
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01 Dec 1926 WW2 Captain Kamezaburo Nakamura was named the commanding officer of Naka. 
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01 Dec 1926 WW2 Prince Hironobu was assigned to battleship Yamashiro. 
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01 Dec 1926 WW2 Masafumi Arima enrolled in the Naval War College. 
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01 Dec 1926 WW2 Kichisaburo Nomura was promoted to the rank of vice admiral. 
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01 Dec 1926 WW2 Captain Nihei Sezaki was named the commanding officer of Settsu. 
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01 Dec 1926 WW2 Vice Admiral Naotaro Nagasawa was named the commanding officer of Chinkai Guard District in southern Korea; Rear Admiral Sunao Matsuzaki was named the chief of staff. 
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01 Dec 1927 WW2 Chiang Kaishek married Song Meiling. 
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01 Dec 1927 WW2 Nobutake Kondo was promoted to the rank of captain and was named an instructor at the Japanese Naval War College. 
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01 Dec 1927 WW2 Masafumi Arima was promoted to the rank of lieutenant commander. 
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01 Dec 1927 WW2 Vice Admiral Junichi Kiyokawa was named the commanding officer of Chinkai Guard District in southern Korea. 
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01 Dec 1927 WW2 Rear Admiral Kesaichi Hitsuda was named the commanding officer of the Mako naval port at Pescadores islands, Taiwan. 
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01 Dec 1928 WW2 Tenryu was assigned to Kure, Japan as a training vessel for the Japanese Navy Academy and Submarine School. 
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01 Dec 1929 WW2 Kichisaburo Nomura was named the commanding officer of the Training Fleet. 
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01 Dec 1930 WW2 Koichi Shiozawa stepped down as the chief of staff of the Japanese 1st Fleet. 
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01 Dec 1930 WW2 Chuichi Nagumo was named the commanding officer of the 11th Destroyer Division. 
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01 Dec 1930 WW2 Naka received a new commanding officer. 
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01 Dec 1930 WW2 Captain Kensuke Madareme was named the commanding officer of Tenryu. 
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01 Dec 1930 WW2 Settsu received a new commanding officer. 
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01 Dec 1930 WW2 Captain Noboru Hirata was named the commanding officer of Nachi. 
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01 Dec 1930 WW2 Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai was named the commanding officer of Chinkai Guard District in southern Korea. 
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01 Dec 1930 WW2 Vice Admiral Shusei Yuchi was named the commanding officer of the Mako naval port at Pescadores islands, Taiwan. 
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01 Dec 1930 WW2 The keel of RMS Queen Mary was laid down by the John Brown and Company at Clydebank, Scotland, United Kingdom. 
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01 Dec 1931 WW2 Lieutenant Commander Morishita was named the commanding officer of destroyer Yuzuki. 
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01 Dec 1931 WW2 Captain Koki Yamamoto was named the commanding officer of Naka. 
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01 Dec 1931 WW2 Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura was named the commanding officer of Yokosuka Naval District. 
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01 Dec 1931 WW2 An unknown officer assumed command of Nachi. 
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01 Dec 1932 WW2 Hiroaki Abe was promoted to the rank of captain. 
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01 Dec 1932 WW2 Tamon Yamaguchi was promoted to the rank of captain. 
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01 Dec 1932 WW2 Mutsu was assigned to Japanese Navy Battleship Division 1. 
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01 Dec 1932 WW2 Franz von Papen met with German President Paul von Hindenburg and offered a plan for Germany that was effectively the end of the republic. Hindenburg rejected the plan and offered that given current situation he wished for a coalition government. 
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01 Dec 1932 WW2 Nobutake Kongo was named the commanding officer of battleship Kongo. 
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01 Dec 1932 WW2 Captain Shigeru Sonoda was named the commanding officer of Naka. 
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01 Dec 1932 WW2 Admiral Koichi Shiozawa was named the commanding officer of Chinkai Guard District in southern Korea. 
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01 Dec 1932 WW2 Rear Admiral Shinji Suzuki was named the Chief of Staff of the Mako naval port at Pescadores islands, Taiwan. 
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01 Dec 1932 WW2 The construction for HMS Amphion was ordered. 
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01 Dec 1933 WW2 Cachalot was commissioned into service. 
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01 Dec 1934 WW2 British Air Ministry issued a contract to Supermarine for monoplane fighters powered by the Rolls-Royce PV 12 Merlin engines; they would later be named Spitfire. 
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01 Dec 1934 WW2 Sergei Kirov, the popular Secretary of the Leningrad Communist Party, was assassinated by Leonid Nikolaev, an unemployed Party member, as he walked to his office in the Smolny Institute. 
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01 Dec 1935 WW2 Georg von Küchler was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general. 
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01 Dec 1936 WW2 Mitsumasa Yonai was named the commander-in-chief of the Japanese Navy Combined Fleet. 
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01 Dec 1936 WW2 Hiroaki Abe became the commanding officer of cruiser Jintsu. 
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01 Dec 1936 WW2 In Germany a law against economic sabotage made it a capital offence for any German citizen to "inflict serious harm on the German economy." In addition, black-marketeering, smuggling, currency fraud and even unauthorised price increases were covered by the new law and could result in long prison sentences on conviction. 
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01 Dec 1936 WW2 Mutsu was assigned to Japanese Navy Battleship Division 1. 
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01 Dec 1936 WW2 Thomas Holcomb was promoted to the rank of major general and was appointed the 17th Commandant of the United States Marine Corps, relieving Major General John H. Russell, Jr. who had reached the statutory retirement age. 
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01 Dec 1936 WW2 The keel of battleship Jean Bart was laid down. 
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01 Dec 1936 WW2 Chuichi Nagumo was named the commanding officer of the 8th Cruiser Division. 
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01 Dec 1936 WW2 Vice Admiral Masaichi Maeda succeeded Admiral Hideho Wada as the commanding officer of the Ryojun Military Port (previously known as Port Arthur; now Lushunkou, Liaoning Province, China), Kwantung Leased Territory in northeastern China. 
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01 Dec 1936 WW2 In Germany a new law made it compulsory for all eligible ethnic German juveniles to become a member of the Hitler Youth or League of German Girls organisations. 
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01 Dec 1936 WW2 Captain Koso Abe was named the commanding officer of Naka. 
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01 Dec 1936 WW2 Captain Naomasa Sakonjo was named the commanding officer of Settsu. 
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01 Dec 1936 WW2 Lieutenant General Seiichi Kuno was named the chief of staff of the Japanese Chosen Army in occupied Korea. 
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01 Dec 1936 WW2 Vice Admiral Keitaro Hara was named the commanding officer of Chinkai Guard District in southern Korea; Rear Admiral Junichi Mizuno was named the chief of staff. 
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01 Dec 1936 WW2 Vice Admiral Shigeyoshi Miwa was named the Chief of Staff of the Mako naval port at Pescadores islands, Taiwan. 
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01 Dec 1937 WW2 Zengo Yoshida was named the commander-in-chief of the Japanese Navy Combined Fleet. 
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01 Dec 1937 WW2 Hiroaki Abe became the commanding officer of battleship Fuso. 
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01 Dec 1937 WW2 The US 3rd Marine Regiment, a reserve unit, was disbanded. 
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01 Dec 1937 WW2 Vittorio Alfieri was commissioned into service. 
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01 Dec 1937 WW2 Light carrier Hosho was placed in reserve. 
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01 Dec 1937 WW2 The Imperial General Headquarters in Tokyo, Japan ordered the Japanese Central China Area Army to advance toward Nanjing, China. On the same day, several top Chinese cabinet level advisers departed from the capital. 
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01 Dec 1937 WW2 Vice Admiral Shintaro Hashimoto was named the chief of staff of Vice Admiral Masaichi Maeda (Ryojun Military Port, northeastern China). 
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01 Dec 1937 WW2 Japanese troops landed near Jiangyin, Jiangsu Province, China. 
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01 Dec 1937 WW2 Captain Chimaki Kono was named the commanding officer of Naka. 
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01 Dec 1937 WW2 Masafumi Arima was promoted to the rank of captain and was named the commanding officer of converted seaplane tender Kamikawa Maru. 
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01 Dec 1937 WW2 Nachi completed her first reconstruction; an unknown officer assumed command of the cruiser. 
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01 Dec 1937 WW2 Raizo Tanaka was named the commanding officer of light cruiser Jintsu. 
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01 Dec 1937 WW2 Vice Admiral Jugoro Arichi was named the commanding officer of Chinkai Guard District in southern Korea; Vice Admiral Sadaichi Matsunaga was named the chief of staff. 
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01 Dec 1937 WW2 Vice Admiral Shunzo Mito was named the commanding officer of the Mako naval port at Pescadores islands, Taiwan. 
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01 Dec 1938 WW2 Rudolf Beran became the prime minister of Czechoslovakia. 
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01 Dec 1938 WW2 During this month, US agreed to loan $25,000,000 to China for the war against Japan. 
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01 Dec 1938 WW2 HMS Nubian (L36) was commissioned into service with Commander R. W. Ravenhill in command. 
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01 Dec 1939 WW2 Otto Kuusinen was made head of the puppet government forming in Moscow for Finland. 
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01 Dec 1939 WW2 Firefight between Finnish coastal batteries at Russaro and the Soviet cruiser Kirov and her destroyer screen; Kirov and one of her destroyers were damaged. 
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01 Dec 1939 WW2 Chinese 3rd Army Group cut the Lung'hai Railway line at several locations and attacked highways, both actions interrupted Japanese logistics. Meanwhile, troops of the Chinese 81st Division attacked the cities of Kaifeng and Lanfeng. 
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01 Dec 1939 WW2 In Germany, Ernst Udet was appointed Director General of Air Force Equipment (Generalluftzeugmeister). 
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01 Dec 1939 WW2 Hiroshi Nemoto was named the chief of staff of the 21st Army based in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China. 
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01 Dec 1939 WW2 The third group of the German Kampfgeschwader 55 wing was established. 
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01 Dec 1939 WW2 The title "Waffen-SS" became official. This organisation embraced the SS Verfugungs Division, the Liebstandarte, the SS Totenkopf Division, the SS Polizei Division, the SS Junkerschulen (training schools), together with their training and replacement units. Service in these formations would count as active military duty. 
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01 Dec 1939 WW2 Tenryu was assigned to Maizuru Naval District, Japan for service as a guard ship and training vessel for the Japanese Navy Engineering Academy. 
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01 Dec 1939 WW2 Kenkichi Ueda was forced into the reserve. 
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01 Dec 1939 WW2 Lieutenant General Mitsuru Ushijima was named the commanding officer of the Taiwan Army. 
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01 Dec 1940 WW2 Italian submarine Argo torpedoed Canadian destroyer HMCS Saguenay 200 miles west of Ireland, destroying the bow and killing 21. Saguenay would later able to reach Barrow in Furness, England, United Kingdom for repairs that would last until 22 May 1941. 
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01 Dec 1940 WW2 Werner Mölders claimed his 55th victory. 
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01 Dec 1940 WW2 Norwegian troop ship Oslofjord hit a mine and sank in the River Tyne, England, United Kingdom at 0820 hours; 1 was killed and 179 survived. 
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01 Dec 1940 WW2 German heavy cruiser Admiral Scheer sank British ship Tribesman 500 miles west of the Cape Verde islands; 8 were killed and 14 survived. 
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01 Dec 1940 WW2 German submarine U-37 sank British ship Palmella 200 miles west of Porto, Portugal at 2022 hours. 1 was killed; 28 survivors were picked up by Spanish trawler Navemar. 
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01 Dec 1940 WW2 Allied convoy HX-90 became undefended 340 miles west of Ireland after her ocean escorts departed and coastal escorts failing to arrive due to poor weather. At 2012 hours, German submarine U-101 sank the already-damaged British tanker Appalachee (7 killed, 32 survived) and damaged British ship Loch Ranza. 
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01 Dec 1940 WW2 German submarine U-101 sank the already-damaged British tanker Appalachee (7 killed, 32 survived) and damaged British ship Loch Ranza. 
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01 Dec 1940 WW2 Major General Thomas Holcomb was appointed to a second term as the Commandant of the US Marine Corps. 
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01 Dec 1940 WW2 Adolf Galland was promoted to the rank of Oberst. 
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01 Dec 1940 WW2 Romania established diplomatic relationship with the Japanese-sponsored puppet state of Manchukuo. 
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01 Dec 1941 WW2 Japanese luxury ocean liner Hikawa Maru entered Mitsubishi Zosen yard for conversion into a hospital ship; naval surgeon Captain Kanai Izumi took command of the ship. 
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01 Dec 1941 WW2 Japanese Navy changed its communications code. 
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01 Dec 1941 WW2 US President Franklin Roosevelt ordered US Navy yacht Isabel and two other small vessels to be deployed off of the coast of Indochina; they were planned to be bait for the Japanese to fire the first shot, should war become unavoidable. 
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01 Dec 1941 WW2 American river gunboats Luzon and Oahu, submarine rescue vessel Pigeon, and minesweeper Finch set sail from China toward Philippine Islands, under the watchful eyes of a Japanese floatplane and several naval vessels. 
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01 Dec 1941 WW2 German 15th Panzer Division practically wiped out the 20th Battalion of New Zealand 2nd Division at Belhamed, Libya, but the attack was driven off by tanks of the British 4th Armoured Brigade. 
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01 Dec 1941 WW2 The Japanese ambassador in Germany Hiroshi Oshima was ordered to secure Joachim von Ribbentrop's signature on a document which stated that Germany would declare war on the United States should Japan and US enter a state of war. 
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01 Dec 1941 WW2 SS-Standartenfuhrer Jager submitted a report dated on this day, noting that his Einsatzgruppen, operating in Lithuania, had killed 99,804 Jews in that country to this date. In the same report, the detachment also under Jager sent to Minsk, Byelorussia reported killing 620 adult male, 1,285 adult female, and 1,126 children, all Jews; 19 communists were also executed in Minsk by this detachment. 
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01 Dec 1941 WW2 German submarine U-96, having escaped British air attacks in the Bay of Biscay, surfaced at 0445 hours and returned to France. 
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01 Dec 1941 WW2 Three German infantry divisions and one German armored division advanced along the Minsk-Moscow highway, penetrating through the lines of the Soviet 33rd Army, capturing Naro-Fominsk 43 miles southwest of Moscow, Russia. 
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01 Dec 1941 WW2 British cruiser HMS Dorsetshire located German supply ship Python refueling submarines UA and U-68 in the South Atlantic 1,150 miles west of South Africa. Python was scuttled as her crew sighted Dorsetshire, but Dorsetshire backed off due to the threat of the two submarines. Two additional German submarines and four Italian submarines arrived to join UA and U-68 in rescuing Python's survivors. 
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01 Dec 1941 WW2 A Soviet force consisted of troop ship Maya, 3 minesweepers, 2 submarine chasters, and 1 gunboat arrived in Hanko, Finland to evacuate troops. 
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01 Dec 1941 WW2 Destroyer Yukikaze arrived at Palau Islands. 
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01 Dec 1941 WW2 Eduard Neumann and General der Flieger Hans Geisler awarded Hans-Joachim Marseille the German Cross in Gold. 
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01 Dec 1941 WW2 US Marine Corps established a Marine Corps Air Station at St. Thomas, Virgin Islands under Lieutenant Colonel Ford O. Rogers (redesignated from Marine Corps Air Facility, Bourne Field). 
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01 Dec 1941 WW2 US Marine Corps 2nd Defense Battalion and 4th Defense Battalion arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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01 Dec 1941 WW2 Radio messages sent from Sasebo, Japan using outdated call signs tricked US Navy cryptanalysts in US Territory of Hawaii into believing that carrier Akagi was still in home waters. Later on the same day, the cryptanalysts realized that all Japanese warships' call signs had changed. 
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01 Dec 1941 WW2 Japanese Navy Destroyer Division 7 sailed from Tokyo, Japan sailed for Midway, soon to join the rest of the Midway Neutralization Unit. 
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01 Dec 1941 WW2 Repair ship Akashi departed Kure, Japan. 
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01 Dec 1941 WW2 At an Imperial Conference held in Tokyo, Japan, the decision was taken to go to war with the United States. According to Prime Minister Hideki Tojo, Emperor Showa, the country's devine ruler, did not utter a single word in response. 
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01 Dec 1941 WW2 Malta-based British reconnaissance aircraft spotted an Italian supply convoy traveling for North Africa. The subsequent attack 60 miles off Libya saw the sinking of tanker Iridio Mantovani (with 10,000 tons of fuel) by aircraft and the sinking of transport Adriatico by cruisers HMS Aurora and HMS Penelope. HMS Aurora and HMS Penelope were attacked by Italian destroyer Alvise Da Mosta with torpedoes and gunfire, but the British cruisers fought back, sinking the destroyer and killing 200. 
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01 Dec 1941 WW2 Passenger liner President Harrison arrived at Olongapo, Philippine Islands with elements of US 4th Marine Regiment recently withdrawn from Shanghai, China; the liner departed for China later on the same day to embark the last US Marines stationed in China. 
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01 Dec 1941 WW2 During this month, the Japanese Army established the Research Department within the Taiwan Army. One of the missions of this department was to develop jungle warfare tactics. 
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01 Dec 1941 WW2 As US-Japan relations rapidly deteriorated, the Japanese Consulate General in California began to destroy its records, as did the Consulate General, the Japanese Chamber of Commerce, and the Japan Institute in New York City. 
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01 Dec 1941 WW2 Fiorello La Guardia, Mayor of New York City and Director of the Office of Civilian Defense, signed Administrative Order 9, creating the Civil Air Patrol. 
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01 Dec 1941 WW2 US Marine Corps established a Marine Corps Air Station at Cunningham Field, Cherry Point, North Carolina, United States under Colonel Thomas J. Cushman. 
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01 Dec 1941 WW2 US Marine Corps established a Marine Corps Air Station at Quantico, Virginia, United States under Major Ivan W. Miller (redesignated from Base Air Detachment 1, Marine Barracks). 
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01 Dec 1941 WW2 The keel of submarine Harder was laid down by the Electric Boat Company at Groton, Connecticut, United States. 
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01 Dec 1942 WW2 Germany established the Camp for the custody of Polish youth in Lodz (Polen-Jugendverwahrlager Litzmannstadt), Poland. 
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01 Dec 1942 WW2 US Army Lieutenant General Eichelberger was ordered to Papau, New Guinea, to capture Buna. 
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01 Dec 1942 WW2 USS Arizona was struck from the Naval Vessel Register. 
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01 Dec 1942 WW2 Armidale was decommissioned from service. 
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01 Dec 1942 WW2 Stuart was decommissioned from service. 
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01 Dec 1942 WW2 The US 1st Marine Aviation Engineer Battalion relieved the US 6th Naval Construction Battalion on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. 
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01 Dec 1942 WW2 Heinrich Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein was named the commanding officer of IV./Nachtjagdgeschwader 5. 
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01 Dec 1942 WW2 Walter Stettner von Grabenhofen was named the commanding officer of 1st Mountain Division. 
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01 Dec 1942 WW2 Soviet Navy Commissar Nikolai Kuznetsov wrote to the Military Council of the Black Sea Fleet demanding a report on why so many servicemen were being arrested on false charges. 
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01 Dec 1942 WW2 German 10th Panzer Division launched a counterattack in Tunisia, pushing back British 11th Brigade. Meanwhile, British 2nd Parachute Brigade crossed Miliane River south of Oudna airfield and continued northwest toward El Fedja. 
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01 Dec 1942 WW2 The "Grado" Battalion of the "San Marco" naval infantry regiment of Italian Navy was attached to German Army units in Tunisia. 
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01 Dec 1942 WW2 Ira Eaker was named the commanding officer of the US Eighth Air Force in Britain, replacing Carl Spaatz. 
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01 Dec 1943 WW2 B-24 bombers of the 7th Bombardment Group (H) attacked Rangoon harbour and railway yards in Burma. During the course of the raid the bombers had to fight off countless Japanese fighter attacks for 70 minutes (a theatre record). Six American bombers failed to return. 
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01 Dec 1943 WW2 Rudolf Höss was assigned to the SS-Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt. 
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01 Dec 1943 WW2 German government reported dated this month noted that there were now 1,160,000 Western European, 1,800,000 Eastern European, and 600,000 Italian forced laborers in Germany. 
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01 Dec 1943 WW2 Heinrich Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein was named the commanding officer of the 2nd Group of Nachtjagdgeschwader 2. 
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01 Dec 1943 WW2 USS Ray attacked a Japanese ship with her deck gun north of New Guinea, causing no damage. 
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01 Dec 1943 WW2 Nobutake Kondo was named the commanding officer of the Japanese China Area Fleet. 
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01 Dec 1943 WW2 USS Seahorse damaged a Japanese transport south of Japan, hitting her with two of four torpedoes fired. She ran out of torpedoes and set sail for Hawaii Islands. 
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01 Dec 1943 WW2 US IX Fighter Command aircraft began operations from the United Kingdom when 28 P-51B fighters flew a sweep over north-western France. The mission also marked the debut of the Merlin-powered Mustang fighter in USAAF service. 
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01 Dec 1943 WW2 319th, 320th, 321st, and 400th Bomb Squadrons (all flying B-24 aircraft) of USAAF 90th Bomb Group were transferred from Port Moresby to Dobodura Airfield, Australian Papua. 
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01 Dec 1943 WW2 Shokaku arrived at Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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01 Dec 1943 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: More of ACORN-20, ARGUS-18, ACORN-21, CASU-30, ACORN-22, CASU-34, ARGUS-21, ARGUS-22, and 4 officers and 99 men of GROPAC-4; plus 1 officer of GROPAC-2 arrived on board. More of ACORN-20, CASU-20, CASU-30, GROPAC-2, and 2 officers and 38 men of GROPAC-5 arrived on board, plus 1 officer and 17 men of Task Group 19.18. 
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01 Dec 1943 WW2 US Fifth Army launched an offensive on the Garigliano River in Italy, led by British X Corps. 
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01 Dec 1943 WW2 Naka arrived at Mili Atoll, Marshall Islands, disembaked troops, and departed. 
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01 Dec 1943 WW2 Arthur Liebehenschel became the second commandant of Auschwitz Concentration Camp in Poland. 
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01 Dec 1943 WW2 German troops in the Crimea in Russia were completely isolated, as Soviet troops completed their control of the northern end of the Dneiper River bend. 
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01 Dec 1944 WW2 Jules Bastin passed away in the Groß-Rosen Concentration Camp in Germany. 
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01 Dec 1944 WW2 HMS King George V departed Alexandria, Egypt. 
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01 Dec 1944 WW2 Malaya was decommissioned from service. 
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01 Dec 1944 WW2 U-869 was assigned to the German Navy 33rd Submarine Flotilla. 
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01 Dec 1944 WW2 Chinese troops captured Chefang, Yunnan Province, China. 
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01 Dec 1944 WW2 USS Skipjack attacked a Japanese destroyer in the Kurile Islands; all four torpedoes missed. 
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01 Dec 1944 WW2 Walther Schellenberg was given command of the anti-Soviet counterintelligence units Walli I and Walli III, which he combined into Branch F of the Militärisches Amt (Mil Amt). 
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01 Dec 1944 WW2 USS Astoria conducted training operations off Ulithi, Caroline Islands. 
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01 Dec 1944 WW2 Hungarian Second Army was disbanded due to heavy casualties; the surviving units were incorporated into the Hungarian Third Army. 
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01 Dec 1944 WW2 USS Segundo arrived on station in the Luzon Strait 
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01 Dec 1944 WW2 USS Preston guarded carriers while the carriers launched strikes against Luzon, Philippine Islands. 
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01 Dec 1944 WW2 USS Gunnel embarked 11 US naval aviators at Palawan, Philippine Islands. 
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01 Dec 1944 WW2 Heinrich Himmler ordered the crematoriums and gas chambers of Auschwitz Concentration Camp dismantled and blown up. 
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01 Dec 1944 WW2 Lieutenant General Ivan Gorbatyuk was named the head of the Soviet Directorate of the NKVD Troops for Guarding the Rear of the Red Army. 
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01 Dec 1944 WW2 Takao Naval Air Group was established at Takao Guard District in southern Taiwan. 
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01 Dec 1945 WW2 During this month, former German Navy cruiser Prinz Eugen was renamed USS IX 300 of the US Navy. 
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01 Dec 1945 WW2 Anton Dostler passed away. 
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01 Dec 1945 WW2 The last Japanese resistance unit in Saipan, Mariana Islands surrendered. 
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01 Dec 1945 WW2 Douglas Bader was promoted to the permanent rank of wing commander. 
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01 Dec 1945 WW2 Lu Han was made the Chairman of Yunnan Province, China. 
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01 Dec 1945 WW2 The US military publication Shanghai Stars and Stripes sponsored a US Army-US Navy American football game in Shanghai, China. The passenger of the pre-game rickshaw race was crowned Miss Rickshaw 1945 and Queen of the Army-Navy Game. 1,500,000 people, Americans and Chinese, turned out to join in on the overall festivities while 20,000 attended the football game. Navy defeated Army in the game, 12 to 0. 
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01 Dec 1946 WW2 Miguel Valdes succeeded Manuel Camacho as President of Mexico. 
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01 Dec 1947 WW2 USS Sterlet arrived at Brisbane, Australia. 
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