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History on the 2nd of December

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02 Dec 1911 WW2 Yingrui was completed in England, United Kingdom. 
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02 Dec 1912 WW2 German chancellor Theobold von Bethmann Hollweg announced in the Reichstag that, if Austria-Hungary was attacked by a third power while pursuing its interests, Germany would support Austria-Hungary and fight to maintain its own position in Europe. 
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02 Dec 1915 WW2 Josef Stroop was awarded the Iron Cross. 
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02 Dec 1915 WW2 Prince Takahito was born in the Imperial Palace at Tokyo, Japan. 
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02 Dec 1917 WW2 Russian General Dukhonin and his staff were placed under arrest, ordered by Lenin. 
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02 Dec 1925 WW2 Kliment Voroshilov was awarded the Order of the Red Banner for the third time. 
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02 Dec 1927 WW2 Captain G. Hopwood was named the commanding officer of HMS Hermes, replacing Captain R. Elliot. 
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02 Dec 1930 WW2 HMS Valiant was recommissioned into service after refitting. 
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02 Dec 1932 WW2 German President Paul von Hindenburg named Kurt von Schleicher as the next Chancellor. 
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02 Dec 1935 WW2 Nobutake Kondo was attached to the Navy General Staff. 
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02 Dec 1935 WW2 Prince Takahito was made the head of his own branch of the Imperial family, Mikasa. 
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02 Dec 1935 WW2 Captain Michitaro Totsuka was named the commanding officer of Nachi. 
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02 Dec 1935 WW2 Kenkichi Ueda was attached to the Army General Staff. 
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02 Dec 1935 WW2 General Kuniaki Koiso was named the commanding officer of the Japanese Chosen Army in occupied Korea, relieving Kenkichi Ueda. 
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02 Dec 1935 WW2 Major General Yoshishige Saeda was named the chief of staff of the Japanese Chosen Army in occupied Korea. 
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02 Dec 1935 WW2 Lieutenant General Heisuke Yanagawa was named the commanding officer of the Taiwan Army. 
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02 Dec 1937 WW2 Japanese troops captured Jiangyin, Jiangsu Province, China. 
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02 Dec 1937 WW2 The officials of the Nanjing Branch of the Palace Museum of China ordered the treasures stored at the Taoist monastery Chaotian Gong, which had arrived from Beiping and Shanghai in Dec 1936, to be moved westward ahead of the Japanese attack. 
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02 Dec 1937 WW2 Emperor Showa gave the command of Japanese troops attacking Nanjing, China to his uncle Prince Yasuhiko, the head of princely household Asaka-no-miya. 
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02 Dec 1938 WW2 Lord Gort submitted a report noting that the German military had improved in its fighting qualities over the past year, especially since the annexation of Czechoslovakia, while the British Army fighting strength had been weakened due to political decisions made in 1937. 
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02 Dec 1939 WW2 Red Army units took Petsamo, Finland. 
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02 Dec 1940 WW2 German submarine U-99 attacked British armed merchant cruiser HMS Forfar with five torpedoes between 0546 and 0657 hours, sinking her; 172 were killed, 21 survived. Shortly after, German submarines U-47, U-52, U-94, U-99, and U-101 attacked Allied convoy HX-90 unescorted 300 miles west of Ireland between 0400 and 0730 hours; her ocean escorts had departed on the previous day, and her coastal escorts failed to arrive due to poor weather. 5 ships were sunk (totaling 22,868 tons), while 2 were damaged; 119 were killed. After the coastal escorts finally arrived, U-94 pressed one further attack after dark, sinking two more ships, killing 5. 
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02 Dec 1940 WW2 German submarine U-37 sank Swedish ship Gwalia at 0418 hours (16 killed, 4 survived) and British ship Jeanne M. at 0446 hours (7 killed, 19 survived); both attacks were about 230 miles north of Cape Roca, Portugal. 
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02 Dec 1940 WW2 German submarine U-43 sank British ship Pacific President at 0901 hours (entire crew of 50 killed) and British tanker Victor Ross at 0941 hours (entire crew of 44 killed). 
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02 Dec 1940 WW2 German submarine U-99 sank Norwegian ship Samnanger at 2050 hours, killing the entire crew of 30. 
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02 Dec 1940 WW2 Overnight, German bombers bombed Britstol, England, United Kingdom. 
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02 Dec 1940 WW2 Crown Prince Yi Un was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general in the Japanese Army. 
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02 Dec 1940 WW2 HMS Hermes made rendezvous with light cruiser HMS Dragon in the South Atlantic. 
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02 Dec 1940 WW2 British Admiral of the Fleet William Boyle (Earl of Cork and Orrery) arrived at Gibraltar aboard destroyer HMS Jersey to conduct a Board of Inquiry into Admiral James Somerville's decision to disengage at the Battle of Spartivento. 
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02 Dec 1940 WW2 Lieutenant General Masaharu Homma was named the commanding officer of the Taiwan Army. 
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02 Dec 1940 WW2 Henry Arnold was promoted to the permanent rank of brigadier general. 
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02 Dec 1941 WW2 Edward Rydz-Śmigły passed away. 
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02 Dec 1941 WW2 Motorcycle patrols from the German 2nd Panzer Division at Moscow, Russia reached Khimki and claimed that they were as close as 10 miles northwest from the Kremlin. The 2nd Panzer Division, however, was unable gather enough strength to exploit the weakly defended lines that the reconnaissance troops discovered. To the west, additional Soviet reinforcements reached Naro-Fominsk. To the south of Moscow, another German attack on Tula cut the Tula-Moscow rail line. 
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02 Dec 1941 WW2 US PBY Catalina patrol aircraft reported 20 Japanese transports congregating in Cam Ranh Bay off Indochina. 
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02 Dec 1941 WW2 British Prime Minister Churchill's new National Service Bill included compulsory service for women. 
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02 Dec 1941 WW2 German submarine U-43 torpedoed and sank the unarmed US tanker Astral with a crew of 37. 
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02 Dec 1941 WW2 Soviet troopships Iosif Stalin and Maya, along with a number of other warships and transport vessels, departed Hanko, Finland with the last of the 12,000 troops aboard. This marked the final Soviet evacuation from Finnish territory occupied by the Soviet Union at the conclusion of the Winter War. 
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02 Dec 1941 WW2 Japanese embassies in United States, Britain, Canada, the Netherlands, and Philippine Islands were ordered to destroy certain documents and code books. 
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02 Dec 1941 WW2 Japanese carrier fleet refueled in the North Pacific at 42 degrees north and 170 degrees east; at 2000 hours, the code "Niitaka Yama Noboru 1208" was issued, indicating that the attack on Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii was to be launched on 8 Dec 1941 Tokyo time, 7 Dec on the other side of the international date line. Meanwhile, at Pearl Harbor, Admiral Husband Kimmel was briefed of the disposition of the Japanese fleet, with the whereabouts of Carrier Division 1 and Carrier Division 2 (four fleet carriers total) not known; the best American guess was that they were at Kure, Japan. Finally, at Honolulu, Hawaii, Consul-General Nagao Kita was asked to provide a report regarding the presence of any barrage balloons or torpedo nets. 
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02 Dec 1941 WW2 The Axis attack on Tobruk, Libya that began on 30 Nov 1941 was halted as Axis tank losses reached such a level that repairs must be made before any further operations were possible. 
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02 Dec 1941 WW2 HMS Prince of Wales arrived at Singapore. 
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02 Dec 1941 WW2 HMS Repulse arrived at Singapore. 
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02 Dec 1941 WW2 German submarine U-562 sank British ship Grelhead in the Atlantic Ocean 2 miles off Morocco at 0119 hours; 41 were killed, 2 survived. 
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02 Dec 1941 WW2 German submarine U-557 sank Norwegian ship Fjord east of Gibraltar at 2033 hours; 14 were killed, 22 survived. 
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02 Dec 1941 WW2 German submarine U-43 attacked US tanker Astral near the Azores islands just after 0000 hours; all torpedoes missed. At 0924 hours, U-43 attacked Astral again, destroying the tanker with two torpedo hits; all 37 aboard were killed. 
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02 Dec 1941 WW2 Tatsuta Maru departed Yokohama, Japan for San Francisco, ostensibly for the second repatriation voyage to bring Japanese nationals in the United States to Japan. Her planned voyage would take her to Honolulu and San Francisco in the United States, then Manzanillo in Mexico, followed by Balboa in the Panama Canal Zone. 
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02 Dec 1941 WW2 American submarine USS Trout began a "simulated war patrol" off Midway. 
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02 Dec 1942 WW2 British Army Major Herbert Le Patourel won the Victoria Cross for single-handedly taking an enemy position near Tunis in which he was seriously wounded. 
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02 Dec 1942 WW2 US Air Transport Command began flying "the Hump" into China. 
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02 Dec 1942 WW2 General Hitoshi Imamura arrived in Rabaul, New Britain to take command of the Japanese South Pacific Area and the Seventeenth Army. 
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02 Dec 1942 WW2 Georgios Tsolakoglou was removed as the Prime Minister of the German puppet Hellenic State. 
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02 Dec 1942 WW2 Two transports arrived at Auschwitz Concentration Camp on this date. The first transport from Westerbork Concentration Camp in the Netherlands arrived with 826 Jews; 77 of them were registered into the camp, and the remaining 749 were gassed. The second transport from Grodno ghetto arrived with 1,000 Jews; 178 men and 60 women were registered into the camp, and the remaining 762 were gassed. 
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02 Dec 1942 WW2 British 2nd Parachute Battalion engaged elements of 3rd Battalion of German 5th Parachute Regiment at El Fedja, Tunisia. 
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02 Dec 1942 WW2 Enrico Fermi's atomic reactor Chicago Pile-1 at the University of Chicago, Illinois, United States initiated the world's first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction. 
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02 Dec 1942 WW2 USS Harder was commissioned into service with Commander Samuel Dealey in command. 
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02 Dec 1943 WW2 Germans mounted operations against Yugoslav partisans. 
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02 Dec 1943 WW2 Adolf Hitler ordered the conscription of youth for service. 
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02 Dec 1943 WW2 British Minister of Labor Ernest Bevin announced that the government would soon conscript men to work in coal mines. 
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02 Dec 1943 WW2 The US submarine Capelin was reported missing, presumed lost, whilst on patrol north of Celebes, Sunda Islands, Dutch East Indies. 
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02 Dec 1943 WW2 Production for the Ki-67 Hiryu bomber design began. 
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02 Dec 1943 WW2 Four War Correspondents were given permission by Arthur Harris to go on the Berlin raid over Germany scheduled for the night. Two, Nordahl Greig of the Daily Mail and Norman Stocton of the Australian Associated News were among 30 men who died that night. The other two were Americans, Edward Murrow and Lowell Bennett who both flew with No. 50 Squadron. The badly shaken Murrow was the only one to return alive. His pilot had been Jock Abercrombie, notorious among the aircrews of No. 50 squadron for always fearlessly flying straight and level to the target area. 
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02 Dec 1943 WW2 Otto Skorzeny, who had been stationed in Paris, France due to the threat of Marshal Philippe Pétain leaving for North Africa, was ordered to leave the city as that threat was proven to be false. 
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02 Dec 1943 WW2 Lorraine departed Dakar, French West Africa for Oran, French Algeria. 
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02 Dec 1943 WW2 458 RAF aircraft (425 Lancaster, 15 Halifax, and 18 Mosquito) attacked Berlin, Germany, dropping 1,500 tons of bombs; 40 bombers were lost (37 Lancaster, 2 Halifax, and 1 Mosquito). Two Siemens factories, a ball-bearing factory, and several railway installations were damaged. 
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02 Dec 1943 WW2 USS Grayback departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her ninth war patrol. 
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02 Dec 1943 WW2 The Luftwaffe raided the harbor at Bari, Italy. A hit on an ammunition ship caused a massive explosion that did more damage than the actual raid. The American Liberty Ship John Harvey was carrying a classified cargo of mustard gas, to be used if the Germans initiated chemical warfare. The clouds from this caused extensive casualties, as no one knew it was there, much less had anything to treat it with. 
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02 Dec 1943 WW2 German 26th Panzer Division fortified Orsogna, Italy on the Gustav Line. 
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02 Dec 1943 WW2 The British 56th (London) Division, which had already been badly mauled in earlier fighting for Monte Camino, Italy, launched a new attack and reached the summit under cover of darkness, but it would take another four days of hard fighting before the position could be secured completely. 
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02 Dec 1943 WW2 Naka departed Kwajalein, Marshall Islands. 
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02 Dec 1943 WW2 USS Gunnel attacked a Japanese carrier in the Pacific Ocean; all 4 torpedoes missed. 
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02 Dec 1943 WW2 The first transport of Jews from Vienna arrived at Auschwitz Concentration Camp. 
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02 Dec 1943 WW2 The US Navy expanded the piston-jet mix-powered fighter contract with Ryan Aeronautical to 100 examples. 
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02 Dec 1943 WW2 The keel of submarine Capitaine was laid down by the Electric Boat Company at Groton, Connecticut, United States. 
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02 Dec 1943 WW2 USS Wahoo was declared overdue. 
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02 Dec 1944 WW2 Edward R. Stettinius Jr. became secretary of state of the United States after the retirement of Cordell Hull. 
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02 Dec 1944 WW2 USS Hoe fired 7 torpedoes at a Japanese tanker, damaging her with 2 hits. 
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02 Dec 1944 WW2 USS Parche ended her third war patrol. 
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02 Dec 1944 WW2 USS Ticonderoga arrived at Ulithi, Caroline Islands. 
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02 Dec 1944 WW2 He Yingqin traveled from Chongqing to Guiyang, Guizhou Province, China. 
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02 Dec 1944 WW2 USS Boarfish arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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02 Dec 1944 WW2 SMERSH operatives attached to Soviet 3rd Ukrainian Front arrested Hungarian Count István Bethlen in Hungary. 
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02 Dec 1944 WW2 USS Preston guarded carriers while the carriers launched strikes against Luzon, Philippine Islands. 
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02 Dec 1944 WW2 USS Shamrock Bay embarked the aircraft of US Navy squadron VC-93 at San Diego, California, United States; the aircraft of VC-42 were already on board. 
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02 Dec 1946 WW2 USS Wisconsin arrived at Hampton Roads, Virginia, United States. 
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02 Dec 1947 WW2 Ivan Bagramyan was awarded the Order of Lenin for the third time. 
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