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History on the 23rd of December 1941

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23 Dec 1941 WW2 In the Philippine Islands, as Japanese 48th Division marched south toward Manila, US Army General Douglas MacArthur began withdrawing to Bataan, declaring Manila an open city. On the same day, USAAF B-17 bombers attacked Japanese ships at Lingayen Gulf and Davao in the Philippine Islands, while P-35 and P-40 fighters strafed landing ships in San Miguel Bay, Luzon, damaging destroyer Nagatsuki. On Mindanao, the 9 US B-17 bombers originally from Australia refueled and took off to attack Japanese ships in Davao Gulf and Lingayen Gulf, damaging Japanese destroyer Kuroshio. 
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23 Dec 1941 WW2 Japanese submarines I-71 and I-72 shelled American facilities at Palmyra Atoll. 
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23 Dec 1941 WW2 54 Japanese bombers escorted by 24 fighters attacked Rangoon, Burma in the late morning, killing 1,250; of those who became wounded as the result of this raid, 600 died. 
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23 Dec 1941 WW2 Three Curtiss-Wright CW-41B fighters, assembled by the Chinese Aircraft Manufacturing Company at Loiwing (now Leiyun) in Yunnan Province, China on the border with Burma, crashed into a mountain whilst being delivered to the A.V.G. at Rangoon, Burma. Two of the pilots were killed. 
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23 Dec 1941 WW2 Allied troops in Hong Kong withdrew to the final line, "The Ridge", at the Stanley Peninsula. 
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23 Dec 1941 WW2 Japanese submarines I-71 and I-72 again bombarded the US Naval Air Station on Palmyra Atoll. 
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23 Dec 1941 WW2 Trucks brought in 786 tons of food into Leningrad, Russia across the frozen Lake Ladoga; for the second day in a row, enough food was brought in to feed the population. 
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23 Dec 1941 WW2 German submarine U-559 sank British passenger ship Shuntien 29 miles east of Tobruk, Libya at 1902 hours, killing 6 crew members and 700 passengers, who were mostly Axis prisoners of war. 64 crew members and 400 POWs were rescued by British corvette HMS Salvia and destroyer HMS Heythrop. 
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23 Dec 1941 WW2 British destroyers HMS Hasty and HMS Hotspur sank German submarine U-79 with depth charges 40 miles north of Sollum, Egypt; all 44 aboard survived. 
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23 Dec 1941 WW2 Song Ziwen was named the Minister of Foreign Affairs. 
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23 Dec 1941 WW2 Three CW-21 fighters crashed in poor weather while being ferried from Rangoon, Burma to Kunming, China. 
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23 Dec 1941 WW2 U-576 arrived at Saint-Nazaire, France, ending her second war patrol. 
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23 Dec 1941 WW2 Akagi returned to Hashirajima, Japan. 
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23 Dec 1941 WW2 Shokaku returned with Akagi, Kaga, and Zuikaku to Hashirajima island in Hiroshima Bay, Japan. 
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23 Dec 1941 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Yokosuka, Japan on her first voyage for the Japanese Navy. 
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23 Dec 1941 WW2 Rear Admiral Matome Ugaki inspected food transport ship Irako at Hashirajima, Japan. 
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23 Dec 1941 WW2 Kaga arrived at Hashirajima in Hiroshima Bay, Japan. 
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23 Dec 1941 WW2 USS Permit fired two torpedoes at a Japanese destroyer in the South China Sea; both torpedoes missed. 
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23 Dec 1941 WW2 Japanese troops landed at Kuching, Sarawak. 
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23 Dec 1941 WW2 Japanese submarine I-21 sank American tanker Montebello about four miles south of the Piedras Blancas Light Station at Point Piedras Blancas, California, United States. Survivors were machine-gunned by I-21, but none of the survivors were hurt by the fire. Elsewhere, southwest of Cape Mendocino, California, Japanese submarine I-17 shelled American tanker Larry Doheny. 
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23 Dec 1941 WW2 Churchill and Roosevelt met at the White House, Washington DC during the First Washington Conference (Arcadia). 
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23 Dec 1941 WW2 Before dawn, at 0235 hours, 1,500 troops of the Japanese Maizuru Second Special Naval Landing Force landed on Wake Island and Wilkes Island in the Wake Atoll; from the air, carrier aircraft from Soryu and Hiryu provided support by attacking targets on Wilkes, Peale, and Wake Islands. Given that defeat was now imminent, acting commander of the US Navy Pacific Fleet Vice Admiral William Pye recalled Task Force 14 with USS Saratoga; the force was originally dispatched to reinforce Wake. At 0800, the Americans surrendered. On Wilkes Island, the Americans attempted one final counterattack, killing 100 Japanese troops at the cost of 11 US Marines killed and 5 wounded. 
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