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• USS Mingo attacked a Japanese convoy between Singapore and Brunei, Borneo, damaging an escorting gunboat and sinking tanker Manila Maru. ww2dbase [Mingo | CPC]
• USS Snook began her eighth war patrol. ww2dbase [Snook | CPC]

• US 2nd Armored Division, with British help, stopped German 2.Panzer Division just 4 miles from the Meuse River in Belgium. ww2dbase [Battle of the Bulge | TH]
• A surprise Luftwaffe attack on Bastogne, Belgium bombed Anthony McAuliffe's headquarters and the 10th Armored aid station. The three–storey building collapsed on top of the wounded patients and set the ruins on fire. Nurse Renée Lemaire was killed together with twenty-five seriously wounded patients, burnt to death in their beds. Soldiers rushing to pull away debris found themselves also machine gunned by the low-flying bombers. ww2dbase [Battle of the Bulge | Bastogne, Luxembourg | AC]

• The small US and British military missions previously sent to eastern Czechoslovakia to aid the Slovak National Uprising were captured by the Germans. ww2dbase [Slovak National Uprising | CPC]

• Emden arrived at Königsberg, Germany (now Kaliningrad, Russia). ww2dbase [Emden | Königsberg, Ostpreußen | CPC]
• Roddie Edmonds and the other enlisted men of the 106th and 28th Infantry Divisions captured in the Battle of the Bulge arrived at Stalag IX-B at Bad Orb, Germany. ww2dbase [Roddie Edmonds | Bad Orb, Hessen-Nassau | DS]

• Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Yokosuka, Japan. ww2dbase [Hikawa Maru | Yokosuka, Kanagawa | CPC]
• Kamoi departed Oshima Bay, Japan at 0818 hours and arrived at Naoshima, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan at 2328 hours. ww2dbase [Kamoi | Oshima Bay | CPC]

• Three baby girls were born in the Auschwitz Concentration Camp in occupied Poland. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Auschwitz Concentration Camp | Oswiecim | CPC]

• Patrol Boat No. 102 departed Singapore at 0851 and returned at 1332 hours. ww2dbase [Stewart | CPC]

25 Dec 1944 Interactive Map