On this day . . .
https://ww2db.com/event/today/12/16
16 Dec 1917
An armistice between Russia and the Central Powers commenced. ww2dbase [AC]
Poland
The 4TP light tank design was completed by Edward Habich of the Polish firm Panstwowe Zaklady Inzynieryjne (PZInz). ww2dbase [4TP | CPC]
16 Dec 1937
China
Japanese 9th Division killed about 6,500 Chinese people, both military in civilian, in Nanjing, China during two days of mop up operations. 20th Company of the Japanese 16th Division massacred more than 7,000 Chinese east of Zijin Mountain. Chinese troops launched a failed counterattack at Qilin Gate of the city wall; 200 Chinese troops who were captured during the failed counterattack were executed by bayoneting by men of the 38th Company of the Japanese 16th Division. On the shore of the Yangtze River, the Japanese 13th Division began to execute large numbers of the 20,000 Chinese captives it held. As reported by the International Committee later, "seven girls (ages ranged from 16 to 21) were taken away from the Military College"; only five of them were able to return on 18 Dec; some of them reported being raped six or seven times daily by Japanese soldiers. ww2dbase [Battle of Nanjing and the Rape of Nanjing | Nanjing | CPC]
16 Dec 1939
China
In China, troops of the Chinese 81st Division captured the city of Kaifeng in Henan Province, while troops of the Chinese 5th Division began to advance toward Kunlun Pass, Guangxi Province in southern China. ww2dbase [Winter Offensive | CPC]
16 Dec 1940
134 RAF bombers attacked Mannheim, Germany in retaliation for German raids on British cities; 34 civilians were killed, 81 were injured, and 1,266 homes destroyed by 100 tons of high explosive bombs and 14,000 incendiary bombs. This was the first Allied area bombing raid of the war against a populated target, as opposed to targets of military or industrial value. ww2dbase [Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | TH]
British 4th Armoured Brigade captured Sidi Omar, Egypt, taking 900 Italian troops prisoner. ww2dbase [Operation Compass | CPC]
German submarine U-37 attacked wooden Spanish ship San Carlos off Cape Juby, Morocco at 1950 hours, stopping her with one torpedo and 21 shells from the deck gun, killing 1. German sailors scuttled the ship after the 28 survivors took to 2 lifeboats. ww2dbase [CPC]
British submarine HMS Truant sank Italian tanker Bonzo in the Ionian Sea 2 miles off the coast of Calabria, Italy. ww2dbase [CPC]
United States
US Marine Corps Reserve aviation units were disbanded, and their men were assigned to active duty in the regular US Marine Corps. On the same day, US Marine Corps established the 7th Defense Battalion at San Diego, California, United States. The infantry-artillery battalion was to be assigned to Tutuila, American Samoa. ww2dbase [San Diego, California | CPC]
16 Dec 1941
Captain Gihachi Takayanagi, Chief Equipping Officer of Battleship No. 1, was commissioned as Yamato's first commanding officer. ww2dbase [Yamato | CPC]
Think if it came in at that date during the game, how many shipyard points could be used elsewhere.
https://ww2db.com/ship_spec.php?ship_id=1
Japanese troops landed on British Borneo at 0500 hours and captured the oil fields at Miri and Seria and the oil refinery at Lutong. British and Dutch authorities began to issue orders to destroy other oil related facilities to avoid further capture. ww2dbase [Dutch East Indies Campaign, Borneo | TH]
As Axis troops in North Africa began to fall back towards El Agheila in Libya in earnest, British 4th Armoured Brigade failed to outflank the retreat in the Bir Halegh el Eleba region. To supply the Axis forces operating in Libya, the Italian Navy dispatched a convoy of four freighters from Taranto, Italy, escorted by a powerful fleet of four battleships, five cruisers, twenty destroyers, and one torpedo boat. ww2dbase [Operation Crusader | TH]
US Navy expanded its pilot training program from 800 students per month to 2,500 per month. ww2dbase [CPC]
Hiryu, Soryu, Tone, Chikuma, and two destroyers broke from the Pearl Harbor attack force to reinforce the Wake Island attack force. Meanwhile, Japanese naval land-based aircraft bombed Wake Island. ww2dbase [Battle of Wake Island | CPC]
USS Enterprise task force returned to Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii after failing to find the Japanese Pearl Harbor attack force. ww2dbase [Enterprise | Salt Lake City | Northampton | CPC]
During a cabinet meeting, Hans Frank, Gauleiter of Poland, asked his peers to shed any feeling of pity for the victims of the genocide. ww2dbase [Hans Frank | CPC]
US submarine Swordfish was credited with the first confirmed sinking of a Japanese ship in the Pacific War. ww2dbase [Swordfish | CPC]
Vice Admiral William Pye replaced Admiral Husband Kimmel as the acting Commander-in-Chief of the USN Pacific Fleet; he would soon be relieved by the newly-appointed permanent Pacific Fleet chief Rear Admiral Chester Nimitz, who was already en route to Hawaii. ww2dbase [Husband Kimmel | CPC]
Japanese continued to bombard the northern shore of Hong Kong island by artillery and aircraft. ww2dbase [Battle of Hong Kong | CPC]
Soviet forces captured Kalinin, Russia. The lowest temperature recorded in this region of Russia on this date was -42 degrees Fahrenheit (-41 degrees Celsius). ww2dbase [Battle of Moscow | CPC]
Italian torpedo boat Orione mis-identified German submarine U-557 as a British submarine and rammed her 18 miles west of Crete, Greece at 2144 hours. U-557 sank, killing all 43 aboard. Orione sailed to Suda Bay, Crete to receive repairs for damage sustained during the ramming. ww2dbase [CPC]
GOOD JOB! 
Five German U-Boats departed from Biscay ports along the French coast for Operation Paukenschlag (Drumbeat) off the American coast. ww2dbase [Second Happy Time | AC]
Malaya
European civilians began to evacuate from Penang, Malaya while Allied troops destroyed guns, ammunition dumps, and other military facilities to prevent Japanese capture; the radio station and the ships in the harbor, however, were overlooked and would later be pressed into Japanese service. ww2dbase [Invasion of Malaya and Singapore | Penang | CPC]
Malta
Five German motor torpedo boats from Sicily, Italy entered Malta's Valletta harbour during the night and drop seventy mines there. ww2dbase [Malta Campaign | Valletta | AC]
Philippines
US B-17 bombers at Del Monte airfield on Mindanao in the Philippine Islands departed for Australia. ww2dbase [Invasion of the Philippine Islands | CPC]
Turkey
The refugee ship Struma arrived in Istanbul, Turkey with 769 Romanian Jews aboard; without permission to enter Palestine, they would remain on the ship for the following two months. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Istanbul | CPC]
But at least they were safe.
16 Dec 1942
Soviet troops launched an offensive towards Rostov-on-Don, Russia hoping to cut off German troops in the Caucasus, defeating Italian units on the Don River. ww2dbase [Caucasus Campaign | TH]
Overnight and into the next morning, men of US 1st Infantry Division raided Maknassy, Tunisia, taking 21 German prisoners. ww2dbase [Advance into Tunisia | CPC]
16 Dec 1943
USS Flying Fish sank a Japanese cargo ship off Luzon, Philippine Islands, hitting her with 3 of 3 torpedoes fired. ww2dbase [Flying Fish | CPC]
Atlantic Ocean
The 46 prisoners from U-172 (survivors) sunk three days before were transferred from escort ships to escort carrier USS Bogue including the submarine’s commanding officer, Oberleutnant zur See Hermann Hoffmann, among the youngest submarine commanders in the German Navy at 22. ww2dbase [Conclusion of the Battle of the Atlantic | Bogue | DS]
British Western Pacific Territories
US naval leadership in the Solomon Islands decided to embark on a fighter sweep campaign against Rabaul, New Britain with US Navy, US Marine Corps, and Royal New Zealand Air Force fighters. The first mission would be launched on the following day. ww2dbase [New Guinea-Papua Campaign, Phase 3 | CPC]
China
Joseph Stilwell met with Chiang Kaishek in Chongqing, China. Chiang told Stilwell that he would only allow a major Chinese offensive into Burma if the Allies could achieve a three-to-one numerical superiority against the Japanese. He also turned over full command of the two Chinese divisions training in Ramgarh, India to Stilwell, who immediately prepared them for operations in northern Burma. ww2dbase [Chiang Kaishek | Joseph Stilwell | Chongqing | CPC]
Germany
498 RAF aircraft (483 Lancaster and 15 Mosquito) attacked Berlin, Germany; 25 Lancaster bombers were lost in combat and 29 more were lost while landing in bad weather. Berlin rail system was disrupted heavily, while the National Theater and the national archives buildings were destroyed. ww2dbase [Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | Berlin | CPC]
The USAAF 306th Bomb Group flying from RAF Thurleigh launched a bombing raid against port facilities at Bremen, Germany. ww2dbase [Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | RAF Thurleigh | Bremen | DS]
Italy
German troops counterattacked positions held by New Zealand troops outside of Orsogna, Italy before dawn; the Germans failed to gain ground, but the attack also exhausted New Zealand strength in the region. To the west, US troops captured San Pietro, Italy. ww2dbase [Advance to the Gustav Line | CPC]
Benito Mussolini gave Commander Ferrucio Ferrini the authorization to form a new naval infantry corps. ww2dbase [Benito Mussolini | CPC]
16 Dec 1944
Royal Indian Artillery Sergeant Umrao Singh won the Victoria Cross for defending his advanced gun battery against a determined Japanese attack in Burma. The fighting was frequently hand-to-hand and when Sergeant Singh was found wounded and exhausted, ten enemy bodies surrounded his gun. ww2dbase [AC]
The US Navy Fast Carrier Task Force retired from Philippine waters after three consecutive days of air operations. ww2dbase [Philippines Campaign, Phase 2 | CPC]
USS Finback attacked a Japanese convoy in the Western Pacific, firing a total of 20 torpedoes but making only 2 hits, sinking a transport. ww2dbase [Finback | CPC]
Dwight Eisenhower learned that he was about to be promoted to the rank of 5-star general. ww2dbase [Dwight Eisenhower | CPC]
A German officer carrying several copies of Operation Greif (the codename for Otto Skorzeny's infiltration of "fake Americans" to cause confusion ahead of the Ardennes Offensive) was taken prisoner and the treacherous plan was revealed. ww2dbase [Battle of the Bulge | AC]
Belgium
A German V2 rocket fell on the Rex Cinema in Antwerp, Belgium which was packed for the matinee performance. The blast killed 567 people, 296 of them Allied servicemen, and injured 291, half of them soldiers. It took six days to dig out all the bodies, many of which were still sitting upright in their seats. It was the highest death toll from a V-weapon attack during the entire war and resulted in the cinemas and theatres of Antwerp being closed "for the duration" and gatherings of more than 50 people in any one place being banned. ww2dbase [Antwerp | AC]
Germany
German troops launched Operation Wacht am Rhein, crossing the German border toward Belgium, opening the Battle of the Bulge. ww2dbase [Battle of the Bulge | TH, CPC]
I am sure that it started sooner than that!
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United States
George Marshall was promoted to the rank of general of the army. ww2dbase [George Marshall | CPC]
16 Dec 1945
Fumimaro Konoe passed away. ww2dbase [Fumimaro Konoe | CPC]
https://ww2db.com/person_bio.php?person_id=178
. So I'm getting OT and PT which is designed for me to get strong. So that's the story....GP
. So I'm getting OT and PT which is designed for me to get strong. So that's the story....GP
....GP