The Japanese shot, bayoneted, and beheaded withe swords 110 Australian and 40 Indian wounded prisoners and their medics in Malaya, the Parit Sulong Massacre.
The Japanese Imperial Guards commander, General Takuma Nishimura was tried after the war for war crimes due to this, and was hanged on June 11, 1951, although there is some doubt about his culpability for the actions of the troops.
It ought to be noted that actions like this by the Japanese were completely common during World War Two, and seem to have become common in the Japanese military no later than the 1930s. This had not been the case earlier, as for example in the Russo Japanese War.
The Soviets advanced in their Winter offensive, the Afrika Korps advanced in theirs.
The Soviets also started evacuating residents of Leningrad over Lake Ladoga, which was frozen.
Six Allied merchant ships went down due to submarines in Operation Drumbeat.
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