President Roosevelt authorized a major expenditure on the Manhattan Project, effectively significantly funding the project for the first time.
Hitler issued Directive No. 47. This directive concerned the war in the southeast, and more particularly the Balkans and Crete, now that Allied attacks on those locations were a possibility.
On the same day, the costly but effective Tatsinskaya Raid ended in the East.
According to Sarah Sundin:
Today in World War II History—December 28, 1942: 80 Years Ago—Dec. 28, 1942: French Somaliland switches allegiance from Vichy to Free French, the final French territory in Africa to do so.
She also reports that the Germans began to experiment with sterilization of female prisoners at Buchenwald.
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