Corsair damaged over Bougainville, December 19, 1943.
On Panay Island, in the Philippines, ten American Baptist missionaries, along with a handful of other Americans, were captured by the Japanese Army after having been in hiding for two years.
They offered to be executed in exchange for the release of Filipino's captured with them and were in fact killed by the Japanese, adults by beheading and children by bayoneting.
American forces captured the Japanese airstrip at Arawe, New Guinea.
Liberty Ship SS James Withycombe which went aground off Fort Randolph, Canal Zone, December 19, 1943.
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