Historical note: On this day The Japanese fleet, under the command of Admiral Chuichi Nagumo, departed from their staging point in the Kurile Islands and sails for the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

A U.S. Navy intelligence assessment places about one-third of Japan's submarine force at Kwajalein, Marshall Islands. These submarines would soon depart for the attack on Pearl Harbor.

(Radio Moscow boasting of a massive loss of German soldiers. This propaganda was for the German public to consume, because it was nowhere near true. According to Wikipedia, the total figures for German casualties in Operation Barbarossa from June 22, 1941 until Dec. 5, 1941 were;
186,542 killed
40,157 missing
655,179 wounded.
Total: 881,878.)

(This was pretty close to the truth. According to Wikipedia, Russian casualties in Operation Barbarossa between June 22, 1941 until Dec. 5, 1941 were;
566,852 killed
235,339 died of non-combat causes.
1,336,147 sick or wounded in combat and non-combat.
2,335,482 missing or captured.
Total killed, missing, and captured: 3,137,673

(The cruiser, HMS Dunedin, was sunk on Nov. 24th by U-124 with the loss of over 400 men. The battleship torpedoed was not Malaya, but was HMS Barham. The report of a British battleship being torpedoed was something the Admiralty was quick to ignore. [See "British Deny Nazis Have Sunk Cruiser" in The Bakersfield Californian below.] Barham had been torpedoed by Oberleutnant zur See Hans-Diedrich Freiherr von Tiesenhausen and his U-331, but he did not know that he actually sank the ship. In his war diary he writes that he heard the detonations and heard bulkheads collapse, but could not confirm that the ship sank. He signaled U-Boat command on the 26th, and they wrote the following in their war diary; "U-331 - 1 battleship torpedoed in the Eastern Mediterranean. A very satisfactory result." In fact the German naval high command did not know that Barham was lost. The Admiralty and Prime Minister Winston Churchill would keep it that way until Jan. of 1942.

In fact, the Admiralty and the Germans were withholding information on several significant vessel losses. On Nov. 19 the Australian cruiser HMAS Sydney was sunk, with all hands, in battle with the German Hilfskreuzer [auxiliary cruiser] Kormoran, which was also sunk. While the Australians were aware that Sydney was missing, the Germans did not know Kormoran was lost. Over time, because of lack of communication, of course, they had to assume Kormoran had been sunk or captured. The details of Kormoran's loss was not known in Germany for some time. Further to this, a second Hilfskreuzer, Atlantis, had been sunk by HMS Devonshire on Nov. 22nd, a fact the Germans were aware of.)

(A spin doctor from the Ministry of Information obviously wrote the official British denial. They are quoted as saying; "...it can be stated authoritatively that His Majesty's Ship Dragon has not been attacked." That, of course, was true, however the German communique only said that a cruiser of the "Dragon class" had been sunk, this was true. The D class cruiser HMS Dunedin was sunk by U-124 on Nov. 24 with the loss of over 400 of her crew. You will note that the claim of damage to a British battleship was not addressed.)

(Another seven countries joined the pact against the Bolshevik world enemy.)

(World front against Bolshevism grows.)

(Anti-Comintern Pact extended - Seven more countries joined.)