"Appendectomy is completed (0200)"

TUE 15 DEC 1942
Atlantic
Coast Guard cutter Ingham (WPG-35) sinks German submarine U-626, North Atlantic, 56°46'N, 27°12'W.

Twelve Armed Guard sailors (one of whom dies later of his wounds) and 17 merchant seamen from U.S. freighter Alaskan, sunk by German submarine U-172 on 28 November 1942, reach Salinas, Brazil, by lifeboat (see 5 January 1943).

Pacific
Appendectomy is completed (0200) on board submarine Grayback (SS-208), by Pharmacist's Mate First Class Harry B. Roby, USNR, on Torpedoman First Class W.R. Jones. This is the second of three such procedures that will be performed on board U.S. submarines during the war.

The rest of the appendectomies story.