No Peace For Xmas

FRI 25 DEC 1942
Pacific
Submarine Seadragon (SS-194) damages Japanese transport Nankai Maru off Cape St. George, New Britain, 05°05'S, 152°28'E; escorting destroyer Uzuki, after depth-charging Seadragon (and claiming destruction of her quarry) is then damaged in collision with the damaged Nankai Maru. Despite enemy optimism, Seadragon emerges unscathed from her adventure.

Submarine Tautog (SS-199) sinks Japanese army cargoship No.2 Banshu Maru about 15 miles north of Dili, Timor, 08°40'S, 124°30'E.

Submarine Thresher (SS-200) sinks Japanese army transport No.1 Tokiwa Maru, 06°38'S, 112°44'E.
USAAF B-17s damage Japanese transport Kagu Maru and merchant cargo ship Kozan Maru at Rabaul.

Atlantic
Philippine motorship Dona Aurora is torpedoed and sunk by Italian submarine Enrico Tazzoli about 200 miles off the coast of Brazil, 02°02'S, 35°17'W; Enrico Tazzoli takes two passengers and one Armed Guard sailor prisoner and leaves the rest afloat in a boat and three rafts (see 27 December 1942, 3 January 1943 and [...] 1943).