FRANCE: Paul Ferdonnet, the "Radio Traitor," a German sympathizer broadcasting in French from Stuttgart, Germany, is tried in absentia by a French military tribunal. 

GERMANY: U-331 laid down.

POLAND: Jews are forbidden by the German authorities to travel on the public railways.

Western POLAND: The resettlement of ethnic Germans from Wohlhynien (western Ukraine) and eastern Galicia into the territories of the Reich, agreed during negotiations with the USSR, has been completed. The "migrants" come from what used to be eastern Poland, which has been under Soviet occupation since September. The resettlement has been pushed on with all haste since 20 December, with ethnic German groups covering 40 miles a day in temperatures as low as -40 degrees Fahrenheit. German-Soviet agreements late last year mean that some 205,000 ethnic Germans can leave the Soviet "sphere of interest" for the Reich. Many are earmarked by the Reich's Agency for the Organisation of Space to displace Poles in the General Government area (occupied western Poland), regarded by the Nazis as part of the Reich's new Lebensraum. Just over 100,000 families from southern Germany are also expected to resettle in the occupation zone.

LINE ISLANDS: The minesweeper USS Quail (AM-15) arrives at Palmyra Island with the first construction party to begin building a naval air station there. 

 U.S.A.: The motion picture "The Fighting 69th" is released. Directed by William Keighley, this war movie about the 165th Infantry Regiment (former New York 69th Regiment) in World War I stars James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, George Brent, Jeffrey Lynn, Alan Hale, Frank McHugh and Dennis Morgan.