Leyte Invasion Costs Japan Heavy Casualties in 55 Days
MacArthur reports Philippines campaign casualties total 10 409 through midweek with 2 176 killed 7 976 wounded and 257 missing. Japanese losses include 33 801 dead. 30 000 drowned. 253 prisoners and 16 500 dead inside enemy lines amid Leyte Samar fighting.
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MacArthur
Philippines
Japan
Douglas MacArthur
Leyte
Lauzon Island
Iwo Jima
Chester W. Nimitz
Harbor
Amereann
Samar Island
Doughbours
77Th
Ormoc
Hellcats Roll Over Luzon In Heavy Air Strikes
Admiral Nimitz reports American air power sweeping Japanese forces. early counts show at least 85 enemy planes destroyed with 14 in the air and 71 on the ground. Joint reports from Domei and Allied sources describe carrier strikes hitting Luzon and nearby areas with multiple enemy airfields attacked.
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McCain
Philippi
Navy
John S. McCain
Luzon Island
Luzon
Manila
Clark Field
Admiral McCain
Chester W. Nimitz
Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
Subic Bay
Iba
Lingayen Gulf
Churchill urges early meeting of big three for world policy
Prime Minister Churchill calls for an early meeting of the three great powers to unite against Russia in the Polish dispute. He cautions that a quarrel among the powers would ruin the postwar world order and outlines proposed territorial adjustments and compensations involving Danzig East Prussia and Curzon line.
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London
Russia
Churchill
Old
Poland
Lwow
Ukraine
East Prussia
Danzig
Germany
Roosevelt
Marshal Stalin
United Nations
United States
Britain
Curzon Line
Konigsberg
Greek Insurgents Hand British Terms for Armistice Basis
ELAS issued a three point reply demanding amnesty for leaders a national government and a regency to decide monarchy or republic while British forces reinforce Athens central areas. British envoy eyes a possible new government as purges and street fighting continue around Omafia square and Piraeus port.
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Athens
Associated Press
ELAS
Patras
EAM Central Committee
Reginald Leeper
Emmanuel Sophoulis
Omafia Square
Piraeus
University Street
Omonia
Constitution
Ronald Scobie
George Papandreou
Churchill reshapes borders aiding Stalin in Baltic move
In London Prime Minister Churchill appears to back Stalin on Polish lands east of the Curzon line and potential East Prussia losses, implying Russia gains a Baltic coast frontage and a major Baltic power shift. The Atlantic Charter is cast aside in the brisk realignment.
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London
Churchill
Marshal Stalin
Curzon Line
Lwow
Russia
East Prussia
Konigsberg
Lithuania
Memel
Poland
Danzig
Gdynia
Stalin
Fight Looms On Nominees
Senators oppose six State department nominees led by Joseph C. Grew and plan to send them back to President Roosevelt. Pepper and allies push to prioritize Hurley and Heller nominations while MacLeish faces strong opposition from Clark. Steeling partisan motion could test all six with a single vote.
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Washington
State Department
Roosevelt
Pepper
D-Fla
Joseph C. Grew
Florida
White House
Connally
Foreign Relations Committee
Senate
Robert Hurley
Connecticut
Edward Heller
Won
Murray
D-Mont
Guffey
D-Pa
la Follette
Congress
MacLeish
Nelson Rockefeller
Julius Holmes
W. L. Clayton
James C. Dunn
D-Tex
Surplus War Property Board
M W Strike Threatens Across Ward Stores
The labor board threatens nationwide Ward walkouts during Christmas as CIO unions push for enforcement of August 1943 and May 1944 orders on Detroit stores. Ward defies the board. a Detroit strike began last weekend and hearings are set for seven cities with possible White House intervention.
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Washington
Montgomery Ward
War Labor Board
WLB
Detroit
CIO
Samuel Wolchok
Retail Employes Union
Wolchok
Sewell Avery
Ward
William H. Davis
Chicago
Denver
St. Paul
Portland
Ore
San Rafael
Calif
Jamaica
N. Y
Davis
White House
Swift Advance Across Tip Of Alsace In Germany Invasion
The U S Seventh Army crossed into Germany near Scheibenhard and Wissembourg as American and French forces push toward Karlsruhe Mannheim and Ludwigshafen. Beating progress cut through the Siegfried line with pockets near Colmar and Saarlautern while Devers and Patton commands widen fronts along the Rhine valley.
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Alsace
Paris
U. S
Tth
Germany
Scheiben
Scheibenhard
France
Mannheim
Ludwigshafen
Europe
French
Riviera
Roer River
Aachen
Saarland
Siegfried
Karlsruhe
Wissembourg
Bavarian Palatinate
Eifel Range
Bienwald Forest
Rhine
Hermann Balck
Colmar
Strasbourg
Jacob L. Devers
Palatinate
Devers
Switzerland
Lauterbourg
U. S. 3Rd Army
George S. Patton, Jr
Saarlautern
Dillengen
Sarregumines
Roer
Duren
Birgel
104Th
Mariaweiler
Shephoven
Cologne
7Th Army
Alexander M. Pate
6Th
Heidelberg
Bavaria
Riedsettz
Sambach
Munchhouse
Schaffhouse
Wintzenbach
Neewiller
Siegfried Line
Plea Urges Complete Sixth War Loan Reports Countywide
La Crosse and surrounding areas were urged to finish Sixth War Loan solicitations by Sunday. War finance committee members asked check workers to report to captains by Sunday night and captains to mail or deliver reports to the Peronance office by Monday. Residents were reminded to buy Mira E bonds to reach a 19000 quota, with current sales about 55 percent.
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la Crosse
War Finance Committee
Retter
Personnally Twain
Peronance
Batavian Bank
Mira “E
Tme
Treasury
Nelson Returns to Report to President From China
Donald Nelson has returned from China and will report to the president as soon as possible. The White House offered no details about the visit, noting Nelson’s role as former war production chairman and a personal assistant to the president. He traveled home by aid of Australia.
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Bhincton
Bae Nelson
China
White House
Pest
Australia
Nazis Moving War Industry From Vienna
Arbeiter Zeitung reports German forces hastening armament plants from Vienna to Regensburg and Linz. About 1,600 to 600 workers are said to be employed in the transfer as part of wartime reallocation.
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Switzerland
Arbeiter Zeitung
Vienna
Regensburg
Linz
Beri
Local Weather Forecast Mentioning Cold Saturday
Partly cloudy tonight with a turning trend cooler Saturday. Low near 26 degrees as temperatures drop, bringing a noticeably colder day ahead.
B 29s Over Tokyo Again
American Superfortresses reportedly flew over Tokyo in two incursions dropping incendiaries, while Japanese broadcasts labeled the raids as nuisance attacks. Three planes hit Tokyo around 3 30 a m with a lone B 29 visiting later, and another over Osaka Kobe amid weather conditions hindering identification.
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Tokyo
Allies Approach Akyab Burma From Maungdaw West Coast
Allied elements reach positions 14 miles southeast of Maungdaw on the Burma coast and are within 40 miles of Akyab. They clear Buthiedaung and advance along the Mayu range, reoccupying western Kalapanzin. In north Burma, 800 Japanese troops at Bhamo are trapped by the 38th Chinese division in a small area.
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Southeast Asia Command
Kandy
Ceylon
Maungdaw
Burma
Akyab
Southeast Asia
Buthiedaung
Akoyab
Arakan
Mayu Range
Kalapanzin
Bhamo
King George VI Hosts Buckingham Palace Birthday Ball
King George VI, aged 49, held a birthday ball at Buckingham Palace with about 100 guests. It was the first formal dance at the palace since the war began.
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London
George VI
Buckingham Palace
Huge Allied Convoy Seen By Japanese
Tokyo radio reported a powerful Allied convoy moving westward through the Mindanao Strait into the Sulu Sea on Thursday Japan time. The Japanese news agency warned the enemy surface unit should not be taken lightly, though there was no American confirmation of the broadcast.
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Associated Press
Tokyo Radio Today
Mindanao Strait
Sulu Sea
Japan
Mindanao
Philippine Islands
Mindoro
Luzon
Tokyo
Lieut Fancher Missing in Action Over Siam
Lieut Robert J. Fancher flight engineer on a B 29 was reported missing in action over Siam since November 27. Telegram notifying his wife Mrs Imogene Fancher at 1407 Loomis Street. Parents Mr and Mrs Frank Fancher residing at the same address. Entered service September 1942 trained in Seattle Hayes Salina and Clovis New Mexico. Went overseas from Clovis last September 2.
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Robert J. Fancher
Siam
U.S. Adjutant General's Office
Imogene Fancher
Loomis Street
Frank Fancher
Fancher
Seattle
Wash
Hayes and Salina
Kans
Clovis
N. Mex
Flying Fortresses Hammer Hannover And Kassel in RAFUS Bombing
Allied air forces from Britain and Italy Germany hit Innsbruck Linz Salzburg Rosenheim and Amstetten while 650 Fortresses bomb Hannover and Kassel with 2500 tons. The raid included 550 Mustang and Thunderbolt fighters as weather allowed resumes after a 48 hour lull on western front rail routes.
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London
U. S
Britain
Italy
Germany
15Th Air Force
Innsbruck
Brenner Pass
Linz
Salzburg
Rosenheim
Amstetten
Hannover
Kassel
U. S. 8Th Air Force
Reich
Western Front
Hungarian Premier Ferenc Szalasi wounded in assassination attempt
Paris radio reported on Friday that Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Szalasi was seriously wounded in an attempted assassination. The same source noted Szalasi had visited Adolf Hitler at the Führer Headquarters a week earlier.
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London
Paris
Ferenc Szalasi
Szalasi
Adolf Hitler
Fuehrer
Senegalese Soldier Sentenced to Death for Giraud Shooting
An Algerian military tribunal sentenced a Senegalese soldier to death for shooting Gen. Henri Giraud at Oran in September. The defendant was described as drunk when the incident occurred.
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London
Henri Giraud
Oran
Paris
Orchid supply blaze destroys Chicago firms
A major fire Friday damaged a three story brick building housing two floral firms in Chicago. The Louis Hoeckner Co wholesale florists and Archie Spencer retail florist occupied the premises with extensive orchid stock losses.
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Orchid Supply
Chicago
Louis Hoeckner Co
Archie Spencer
Roosevelt Signs Star Rating Bill Creating Top Military Ranks
President Roosevelt signs a bill creating fleet admiral and general of the army ranks and nominates three admirals and four generals for the new ratings. He may name one more fleet admiral, with nominees including Leahy, Ernest J. King, Nimitz, Marshall, MacArthur, Eisenhower, and Hap Arnold.
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Roosevelt
C. Marshall
Jas MacArthur
Southwest Pacific
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Europe
H. H. Arnold
Army Air Forces
Congress
Wayne Morris Returns Home From Pacific Action
Hollywood reports Lieutenant Bert De Wayne Morris USNR known as Wayne Morris arrived home with his wife and six month old daughter. He is credited with 57 aerial sorties including shooting down seven Japanese Zeros and aiding in sinking an escort vessel a flak gun boat and a submarine while damaging a heavy cruiser and a mine layer.
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Hollywood
Bert de Wayne Morris
USNR
Wayne Morris
Friday
U S Cites Finland as Enemy Territory Over Debt Payment
The United States may not accept a Finnish offer to pay another installment on war debts. Washington lists Finland as enemy territory despite severing Nazi ties and notes no prewar relations with Helsinki.
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Washington
United States
U. S
Finland
Heli
Plane Crash in Lake Pepin Stuns Pepin Village
An army bomber crashed about one mile out in Lake Pepin in front of Pepin Wisconsin at 2 10 p m Friday Police received a report at 2 30 p m Chief Ivan Wright announced rescue parties broke ice to reach the site The base and destination of the plane were unknown and the crew count was unavailable as the lake lay partly frozen
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Lake Pepin
Pepin
Wis
Ivan Wright
Allies To Dissolve Nazi Labor Front
General Eisenhower proclaims the Nazi controlled labor front to be dissolved in conquered Germany along with other party organizations. German workers may form democratic trade unions when circumstances permit and free economic association among workers will be allowed provided they do not assume an ego or militaristic complex.
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Labor Front
Germany
Gen. Eisenhower
Front Distances to Berlin Highlight Allied Paths
The report lists travel distances to Berlin from major fronts: Western front 301 miles from near Duren, Russian front 304 miles north of Warsaw, Hungarian front 400 miles north of Szob, and Italian front 550 miles from Mezzano.
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Duren
Warsaw
Szob
Mezzano
Falling P-38 Kills Man Atop Silo
In College Park Georgia an army P-38 plane crashed on T Q Sullivan's farm yesterday killing J E Mealer a 32 year old farm hand who was working atop a silo. The pilot was critically injured and his name was not released.
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College Park
T. Q. Sullivan
J. E. Mealer
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