Mindoro In American Hands As Airfields Form
American forces secure southern Mindoro with 11 miles of beachhead and high ground control near San Jose. Mindoro airstrips are being prepared for day and night fighters, 150 miles from Manila, while Leyte operations push toward junction with Mindoro forces.
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Philippines
Mindoro
San Jose
Douglas MacArthur
Leyte
Japan
Ormoc
Manila
Tokyo
Asahi
U S Signals Flexibility on Poland Frontiers
Secretary of State Stettinius announced the United States would not object to a future frontier agreement for Poland if the United Nations agreed. He referenced Churchill's pledge to cede the eastern third of Poland to Russia and said boundaries should stay in abeyance until after the war, barring a friendly settlement. The U S position hinges on the Polish government in exile accepting the Curzon line.
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Stettinius
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Poland
United Nations
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House of Commons
Britain
Russia
U. S
Hull
Curzon Line
London
Siege Driving Toward Lifting of Greek Capital
British forces pressed a full scale assault against ELAS in Athens today capturing a stronghold on the road from Athens to Kalamaki airport and taking Sibelias hill near the Acropolis. Prisoners were reported, and RAF headquarters faced ELAS attacks as the two week old civil warfare continued.
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Salonika
Allied air blitz hits German rail hubs in WWII raids
Allied forces launched heavy daylight and night bombing across Germany and occupied regions. American Fortresses and British bombers struck Cologne Coblenz Mainz Munich Ulm Duisburg while RAF fighters faced weather and German counterfire. Losses included 31 U S planes missing 17 British aircraft lost and 48 enemy planes destroyed.
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Duisburg
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Czechoslovakia
Rosenheim
Wels
Roer
Rhine
von Ronstedt
Ardennes Forest
Fatherland
Fuehr- Ninth Tactical Air Force
Belgium
Germans Launch Massive Winter Offensive Across Front
Allied forces faced a bold German counteroffensive across Belgium Luxembourg and the Ardennes as Field Marshal Rundstedt pressed with armor air support and paratroopers. Hodges 1st Army reported several miles gains amid heavy fighting while air forces hit back and information remained tightly controlled.
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Courtney H. Hodges
U. S. 1St Army
Belgium
Luxembourg
Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt
Europe
Hohe Venn
Malmedy
Blue
Texas
Monschau
Aachen
1St Army
Amer
Red Army advances threaten Budapest and Slovakia front
Soviet forces push 72 miles northeast of Budapest and smash across the Danube into Buda as Pravda cites vast German and enemy divisions tied up on the eastern front. Red units reach Slovakia with 40 towns captured northwest of Miskolc while attacks on East Prussia signal renewed northern front activity.
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Russia
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Kessa
Slovakia
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Miskolc
Kassa
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Parena
Pazsto
East Prussia
Weather outlook tonight and Tuesday with near freezing low
Local forecast calls for a low around 8 to 10 degrees with a frost risk tonight. Tuesday’s high near 25 degrees and below normal for the season.
33 More Jap Ships Sunk By Submarines Sets
The United States submarine fleet has sunk 13 enemy cruisers and 43 destroyers, continuing a campaign against Japanese shipping. The report notes 33 additional ships lost to submarine action.
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United States
B 29s Hit Nagoya and Hankow in Major Air Attacks
U S bombers attacked Nagoya on the mainland and Hankow in occupied China in a second wave of heavy raids. Saipan reports after the Dec 13 Nagoya attack show extensive damage to the Hatsudoki aircraft factory with four large buildings and 22 smaller structures destroyed or badly damaged.
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Washington
Nagoya
Hankow
China
United States Cocks
Saipan
Allied Fronts In Burma Unify Into Single Line Near Indaw
Allied forces in Burma merged scattered fronts into a single line as the Royal Scots Fusiliers advanced southward along the Myitkyina Mandler railway east of Indaw. Pinlebu, a key enemy base used to launch the India invasion last spring, was captured. The Mars Task Force infantry and artillery moved closer to Mandalay, near Tonkwa about 120 miles north.
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Mandalay
Tonkwa
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Army Navy To Handle Allowances For Vets
Roosevelt signed legislation authorizing the war and navy departments to administer mustering out pay for totally disabled veterans and to make direct payments to veterans under 17 years of age.
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Saniaiati
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V Weapons In Action Over England, Reports Say
London reports another German V weapons attack on England Sunday night with damage and casualties confirmed by the British ministry of home security.
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London
England
Ministry of Home Security
Vatican paper critiques Churchill over Poland stance
L'Osservatore Romano remarks on Prime Minister Churchill's Poland policy comparing it to Versailles and predicting a future conflict, stating the last war would be buried while a new one would be planted.
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L’osservatore Romano
Churchill
Poland
Versailles
Disarmed Doughboys Massacred by German Tank Fire
American doughboys were disarmed and driven into a field near Belgium as German tanks opened fire during an early Nazi counteroffensive. Survivors described a brutal sequence with German noncoms shooting wounded men and a Tiger tank picking off stragglers as U.S. forces retreated toward a clearing station.
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William B. Summers
Glenville
W. Va
Charles F. Appman
Verona
Harold W. Billow
Mount Joy
Jack Belden
Time Magazine
Japs reveal death of another Japanese admiral
The Japanese news agency Domei reported today that another admiral died in action, boosting Tokyo’s wartime toll to 80 since May. The casualty was named Vice Admiral Hiroshi Nakagawa, with no location or date given for his death.
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Domei
Tokyo
Hiroshi Nakagawa
Frenchman Pays 1260 Dollars for Ike Autograph
A French civilian paid 63 000 francs, about 1260 dollars, at an auction in Paris for General Eisenhower's autograph. Proceeds benefited bombed out Normandy residents.
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Paris
Eisenhower
Normandy
No Cash In Drawer Bandit Sets Fire In New Orleans
A bandit found the till empty and started a fire at a pressing shop in New Orleans last night He told the clerk I am Santa Claus and Santa Claus is giving you a vacation The incident ends with the shopkeeper unharmed and authorities investigating the motive and suspect notes.
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New Orleans
Santa Claus
Hitler said to hold front until December sixteenth
Western front prisoners quoted by Daily Mail say Adolf Hitler visited the area and urged troops to hold on until December sixteenth when he promised the Americans would face a nasty surprise.
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Daily Mail
Western Front
Adolf Hitler
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