Athens EAM Headquarters Seized By British Forces
British Sherman tanks and a platoon captured the left wing EAM headquarters in Athens after heavy fighting across central areas including Constitution Square. One British soldier and several Elas were killed as sniping and shelling continued. American troops were not involved.
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Athens
EAM
Communist Party
Constitution Square
Elas
National Lberation
Reek Beddeee Mon
National Liberation Front
Temple of Zeus
Hadrian's Gate
Averoff Stadium
Acropolis
Lua Tig Cebu
Plakkas
Piraeus
National Liberation Front Party
RAF
Capital
Transport Command
Scobie
al- Hed
Greece
Washington
Bcobie
Eras
Wounded Army Officer Praises Medics On Front Lines
First Lieut. Nelson Pittinger recounts front line medics known as the Mondicos who brave shellfire to give first aid and plasma transfusions. He notes plasma quality at rest areas, rapid evacuations, and the remarkable recovery of wounded soldiers, including his own two injuries in Africa and Italy.
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Nelson Pittinger
Africa
Italy
Joe Mondicos
Jesse Pittinger
Libertytown
People’s Bank
Sisi
General Hospital
Lieut. Pittinger
Lieut
Pittinger
Fort Meade
Adolph
Ace” Ekosner
Michael Rodemeyer
Arnold “Spaghetti” Vernarelli
Baltimore
Rodemeyer
Vernarelli
Rosner
Pittinser
Walter Reed Hospital
Near-Est
Battlefeld
Anzio
Ath
Rome
Ane Aiairy Ducer
Alae
Homan
North Carolina
War Against Japan To Be Biggest Yet, He Believes
Lt. Gen. Somervell warned that the war against Japan will be the largest the United States has ever fought, with production upsurge needed after defeating Germany. He cited high costs, urged upscaling munitions, and noted heavy equipment losses as Allied forces push in Europe and prepare for Pacific campaigns.
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Japan
New York
UPI
Germany
Bichon Somervell
Army Service Forces
Samprupii Anslavad
National Association of Manufacturers
Pacific
Europe
Somervell
Aachen
France
Mediterranean
Orient
Eisenhower
MacArthur
Leyte
Christmas Mail Flow At Frederica Post Office
Christmas mail volumes rise at Frederica as the holiday rush begins. Officials report extra help is in place and urge early posting to ensure delivery, with emphasis on passing through the cancellation machine and avoiding delays for service personnel subject to reassignment.
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Frederica
Tme
Camassa
Paresis
Ripka Bae Ag
Carois
Western Front Troops Payroll Stolen in England
London reports the United States troops on the Western Front lost a $210,000 payroll. American military police and G-men joined a wide hunt for the money, said the London Daily Herald. The cash was said to be in small notes sealed in tin boxes, with the theft described as a hush-hush crime and details remaining undisclosed.
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London
London Daily Herald
United States
Western Front
PSN Task
England
Herald
Hooper Named To Head West Shore Assn
County Commissioner A Grant Hooper of Frederick county was elected president of the Western Shore County Commissioners Association at the December meeting in the Francis Scott Key hotel. Baltimore county’s Christian Kahl was named vice president and Carroll County’s Paul B Kubns secretary, with Norman Hess of Carroll elected treasurer. The new president urged vigilance over state legislation on teacher bonuses and funding welfare costs, as counties face shifts in tax revenue from land acquisitions by the federal government. The group planned to cut annual meetings from three to two and discuss road funds.
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A. Grant Hooper
Frederick County
Western Shore County Commissioners’ Association
Francis Scott Key
Christian Kahl
Baltimore County Commissioners
Paul B. Kubns
Carroll County
Norman Hess
Carroll Board
Mooper
Keller Shank
Waington
Chicago
Baltingie
Vlooper
Camp Detrick
Catoctin
State Department of Welfare
Willard
Tokyo Reports Convoy Attack and Landing Near New Britain
The Japanese Sagaison force reportedly landed at a northern point of Rabaul on November 22 and fled west after Australian resistance. Tokyo claimed an enemy convoy east of Mindanao was under air attack for a second day, with estimates of 71 transports in the convoy, though Allied confirmation was lacking.
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Associated Press
Radio Tokyo
Rabaul
New Britain
Federal Communications Commission
Torso
Ich
Ochind
Tokxa
Mindanao
Tokyo
Nazis Lose Ercsi 20 Miles From Budapest
Berlin broadcast reports Red Army gains on the Danube near Budapest with a bridgehead south of the capital. Russian forces drive toward Austria, penetrating near Lake Balaton as Tolbukhin's columns push from Marcali and Nagykanizsa toward Szombathely and Wiener Neustadt.
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Ercsi
Budapest
London
Dec
Berlin
the Danube
Red Army
Caepel Island
Danube
Austria
Moscow
Lake Balaton
Hungary
Reich
Feodor J. Talbukhin
Third
Nagykanizsa
Yugoslavia
Szombathely
Wiener Neustadt
Vienna
Marcali
Yester
Tolbukhin
Zagreb
Croatia
Allies Cross Lamone River Near Ravenna in Push
British and Polish troops crossed the Lamone river southwest of Faenza and held a firm bridgehead as Ravenna fell with Italian patriots aid. Eighth Army cleared the Ravenna Godo road, took San Michele and Prangipane, and drove German units back toward the Lamone. About 100 Germans captured. enemy withdrawal described as badly disorganized.
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Rome
Lamone
Faenza
Eighth Army
Ravenna
Ravenna-Godo
San Michele
Prangipane
Prangivane
Queartala Pane
Sollier In Germany Sends Yule Greetings
Christmas greetings from Cpl. Preston E. Best to the News-Post and friends in Freder ick are in a German card dated November 27. The card, mailed from somewhere in Germany, shows a soldier Swingin on the Siegfried Line depicted as a power line. Best reports he is well and that the News is received regularly. He adds he would like to hear from his friends especially the girls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
News- Post
Frederick
Germany
Cpl
Preston E. Best
John T. Best
North Market Street
Swingin
Cpl. Best
Eden Maintains Policy On Sforza Despite U S T
London dispatch reports Foreign Secretary Eden reiterating Britain’s stance against Count Sforza as Italian Foreign Minister. He defended the policy declared December 1, noting Bonomi’s denial of Sforza opposition. Eden said views not modified and anticipated replies after questions about Allied positions and Belgian affairs.
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London
Anthony Belen
America
Hinds
Walying
Britain
Carly Sforza
Kwange Bono
Euen
Taise F Coummans
Laborite
Iwor Titohias
Italy
Eden
Signor Bonomi
Count Sforza
Sforza
Syvance Bonomi
Bonomi
Badoglio
Richard Acland
Commonwealth Party
G. R. Strauss
Strauss
Belgium
Eisenhower
Pvt Keeney Dies In Battle In France
Pvt Bruce S Keeney nineteen year old son of Mr and Mrs E E Keeney was killed in infantry action in France on November 11 according to a War Department notification He had been overseas about three months since July after training at Camp Hulen Tex and Camp Chaffee Ark He previously worked at Taneytown Manufacturing Co enlisting June 1943 He is survived by brothers and sisters Ross Keeney Mrs Airy Mrs Lewis Hann Mrs Henry Muller Miss Catharine Keeney Middleburg Mrs Monroe Stann Union Bridge rs Thomas Grimes and Mrs Miriam Crebs Frederick and James Nina Keeney at home
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Bruce S. Keeney
E. E. Keeney
Tanevioyen
France
War Department
Pvt. Keeney
States
Camp Hulen
Tex
Camp Chaffee
Ark
Taneytown Manufacturing Co
Heavles
Ross Keeney
Airy
Lewis Hann
Henry Muller
Catharine Keeney
Middleburg
Monroe Stann
Union Bridgers
Thomas Grimes
Miriam Crebs
Frederick
Clara
James
Nina Keeney
Third Army drives bridgehead across Saar front
American forces push a wide bridgehead northwest of Saarlouis Saarlautern enter Sarreguemines and Sarreguemines, assault Saarbrucken as German defenses crack. Panzer obstacles, heavy bombardment, and tank assaults reported as U.S. Ninth Army on Roer and First Army advance toward Duren. Casualties cited as high on both sides.
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Roer River Front
Ninth
Paris
Third Army
Saar
Starhuutern
Sarregue
Saarbrucken
Starkiutern
George S. Patton
Siegfried Line
Roer
Cologne
U. S. First
Cape Ture
Bergstein
Dank Hurtgen Forest
Duren
U.S. Ninth
Julich
Linnich
Father and four children die in Baltimore home fire
A Baltimore family perished in a four-room house blaze that consumed the structure. Father George B. Sands 37 and his children Mildred 12 George B. 8 Howard 22 months Diana 7 months plus mother Agnes Sands were killed or severely burned. One niece survived with injuries after leaping from a second story window. her husband William is overseas. The blaze left only the niece alive and the home burned to the ground.
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Baltimore
Dee
George B. Sands
Mildred Sands
Howard Sands
Diana Sands
Agnes Sands
South Baltimore General Hospital
Anna Kidee
William
Final Appropriation Bill Before Congress
The 78th Congress passed its final appropriation measure at 415,324,712 dollars, adding to funds for misc agencies. If enacted, total new funds this year would reach about 68,000,000,000 dollars, with 286,626,582 aimed at the Navy. Navy officers disclosed during closed hearings that secret tests are under way on new sky giants potentially larger than the B-29s used over Tokyo.
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Washington
78Th Congress
House Appropriations Committee
Congress
Navy
Tokyo
Middletown Soldier Finds Friend in Paris Hospital Bed
A Middletown soldier in a Paris hospital discovered the neighboring bed housed another Middletown youth, missing in action in Germany this week. Pvt Dusty Miller wrote his brother that Samuel E Crane, missing since November 17, was wounded and in the same ward, with Miller hopeful for an official update soon. Crane had served in the Ninth Army and traveled through France into Germany in the past eight weeks.
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Middletown
Paris
Germany
Charles
Dusty” Miller
Claude Umbo
Samuel E. Crane
Samuel G. Crane
Crane
War Department
Miller
Crone
Pvt
Truscott Named Commander of U S Fifth Army
Rome December 6 Lieutenant General K. Truscott 48 who commanded Allied forces on the Anzio beachhead and later led assault troops in southern France was appointed commander of the U S Fifth Army today.
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Rome
Ges. Lie Cian K. Truscott, Jr
Anzio
France
Fifth Army
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Hooper
Shore Assn
Lamone River
Sollier
U.S
Keeney
Seis
Stour River
Pittsbuygh
Saarlind
Saazlautern
Merzig
Saarlautern
Saarbracken
Sarreguemines
Dath
Llalron
Fourth Armored
26Th
Miller Greets
Pfc
Sammy Miller
Ninth Army
Jettera
Camp Croft
S.C
Bolivar
Acion
Truscott
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