Leyte Battle Advances Reported As Counterattacks Fail
General MacArthur’s December 7 communique details allied gains on Leyte Island with Japanese lines breached at Palanas River and Balogo coast, air and sea attacks, and losses of three 1,000 ton enemy freighters. Bombing of airfields destroys planes. six American planes downed. Separate note from Rockville reports Maryland tuberculosis bed shortages prompting call for legislation to expand sanatorium beds.
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MacArthur
Philippines
Leyte
Douglas MacArthur
Ormoc
U.S. Army
24Th Corps
Palanas
Balogo
Kang Dagit
Ormac Bay
Pearl Harbor
Manila
New Guinea
Kananga
Ormec
Leyte Island
Leyte Gulf
Dumaguete
Negros Island
Christmas picks review list of books for all ages
A long overview of holiday books highlighting novels, biographies, and children's titles. Notable items include The Magic Year by Joachim Maass and They Dream of Home by Niven Busch. juvenile favorites like The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. non fiction on China such as China to Me. and thrillers including Panic by Helen McCloy.
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Hamburen
Maass
Niven Busch
Appleton- Century
Valour and Arms
James Street
Dial
Vicksburg
Edward F. Murphy
Bruce
Mary Magdalene
Thae
Macmillan
Upstate
New York
Earth
Richard Matthews Hallet
Doubleday Doran
New England
Bert Best
China
Emily Hahn Doubleday Durant
Gripsholm
William B. Ziff
Mpacmian
Herbert A. Wise
Phyllis Fraser
Random House
Helen McCloy
Moron
Samuel Rogers
Harper
Margare Eenard
Lawrence Treat
Duell, Sloan and
Bruno Fisener
Clifford Knight
Dodd, Ates Wala
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Rockville
Maryland
Sabillasville
Potomac Valley Public Lay Health Committee
Montgomery County Commissioners
Baron Munchausen
Pan
Ytheon
Doe
Nicholas Kalashinikoff
Scribner's
Aj Siberian Forse
Roger Williams
Jeannette Eaton
Harcourt Brace
Wildcats
John R.’ S
Emma Atkins Jacobs Winston
Chautauqua
Sasha and the
Lorraine
Jerrold Beim
Harcourt Braces
Rafaello Busoni
D. Rand
J. Parrott Morrow
Jahp
Carl Crow
Walter B. Pitkin
Wondrow Wilson
Gerald Johnson
Wilson
Billy” Bishop
RCAF
Viking
Global Aviation
Solomons
Osa Johnson
Houghton Mifflins
Heaven and Earth
Frane Werfel
Philosophical Library
Bernadiette
Meey Ellen Chase
Peru
Joachim Ma
Emily
Valeri Chkalov
Canada
Alexander Barenoff
War Shipping Administration
American Mail Line, Inc
Seattle
Wash
Lincoln Loan Service, Inc
West Patrick St
Nesk
Storm & Shipley
OFEN
Tin
Sim
Dar
Boudoir
Sweden
Stockholm
Stainless
SEARS
Tia Cord Tos
W. Patrick ST. Frederick, MD
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