Fourth Raid Hits Omura Plane Plant
Allied air action targets Japanese aircraft plants as heavy raids strike Omura Nagoya and Hankow while American forces push on Mindoro Leyte and Ormoc valley. MacArthur reports substantial enemy losses and a shift toward coordinated strikes across Luzon and Kyushu amid Burma advances.
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Philippines
Mindoro
MacArthur
Leyte
U. S
Valencia
Ormoc
Sovens
China
Kyushu
Japan
Tokyo
Omura
Hankow
Mitsubishi Aircraft
Kokuki
Nagoya
MU. S. War Department
Ger. Haywood Hanseli’ Jr
Seipan
Negoya
Mitsubishi
Hatsudoki
John
McCain
Luzon Island
Min
Coro
Bong Downs 40th Plane Victory Over Mindoro
Maj Riede Beng America's top ranking ace extended his tally to 40 Japanese planes by downing a fighter over Mindoro in the Philippines. It marked his second victory of the week for the Congressional Medal of Honor recipient.
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Leyte
Sinsass
Philippines
Maj
Riede J. Beng
America
Mindoro
Negro Prison Escape Admitted by Corpus Chwit Suspect
Dec 19 Corpus Chwit city detectives hold K Ty Thorns who admits escaping from a state penitentiary 16 years ago while serving an 68 year murder sentence. He was a civilian worker at the Naval Air station and his wife of nine years knew nothing of his prison record.
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Ty ‘Thorns
Purzro
Naval Air Station
Parents Unaware of Ace's Death
Mr and Mrs Robert B Westbrook Sr of Kollywood had been visiting in San Antonio for a month and had not yet been officially notified Tuesday of the death of their son Lieut Col Robert B Westbrook Jr the ace with 20 enemy planes. His flaming ship went down after strafing a gunboat escorting two freighters at Macassar strait on November 22. Major Endress described the final moments as Westbrook fought the gunboat and its batteries before diving to the sea. Westbrook rose from second lieutenant to lieutenant colonel in 20 months, led a 13th Air force squadron, and left behind a network of relatives in San Antonio and beyond.
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Robert B. Westbrook Sr
San Antonio
Robert
B. Westbrook Jr
Westbrook
Macassir Strait
James Martin
Nacogdoches
Osling
Pleasanton
Vee
West Coast
W. A. Holder
Elmwiad Drive
Australia
Mer Han
T. Campbell
Barrett Place
G. B. Trouts
Home Avenue
Aidlye Qneles
Clyde, Ross
Roy
Loyd
Don Westbrook
Maj
John Endress
Berkeley
Calif
Endress
Aussie Airman Challenges U S Pilots Claims Too Low
Melbourne dispatch quotes Royal Australian Air Force Air Commodore F. R. W. Scherger disputing high U S claims of aircraft destroyed in New Guinea. He notes Dutch ground losses miscounted. photos often cannot verify counts. real wrecks numbered far fewer than claimed, challenging efforts to halt Japanese advances.
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Mindore
Ertttead Cone
Top Chiefs Cautiously Optimistic As German Offensive Rages
Military experts in London Paris and Washington hold a wary view as the German winter offensive enters its third day. With 20 miles into Belgium and threats to key cities, Allied analysts doubt German gains will alter the war’s trajectory. Eisenhower’s news blackout complicates assessment while American resistance and reinforcements shape the evolving front.
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London
Paris
Washington
Belgium
Idege
Gor
Army Raises Draft Demand Increases to 80000 in Jan Feb
Washington reports selective service will raise monthly draft payments to eighty thousand men in January and February. All men under thirty who have been drafted since February 1 are to be re examined for 1345 unless physically defective.
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Washington
Army
Roosevelt returns from secret Warm Springs vacation
President Roosevelt came back to Washington from a weeks long rest at Warm Springs Georgia. He greeted reporters at the White House and resumed executive duties signing more than 75 bills while planning for war and a new Congress. He spoke informally to patients and reviewed war reports and State Department reorganization during the trip.
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Washington
Roosevelt
White House
Fine Mountain
Warm Springa Foundation
State Department
Weather Forecast for San Antonio and East Texas
Forecast warns of cold conditions Tuesday afternoon through Wednesday night with minimums around 34 degrees. East Texas remains very cold Tuesday. Wednesday slightly warmer with lows near 32 in Worth and west central areas and near the upper coast Wednesday morning.
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San Antonio
Yicmy
East Texas
Belgians Erase Anti Nazi Signs Amid War News
London dispatches report Belgian civilians scrubbing off Nazi slogans as Allied advance pushes Germans back. One observer saw a man washing Hitler from his wall, expressing shock at the rapid turn of events.
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London
Brighim
Front Disprtches
F& Man
Hitler
Sailor Edward Brown Dines On Early Christmas Turkey
Albany press item reports machinist mate Edward Brown, amid furlough, celebrating Christmas early aboard ship. He dined on turkey by request alongside salads and fixes, amid a light note of holiday dinner. Additional weather details promised on Page 2A.
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Albany
N. Yn
Deo
W— Iy
Avikion Machinistis
Edward Brown
Yanks Press German Front as Colonge Battle Intensifies
London dispatch reports large scale Allied air strikes dropping nearly 100 tons of explosives on German supply lines amid counterattacks. U S forces push toward Belgium and Duren as German forces threaten Luxembourg and Aachen on a wide 60 mile front. British and American units report hard fighting with air support destroying tanks and vehicles, while news silence hints at rapid developments in the western campaign.
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London
Sures
Paris
Belgium
First Army
Roer River
Duren
Bles
Une Stront
Belekwa
Lusembourg
Cologne
Roer
Cavigna
Monschau
Hechternech
Aachen
Supreme Headquarters
del- Alan
Stavelot
Telch
Germany
U.S
Robertie
Berlin
Hitler
Aachén
Soldier impersonates chaplain in four marriages at Alliance
Four Alliance girls believed a soldier posed as army chaplain and wed them falsely last August. County Judge Penrose Romig said no marriage certificates exist and no records show valid weddings. He noted the scheme aimed to obtain government allotment checks and that the men had left overseas.
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Almtanch
Neb
Dee
Penrose B. Romig
Cerenaniea
Romig
Didi
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Burm
X Junction
Burana Road
Bong Downs
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TNS
Melbourne
Ue & Air
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FR. W. Scherger
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Asistralia
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R. A. Audi
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Giher
West Front
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Eisenhower
Genera Horges
Ioea
von Runstedt
Antwerp
von Ruustedt
Marstial Ludendorff
Neva
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Seetoium
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