Destruction in Kobe Osaka Sector and Luzon Battle Report
AP dispatch describes massive air raids on Kobe Osaka industrial zones with B-29s, targeting the Akatsuki aircraft plant. Reports claim no B-29 losses and high accuracy from photo-guided bombing. Simultaneous Luzon combat details Urdaneta street fighting and armored advances toward Tarlac and Lingayen Gulf beachhead. New Bedford official cites extended war, predicting 1 to 2 million more American casualties. Fighter planes operate from Lingayen airfields to aid ground advances toward Formosa and northern Luzon.
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Maidday
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Formosa
Associated Press
Navy fliers clash with Chinese liberators over Hong Kong
Weather ent Rembert James reports that navy fliers and China based liberators crossed paths in the air over Hongkong last Tuesday. Philippine bombers and fighters destroyed three Jap locomotives, 20 freight cars, eight banks, and 80 motor vehicles. Six small freighters were also knocked out.
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Ent Rembert James
Pacific Fleet
Navy
Hongkong
Army Fails To Provide Snowsuits
Lacking snow gear, U S soldiers on the West Front improvise with bedsheets lace curtains and antimacassies as makeshift winter wear. Reports note improvised helmets and poncho like capes while straps and shells give way to white fabrics. Soldiers praise galoshed blankets and improvised gear for warmth and camouflage in Ardennes operations.
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Lee Canoun
Correnpondent Ligneuville
Belgium
Milady
Aastha No. 1
A. Stoffer
Brooklyn
N.Y
John E. Kent
Birmingham
Ala
Paris
Tax receipts rise nine percent in county collections
County tax collections Friday totaled 1 446 905 dollars, a nine percent increase over last year, announced Collector-Assessor P. E. Dickison. Poll taxes lagged as voters were reminded the deadline is January 31. Auto license tags go on sale in February.
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P. BE. Dickison
Dickison
Robot pioneer Kettering doubts German war gains
DETROIT January 19. Charles Kettering noted engineer and inventor head of General Motors Research Laboratories plays down fears of German robotic weapons and torpedoes crossing the Atlantic. He says there is no chance of such weapons having military value and stresses steady postwar car progress with diesel debate and advances in ignition and fuel. He cautions against exposing wartime secrets while praising American innovation and a gradual evolution in automobiles and power production.
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Detroit
Janu
Charien FP. Kettering
Fettering
General ‘Motors Research Laboratories Division
Warthine Inventors’ Council
American Association For the Advancement of Seicor
Europe
Germany
Army
Navy
Kettering
Ket
Lin
Yanks Hold Nazis In Maginot Line
American forces along a 60 mile front in the Maginot Line have used pillboxes to blunt German assaults for 18 days. The U S Seventh Army reports German efforts have been confined to the Birche salient and the Hitche area where major fortresses remain, including Fort Schilesseck and Fort Simserhof, with the line still holding after early month counterattacks.
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France
Magnot
U. & Seventh
Sarregue
Rhine
Seventh Army
Birche Salient
Sordon
Hitche
Meginot
Fort Schilesseck
Fort Simserhof
Nazis Exile All Warsaw Inhabitants
London reports that German forces killed or expelled every Warsaw resident before the city fell to Soviet and Polish troops. Pravda and Moscow radio described Warsaw as a burned ruin with key sites destroyed, including the Royal Castle, Belvedere Palace, the unknown soldier’s tomb, and the Chopin monument.
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London
Jan
Russia
Warsaw
Red Army
M. Makarenko
Pravda
Tve
Moscow Radio
Warrsaw
Royl
Belvedere
Big Berlin Push Shaped By Soviets
Soviet forces advance toward Berlin with Rokossovsky’s units seizing thousands of towns and pressing from the north into Poland. The Red Army drives toward the capital from multiple axes, trapping German positions as they push within striking distance.
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Berlin
Road to Begey: Frontline Progress and Gains Reported
A wartime bulletin outlines scores of fronts with distances from key locations. It notes German and Hungarian prisoner captures totaling 29,000, the Danube garrison tightening around Buda, and advances near Warsaw with Zhukov and Konev forces seizing towns and villages as Allied pressure mounts.
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Preasnysz
Warsaw
Koenigsberg
Zhukov
Konev
Buda
Danube
Nazis Break Out on 40 Mile Front
Allied push along the 40 mile front reports gains in Luxembourg Diekirch Bettendorf Erneldange and Rosport as Patton’s forces press toward the Siegfried line while German defense slows. Bad weather and a continued wedge between Moselle and Saar rivers shape the distant Rhineland approaches.
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Schilberg
Helde
Schilerg
No-Man's Land
Nijmegen
Third Army
Luxembourg
Diekirch
Germany
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Erneldange
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Wasserailling
Trier
Moselle
Saar
Rhine
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