Fall of St. Vith Nears in Ardennes Battle
Paris dispatch reports First Army fighting house to house in St. Vith amid savage air attacks as German remnant forces retreat eastward. Patton’s Third Army advances toward Siegfried Line. heavy Allied losses cited and a large German casualty estimate issued. Front lines shift across the Ardennes with major towns falling and encirclement potential rising.
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Paris
St. Vith
Ardennes
Seventh Armored Division
VU. 8
Ninth Air Force
Falaise
Patton
Third Army
Vianden
Bruix
Roer
Tol
Helnsberg
T.S. Seventh Army
Alsace
Supreme Headquarters
Drant Bitche
Haguenau
Strasbourg
Berlin
Haguenas
Cuthern
Colmar
Og Hottst
Cernay
First Army
Nazi Oil Plants Bombed In Allied Night Raids
London reports describe heavy Allied air actions against Nazi targets in the Ruhr area. RAF bombers struck Neuss rail yards near the Ruhr frontier, with U.S. bombers and fighters escorting, while a synthetic oil plant near Gelsenkirchen was set afire.
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London
Neuss
Ruhr
Reich
U.S. Stn Air Force
Rave
Western Front
Duishirg
Sterkrade
Gelsenkitchen
Gelsenklehen
Duisberg
Witnesses Barred From City Parks For Meetings
City officials barred Jehovahs Witnesses from using park recreation centers for further meetings after protests by a Park Recreation council. Commissioner Henry Hein said the move was to placate objections, noting the attendees were making a fuss. A contract with Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society for seven meetings in recreation centers on December 21 was signed, with a 2 dollar per meeting fee and a 24 hour cancellation clause.
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Henry Hein
George Sarran
Park Recreation Council
Hein
Watch ‘Tower Bible and Tract So|ciery
Devine Street
Highland Park Recreation, Center
Palm Heighia_ Playground
Heinz
Banzai Succeeds Sans Bayonets in Leyte Assault
In Leyte Philippines delayed American paratroopers of the 11th airborne division led a bayonet charge without firing a shot, routing 25 Japanese defenders from a fortified position. A second assault by the tenth paragliders regiment faced jungle walls and foxholes as artillery prepared, then paratroopers cried fix bayonets and surged forward.
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Leyte
Philippines
11Th Airborne Division
Tenth Para- Gliders
Steen
Yanks Reach Halfway to Manila as Raids Intensify
Allied forces push toward Manila as the 14th Army Corps nears the capital from Lingayen Gulf while Maj. Gen. Curtis LeMay assumes command of a new bomber unit. U S air fleets raid Formosa and Honshu, with carrier and land based aircraft targeting Nagoya Osaka and Okinawa in coordinated strikes. Sixth Army formations on Luzon consolidate gains near Tarlac Infanta and Lingayen Gulf as Rangers seize small islets to protect the invasion armada.
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Formosa
Japan
14Th Army Corps
Manila
Nagoya Aircraft Center
Honshu
Curtis E. le May
Tokyo
Philippines
U. S
Okinawa
Ryukyus
A. Formosa
Nimitz
China
Guzon Island
Clark Field
Lingayen Gulf
MacArthur
Sixth Army
Luzon
Sixth Rangers
34Th
Tarlac
Capitate Gapas
Santa Monica
Bataan
Infanta
Dasol Bay
Sania
Ranger
Leyte Gulf
LeMay
Calcuttsbo
Guam
Shors
Dist
Colimizal
Haywood G. Hansell
Group to Plan Island Outposts
Washington January 23 1946 UPI the house naval committee created a seven member subcommittee to study permanent United States positioning of Japanese manufactured brands in the Pacific. The study conducted with navy department approval aims to identify what present Japanese holdings are needed for outer defense and the conclusions will not bind treaty negotiations.
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Washington
UPI
Houré Maval Committee
United States
Pacific
Navy Department
Air Leapfrog Action Praised by Military Dispatches
Reports credit air leapfrog operations for aiding General Patton's Third Army in breaking out of the Ardennes salient toward Belgium. The 02nd Transport Wing, led by Col. Martin Bateme, dispatched 100 G-47 Skytrains on Christmas Eve with troops, tanks, and technicians to a secret front. By Christmas morning, arrivals swelled the line. the entire operation completed in under 24 hours with zero losses.
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London
Patton
Third
Saartar
Ithe “Ardennes Salient
Belgium
Spaatz
U.S. Strategic Air Forces
Martin Bateme
Camden
London men buy and wear women’s panties as wartime trend
London stores report a surprising wartime fad as men purchase and wear women's underwear dubbed legless shorts. Shoppers rush shelves, buying items previously limited to women, while the public debates propriety and supply during the period.
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London
Two Nazi Prisoners Taken After Desert Fight Near Casa Grande
GABA GRANDS Arizona January 23 A pair of two men from the Cranete valley captured two escaped German prisoners of war near here after a savage fight. The rancher Herman Pottebaum and businessman Ed Plumb spotted the fugitives and chased them down. They subdued the pair and handed them over to the Florence prisoner of war camp.
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Gaba Grands
Ariz
Jan
Cranete Valley
Here
Jotana Heidfeld
Barnard Kernger
Phoenix
Herman Pottebaum
Ed Plumb
Casa Grande
Pottebaum
Plumb
Florence
Nazis Destroy War Memorial in East Europe
London reports German forces removed the coffin of Paul von Hindenburg from the Tannenberg memorial and blew up a large structure before surrendering the First Prussian town to the Russians. The coffin of Hindenburg's wife and the flag of West Prussian regiments were also removed. The body had rested at the memorial since 1935 with a perpetual flame for war dead. The site, built in 1927, stood as a national monument now altered by the retreat.
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London
Phid Starshel
Paul von Hindenburg
Tannenberg
von Hindenburg
Ol Bast
van Hindenburg
Chief Hopkins Condition Improves After Heart Attack
Chief Hopkins, who suffered a heart attack early Tuesday, is reported in favorable condition by his physician Dr. Parsons. He is described as exhausted but not gravely ill and is expected to be up and about in a week or two.
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Hopkins
Hig. Phyatorin, Brod
Parsons
Forecast for San Antonio and Vicinity Briefed
Partly cloudy conditions expected Tuesday afternoon through Wednesday with little temperature change. Minimums in north portions around 28 to 32 degrees and near central portions similar. overall seasonable values with fair weather in northern areas and partly cloudy in the south.
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San Antonio
Russians Press Toward Berlin Across Eastern Front
Soviet forces push toward Berlin from multiple axes in East Prussia and Silesia with advances toward Elbing and Breslau. Moscow reports Zhukov near Berlin with a wide advance while German broadcasts claim slows and counterattacks. Pravda proclaims the Russian push and the decisive hour, as losses mount on both sides.
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Matshal Rokossovsky
East Prussia
Elbing
Danzig
Marshal Cherniakhovsky
Konigaberg
Zhukov
Berlin
Galermo
Poznan
Pravda
Nazis to Stand At Oder Front in Soviet War
Jan 23 report from Berlin says Field Marshal von Rundstedt and German generals met at supreme headquarters to defend the Oder line on the Russian front. They reportedly aimed to save the Silesian industrial area if possible, with possible withdrawals from the western front and troop reallocations from Norway. Hostage shootings and conscription issues are noted amid tightened defense.
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Vor Runstedt
Oder
Berlin
Poland
Easter
Pomerania
Witere
Hitler
Conserres
Bub
Italy
Norway
Brankfurt
Oder River
Normvey
Breslau
Volksturm
Battis
Krakow Square Renamed in Krakow During War News
Pravda correspondent reports Krakow’s Adolf Hitler Platz renamed as Red Army advances end Nazi plans to torch the city. Heavy fighting drives Nazis from Krakow while Soviet engineers clear mines and push toward the castle and cathedral precincts.
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Moscow
Jan
Adolf Hitler Platz
Krakow
Staais- Jaw Cathedral
Poland
PaLletinens
Castle Nene
Warsaw
Pravda
Boria Polevoy
Red Army
Risslan
Jehid
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Colne
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Seventh Army
Rbitchelo
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Ardennes Salient
Germina
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SELLE
Field Starshal
Geneva
Eisenhower
Waxtern Front
Ludwig Sertorins
Tonlight
Tle
Boise
Idaho
Konigsberg
Gestapo Ohrer
Heinrich Himmler
Eastern Front
Radio
Bydgoszcz
Bromberg
Stalin
Stock- Fink
Silesia
Marshal Zhukny
Aray
Metila
Prussia
Junkers
Dansig
Konigs- Bere
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Oels
Eeeasl
Namalau
Muscow
Tyan Koney
Silesis
Witleh
Nemelau
Brandenburg
Stettin
Koney
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