Forts Hit Manchuria as Tokyo Claims Grand Offensive
American B 29s struck Manchuria in force with modest Japanese losses claimed by Tokyo while paratroopers were said to have launched a grand scale offensive on Leyte. U S Cavalry flanked Japanese positions near Ormoc as Chinese and Japanese reports show shifting gains across the theater.
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Manchuria
Tokyo
MIPS
Eldon Ottenheimer
Associated Press
Leyte
Philippines
China
Far East
Pearl Harbor
20Th Air Force
Mukden
Dairen
Aslito
Shipan
Marianas
Burauen
San Pablo
Dulag
Tacloban
Tushan
Burma Road
Kweiyang
Kweichow
Pachai
MacArthur
Ormoc
Palanas
Wooking
Manila
Horn
Tabgas
Balogo Village
O’neill K. Kane
Cocking
Tokyo Radio
Federal Communications Commission
Three Years Of Fighting The Orientals Taught Us Know How
A wartime column reflects on three years since Pearl Harbor, noting U S and Allied lessons in air naval and amphibious combat. It cites battles at Savo Island Guadalcanal Attu and Tarawa and asserts that hard losses produced better anti aircraft fire carrier tactics night fighting and jungle warfare know how.
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San Francis
Pearl Harbor
United States
Savo Island
Guadalcanal
Attu
Aleutians
Tarawa
Leyte
Greeks Battle Leftists and EAM in Athens and Thrace
Major General R M Scobie announced progress clearing the Athens Piraues area of Elas forces with RAF air and artillery support. Fighting spread to Thrace as British Spitfires and Beaufighters attacked Elas nests. Premier Papandreou said EAM is plunging Greece into civil war amid delayed elections and rising chaos. A German officer commanding Elas troops was captured.
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Stephen Barber
Athens
R. M. Scobie
Greece
Todo
Athens-Pirateus
EAM
Thrace
Elas
George Papandreou
London
Scobie
Athens-Piyaeus
Drama
Byrnes Leads New Push to Speed War Production
Washington reports James Byrnes forms a new crew to accelerate war output. Maj. Gen. L D Clay named deputy director to coordinate across agencies, targeting shortages in ammunition ships radar tents foundry castings and B 29 parts while 300 000 workers are sought. Congress probes WPB with J A Krug and H S Batcheller presenting a special report on arms shortages.
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Washington
James F. Byrnes
Byrnes
L. D. Clay
West Point
Clay
Army Service Forces
War Production Board
WPB
Congress
Senate War Investigating Committee
J. A. Krug
Krug
H. &. Batcheller
War production totals show vast WWII output through 1944
Washington reports United States munitions with 230,757 airplanes and 383,000 artillery pieces produced in 1942-44, plus 56,229 navy vessels and 3,876 merchant ships. Small arms ammunition reach 35.82 billion rounds. tanks 68,000. bombs 43.4 million. uniforms 136 million. war cost tallies at about 215.8 billion through October with November adding about 5.35 billion.
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Washington
Pearl Harbor
United States
War Production Board
Army Artillers
Brehon Somervell
Army Service Forces
New York
WPB
Rupture of Relations Between Big Three Could Trigger New War
Dewitt Mackenzie, AP War Analyst, warns that Greek upheaval tests unity of Britain Russia and America. A break in relations could spark another world conflict as Athens battles left and right and Britain presses to curb violence. Moscow remains guarded while communism spreads in Europe amid revolutionary tides.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Associated Press
Britain
Russia
America
Balkan
Greece
Uncle Sam
Athens
Churchill
Eden
England
Count Sforza
Italy
Washington State Department
United States
United Nations
Stalin
Moscow
Balkans
Chou En-Lai
Chiang
Chungking
Europe
Morgan Blake Story Sought by Rebellious Prisoners at Atlanta Federal Prison
Atlanta December story by Morgan Blake entered the prison as convicts demanded publicity for their grievances. Blake delivered copies of the Atlanta Journal to the cell block in a negotiated surrender plan that would free four hostages and allow the five story segregation unit to be vacated. Weather forecast notes moderate to heavy rains and cool temperatures with rain in the north and central areas.
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Morgan Blake
Atlanta
Atlanta Federal Prison
Atlanta Journal
Blake
Georgia
Florida
Russians Close On Budapest From Multiple Fronts
Red Army vanguards near Lake Balaton and units along the Danube push toward Budapest. Soviet reports say advances up to 16 miles with Racalmas 28 miles south of the capital and Csepel on the Danube six miles from the city outskirts. Prisoner and casualty totals cited as 2,375 captured and 2,000 killed on the eastern front.
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London
Red Army
Lower Lake Balaton
Berlin
Budapest
Feodor I
Tolbukhin
Ukraine
Danube
Bulhetin
Racalmas
Redion Y. Malinovsky
Second Ukraine
Csepel
Hatvan
Moscow
Balaton-Bereny
Germans to Win Religious and Racial Freedom Proclaimed
Allied radio broadcast to Germany, in Ike's name, vows restoration of religious worship and property rights seized by Nazis. Proclamation says Nazis and Nazi influence will be purged from churches and related groups, with all anti religious laws abolished.
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Associated Press
Germany
Eisenhower
UMG
Office of War Information
Casualties Rise Amid Grim Frontline Outlook
Washington reports from Under Secretary Patterson that US forces suffer severe casualties on the western front with a grim prospect of more. On the third Pearl Harbor anniversary total battle casualties reach 552,018, with army losses 474,898 through November 22, and navy at 77,120.
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Washington
Patterson
Pearl Harbor
United States
Americans Drive Near Saarbrucken in Major Rhine Push
American tanks reached within three and a half miles of Saarbrucken as Third Army artillery pounded the Saar coal region and infantry cleared Sarreguemines. In Alsace and Lorraine, Seventh and First Armies pressed advances toward Haguenau and Colmar while Patton’s Third Army expanded bridgeheads over the Saar and pushed German forces northward toward the Saarland.
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James M. Long
Paris
Saarbrucken
Forbach
Pittsburgh
Sarreguemines
Saar
Saarlautern
Roer River
Cologne
Erft
Roer
German Palatinate
Seventh
St. Louis
Les Biehe
Lemberg
Maginot
Bitche
Sarre Union
Seventh Army
Haruenau
Fourth Armored
Third Army
Montbrunn
Rhine
Strasbourg
First
Ninth Armies
Ninth Army
Linnich
First Army
Chartney H. Hodges
Inden
Pier
Julich
Duren
Hurtgen Forest
Bergstein
Holland
Maas
Venlo
Lorraine
Alsace
George S. Patton
Saar Basin
Karlsruhe Corne
France
Saarland
Palatinate
U. S. Seventh Army
Ostheim
Colmar
Breisbach
Vosages
Siegfried Line
Dillengen
Moselle
Saaregue
Rhine-Marne
Eifel Mountains
Haguenau Forest
Hagenau
Mertzwiller
Haguenau
Patton
Warndtshop
35Th
Remelfing
Zetting
Arsenal City
John S. Wood
Montbronn Forest
Sarregue
Paul Willard
26Th Infantry
Herbitzheim
Etting
Omar N. Bradley
12Th
Fifth
Third
Ninth
Germany
Metz
Bradley
Normandy
Elf
OPA Attorneys Move to Block Cigarette Auction
Atlanta officials and OPA attorneys worked to stop a state revenue auction of 850 cartons of cigarettes seized for taxes. Revenue Commissioner Eugene Cook planned a public sale on the capitol lawn in lots of five and ten cars, with OPA scrutiny over prices and legality under wartime controls.
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Atlanta
OPA
Revenue Department
Sky
Eugene Cook
UPA
Capitol
H M. Pierce
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U. S. Army Corps
Vital
Tabagas
Balozo
al Dopkin
Journal
Saar River
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