The News of the Week in Review
Battle of the Philippines: Round Two (map) – 11
Toward Manila – 12-13
Fifteen News Questions – 13
M’Arthur’s Daring Move Adds a Valuable Base (Kluckhohn) – 14
War in the Pacific (cartoons) – 15
Battle for Germany: A Fortress Besieged (map) – 16
Pressure on Germany Held Due to Increase (Baldwin) – 17
Air Blows Isolate the Rhineland (by Clifton Daniel) – 18
Weather Fights Against Us (Denny) – 19
“Torn-Down Illusions” (cartoon) – 19
Answers to Fifteen News Questions – 19
The New York Times Magazine
A War You Feel, Hear, Smell, but Do Not See (Kluckhohn) – 20-21
http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1944/dec44/17dec44.htm#
The Malmedy Massacre
Sunday, December 17, 1944 www.onwar.com
On the Western Front... Eisenhower releases the US 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions from AEF reserve to reinforce American troops in the Ardennes. Other infantry and armored forces from US 12th Army Group are also being redeployed to meet the German offensive. Meanwhile, German forces capture 9000 Americans at Echternach, on the extreme right flank of the attack. Soldiers of the 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich kill some 71 American POWs near Malmedy.
Over Germany... Bomber Command attacks Ulm as the primary nighttime targe for the first time and causes large fires.
In Italy... The British 10th Indian Division (an element of British 8th Army), captures crossings over the Senio River, near Faenza.
In the Occupied Dutch East Indies... Part of the British Eastern Fleet conducts air strikes on oil and harbor installations at Belawan-Deli in the north of Sumatra. The planes are from the HMS Illustrious and Indomitable. Admiral Vian commands the operation.
In the Philippines... On Mindoro, American forces capture San Jose Airfield. On Leyte, parts of US 10th and 24th Corps record advances against Japanese positions.
Wow as bad news comes in on Europe, the Pacific takes over the headlines. Gov’t censors at their finest.
Intersting comments where they asked readers what radios would look like in 1980. They were a few years early, but in 2014 many of the comments have come true.
Small size
fill a room with sound
project onto a large screen
select stations by type of show (drama, orchestra, etc.)
shows have an “applause meter” so you know which ones are most popular.
Select a musician and his image will also appear on a screen.
A far cry from those snowy cold days of hell in the Battle of the Bulge.