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Rips Line in Poland – 2-3
Nazis Hint at Rout of Army in Poland (Brigham) – 3-4
’45 Plane Output is Again Enlarged (Waggoner) – 4
Russian Soldiers Fighting in Streets of Budapest (photo) – 4
Accord on Poland at Once Held Vital (Daniell) – 5
War News Summarized – 5
Foe Stiff in West (Daniel, Johnston) – 6-7
U.S. Men Use TNT to Slit Icy Ground – 7
Houffalize Scene of Awful Ruins (by Harold Denny) – 8
There is Also Plenty of Snow along the Western Front (photo) – 8
Allies Bomb German Oil Plants in Attacks by 2,250 Warplanes – 9
MacArthur Protects Flank by 17-Mile Dash along Gulf (by Lindesay Parrott) – 10-11
Bungled Defense Aids Us on Luzon (by George E. Jones) – 11
O’Donnell Let 111 ‘Superforts’ over Tokyo, 109 Got Back, in First Raid, Citation Says – 11
Our Airmen Attack near Manila and American Ground Forces Move on Capital (photos) – 12-13
China and Burma (by Hanson W. Baldwin) – 15
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the Fighting in Various War Zones – 16-18
Roosevelt Asks 2 Billion for Navy – 18

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http://www.etherit.co.uk/month/0/18.htm

January 18th, 1945 (THURSDAY)

UNITED KINGDOM: Winston Churchill today gave MPs his most confident and sparkling report of the whole war - now in its 65th month. He appealed for unity at home while the Allies use the overwhelming forces which are now poised to crush Nazi Germany. The prime minister warned the Germans that giving in now will be easier for them than enduring what the Allies have in store for them.

Minesweeper HMS Liberty commissioned.

NETHERLANDS: NETHERLANDS: Fusilier Dennis Donnini (b.1925), Royal Scots Fusiliers, despite a head wound, drove the Germans from a house, firing until he was killed soon after. (Victoria Cross)

GERMANY: Oberst Karl-Heinz Sieber, the commandant of Stalag IX-B Bad Orb, orders the segregation of American Jewish-PoWs from non-Jews.

After a brief protest and the beating of the U.S. Man of Confidence (_Vertrauensmann_, or MOC), Sergeant Johann “Hans” Kasten, the new POWs complied with the order. Except for those who hid their identity, most Jews were placed in a separate compound surrounded by a barbed-wire fence.
U-2533 commissioned

U-2363 launched.

POLAND: Warsaw: The Soviet puppet government arrives from Lublin to take over the reins of government.

Auschwitz-Birkenau: The Germans order the inmates to evacuate the camp immediately for transport - on foot or by train - concentration camps in Germany.

CANADA:
HMS LST 3543 ordered from North Vancouver Ship Repairs Ltd.

Corvette HMCS Summerside completed repairs Halifax and departed for workups Bermuda.

U.S.A.:
Frigate USS Milledgeville commissioned.

Destroyer USS Hollister laid down.