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4 Carriers Sunk (Horne) – 2-3
U.S. Forces Gain on Leyte; Two-thirds of Island Ours (Kluckhohn) – 3
Freed Filipinos Are Jubilant; Enemy Treated Them as Slaves (Parrott) – 4
Philippines Invasion; The Landing at Leyte which Brought Japanese Fleet Out to Disaster (photos) – 5-7
Tokyo Rose Stirs Philippine Mirth – 7
Battle near Kweilin Gains in Intensity; Fighter-Bombers Smash at Foe in Burma – 7
Action in Asia Cut by Stilwell Shift – 8
War News Summarized – 8
Poles Seize City (Middleton) – 8-10
Ban on Red Militia Stirs French Crisis (Callender) – 10
Tirpitz is Hit Again by RAF 6-Ton Bomb – 11-12
Tears of Defeat and a Song of Victory in Aachen (photos) – 11
Bulgarian Terms Silent on Dobruja (Lawrence) – 12-13
Soviet Scolds Iran for Denying Its Oil – 13
Aid for Wounded American in Slovenia (photo) – 13
Behind the Removal of Gen. Stilwell (by Hanson W. Baldwin) – 14
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the Fighting in Various War Zones – 15-17

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1944/oct44/30oct44.htm#

Americans capture Dagami
Monday, October 30, 1944 www.onwar.com

In the Philippines... On Leyte, troops of US 7th Infantry Division (part of US 24th Corps) take Dagami. As sea, two carriers are badly damaged by Kamikaze attacks as the ships of US Task Force 38 begin to withdraw toward Ulithi.

On the Western Front... Elements of Canadian 1st Army fight across south Beveland and reach the Walcheren Channel.

From Liberated Italy... In Caserta, the Greek government in exile bans the ELAS National Militia — the Communist resistance movement.

This time years ago when you started the “real time” posts, the USA did not even know if we would survive Chancellor Hitler nor his brethren in Japan.

58 of 60 ships sunk is a good sign we came together to eradicate a True Foe.

Today we see the foe, the problem and what to do to solve it. Yet, none dare speak it for fear of not being Politically Correct.

Which will be our undoing...

I've been away for a while and apologize for not providing sufficient intelligence on the German campaign in the West. But here are today's maps.

First, the German estimate of the Allied Order of Battle. It looks like the Allies are very "rich" in armor, with one armored division for every infantry division. And each infantry division usually has it's own attached tank battalion. A luxury the Germans never had.

Next, Holland. German 64th Infantry has almost been eliminated on the south bank of the Scheldt, and 70th Infantry is only holding Walcheren. It looks like Antwerp is almost cleared.

And now, 1st US Army's front in the Ardennes. The Germans have reshuffled their forces considerably since I last posted a map. The kampfgruppen of the panzer divisions that were here are pretty much gone now (wonder where they could be?) The last kampfgruppe, 2nd SS Panzer, is on trains headed northwest into reserve. Also, HQ of 5th Panzer Army has moved north from Lorraine where it faced Patton, and is now in control of this sector. Behind the German front is the blue box with the note "Pz Stutzp. Nord", which identifies those panzer units still committed on the northern sector of the front. They are 9, 116, 10SS Panzer Divisions, Panzer Brigade 105, and 3 and 15 Panzer Grenadier. By making that separate administrative notation, it looks to me that Hitler and Jodl are looking to pull them out of the line and into reserve, too.

Here's the map for Patton in Lorraine:

Where did those panzer divisions go?

Here they are, in reserve, behind the Rhine, getting all "auffrischunged" up. I don't see the HQ for 6 Panzer Army, which may be off the map to the east. It was there a couple weeks ago. We'll keep looking. Eisenhower ought to look for it, too.