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The prime minister speaks about the American Thanksgiving (3:59)

Winston Churchill on BBC

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Push toward Ruhr (Middleton) – 2-4
Americans in Slashing Drive, Begun at 3 A.M., Upset Foe (Denny) – 4
U.S. 9th Army Wins a Big Tank Battle – 4-5
American Medical Party Meets with Disaster in Germany (photos) – 5
The Supreme Commander Has Words of Praise for His Men (page 1 photo) – 6
Russians Push Arc North of Budapest – 6-7
Confer on Raising Truck Tire Output – 7
The Flag of Norway Flies over a Liberated Port (photo) – 7
House Votes Bill on Crop Insurance – 7
Two B-29’s Bagged by Japan’s Fliers (Wood) – 8
U.S. Fliers Sink Foe’s Leyte Craft – 8
War News Summarized – 9
Army Bans Canned Turkey Today; Navy Specifies ‘Roast Young Tom’ – 10
This Compensates for Your Turkeyless Thanksgiving (photos) – 10-11
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on Fighting in Various Zones – 12-14
‘Good’ Robot Bomb is Developed Here – 14
It Carries the Label ‘Made in America’ (photo) – 14

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It is striking how similar the menus for the army and navy personnel’s Thanksgiving meal are to those of today (not exactly the same, but surprisingly close). With everything else that would be utterly unrecognizable from the 1944 vantage point in the culture of 2014, somehow the Thanksgiving meal from 1944 looks pretty familiar now. Perhaps that’s one of the few things holding us together at this point.