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I’m operating on a just in time basis at the moment so I had to take some shortcuts with this post. I didn’t have time for a good review of the scanned images so I have my fingers crossed there are no major errors. I also only put the page one stories and regular features in the table of contents below. I hope it doesn’t cause anyone to miss important news. Even though it is something of a rush job I think there is some good stuff in this post – Homer.

Lingayen Retaken – 2-3
Two U.S. Isles Holding Out, but Guam is Believed Lost – 4
Germans Pursued – 6-7
The International Situation – 7
British Bag Ships – 8
100 Hostages Shot by Nazis in France – 9
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the War – 13-15

The News of the Week in Review
World War II – 17
Asiatic Theatre – 17-19
European Theatre – 19
M-Day Comes – 19-20
In the Pacific Arena – 20-21
Twenty News Questions – 21
War Must be Fought on Two World Fronts (by Hanson W. Baldwin) – 22-27
A United America Goes to War-A Survey of National Sentiment – 28-32
Answers to Twenty News Questions - 32

I found my first error. I asked the on duty mods to fix the title. I left out FORCES WIPED.

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1941/dec41/f14dec41.htm

Japanese advancing in Malaya
Sunday, December 14, 1941 www.onwar.com

Japanese soldiers advancingIn Malaya... Japanese forces continue advances from “The Ledge” to Kroh.

In the Mediterranean... The Italian battleship Vittorio Venito, part of a convoy to Benghazi is sunk. Italians turn convoy back.

In the North Atlantic... Convoy HG-76 containing 32 ships sails from Gibraltar for Britain. Its escort is commanded by Commander Walker and his force includes the escort carrier Audacity and twelve other ships.

Like General Walter Short and Admiral Husband E. Kimmel who were removed from command at Pearl Harbor and reduced in rank, after mismanaging a known potential attack hot spot....

....General Douglas Mac Arthur should have been removed from command....he HAD forewarning of an attack of the Philippines, acknowledged the situation but got caught with his pants down and his planes on the ground....he lost most of his planes ON THE GROUND....and only kept his command as he had garnered some sort of popularity with Washington...

More falsehood from the Philipine.

Here’s what really happened to the ‘invasion’:

“There was no activity near Vigan during the night of the 10th, but from Lingayen Gulf, 100 miles to the south, came reports of another Japanese landing. Around midnight “several dark shapes” were observed approaching the mouth of the Agno River. When confirmation was received, one battery of the 3d Battalion, 21st Field Artillery (PA), opened fire. “It was like dropping a match in a warehouse of Fourth of July fireworks,” wrote the American instructor assigned to the regiment. “Instantly Lingayen Gulf was ablaze. As far as the eye could see the flashes of artillery, shell-bursts, tracer machine gun bullets and small arms. . . . Thousands of shadows were killed that night.”34 When morning came, all that was found of the supposed invasion was one life preserver with markings which may have been Japanese characters. The absence of sunken ships did not prevent the 21st Division commander, Brig. Gen. Mateo Capinpin, from reporting to Manila that an attempted hostile landing had been repulsed.35

“What actually happened that night was that the Japanese had sent one motor boat into Lingayen Gulf on a reconnaissance mission. The Japanese had no force near Lingayen then and no plan for a landing in the area at that time. Nevertheless, the news of the frustrated enemy landing was reported in the press as a great victory and the 21st Field Artillery was officially credited with repulsing an enemy landing.”36

http://www.history.army.mil/books/wwii/5-2/5-2_6.htm#p100a

Some good books there. I’ll probably get an ereader for Christmas - I’ll have to figure out how to get them on it.