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AMERICANS DRIVE 10 MILES INLAND ON LUZON; WIN 4 TOWNS AND AIRSTRIP; RESISTANCE LIGHT (1/11/45)
Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library
| 1/11/45
| Lindesay Parrott, George E. Jones, William B. Dickinson, Tillman Durdin, Harold Denny, Gene Currivan
Posted on 01/11/2015 4:38:32 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
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TOPICS: Extended News
KEYWORDS: history; milhist; realtime; worldwarii
Free Republic University, Department of History presents
World War II Plus 70 Years: Seminar and Discussion Forum First session: September 1, 2009. Last date to add: September 2, 2015.
Reading assignment:
New York Times articles and the occasional radio broadcast delivered daily to students on the 70th anniversary of original publication date. (Previously posted articles can be found by searching on keyword realtime Or view
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To: Homer_J_Simpson
Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War Luzon, P.I., 1941: Invasion of Luzon and the Advance to Manila, 9 January-4 February 1945
The Philippine Islands: Leyte Island and the Visayas, 1944 Sixth Army Operations Mindoro and Marinduque Islands, 13 December 1944-24 January 1945
The Ardennes Area, 1944: Operations, 26 December 1944-16 January 1945
Eastern France and the Low Countries, 1944: Territorial Changes along the Front, 16 December 1944-7 February 1945 and Allied Plan for Rhineland Campaign
Southeastern France 1944: German Offensive, 1-30 January 1945 and Allied Reduction of Colmar Pocket, 20 January-9 February 1945
China, 1941: Operation Ichigo, 1945 and Final Operations in the War
China-Burma, 1941: Third Burma Campaign Slims Offensive, June 1944-March 1945
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posted on
01/11/2015 4:39:01 AM PST
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Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: Homer_J_Simpson
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01/11/2015 4:39:52 AM PST
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Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: r9etb; PzLdr; dfwgator; Paisan; From many - one.; rockinqsranch; 2banana; henkster; meandog; ...
Beachheads Unite (Parrott) 2-3
1945 Finds Him Asking for Aid in the Philippines (photo) 3
Only Feeble Defenses Found on Lingayens Beachheads (Jones, Dickinson) 4
Japanese Urges His Navy to Fight 4
3 U.S. Destroyers Lost in a Typhoon 5
Air Transport Aid to China Increases (Durdin) 5
Moving Day in the Philippines is Slow but Sure (photo) 6
War News Summarized 6
Nazis Leave in Fog 7-8
Trap on Germans May Get Only Few (Denny) 9
U.S. Non-Com Kills 82 Nazis in 8 Days (Currivan) 10
8ths Planes Bomb Exits from Bulge 10
Alsace, Lorraine French, Foe Told (by Harold Callender) 11
Magazine Correspondent Killed en Route to Luzon 12
Invasions Start Good (by Hanson W. Baldwin) 12
The Texts of the Days Communiques on the Fighting in Various War Zones 13-14
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posted on
01/11/2015 4:41:25 AM PST
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Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: Homer_J_Simpson
Today’s entry is missing several theaters - HJS
http://www.etherit.co.uk/month/0/11.htm
January 11th, 1945 (THURSDAY)
UNITED KINGDOM: At 1515, U-1055 attacked some ships from a just dispersed coastal convoy in the Irish Sea west of Anglesey and reported two ships sunk. A first torpedo exploded behind the Yugoslavian steam merchant Senga, while other torpedoes sank the Roanoke and Normandy Coast. The Normandy Coast sank within two minutes, taking 18 crewmembers and one gunner with her. The master, five crewmembers and two gunners were picked up by patrol ship HMS PC-74 and landed at Holyhead on 12 January.
GERMANY:
U-2362, U-4705 launched
U-2352, U-2354 commissioned.
U.S.S.R.: Baltic Fleet: MS “T-33” (ex-”Korall”) - mined close to Aegna Is., in Finland Gulf. (Sergey Anisimov)(69)
Soviet minesweeper T-76 Korall sunk by U-745 at 59.45N, 24.47E - Grid AO 3528.
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posted on
01/11/2015 4:45:17 AM PST
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Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: sneakers
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01/11/2015 4:59:29 AM PST
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sneakers
To: Homer_J_Simpson
January 11, 1944:
- January 11-14: "Hungarian Fascist Nyilas thugs enter 'protected' Jewish houses throughout Budapest, murdering dozens of residents.
The bodies of many are hurled into the Danube River.
Elsewhere in Budapest, Nyilas members surround the Jewish Orthodox Hospital.
They torture 92 patients, doctors, and nurses, killing everyone except a single nurse."
"A Red Army soldier films a destroyed crematorium at Auschwitz.
The dismantling of crematoria at Birkenau happened in phases.
Crematorium IV was destroyed in the Sonderkommando uprising of October 7, 1944, while rebellious Jews demolished II on November 25.
The remants of II, III and the still operational V were blown up by the Nazis in late January 1945."
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01/11/2015 5:09:15 AM PST
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BroJoeK
(a little historical perspective.)
To: Homer_J_Simpson
Photo caption on P. 3: “Yesterday [General Masaharu Homma] asked that the Japanese Navy emerge from hiding to assist their army on Luzon.”
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01/11/2015 5:26:37 AM PST
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Tax-chick
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To: BroJoeK
Looks like someone wanted the Red Army cameraman cropped from the photo.
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01/11/2015 7:38:21 AM PST
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fso301
To: Homer_J_Simpson
We don’t fight like that anymore.
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01/11/2015 8:13:10 AM PST
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onedoug
To: Tax-chick
Photo caption on P. 3: Yesterday [General Masaharu Homma] asked that the Japanese Navy emerge from hiding to assist their army on Luzon.Homma is in forced retirement and must not have heard the news from Leyte.
All the Emperor's shinto priests and shamen cannot summon forth and reform the fleet from its hiding places along the bottoms of the Philippine Sea, Sibuyan Sea, Surigao Straight and assorted Philippine waters.
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01/11/2015 8:15:21 AM PST
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fso301
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01/11/2015 8:17:30 AM PST
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Tax-chick
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To: fso301
The Japanese Imperial Navy is fast becoming as imaginary as Hitler’s armies.
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posted on
01/11/2015 10:31:13 AM PST
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EternalVigilance
('To secure the Blessings of Liberty to Posterity.' It's ultimately what the Constitution is for.)
To: Tax-chick
Oh, the irony!I wasn't really sure if he was alive or not. A few years ago we read reports that he sliced his belly open over his failure to take Bataan and Corregidor faster.
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01/11/2015 10:32:23 AM PST
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fso301
To: EternalVigilance
The Japanese Imperial Navy is fast becoming as imaginary as Hitlers armies.Yes but in Tojo's mind, the victories are as glorious as those in Hitler's mind.
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01/11/2015 10:36:28 AM PST
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fso301
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01/11/2015 11:38:15 AM PST
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Tax-chick
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To: Homer_J_Simpson; EternalVigilance
I see in Nimitz’ Graybook an entry by Nimitz that 97th and 86th Infantry Divisions are being diverted to “another theater.” Here is some fallout from Eisenhower’s request to Marshall for more troops, and Marshall’s reply posted last week.
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posted on
01/11/2015 2:01:59 PM PST
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henkster
(Do I really need a sarcasm tag?)
To: henkster
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01/11/2015 4:30:29 PM PST
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EternalVigilance
('To secure the Blessings of Liberty to Posterity.' It's ultimately what the Constitution is for.)
To: EternalVigilance; henkster
The 97th Division had even taken amphibious training in California before being diverted to Europe.
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