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Beachheads Unite (Parrott) – 2-3
1945 Finds Him Asking for Aid in the Philippines (photo) – 3
Only Feeble Defenses Found on Lingayen’s 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
8th’s Planes Bomb Exits from Bulge – 10
Alsace, Lorraine French, Foe Told (by Harold Callender) – 11
Magazine Correspondent Killed en Route to Luzon – 12
Invasion’s Start Good (by Hanson W. Baldwin) – 12
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the Fighting in Various War Zones – 13-14

[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.