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Germans Hit Back – 2-3
Foe Tries to Cut Saverne Corridor – 3-4
Quick Stab Clears Huertgen Forest (Gorrell) – 4
Another Milestone in the March to Berlin (photo) – 4
Russians Capture Hatvan, Foe Says – 5
U.S. Board Bares Atrocity Details Told by Witnesses at Polish Camps (Crider) – 6-7
U.S. Planes Renew Reich Oil Bombing (Daniel) – 7
Russians Advance into the Carpathians (photo) – 7
Foes Sink off Cebu (Kluckhohn) – 8
Japanese Ships Afire in Manila Harbor (page 1 photo) – 8
PT-Boats Shut off Japanese on Leyte (Parrott) – 9
Peleliu Clean-Up a Difficult Task (by Sidney Shalett) – 9
Hints of Vindication of Kimmel, Short – 9-10
War News Summarized – 10
1,000 Troops Join Protest on Canada’s Overseas Draft (by P.J. Philip) – 11
Veterans’ Intelligence (by Charles Hurd) – 13
Texts of Day’s War Communiques – 14-16
Christmas Mail Arrives for Our Fighting Men in Pacific (photo) – 16

The News of the Week in Review
Fifteen News Questions – 17
The Allies Drive for Decision in the West (maps) – 18-19
Harder Blows to Fall on Germans in the West (by Hanson W. Baldwin) – 20
Answers to Fifteen News Question – 21

The New York Times Book Review
Brave Men, by Ernie Pyle (reviewed by C.L. Sulzberger) – 22-24
Thomas Jefferson’s Garden Book, annotated by Edwin Morris Betts (reviewed by Hal Borland, first-time contributor) – 24
The Best Selling Books, Here and Elsewhere – 25

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1944/nov44/26nov44.htm#

US bombers raid Germany
Sunday, November 26, 1944 www.onwar.com

US B-17 Flying Fortress bombers strike rail lines [photo at link]

Over Germany... The US 8th Air Force attacks Hanover (nominally the Misburg oil plant), Hamm (nominally the marshalling yards) and Bielefeld (nominally the railway viaduct). The Americans claim to have destroyed 138 German fighters for the loss of 36 bombers and 7 fighters.

On the Western Front... The US 1st Army captures Weisweiler to the west of Cologne.

Over Holland... RAF Spitfire fighter bombers attack two suspected V2 rocket sites.

On the Eastern Front... In eastern Slovakia, Soviet forces capture Michaloyce.

From London... General Alexander is promoted to Field Marshal and appointed the Supreme Allied Commander, Mediterranean.

In the Philippines... On Leyte, Japanese forces launch night attacks against US forces west of Burauen.

[henkster]

The German front between Aachen and Cologne:

The Ardennes:

Lorraine. After the bitter command conference between Ike, Devers and Bradley, Devers has ordered Patch's 7th Army to turn north from Strasburg. On the German side, it appears there is nothing but a hole where the remnants of 553 Volksgrenadier division are noted on the map.

Turning Patch north leaves the German 19th Army on the west bank of the Rhine in what became known as the "Colmar Pocket," and that is left the French 1st Army. Dependent on American tablescraps for everything from beans to bullets, and lacking trained troops, NCOs and officers, the French are not strong enough to eliminate this bulge, and it will sit there for a while.