Saturday, January 5, 2013

January 5, 1945; MONTGOMERY REPLACES BRADLEY:

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY, JANUARY 5, 1945:

WAR AT GLANCE
January 5, 1945
WESTERN FRONT
British armor flung into Yank drive against Germans in Belgium bulge; Americans
widen front to 21 miles m second day of counter-offensive against German Ardennes salient.
EASTERN  FRONT
Russians hold ground against powerful German counter-thrust northwest of Budapest; Reds occupy 1,400 blocks of Hungarian capital.
ITALY
Canadian troops push against strong counter-attacks to within I1 miles of San Alberto northwest of Ravenna.
PACIFIC
Yank air assaults on Luzon Island bag 60 Jap ships, wipe out 20 enemy planes on Clark Field. Jap planes hit Mindoro island; three-day radio blackout suggests
continued attacks on Formosa and Ryukyus.




MONTGOMERY
GIVEN POST OF
GEN. BRADLEY
Four Allied Armies Gain
As West Front Battle
Gains In Ferocity
PARIS, Jan. 5 (AP) —
Field Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgomery has been in charge of all forces on
the north flank of the German bulge since the start of the winter counter offensive, Supreme Headquarters announced today.
These forces include the U. S, First and Ninth armies. Lt. Gen. Omar N. Bradley, commander of the 12th army group, has been in charge on the southern flank where the U. S. Third army is operating. Bradley's group formerly included the First and Ninth, armies.
In Washington President Roosevelt said not all but a major portion of the First army had been turned over to Montgomery.
War Department Explains
The war department had explained the shift was due to the emergency caused by the German breakthrough in. Belgium and Luxembourg.
A spokesman said continuance of the arrangement will be left to the discretion of General Eisenhower, supreme allied commander.

British Join Yanks As
Showdown Battle Nears
By WES GALLAGHER
(Associated Press War
Correspondent



YANK BOMBERS
CONTINUE TO
Raid Formosa
British Troops Seize Akyab
In New Burmese
Landings
BULLETIN
(By Associated Press)
The Japanese radio reported today that the American task force which sent planes against Formosa and the Ryukyu Islands Wednesday and Thursday,
Tokyo time, "appears to be still at large, cruising in the waters northeast of Taiwan (Formosa)."
By LEONARD MILLIMAN
Associated Press War Editor
British troops have seized the Burmese port of Akyab in their first
amphibious operation on the long road back to Singapore while Philippine-
based American aircraft and PT boats knocked out 69 Japanese ships m a three-day attack coordinated with smashing carrier raids on Formosa. Radio Tokyo claimed that a U. S. aircraft carrier and two battleships or cruisers were sunk in western
Philippine waters as opposing commanders intensified the air war swirling around invasion threatened Luzon island and the advanced American base on Mindoro.

WAR AT GLANCE
January 5, 1945
WESTERN FRONT
British armor flung into Yank drive against Germans in Belgium bulge; Americans
widen front to 21 miles m second day of counter-offensive against German Ardennes salient.
EASTERN  FRONT
Russians hold ground against powerful German counter-thrust northwest of Budapest; Reds occupy 1,400 blocks of Hungarian capital.
ITALY
Canadian troops push against strong counter-attacks to within I1 miles of San Alberto northwest of Ravenna.
PACIFIC
Yank air assaults on Luzon Island bag 60 Jap ships, wipe out 20 enemy planes on Clark Field. Jap planes hit Mindoro island; three-day radio blackout suggests
continued attacks on Formosa and Ryukyus.

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