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
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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