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MacArthur announced that the 11th Airborne Division was in action on Leyte; in its first combat, the outfit captured a strategic mountain pass, made a junction with the 7th Division and helped mop up the enemy 26th. There was still bitter fighting to be done, and even after the island was declared secure, there would be hundreds of Japs to be dug out. But the broad strategic objective had been...
Farther north, the 32nd Division and the 1st Cavalry Division (dismounted) were engaged in equally bitter, hand-to-hand combat, but drawing steadily closer to Valencia and a junction with the 77th. Japanese lines were beginning to crumble. But it had taken the bloodiest fighting of the second Philippine campaign to make them crumble. Leyte was not the pushover it had seemed when Douglas MacArthur returned to the Philippines nine weeks...
Chungking sorely needed straws of hope to grasp. With dismaying speed the Japanese were surging toward Kweiyang, all-important rail terminus and highway junction linking China's capital to the southwest. If Kweiyang fell, the delivery end of the Burma Road would be cut, the Japs would be only 235 air miles from Chungking itself...
...signed in 1812, lies just outside the modern border of East Prussia. The Germans admitted evacuating Tauroggen last week, as General Ivan Chernyakhovsky's army, which had long threatened the province from the east, now crowded close in the north. Red bombs rained on the East Prussian junction town of Tilsit, whose railroads lead to Insterburg and Königsberg...
...Hungarian front line, Yugoslavia and Greece were mere mop-up operations. Belgrade, the "white city," wise in the ways of war, was again a battlefield. Russians and Yugoslav Partisans were fighting in its streets, where Germans had erected pillboxes, antitank obstacles and gun emplacements. To the south, the railroad-junction city of Nish was captured by Partisans and Bulgarians...