War in Europe

Title

War in Europe

Language

English

Year

1944

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64 Ph il ippin e Re v ie w December maintaining a lengthening supply line rendered precarious by incom.plete control of sea lanes-and islands dotting • these lanes. Arms and supplies for the' Americans are reported being ransported to Leyte by transport planes, indicating the difficulty of sending supplies by seacraft. Needless to say, war materiel transferred in this manner from bases thousands of miles away amounts to only a trickle. The American task force east of the Philippines suffered a heavy blow November 18 when the Japanese airforce sank two cruisers, and heavily damaged one aircraft carrier, one I attl^ship, and four transports. Four American transports in Leyte Gulf were heavily damaged and set ablaze by intrepid Japanese airmen that body-crashed on their objectives. Intrepid day and night attacks of Japanese air and ground forces on American positions on Morotai have resulted in. the crippling of four out of six airbases taken over by the Americans when they landed on the island in September 15. From November 1 to 29, the Japanese set ablaze 130 and damage 114 American planes. The strategic location of Morotai has been utilised by the Americans in their Leyte landing operations. Relentless Nippon attacks have considerably weakened American positions on the island. Meanwhile, the Japanese are pouring in reenforcements to drive out the one division of American troops holding the island. • • • War in Europe On t h e w e s t e r n front in Europe, the British 2nd and the American 1st and 9th armies tried to break through near Aachen hut were repulsed. A few, sectors changed hands several times, indicating the severity of the fighting. Three allied armies were able to advance five miles northeast of Aachen in a drive on the plains of Cologne, despite heavy German resistance. Dosendorf, however, fell again in German hands after it was captured by General Pattens’ American 3rd Army Part of Metz has been taken by an allied army, while de Gaullist French troops reached the Rhine after breaking through the Burgundy Gap. Four of the six main passes through Vosges to the Rhine were taken by French units and the American 7th Army. On the eastern front, the Soviets are reported to have ’dvanced toward Luchene, communications center on the Hungarian-Sloyak frontier, while farther to the south in Hungary, other Soviet forces captured Gyongyos, 40 miles northeast of Budapest. ---------------- ------- PHILIPPINE REVIEW-----------------------December 1944 Published by the PHILIPPINE PUBLICATIONS. Manila. F. B. 1CAS1ANO, Editor. JOSE LUNA CASTRO, Associate Editor. Editorial office, Publishing Bureau, Philippine Publications Building No 2, Soler and Calero Streets. Advertising and Circulation offices: Philippine Publications Building No. 1, Florentino Torres Street. Subscription rates: Three months, P4.80; per copy Pl.60. Entered as second-class mail matter at the Manila Post Office on March 25 1943 Manuscripts will be paid for after publication.

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