Air Operations, EuropeThe 8th Air Force attacks the Misburg oil plant in Hanover, the Hamm marshalling yards and the Bielefeld raiway viaduct. They claim 138 fighters destroyed for the loss of 36 bombers and 7 fighters. Spitfire fighter-bombers attack 2 suspected V-2 sites in Holland. RAF BOMBER COMMANDDaylight Ops:
Eastern FrontTroops of the 2nd Ukraine Front take Hatvan, in Hungary, northeast of the capital. Budapest is already threatened from the south. Russian troops take Michaloyce in eastern Slovakia. SOUTHERN SECTORThe 6th Guards Tank Army captures Hatvan after a brief struggle. The Stavka has been steadily shifting forces from the 2nd to 3rd Ukrainian Fronts in order to resume the attack upon Budapest from the southeast. Malinovsky's attack north of the city will form the northern pincer to Tolbukhin's southern one south of the city. [ | ]Germany, PolicyHimmler orders the destruction of the crematoria at Auschwitz. [ | ]ItalyPersistent rain seriously delays operations in the Lamone sector. Gen Harold Alexander is promoted to Field Marshal and appointed Supreme Allied Commander, Mediterranean. [ | ]Pacific
PhilippinesOn Leyte the Japanese launch violent night attacks on various sectors of the front, contained by the Americans largely by the employment of artillery. Over 400 Japanese bodies are counted next morning on a ridge west of Burauen, where the Japanese 26th Div is deployed. [ | ]Western FrontThe port of Antwerp is opened. V-bomb attacks are intensified, falling at a rate of one every 12-1/2 minutes at the height of the raids. Despite the V-weapons, the Allies are able to move 25,000 tons through Antwerp daily. In the US 1st Army sector the 104th Div, VII Corps, passes through Weiseweiler, about 6 miles north of Aachen, and takes Frenz. The 4th Div consolidates its positions in the Hürtgen forest. In the southern sector, US 3rd Army, the units of the XX Corps continue to advance northeast; on the right flank the 95th Div penetrates into the Maginot Line. The 3rd Div of the American VI Corps, 7th Army, crosses the Vosges and emerges into flat country in Alsace. [ | ]YugoslaviaIn an agreement reached with Tito the Royal Navy and the RAF should have temporary use of certain Yugoslav ports and airfields. [ | ]Images from November 26, 1944
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