Air Operations, CBI

• More than 30 10th Air Force P-47s support Allied ground forces around Bhamo.
• More than 30 P-47s attack troops, dumps, warehouses, and occupied towns at 5 locations.
• 17 P-47s atttack bridges across northern Burma.
• 8 P-47s attack a landing ground at Hsenwi.
• 8 14th Air Force B-25s attack stores at Wanling.

• 6 308th Heavy Bomb Group B-24s attack shipping targets of opportunity in the South China Sea.
• A small number of 14th Air Force fighter-bombers attack various targets.

Air Operations, East Indies

• FEAF B-25s and fighter-bombers attack airfields and targets of opportunity on Halmahera.
• Fighter-bombers attack various targets of opportunity elsewhere in the region.

Air Operations, Europe

• 71 Mosquitos are sent to Karlsruhe, 6 to Hallendorf and 4 to Duisburg, and there are 22 Mosquito patrols and 24 RCM sorties.
• There are no losses.

• 132 9th Air Force Bomb Division bombers attack three defended towns in western Germany.
• 9th Air Force fighters and fighter-bombers support US Army ground forces.
• 9th Air Force fighter pilots down 4 Luftwaffe fighters during the afternoon.

• 12th Air Force B-25s attack four rail bridges in the Po River valley.
• XXII TAC P-47s attack road and rail targets.
• During the night, XXII TAC A-20s attack the Ghedi Airdrome, rail lines, and targets of opportunity.

Air Operations, Philippines

• FEAF B-24s attack the Bacolod and Fabrica airfields on Negros.
• V Bomber Command B-25s and V Fighter Command P-47s attack the Lahug airfield on Cebu.
• B-25s attack the Cagayan airfield on Mindanao.
• fighter-bombers attack numerous targets.
• 18th Fighter Group P-38s down 5 Ki-43 'Oscar' fighters over the Fabrica airfield on Negros between noon and 1215 hours.

Air Operations, Volcano Islands

26 30th Heavy Bomb Group B-24s based at Guam attack Iwo Jima.

Burma-China

On the Salween front, the Chinese take Chefang.

Eastern Front

In eastern Czechoslovakia, troops of the 4th Ukraine Front force the crossing of the Ondava River near Humenné and Trebišov.

In the attacks south of Budapest most of the Russian forces are held except around Pécs where the 57th Army is operating. Northeast of Budapest the 4th Ukraine Front attack the positions of the 1st Pzr Army along the Ondava River.

The 46th Army is held up around Budapest but the 57th Army continues to make progress near Pecsx. Elements of the 4th Ukrainian Front attack the 1st Panzer Army along the Ondava River.

Italy

The British 8th Army continues its preparations for the attack fixed for December 4.

Occupied Crete

The Germans on Crete abandon all areas except large towns and move to Suda Bay and other coastal embarkation points.

Philippines

On Leyte the offensive capacity of the Japanese is already severely limited by the lack of supplies and ammunition. However, there is still hard fighting on Kilay Ridge and on a line of hills southeast of Limon, west of Carigara.

Due to limitations on logistics support and limited air cover available from the airfields on Leyte, Gen MacArthur delays the landing operation on Mindoro for 10 days. The new date is December 15. Lt-Gen Walter Krueger has formed the Western Visayan Task Force under command of Brig-Gen William C. Dunkel, composed of the 19th RCT of the 24th Infantry Division and the 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment, along with air and naval assets, to conduct the mission. The ground element of the task force is to seize airfields in support of the Luzon amphibious assault.

Western Front

In the 9th Army area the advance northeast of Aachen reaches Linnich which is taken by 102nd Div.

The US VII Corps, 1st Army, is in difficulties in the Hürtgen Forest area. The 4th Div still cannot push clear of the Hürtgen Forest, gaining only 1,000 yards in 3 days of heavy fighting.

The XX Corps, US 3rd Army, continues to advance west of the Saar in readiness for the crossing of the river. The 90th Div is engaged in the sector south of Merzig, the 95th in the direction of Saarlautern and the 5th, brought up from Metz, is preparing an attack in the Warndt salient.

In Alsace, while the 79th Div, XV Corps, US 7th Army, liberates Schweigenhause, a few miles west of Haguenau, the 44th and 45th Divs further north are engaged in severe fighting with Gen Friedrich Wiese's German 19th Army near Tieffenbach and Zinswiller.

Images from December 1, 1944

M3 Half-track Mounting a 75-mm Gun

East of Suez with the Indefatigable

Rolling Through Grosshau

Action In Grosshau