Air Operations, CBIBURMA
Air Operations, East Indies
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Air Operations, Philippines
Air Operations, Volcano Islands23 30th Heavy Bomb Group B-24s based on Guam attack Iwo Jima. [ | ]BurmaIn the British XXXIII Corps sector, the 11th East African Div reaches the Chindwin River at Kalewa. [ | ]ChinaA Japanese column advancing on Kweiyang reaches and occupies Tu-shan. The Americans suggest to Chiang Kai-shek that he should arm 3 Communist regiments in Shen-si province, the first region to be administered by the Communists. The 3 regiments would be employed in Nationalist territory under American officers. The Generalissimo refuses. [ | ]Diplomatic RelationsDe Gaulle arrives in Moscow for meetings with Stalin. [ | ]Eastern FrontIn Czechoslovakia, the 4th Ukraine Front extends its bridgehead over the Ondava. In Hungary, the 2nd Ukraine Front attacks the strong enemy fortifications in the Miskolc area, while the 3rd Ukraine Front and formations of partisans force the Germans back on a broad front between the Danube and the Drava, south of Lake Balaton. SOUTHERN SECTORWith the threat of a Soviet breakthrough in Hungary the Germans bring the 2nd Panzer Army back into the line, deploying it south of Lake Balaton. The main objective for the army is the protection of the Hungarian oilfields at Nagykanitza. North of the lake Army Group South deploys Fretter Pico's 6th Army between the lake and the Hatvan with the III Panzer, LXXII and LVII Panzer Corps, while the 8th Army under Wohler is around Miskolc. [ | ]ItalyFilippo Marinetti, founder of the 'Futurist' art movement in 1909 and a leading Fascist author, dies at the age of 67. British 8th Army units begin probing actions before an all-out offensive. [ | ]PacificThe Japanese coast defense vessel No. 64 is sunk by the US submarine Pipefish (SS-388) in the South China Sea. [ | ]PhilippinesOn Leyte there is little activity on the ground. Groups of American destroyers shell the Japanese positions at Palompon, on the west coast of Leyte, and in Ormoc Bay. 4 destroyers which entered Ormoc Bay by night are engaged by Japanese aircraft, destroyers and coast defense batteries. The American destroyer Cooper (DD-695) is sunk and the destroyers Allen M. Sumner (DD-692) and Moale (DD-693) are damaged. The Japanese destroyer Kuwa is sunk. [ | ]Western FrontThe Germans blow up a dyke on the lower Rhine near Arnhem, flooding the region southwest of Armhem and forcing the Canadian II Corps, 1st Army, to withdraw from their bridgeheads over the Waal. With the fall of Dreisbach, Gen Patton's 3rd Army has completed the capture of its sector west of the Saar; during the night, in the XX Corps sector, the 90th Div crosses the river in the area of Dillingen and the 95th opposite Saarlautern, where there is bitter house-to-house fighting, and the 5th Div crosses the western border of the Houve forest. The XII Corps crosses the Saar near Saar-Union. Gen Jacob Devers, Commander of the 6th Army Group, orders the US 7th Army to concentrate and re-group by December 5, the date for which an important attack to the north is planned. The Colmar sector is entrusted to the only French troops in the 1st Army, joined by the French 2nd Arm Div, detached from the US 7th Army. The 44th and 45th Divs, XV Corps, US 7th Army, capture Waldhambach, Engwiller and Meitesheim. The French 1st Army is reinforced by the US 76th Div; its commander, Gen Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, orders his troops to converge on the Colmar pocket from north and south simultaneously, to reach the Rhine in the area of Neuf-Brisach, about 6 miles southeast of Colmar. [ | ]Images from December 2, 1944
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