Air Operations, CBI
BURMA- 12 10th Air Force B-25s attack stores at Lashio.
- More than 80 10th Air Force fighter-bombers attack troop concentrations, large-scale troop movements, artillery, and motor vehicles throughout occupied regions of Burma.
- 12 P-47s support Allied ground forces around Namhkam and Si-U.
- 3 P-47s attack motor vehicles between Selan and Namhkam.
- 5 14th Air Force B-25s attack a bridge at Wan Mai-Lo.
- 12 14th Air Force fighter-bombers attack targets of opportunity near Wanling.
- 7 fighter-bombers attack targets of opportunity near Muse with napalm.
- 11 14th Air Force fighter-bombers attack targets of opportunity near Wanting and in the eastern Wanting River valley.
- 25 of 47 58th Very Heavy Bomb Wing B-29s dispatched from Calcutta attack two drydock facilities at Singapore while 15 of the B-29s attack alternates and targets of opportunity.
- 2 B-29s are lost.
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]Air Operations, East Indies
FEAF B-25s and P-38s attack the Kendari airfield on Celebes.
[ | ]Air Operations, Europe
RAF BOMBER COMMANDDaylight Ops:
- 152 Lancasters of No. 3 Group carry out a G-H raid on the railway yard in the Uerdingen suburb of Krefeld.
- There are no losses.
- 1 Stirling makes a Resistance operation flight.
| ]Air Operations, Formosa
During the night, 2 63rd Heavy Bomb Squadron SB-24s and 1 attached SB-24 equipped with H2X bombsight radar attack Heito in the first in a series of night-harrassment attacks against Japanese bases on Formosa.
[ | ]Air Operations, Philippines
- Despite rough seas, Task Group 77.4 TBMs and FMs are able to provide adequate support for US 6th Army ground forces in the Lingayen Gulf area.
- FEAF B-24s, V Bomber Command B-25s and A-20s, and V Fighter Command fighter-bombers mount intense attacks against airfields, occupied towns, and communications targets throughout Luzon and in the central Philippines.
- An 82nd Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron P-51 downs a Ki-21 'Sally' medium bomber over Balate Pass, Luzon, at 0935 hours.
| ]Air Operations, Volcano Islands
23 VII Bomber Command B-24s attack Iwo Jima.
[ | ]Air Operations, Western Pacific
- After passing up an opportunity to attack a 100-ship Japanese convoy off the China coast, Task Force 38 refuels at sea on its way to attack Japanese battleship-carriers at Camranh Bay, French Indochina.
- VF-80 F6Fs down 4 E13A 'Jake' reconnaissance planes over the South China Sea within 25 miles of Task Force 38 at 1615 hours.
| ]Atlantic
A British squadron inflicts heavy damage on a convoy off southern Norway.
[ | ]Burma
The divisions of the British IV Corps take Gangaw and advance rapidly toward the Irrawaddy River in the area of Pakokku in readiness for a move on Meiktila.
The British 19th Div comes under heavy counterattack from the Japanese 33rd Army as it attempts to cross the Irrawaddy River at Thabeikkyin and establish a beachhead. Thabeikkyin is only about 60 miles north of Mandalay, and fighting is extremely fierce - Japanese troops make mass assaults with fixed bayonets. But Honda's 33rd Army has fallen into a trap. Gen Slim, predicting the Japanese countermeasures, has swung troops of the British IV Corps southward toward Pakokku to prevent Japanese troops retreating south.
[ | ]Eastern Front
HUNGARYThe III Panzer Corps can go no farther, having been fought to a standstill. At Budapest the Soviets make further gains in Pest.[MORE]
[ | ]Pacific
In Operation KONGO 6 Japanese submarines launch Kaiten torpedoes against Allied naval bases in the Central Pacific. 1 LC is sunk and a munitions ship is damaged.
[ | ]Philippines
On Luzon the US XIV Corps consolidates its own sector of the beachhead. Some units meet with the first co-ordinated Japanese resistance. The village of Aguilar is occupied after liberation by Filipino guerillas. Further north, in the I Corps sector, the US 6th Div occupies Santa Barbara, also liberated by Filipino guerillas; the 43rd Div occupies Manoag without opposition, but is then held up in front of a chain of hills by intensive fire from Japanese artillery. The I Corps' front has already been extended to some 10 miles.
The high-speed transport Balknap (APD-34) is badly damaged in attacks by kamikaze-piloted aircraft. The landing craft LST-270 and LST-918 are damaged by coastal defense gunfire. The landing craft LST-700 is damaged accidentally by US naval gunfire.
[ | ]Western Front
Units of the British 6th Div, XXX Corps, 2nd Army, take St Huybert, making contact with units of the VIII Corps of the US 3rd Army which have also entered the town, from which German troops have been withdrawn. The Americans of the VIII Corps take Bommerne, Pironpré and Vesqueville, while units of the III Corps eliminate the German pocket southeast of Bastogne. Serious fuel shortages begin to affect the German armored units. Allied bombing of transport cut supplies drastically. The Panzer Lehr Div alone abandons 53 tanks during the next 4 days because of a lack of gasoline. The American 45th Div, VI Corps, US 7th Army, continues its pressure on the western flank of the Bitche salient. The Germans launch another offensive against the positions of the 79th Div on the Maginot Line south of Wissembourg.
[ | ]Images from January 11, 1945
US Recon Patrol |
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517th PIR 3rd Battalion CP |
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Temporary Aid Station |
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Identifying Aircraft |
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Platoon Briefing in Luxembourg |
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Soldiers of the 358th Infantry |
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Anti-aircraft Locator Device |
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German POWs in the Village of Berlé |
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