Air Operations, CBIBURMA
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Air Operations, East IndiesFEAF B-24s attack the Jesselton airfield complex on Borneo. [![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Air Operations, EuropeRAF BOMBER COMMANDDaylight Ops:
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Air Operations, FormosaDuring the night, 63rd Heavy Bomb Squadron SB-24s attack the Okayama airfield. [![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Air Operations, MarianasA 318th Fighter Group P-47 downs a C6N 'Myrt' reconnaissance plane1 near Tinian at 1202 hours. [![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Air Operations, Philippines
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Air Operations, Volcano Islands12 VII Bomber Command B-24s attack Iwo Jima. [![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() AtlanticThe escort carrier Thane is torpedoed by U-482 off the Clyde. [![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() BurmaIn the British XXXIII Corps sector, the 19th Indian Div establishes another bridgehead over the Irrawaddy at Kyaukmyaung. In the north, the Chinese 30th Div captures Namhkam, so gaining control of the lower Schweli valley. The first convoy to inaugurate the new Burma road, starting from Ledo, reaches Myitkyina, where it has to wait until the rest of the route is cleared of the enemy. [![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() CBILt-Gen Albert C. Wedemeyer, commander of the China theater, Lt-Gen George E. Stratemeyer, commander of Eastern Air Command, and Lt-Gen Daniel. I. Sultan, commander of the India-Burma theater, meet at Myitkyina. They agree to establish a new headquarters in China to command both the 10th and 14th Air Fokrces. [![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ChinaIn southeast China the Japanese open an offensive to capture the American airfields at Suichuan, southeast of Changsha. [![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() East China SeaA squadron of fast aircraft carriers under the command of Vice-Adm John S. McCain attacks Japanese airfields and shipping in Formosa and off the Chinese coast from Hong Kong to Amoy. The weather is poor but some success is achieved. Two Japanese destroyers, Hatakaze and Tsuga, and the transport No. 14 are sunk. [![]() ![]() ![]() Eastern FrontThe 4th Ukraine Front under Ivan Petrov joins in the fighting in southern Poland, breaking into the Carpathians from the Sanok area, southwest of Krakaw. Kielce falls to the 1st Ukraine Front. POLANDThe 2nd Belorussian Front, supported by the 4th Air Army, has ripped apart the German 2nd Army on the Narew, incurring heavy casualties. To the south, the Soviet 8th Guards Army advances toward Radom, and the 1st Guards Army to Lodz and Posen. The Polish 1st and 47th Armies are enveloping Warsaw while, At Kielce, the XLII Corps is annihilated by the Soviet 3rd Guards and 13th Armies.[MORE] [![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() PacificThe Japanese auxiliary minesweeper No.1 Kyo Maru is sunk by mine, laid by British submarine Porpoise on January 9, south of Penang, Malaya. [![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() PhilippinesOn Luzon the US XIV Corps continues to advance south from the beachhead and has now crossed the Agno River at several points about 15 miles inland. The I Corps is attacking north and east but cannot take its objective of Rosario. On Mindoro the Americans withdraw the 503rd Parachute Regt from the island; up to now it has been giving help and support to the guerrilla operations. The 21st Inf, making for Calapan, runs into Japanese units which have been ordered to slow down the advance. Some of the smaller islets in the archipelago, not manned by the Japanese, are occupied by the Americans. An accidental explosion damages the US escort carrier Hoggatt Bay (CVE-75) in the Philippine Islands area. [![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() SpainAn Italian naval squadron, interned in Port Mahon (Minorca) since September 8, 1943, leaves for Malta. [![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Western FrontIn the British 2nd Army sector units of the 7th Arm Div, XII Corps, capture Bakenhoven, about a mile and a quarter northwest of Susteren, in advance of Operation BLACKCOCK, the elimination of the German salient between the Meuse and the Rur, going south from Roermond. The 2nd Arm Div, US VII Corps, 1st Army, having taken Achouffe, Mont and Tavernaux, sends forward patrols toward the Ourthe River and into Houffalize, which the forces of the German 5th Panzer Army have evacuated. In the XVIII Airborne Corps sector the 75th Div opens an offensive across the Salm, reaching Salmchâteau and Bech, while the 30th Div takes Beaumont, Francheville and Pont. The units of the US 3rd Army also advance, but while the 11th Arm Div and the 101st Airborne Div, VIII Corps, push on without opposition, the 35th and 90th Divs, III Corps, run into violent resistance from the German LXXXV Corps. The 6th Army Group headquarters sends the French 1st Army preliminary instructions for the offensive against the Colmar pocket. [![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Images from January 15, 1945
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