Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 3, 1944, Cairo, Egypt                                November 1944 carrying the Torch to Manila r i y through the a shared honors with adm Kin aids 7th meet in so aah ing the Vati cited sea of the Stiny Halsey Fleet was Back at enemy warships at Cavite naval base in Manila in Carrier planes hit and probably sunk a Jap scored two bombs but Dain aged a along with an at least 90 enemy planes were also shot out of air or smashed on the Raj losses have now mounted to 61 warships sunk or and 261 since the of the two fleets which resulted in a Jap rout by Nimitz As the worst naval defeat Ever suffered by a modern world a revised Bonscore revealed the staggering losses suffered by the enemy in the Battle for the Philip n battleships Huso and 4 6 heavy 3 Light 3 Small 6 Des probably sunk1 4 heavy 2 Light 7 6 heavy 1 Light 10 Des losses Light american losses were put at 6 ships sunk 1 Carrier 2 escort 2 1 destroyer in to 8 pilots and 10 crewmen were Nimitz has also revealed that of the War ships engaged were the extent of the damages was not Nimitz disclosed that five american battleships which had been seriously damaged at Pearl Harbor took part in the historic naval they Are the West California and also participating were the new carriers named for the Wasp and Hornet which went Down in earlier a correspondent aboard Halsey flagship during the Battle described the strategy which smashed nearly every unit that the japs threw into the showdown he said there has never been anything like this Battle in the history of naval for Power and variety of units in for distances involved and complexity of tactics it stands the apparently follow ing a Battle blueprint designed to interrupt the Leyte aimed three spearheads at the Central Philippines Jap strategy miscarried Mit May have looked Good on drawing boards but it didst work in the Battle fleets and escorting Light units waded into the Southern unit before they had a Chance to get through the Surigao Strait the night of the following morning planes opened their terrific assault on Jap Force squirming its Way through narrow Island passages Between Mindanao and Luzon toward a separate Carrier personally directed Jim mits deployed in a flanking bar Rier to the Orui f Eastern his fliers and ships Rene i a full throated air uti Uek Lap Carrier planes staged from ii Ems laptops to the North and reinforced by twin engined land base at least Jap planes were destroyed in tins almost the Jap carriers slowed apparently to a rendezvous off Eastern Luzon where they expected to meet their planes coming out after refuelling end spending the night on brazilians repulse German if assault in direct hits by american naval planes left after a recent attack by the third these Manila docks blazing severe Nail counterattacks All along the fifth army front in North Italy were repulsed wednes Day by american and brazilian forces after a week during which flooded roads and swamped Bridges had virtually halted operations on the italian the assaults which Cost the nazis heavily with no gain were entered mainly against the Mountain positions eight Miles South of the Adriatic front was described this week As a sea of Slop and most advanced elements of the eighth army were so isolated by swollen streams and swamps they were being supplied by rope rowboats and amphibious american units in some areas were supplied by despite inclement the eighth Larmy sent patrols across the Ronco River to the outskirts of Forli and secured a Bridgehead on the Western the main forces swung within two Miles of the spa Hub Southeast of Bridgehead were also established Over the seven Miles Southeast of after an Advance of two Miles against Light polish forces Cap hired the Vil Lage of Birthplace of during the brazilians took Monte a mile Froim with no opposition mount san Quirico Calzini 15 Miles East of Massa and three villages near Serchio yanks occupied the Village of Castellaccio and two hamlets West of 23 Miles Southeast of the eighth army wednesday cleared the town of a Navy hellcat fighter plane noses returning from attacking Jap planes instead they met deadly swarms of american Carrier planes sweep ing into the a combined torpedo and dive bombing attack caught the japs by Complete their shattered Force poked its Way through the san Bernardino Strait the morning of they found Clouds of planes from our furrier escorts waiting for during the past two the 3rd and 7th fleets have bagged a Over Over on the deck of its Carrier own after of planes shot and destroyed on total Down and destroyed on the an additional 252 planes were probably destroyed or for the same losses amounted to but ill losses in pilots an 1 crewmen were 1 consider Abl less because of res Cue 2 newsmen de Foier Asahe  pros Iunus Repi Priit in my Iluigi Muir f fatal taif japs by need american of copied Tai Lolan on levee Maud in the War correspond ruts killed on Leyte two i r or air and Stanley Forth Worth Iedel Covi g the Pacific Washington Lias rating in the Lair it the Ali of 1 1 i 11 i if Thi Bong bags his 32nd without firing shot Richard tighter Ace top american Tater ran his string of victories to ii by bagging three enemy planes within 72 hours after his the popular Wisconsin Jilot got his less than three hours after reaching Liis sunday without firing and the mid a minutes a japanese flier jockeying to evade songs Guu sights Jettison his fighter bombers bomb to gain Speed and the missile knocked Oft the Tail of his the enemy aircraft crashed in the enemy subs get 2 Liberty ships ton two Liberty the John Barry and Edward were sunk recent v by enemy submarines in Widel Separ ated the War shipping a d m i 1 1 i 1 a t i o n the John Barry was torpedoed he arabian a few weeks with the loss of two x Urs of the sinking were pick v another Liberty ship and a ii Tanker hours e Troe Keit attacked ill a of from in t to 37 Miles bombers raid say japs unconfirmed by Allied is the Jap report that enemy stancs had raided the kanto Tant Industrial Section of the Jap radio Tokyo said several ene my four motored planes appeared Over the Tokyo area at Leyte ele Are continued from Page 1 tanks and inputs of the 2lth division within six Miles of the fifth air Force land based fight ers have already begun operation from captured during the ten Days of fighting american casualties Are 270 missing Ami it the same Story on Samar Island to the capital has been captured by 10th corps which drove Iii Miles beyond to reach san ller Nardino separating Samar from and thus Are stand ing at the last water Barrier be fore 250 Miles virtually All of the ski Mars Miles have been wrested from the sixth philippine Island invaded on american forces Wen battling typhoon which reached a velocity of Guiles per in addition to desperate enemy delaying it has been disclosed that a Naon off the Southern tip of has been conquered by this is the sixth is land of the philippine group to he s and bombers Are fetid Day in the Island bagging enemy them Laden with it boat having a Lui Bors Manv of three russian columns Are sur Ging towards Budapest in a con verging drive from the East and Northeast following a climactic Battle Between the Danube and lower Tisza they Are now within 33 Miles of the optimistic frontline which predict that will fall in a matter of that Hungary fourth has fallen Afton an annihilation Battle which raged through its streets and that so Viet troops have driven ten Miles beyond through collapsing enemy defences to capture in the new hungarian offensive at the violent fighting swirls across the vast hungarian pain in the Danube Tisza corridor As Malinov says Superior infantry and tank forces plunge Forward on a cur ving to mile not a single important natural obstacle is now in the path of the the fortress rail Junction of Nyiregyhazi in Hungary changed hands with the russians in first and the Northern Arm of the Budapest pincer movement has Cap tured at All costs hitter Battles rage on the East prussian front where the huns Are staking everything on repulsion of the russian in Vader and Strong plus the old men and boys of the new a formed Are fighting 1he manner designated by their russians must be thrown from prussian no matter what the Cost latest bulletins report the russians in established positions on the outskirts of the important bastion on the Road furious fighting is also reported North of warsaw7 Between the Bug and Vistula where the russian have purportedly launched still another drive towards East per Sia from anniversary message tin the 27th anniversary of the soviet president Kalinin told the russian people that the nazis have suffered a million casualties on Eastern front this the Day is not when the american and Fri Tiv armies will meet on Herman ter he said will be a Day of conclusive rain and indications of a fourth Winter 01 bitter this at the frigid Northern tip of soviet units ground Forward after retreating Jerries who left underground said the nazi evacuation of North Ern Norway is progressing rap div although Here Are signs that Titiev intend to make a stand at every House a fortress reports from Prussia were scant but indicated that the reds Are inching Forward against incessant counterattacks and fresh the entire Battle is an extended fortified zone with Ever copse and House converted into a defense Berlin states that soviet troops on the almost forgotten Baltic front have scored penetrations into nazi lines in the offensive towards but Moscow is Reg arding the on the hungarian Moscow reported at weeks end that the occupation of the province Rutenia was virtually completed with the capture of its Vetrovs scoring gains in Lias converged with the Northern troops of Malinovsky which Are exerting pressure to encircle forces in the River Loop alive Deere zen and have West of warships repaired at Skahl ships of All live been per Niimi Iii impaired bulb h of Torbor the Pearl Tarl Navy constr Uvion now total igbo ing of whom ii