[Homer_J_Simpson]

[Continued from yesterday.]

12 January. An enemy patrol of about twenty men attacked our outpost at Bilau. Reports were confirmed that natives led this patrol to our position. The outpost repulsed the attack but withdrew across the Mot River, which was now in flood.

About twelve inches of rain fell during this single night. It made the roads into quagmires. And besides this, the high seas and heavy surfs impeded supply and hindered reconnaissance.

Major General H.W. Blakeley, USA, Ret., The 32d Infantry Division in World War II

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Service Act Urged (Crider) – 2-3
Peak Air Attack (Graham) – 3-4
Russia Split Foe – 4-5
Russo-Polish Crisis Grows as Poles Study Soviet Offer (Reston) – 5-6
Cassino Menaced from Two Sides (Bracker) – 6
U.S. Troops Doubt Nazis Will Crack (Catledge) – 7
Ciano’s Execution Reported by Reich – 7
San Vittore: The Gateway to the Cassino Valley Falls (photos) – 8
Halsey Sees Fleet Victor near Japan (Shalett) – 9
War News Summarized – 9
New Tactics Tried by U.S. in Pacific (by George F. Horne ) – 10-11
A Badly Battered Cruiser Returns to Fight the Enemy in the Pacific (photos) – 10-11
Japanese Defeat from Pride Seen – 12
Curzon Line and U.S. (by Arthur Krock) – 13
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the Fighting in Various War Zones – 14-15
Air Power and (by Alexander P. de Seversky) – 15