U.S. Forces Stiffen (Middleton) – 2-3
Allies Execute 3 Parachutists Sent behind Line in American Uniforms – 4
German Generals Planning Their Offensive (photo) – 4
The Germans Picture Their Present Counter-Offensive on Western Front (photo) – 5
Red Army Scores – 6
700,000 Reported Slain in 3 Camps – 7
War News Summarized – 7
Nearly 100 Planes Wrecked at Manila (Kluckhohn) – 8
Japanese Shelling Our Positions on Leyte (photo) – 8
Tokyo is Attacked by Superfortress – 9
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on Fighting in Various Zones – 11-13
Big Deficit Shown in Italian Budget – 13
Murray Writes Appeal in Soviet Paper That War Ties Be Preserved to Aid Peace – 13
The News of the Week in Review
“The Enemy is Making His Supreme Effort” – General Eisenhower’s Order of the Day (map) – 14
‘Great Gamble’ – 15-16
Other Fronts – 16-17
Fifteen News Questions – 18
“Not According to Plan” (cartoon) – 19
Enemy Offensive Alters War on Western Front (Baldwin) – 20-21
“Sieg Heil!” (cartoon) – 21
“All or Nothing” (cartoon) – 21
Answers to Fifteen News Questions – 21
Wehrmacht Lashes Out with Its Oldtime Fury (Middleton) – 22
I believe it was Winston Churchill’s youngest daughter, Mary, who said that she and her friends referred to Lord Mountbatten as “Glamour Pants.” (Or it might have been Deborah Mitford.)