Lex Anteinternet: Saturday, December 2, 1944. Advances in Europe, the Army Navy Game, Eiji Sawamura（沢村栄治).

Monday, December 2, 2024

Saturday, December 2, 1944. Advances in Europe, the Army Navy Game, Eiji Sawamura（沢村栄治).

The 7th Army reached the Rhine. The 3d Army reached Saarlautern. The 9th Army took Leiffarth and Roerdorf.

Army won the Army Navy Game. The crowed of 66,659 included 30,000 members of the general public who were admitted on the condition of living within 8.3 miles of the game in Baltimore and buying a $25.00 war bond.

Twenty Seven year old professional Japanese baseball player Eiji Sawamura（沢村栄治）was killed when a troopship he was on was sunk on this day in 1944. He'd been drafted into the Japanese Army in 1939, but released each season to play baseball.

Last edition:

Wednesday, November 29, 1944. Prisoner Exchange.

Labels: 1940s, 1944, Battle of Leyte, boats and ships, Canada, Conscription, Conscription Crisis, Prisoners of War, Quebec, World War Two

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