I. Italy: bad weather conditions (snow-covered hills, gales and flooded rivers sweeping away army equipment) are responsible for the lull in operations on the peninsula. Preparations are being made however for a renewed drive on Rome (Allied troops firing in a village and firing mortars in the country).

II. India: Viceroy and Lady Wavell are met by Acting-Governor of Bengal Sir Thomas Rutherford when they arrive by plane in Calcutta "to deal with India's food problems."

III. USA: American citizens, including Dewey ("not a Presidential candidate"), Wendell Willkie and Roosevelt, enter polling booths to vote for candidates in the Senate and State Governorship elections.

IV. Thanksgiving Day: celebrated by American servicemen at Westminster and at St. Botolph's, Boston, Lincolnshire, where Archbishop of Canterbury is present.

V. New Guinea: Australian and US forces are "beating the Japs at their own game." Australian soldiers move through the jungle, firing machine-guns and artillery, before capturing Salamaua. Natives bear the wounded away on stretchers. Japanese lie dead in fox-holes.