The News of the Week in Review
Ten Focal Points in an Eventful Week for the United Nations (map) – 12
Allied Unity – 13-14
The Fronts – 14-16
Abroad – 16
Quotations – 17
Twenty News Questions – 18
Moscow Set the Stage for War’s Final Phase (Baldwin) – 19
Answers to Twenty News Questions – 20
Where New American Drives Get Under Way (map) – 20
Offensive to Smash Japan Gets Under Way in Pacific (Kluckhohn) – 21
Allied Bombers Blast Germany’s Industrial Vitals (map) – 22
Work of Reducing Germany by Air Bombing Goes Ahead (Graham) – 23
The Best Selling Books, Here and Elsewhere (from Book Review) – 24
http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1943/nov1943/f07nov43.htm
Japanese attacking in the Solomons
Sunday, November 7, 1943 www.onwar.com
A Marine resting on Bougainville [photo at link]
In the Solomon Islands... US Task Force 38 with the carriers Saratoga and Princeton is attacked by 100 Japanese aircraft. The air attack fails to achieve any hits on the carriers. Meanwhile, on Bougainville Island, a Japanese battalion is landed to the north of the beachhead held by the US 3rd Marine Division. A battle ensues. The Japanese reinforce their garrison on Buka Island.
On the Eastern Front... Soviet forces attacking west of Kiev reach Fastov, 40 mile away, where German forces have formed a thin defensive line.
Interesting tidbit from Ike where he looks back a year ago to the beginning of Operation Torch.
Indeed, it has been quite a year from where the Axis stood at the peak of their power. Things don’t look good for them, and they know it.