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Guns Bag Planes – 2
British Withdraw – 3-4
The International Situation – 4
Navy Minimizes Battleship Losses (Hailey, dateline Pearl Harbor) – 5
The Battle for Luzon (Baldwin) – 7
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the War – 8-9

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1942/jan42/f05jan42.htm

Red Army on offensive along entire front
Monday, January 5, 1942 www.onwar.com

Red Army infantry riding into battle on T-34sOn the Eastern Front... Stalin overrules General Zhukov and his other military advisers to order offensives on all fronts rather than concentrating against the Germans in Army Group Center.

In the Philippines... The Americans begin to make final withdrawals to the main Bataan defensive positions.