Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War Malaya, 1941: Topography-Japanese Centrifugal Offensive, December 1941-January 1942
The Far East and the Pacific, 1941 – Operations of the Japanese First Air Fleet, 7 December 1941-12 March 1942
The Far East and the Pacific, 1941 – American Carrier Operations, 7 December 1941-18 April 1942
Micronesia, Melanesia and New Guinea: Japanese Centrifugal Offensive-Japanese Fourth Fleet and South Seas Detachment Operations, December 1941-April 1942
Luzon, P.I., 1941: Centrifugal Offensive, 10 December 1941-6 May 1942-Fourteenth Army Operations on Luzon
Netherlands East Indies, 1941: Japanese Centrifugal Offensive, December 1941-April 1942, Sixteenth Army and Southern Force (Navy) Operations
Southern Asia, 1941: Japanese Centrifugal Offensive (and Continued Operations), January-May 1942
Eastern Europe, 1941: Soviet Winter Offensive – Operations, 6 December 1941-7 May 1942
These were ahrrowing times.
The evacuation of Singapore by the civilians, wives and children of the expats there- is a horrifying story
There is nothing from Baldwin today, possibly because he spent part of yesterday addressing a gathering of the Foreign Policy Association, at the Hotel Astor. Read about that meeting in “Japan’s ‘Mistake’ in Asia Described,” beginning on page 3.
City Held Flanked – 2-3
Drastic U.S. Curbs Backed by Voters (Gallup) – 4
The International Situation – 4
30% Cut in the Use of City Autos Ordered by Mayor to Save Tires – 5
The Texts of the Day’s War Communiques – 6
The News of the Week in Review
Twenty News Questions – 7
Australia a Key Base for War in Far East (H. Duncan Hall, first-timer) – 8
The Strategic Battlegrounds of East Asia and the Indies (map) – 9
Answers to Twenty News Questions – 10