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Hart Strikes Foe (Hurd) – 2
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4 posted on 01/17/2012 5:34:47 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))

To: Homer_J_Simpson

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1942/jan42/f17jan42.htm

British capture Halfaya
Saturday, January 17, 1942 www.onwar.com

Axis prisoners marching to the rearIn North Africa... British troops take Halfaya and capture 5500 German and Italian troops. The garrison at Halfaya has held out since the start of Operation Crusader under the leadership of Hauptmann Wilhelm Bach, a German pastor.

On the Eastern Front... Field Marshal von Reichenau dies of a stroke while returning to Germany.

In the Arctic... Convoy PQ-8 is attacked on course from Iceland to Archangel. It is the first such attack on an Arctic convoy. German U-boat U-454 sinks one destroyer and one merchant ship.

5 posted on 01/17/2012 5:43:21 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))

7 posted on 01/17/2012 5:47:48 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))

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