Oil Depot Blazes (Durdin) 2-3
Official Detained (MacDonald) 3-4
The International Situation 3
MacArthurs Anti-Aircraft Experts Keep Japanese High in the Air (Clark Lee, new contributor) 5
Carriers Fliers Guard Vast Area (Hailey) 6-7 Wake Captives Reach Yokohama; Marine and Civilian Total is 1,235 7
Netherlands Indies-I (Baldwin) 8
The Texts of the Days Communiques on Fighting in Various Zones 9-10
http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1942/jan42/f19jan42.htm
Red Army attacking German supply lines
Monday, January 19, 1942 www.onwar.com
Soviet troops destroy a rail line behind German linesOn the Eastern Front... The Red Army recaptures Mozhaysk after fierce street fighting. Soviet paratroopers are landed south of Smolensk to help organize partisan action in the German rear.
From Berlin... Bock is appointed to succeed Reichenau in command of Army Group South.
It looks like the mid-day post is not going to happen. Now I am looking at late afternoon or this evening. Possibly even tomorrow. I want to avoid that if at all possible because I haven't miss a whole day since 8/15/39.