Liner Hit by U-Boat – 2-3
The War Summarized – 3
Malaya Line Sags – 4-5
U.S. Fliers Fell 7 in Burma Air Fight – 5-6
Germans’ Libyan Drive Checked as R.A.F. Exacts Increasing Toll (Levy) – 6-7
U.S. Units in Hawaii Improvise Defense (Hailey) – 7-8
Pearl Harbor’s Lessons (Baldwin) – 11
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on Fighting in Various Zones – 12-13
http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1942/jan42/f29jan42.htm
German Afrika Korps capture Benghazi
Thursday, January 29, 1942 www.onwar.com
Afrika Korps half-track moving through desertIn North Africa... Rommel’s forces retake Benghazi and continue to advance.
In Iran... a treaty of alliance is signed with Britain and the USSR, opening the supply route for Allied forces through Iran.
From Washington... General Harmon becomes Chief of Staff, USAAF, succeeding General Spaatz, who is moved to Air Force Combat Command.
Hanson W. Baldwin’s column in today’s post goes to the heart of the matter you two have been batting back and forth. Baldwin certainly didn’t have the knowledge about code breaking activity going on behind the scenes like we do today, but seems to have absorbed the information set forth in the Roberts report and reached some sound conclusions about the big picture of responsibility. Though he does appear shy of assigning any blame to the Commander-in-Chief. Come to think of it I haven’t seen any hint in the pages of the Times that FDR might be culpable, even indirectly.