[Homer_J_Simpson]

Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
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
North Africa, 1940: Rommel’s Second Offensive, 21 January-7 July 1942

[Homer_J_Simpson]

British Capitulate (MacDonald) – 2-3
The War Summarized – 5
Premier is Somber (Post) – 6
The Text of Premier Churchill’s Broadcast on Singapore – 7-8
M’Arthur Expects Big Enemy Attack (Peters) – 9
Washington Sees Dire Blow in East (Reston) – 9-10
Bataan ‘One-Man Army’ Kills 116 on Raids Behind Japanese Lines (Lee) – 10-11
Kittyhawks Win Libyan Air Battle (Levy) – 11-12
Bluejackets in Action after Japanese Bombs Fell on United States Warship (photos) – 13-16
Naval Developments (by Hanson W. Baldwin) – 17
The Texts of the Day’s War Communiques – 18-19
Best Sellers of the Week * – 20
Books of the Times (by Ralph Thompson) – 21

* Quarterly feature to follow evolution of American reading habits. Daphne DuMaurier is back on the charts with “Frenchman’s Creek.” Dragons are also big, with “Dragon Seed” and/or “Dragon’s Teeth” on most lists Here are the earlier lists. They are near the end of the post in each case.

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