* 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.
11/17/41 Thread
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5/19/41 Thread
2/17/41 Thread
11/18/40 Thread
8/19/40 Thread
5/13/40 Thread
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http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1942/feb42/f16feb42.htm
U-boats operating in the Caribbean
Monday, February 16, 1942 www.onwar.com
Allied transport under attack by German subIn the Caribbean... German U-boats shell the oil installations at Aruba. Seven tankers are sunk by German torpedoes.
In Tokyo... General Tojo, the Japanese premier, announces his war goals to the Diet (the Japanese parliament). He speaks of a “new order of coexistence and co-prosperity based on the ethical principles of Greater East Asia.”
In Burma... Fighting continues along the Bilin River as the Japanese continue their advance.
That’s a great story (page 10) about the “one-man army” of Bataan. Captain Arthur Wermuth will be captured by the Japanese in two months when the hospital he is recuperating in gets overrun by Japanese forces, and he spends the rest of the war as a POW. In August 1945 the Russians will liberate his POW camp and Wermuth will return to San Francisco weighing 105 lbs.
He ends up a sheriff in Colorado where he arrests L. Ron Hubbard and helps in the investigation of the kidnapping and murder of Adolph Coors III.
Wermuth died in 1981.