[Homer_J_Simpson]

Indies Peril Rises (Durdin) – 2-3
The War Summarized – 3
Foe Speeds Tempo of Drive on Bataan (Kluckhohn) – 4
Fliers From India Fight in Burma as Foes Mass for Rangoon Drive (Forman) – 4-5
Red Fleet Shells Nazis’ Crimea Line (Parker) – 6-7
Sixty Days: Ship to Junk to Ship (with photo) – 8
Bettering American Unity (Krock) – 11
The Need for Reform-I (by Hanson W. Baldwin) – 12
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the War – 13-14

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1942/feb42/f18feb42.htm

British and Australian planes leave Sumatra
Wednesday, February 18, 1942 www.onwar.com

In the Dutch East Indies... British RAF and Australian RAAF units are withdrawn from Sumatra to Java.

In the Gulf of Mexico... The Free French submarine Surcouf (then the largest submarine in the world) is sunk in a collision with a US merchant ship.

[steelyourfaith]

Thanx for the ping.