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War Leader Yields (Post) 2
Bilin Line is Bent 3-4
Japanese Press MArthurs Flank; Manila Bay Forts Heavily Shelled 5-6
The War Summarized 5
Smolensk in Peril of Soviet Pincers (Brigham, Parker) 6
Eisenhower as War Plans Chief Completes Army Staff Recasting 7
Navy Lists 2,209 Held by Japanese 9-11
Our Strategy in the Pacific (Baldwin) 12
Texts of the Days War Communiques 13-14
4 posted on
02/20/2012 4:38:41 AM PST by
Homer_J_Simpson
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To: Homer_J_Simpson
http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1942/feb42/f20feb42.htm
Japanese ward off US naval task force
Friday, February 20, 1942 www.onwar.com
In the Bismark Archipelago... Japanese drive off a carrier based task force led by the American aircraft carrier Lexington which attempts to attack Rabaul.
In Portuguese Timor... Japanese forces invade.
5 posted on
02/20/2012 4:41:17 AM PST by
Homer_J_Simpson
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To: Homer_J_Simpson
8 posted on
02/20/2012 5:07:58 AM PST by
abb
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