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To: r9etb; PzLdr; dfwgator; Paisan; From many - one.; rockinqsranch; GRRRRR; 2banana; henkster; ...
War Leader Yields (Post) – 2
Bilin Line is Bent – 3-4
Japanese Press M’Arthur’s 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 Day’s War Communiques – 13-14

4 posted on 02/20/2012 4:38:41 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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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 ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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http://corregidor.org/chs_bogart/bogart2.htm

Fort Frank


8 posted on 02/20/2012 5:07:58 AM PST by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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