* In case anyone has been wondering what became of our correspondent Harold Denny, captured by the Italians about a week before Pearl Harbor. We still haven't heard from Otto D. Tolischus in Tokyo.
** GSD ping. Note that though this is a picture of five German Shepherds the word German never appears in either the title or the lengthy caption.
http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1942/feb42/f26feb42.htm
Soviet ambassador demands second front
Thursday, February 26, 1942 www.onwar.com
From Washington... Soviet Ambassador Litvinov demands the Allies open a second front. He states that “only by simultaneous offensive operations on two or more of the fronts can Hitler’s armed forces be disposed of.”
On the Eastern Front... The Red Army engages the German 16th Army near Starya Russa, inflicting heavy casualties.
In Burma... the Japanese cross the Sittang River and now threaten to capture the Rangoon-Mandalay railway.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_Doorman
Karel Willem Frederik Marie Doorman (April 23, 1889 – February 28, 1942) was a Dutch Rear Admiral who commanded ABDACOM Naval forces, a hastily-organized multinational naval force formed to defend the East Indies against an overwhelming Imperial Japanese attack.
The headline sounds good, I guess ‘56 ships’ is meant to boost civilian morale