[Homer_J_Simpson]

Houston is Lost (Peters) – 2-4
Japanese Fliers Raid Isles Close to Northern Australia – 5-6
The War Summarized – 6
Battle of the Java Sea (Baldwin extra) – 7-8
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the Fighting in the Various War Theatres – 9-10

The News of the Week in Review
Twenty News Questions – 11
Invasion Threatens India and the Vital Middle East (map) – 12
U.S. Army, Navy Staffs Streamlined for Action (Baldwin) – 13
Answers to Twenty News Questions – 14

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1942/mar42/f15mar42.htm

Hitler confident of victory
Sunday, March 15, 1942 www.onwar.com

Adolf HitlerIn Berlin... Hitler announces that the Soviet Union will be “annihilatingly defeated” in the next summer offensive.

[Seizethecarp]

“It has always been known that the Asiatic Fleet was a ‘suicide squadron.’”

Is our current Persian Gulf and Arabian Sea fleet a suicide squadron? War games conducted by the Pentagon resulted in 3000 deaths on the US side v Iran. I suspect this is due to the Iranian's Chinese-supplied supersonic anti-ship cruise missiles. I hope we don't have history repeating itself. Only by the Obama Admin preemptively taking out Iran's offensive anti-ship and ballistic missiles can disaster be averted. Waiting for Israel to attack first leaves Iranian retaliatory strike weapons mostly intact...to be expended before the US can take them out unless the US comes in instantly with B-2s from Diego Garcia as the Israeli plans depart for the attack.

[GeronL]

Houston is lost?

I don’t remember reading about that... was it NAZI’s or the Japanese??

j/k