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A.V.G. Pilots Score (Anderson) – 2
MacArthur Party Used Boats He Made Navy Try Years Ago (Darnton) – 3-4
War News Summarized – 3
Foe in Bataan Uses New Type of Plane (Hurd) – 5
Navy Yields Hope for Two Warships – 5
Port Moresby Hit by Japanese Again – 6
Nazis Hurl 500,000 Against Red Army (Parker) – 6-7
Drafts Self-Rule for Alien Colony (Davies) – 7-8
13 More Sinkings Claimed by Nazis – 8
Boy, 17, Sole Survivor of Tanker Crew of 33, Watched Last 10 Die of Thirst in Lifeboat – 9
WPB Regional Plan (Krock) – 10
Guthrie’s Charges False, Says Chief (by Charles E. Egan) – 10
Air Raids on U.S.-I (by Hanson W. Baldwin) – 11
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the War – 12-14

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http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1942/mar42/f25mar42.htm

US warships to defend Britain
Wednesday, March 25, 1942 www.onwar.com

From the United States... Rear Admiral John Wilcox commanding Task Force 39 with the battleship Washington, two cruiser and six destroyers sail for Scapa Flow to protect British home waters for the duration of Operation Ironclad — the British invasion of Vichy French controlled Madagascar. This is a reflection of the heavy Allied losses in capital ships to Japanese action in the Pacific.