The News of the Week in Review
Twenty News Questions – 11
German Drive and ‘Second Front’ Loom Larger (Baldwin) – 12-13
Japan Must Risk All to Try for a Knockout (by Nathaniel Peffer) – 13-14
New Guinea War Tests Our New Army (by Byron Darnton) – 15
Answers to Twenty News Questions – 16
From The New York Times Magazine – Guide to Our Mighty Army (by Anne Boone, first-time contributor) – 17-20
http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1942/may42/f24may42.htm
Anti-partisan operation in Soviet Union
Sunday, May 24, 1942 www.onwar.com
In the Occupied Soviet Union... Before Moscow, the Germans launch a major anti-partisan offensive, Operation Hanover, to clear the Bryansk-Vyazma railway. For six days, 45,000 German and allied troops search for an estimated 20,000 partisans. Many partisans and civilians are captured and killed.
On the Eastern Front... In the Barvenkovo salient, General Kleist’s forces reduce the encircled Soviet 6th and 9th Armies. Moscow admits a loss of 5,000 dead, 70,000 missing, and 300 tanks destroyed. The Germans claim 24,000 POWs and 1,200 tanks. The Soviets began the offensive with only 845 tanks.
In India... General Stilwell arrives in Delhi after a 140 mile retreat through the Burma jungle. In a press interview he is quoted say: “I claim we got a hell of a beating. We got run out of Burma and it is as humiliating as hell. I think we ought to find out what caused it, go back and re-take it.”
In the United States... When the Royal Canadian Air Force’s 115th Fighter Squadron lands at Alaska’s Annette Island, a US Customs officer refuses to let the pilots out of their planes until they pay duty on their arms and equipment. It takes a message from Secretary of State Cordell Hull granting the Canadians Distinguished Foreign Visitor status to end this idiocy.