New Libyan Drive – 2
War News Summarized – 2
Efficiency: What Happens when U.S. Navy Planes Strike (photo) – 3
Churchill Said to Oppose Call for an Invasion Soon (Kluckhohn) – 4
Russians Fight Off Second Axis Drive – 5-6
Soviet Confident as War Year Ends (Parker) – 6
R.A.F. Raids Emden; Pounds Nazi Base (MacDonald) – 7
U.S. Fighter Score Off Midway Large (Hailey) – 7-8
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the War – 9-10
The News of the Week in Review
Twenty News Questions – 11
War News System Reshaped (Kluckhohn) – 12
A Possible Pattern for the Summer Campaigning (map) – 13
Rommel’s Libya Victory May Loose a New Drive (Baldwin) – 14
Answers to Twenty News Questions – 15
The New York Times Book Review
The Problems of Lasting Peace, by Herbert Hoover and Hugh Gibson. Reviewed by Anne O’Hare McCormick – 16-19
Midway: The Battle that Doomed Japan, the Japanese Navy’s Story, by Mitsuo Fuchida and Masatake Okumiya. Reviewed by CougarGA7 – 21
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Allied garrison at Tobruk surrenders
Sunday, June 21, 1942 www.onwar.com
In North Africa... The garrison at Tobruk surrenders. 30,000 prisoners are taken by the Germans, but more importantly the huge storehouse of food and fuel fall into the German hands. More than 3,000,000 rations and 500,000 gallons of gasoline replenish the Afrika Korps meager supplies. Rommel requests and receives permission to continue the drive to Egypt over the objections of Kesselring who wishes to focus German forces on Malta with Operation Hercules.
From Berlin... Hitler promotes General Rommel to Field Marshall in recognition of the successes of the Afrika Korps.
In Washington... Churchill receives the news of the fall of Tobruk while meeting with US President Roosevelt. FDR immediately offers aid and 300 Sherman tanks and 100 self-propelled guns are immediately dispatched to North Africa. The better equipment will make a difference in the British performance at El Amien.