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Invaders Confess (by Will Lissner, first-time contributor) – 2-4
Report on Parleys (Lawrence) – 5
Roosevelt-Churchill Text – 5
Rommel Pushes On (Anderson) – 6-7
War News Summarized – 7
First Major Marine A.E.F. Reaches South Pacific Port – 8
Red Army Checking Nazi Ukraine Push (Parker, Brigham) – 8-9
Japan Bombed with 20-Cent Sight; Arnold Gives D.F.C. to 23 Raiders – 10-11
The Texts of the Day’s War Communiques – 12-13

The News of the Week in Review
Six Campaigns in the Battle of North Africa (map) – 14
Twenty News Questions – 15
The German Armies Again Drive Toward the East (map) – 16
Germans’ Drive in Egypt Menace to Middle East (by Hanson W. Baldwin) – 17
Answers to Twenty News Questions - 18

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http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1942/jun42/f28jun42.htm

Germans launch Operation Blue
Sunday, June 28, 1942 www.onwar.com

German PzKpfw III moves through burning field [photo at link]

On the Eastern Front... The main German summer offensive begins. General Bock’s Army Group South drives east from Kursk to Voronezh.

In North Africa... Mersa Matron falls to the Axis forces led by Rommel and again a large quantity of stores and equipment fall into Axis hands. All the forces in the area, the British 8th Army and the German and Italian troops are heading back toward El Alamien. It is here that British General Auchinleck has decided to take a stand.

In the Atlantic... Elements of the British Home Fleet leaves Scapa Flow to provide distant escort for PQ-17. The escort includes two battleships HMS Duke of York and USS Washington and one carrier, HMS Victorious with cruisers and destroyers.