The News of the Week in Review
Battleground for Egypt and the Middle East (map) – 13
Twenty News Questions – 14
Six Danger Spots as the Axis Drives On (Map) – 15
Egypt Holds Fate of a Vital Area (Baldwin) – 16-17
Answers to Twenty News Questions – 17
The New York Times Book Review
Russia’s Fighting Forces, by Captain Sergi N. Kournakoff, and Russians Don’t Surrender, by Alexander Poliakov. Reviewed by William Henry Chamberlin – 18-20
Strategy for Victory, by Hanson W. Baldwin. Reviewed by Fletcher Pratt – 21-22
Rationed Rubber and What to Do About It, by Williams Haynes and Ernst A. Hauser - 22
http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1942/jul42/f05jul42.htm
German Army Group South advancing
Sunday, July 5, 1942 www.onwar.com
German tanks supporting Romanian troops [photo at link]
On the Eastern Front... German General Hoth’s 4th Panzer Army reach the Don River near Voronezh. To their left, General Weich’s 2nd Army makes progress against the Soviet defenders.
In the Arctic... Without defensive escorts 13 vessels from the British convoy PQ-17 are sunk by Luftwaffe and U-boat attacks. The German heavy ships approach, but return to port when their presence is made unnecessary by the success of the air and submarine attacks. The sister convoy QP-17 sails into an Allied minefield in the Denmark Straits and loses 4 ships.