[Homer_J_Simpson]

Red Army Scores – 2-3
British in Desert Make Some Gains (Sedgwick) – 3-4
War News Summarized – 4
Navy Says Foe Still Holds Three of Aleutian Islands (Hurd) – 5
Army Adopts Parachute Ration for Emergency Use by Troops * – 7-8
Japanese Naval Losses (Baldwin) – 9
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the War – 10-12

*Ohhhhh – K rations [drools]-Homer.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1942/jul42/f16jul42.htm

Red Army fights for Rostov
Thursday, July 16, 1942 www.onwar.com

On the Eastern Front... Soviet resistance against the German advances near Rostov stiffens.

From Moscow... Soviets release figures of German losses from the start of their summer offensive. Their numbers, 900,000 are considered to be exaggerated.