City on Rhine Fired (Daniell) – 2
Nazis at Soviet Rail Towns; Stalingrad Defenders Hold (Parker) – 3
Law to Mobilize Workers Favored (Gallup) – 4
War News Summarized – 4
Troops’ Dog Mascot Promoted to Sergeant for Behavior While Posing for Picture – 5
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the Fighting in the Various War Theatres – 6-7
The News of the Week in Review
Twenty News Questions – 8
Air Raids Must Serve as Second Front Now (Baldwin) – 9
Japanese Again Seize the Initiative (Darnton) – 10
Australia, Allied Fortress “Down Under” (map) – 11
Answers to Twenty News Questions – 12
http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1942/aug42/f02aug42.htm
Luxury liners transporting troops
Sunday, August 2, 1942 www.onwar.com
Troops on board the Queen Mary [photo at link]
In the Atlantic... US troops are now being transported to the UK in the passenger liners Queen Elizabeth, Queen Mary, and Nieuw Amsterdam. These vessels are too fast for standard escorts. Their routes across the Atlantic are based on Admiralty intelligence on U-boat concentrations.
In North Africa... Churchill visits the British 8th Army. The Prime Minister leaves convinced that more resources are required to defeat the Axis forces.
“Law to Mobilize Workers Favored (Gallup)” - Never let a crisis go to waste...