[Homer_J_Simpson]

Fortresses in Raid (Kluckhohn) – 2-3
Soviet Lines Firm (Parker) – 3-4
War News Summarized – 3
Stalingrad’s Fury Evokes Nazis’ Awe – 5-6
Draft of Youths Backed by Public (Gallup) – 6
Enemy Yields More Ground Under Allied Blows in Egypt – 7
U.S. Tankmen Tell of Desert Victory – 8
2 U.S. Ships Lost in Pacific Fighting – 8
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on Fighting in Various Zones – 9-10

The News of the Week in Review
Twenty News Questions – 11
British Are Determined to Crush Rommel Now (Kluckhohn) – 12-13
Pacific Outlook is Improved (Darnton) – 13
Eight Focal Points in the Pacific Theatre of War (map) – 14
Answers to Twenty News Questions – 15

The New York Times Magazine
The WAAGs (by H.I. Brock, first-time contributor) – 16-19

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1942/sep42/f06sep42.htm

Germans advancing in Caucasus
Sunday, September 6, 1942 www.onwar.com

On the Eastern Front... Elements of German Army Group A capture Novorossiysk.

In North Africa... The fighting around Alam Halfa ends. The Germans have fought their way back to their original positions. German intelligence reports that the British 8th Army is scheduled to receive large reinforcements and supplies. Rommel begins to prepare an elaborate labrinyth of boob traps and minefields as well as barbed wire defenses.

[BroJoeK]

headline: "Twenty News Questions – 11"

Both questions 1 & 2 are amazing!

I knew of the USS Panay, but not it's full significance.

But question 2 is even more significant: it shows that at their peaks, Germany and Japan conquered territory almost 90% as large as the Continental United States, but three times the population, and more population than the US, Russia and British Empire combined -- not including India, of course.

So at this point in the war, a lot of the odds are fairly even -- providing the Axis powers can harness all their human and natural resources effectively...