[Homer_J_Simpson]

All-Out Push is On (Hurd) – 2-3
U.S. Carrier Wasp Lost in September – 3
Wasp Crew’s Battle with Fires to Save Carrier Told by Skipper (Hailey) – 4-5
Desert Army Firm (Anderson, Sedgwick) – 5-6
Red Army Holding in Seesaw Combat (Parker) – 6-7
War News Summarized – 6
Plane Superiority Won in the Pacific (Baldwin) – 8-9
Curb on Gen. MacArthur Denied by Australia’s Foreign Minister – 8
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on Fighting in Various Zones – 10-11

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1942/oct42/f27oct42.htm

Germans near victory in Stalingrad
Tuesday, October 27, 1942 www.onwar.com

German soldier in Stalingrad [photo at link]

On the Eastern Front... At Stalingrad, German advances continue in the ground between the Red October and Barricades Factories. From this area, they can bring the landing stages on the Volga under direct machine gun fire. The remaining Soviet controlled areas are now on average of 300 yards deep, however, these are strongly held and fortified.

In North Africa... The Battle of Alamein. While the British concentrate on regrouping their forces, what Rommel intends as a major counterattack is defeated by a small British force at Kidney Ridge. Other attacks farther north meet with no success.

In the Solomon Islands... At Guadalcanal, the Japanese halt the offensive. They have suffered 3500 casualties with entire units being destroyed. Both sides are exhaustive by the heavy day and night fighting, but the initiative has passed to the Americans.

[henkster]

In the manuscript of his memoirs, Erwin Rommel’s chapter on El Alamein is entitled “Battle Without Hope.”