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To: Homer_J_Simpson

No news from Stalingrad today. Huh, not much happening there I guess.

American troops in Belgian Congo? I got out my Cram’s Atlas of the world, and the Belgian Congo is thousands of miles away from any action. Why send troops there? (wink wink; I don’t think they are there to fight Germans, not directly anyway).


7 posted on 11/12/2012 6:45:00 AM PST by henkster (If you let them do it to you, you got yourself to blame.)
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To: henkster
No news from Stalingrad today. Huh, not much happening there I guess.

I see several intriguing articles on the front page shot that I didn't copy for posting. One of the is "Nazis Said to Drain East Front of Men." That article might have included general news from Stalingrad. On days with a whole bunch of important stories I struggle with what to save and what to omit. In this case I opted for the Guadalcanal story over the East Front story.

8 posted on 11/12/2012 6:59:35 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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To: henkster

Belgian Congo had copper and Uranium mines that the US needed.


15 posted on 11/12/2012 4:43:28 PM PST by Ecliptic (.)
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