[Homer_J_Simpson]

Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
Papua, New Guinea, 1942
The Solomons: Guadalcanal and Florida, 1942
Southwest Russia, 1942: Soviet Winter Offensive, Operations, 19 November-12 December 1942
North Africa, 1941: Pursuit to Tunisia, November 1942-February 1943
Special Guest Map-November Race for Tunis (from Ike: An American Hero, by Michael Korda)
Tunisia 1942: The Race for Tunisia-Situation 1 January 1943, and Operations Since 17 November 1942
The Far East and the Pacific, 1941: Status of Forces and Allied Theater Boundaries, 2 July 1942
India-Burma, 1942: Allied Lines of Communication, 1942-1943

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Happy Thanksgiving, 1942.

Russians Roll On (Parker) – 2-3
Bizerte Hit Twice (Daniell) – 3-4
Our Fliers at Buna Sink 2 Destroyers (Durdin) – 4-5
Marines Wipe Out Guadalcanal Post – 5-6
U.S. Fliers Blast Japanese in China – 6
War News Summarized – 6
Slain Polish Jews Put at a Million – 7
Thanksgiving in War (Baldwin) – 8
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on Fighting in Various Zones – 9-11
4 Nazi Soldiers Flee Prison Train * – 11

* Homer’s father, part of an MP detachment in Oakland, undoubtedly played an important role in foiling the wily Huns’ escape plot. The final sentence of the article provides an interesting change of subject: “Lorenc predicted that Rommel would fight at El Agheila only long enough to cover his retreat to Sicily.”

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Happy Thanksgiving, 1942.

Russians Roll On (Parker) – 2-3
Bizerte Hit Twice (Daniell) – 3-4
Our Fliers at Buna Sink 2 Destroyers (Durdin) – 4-5
Marines Wipe Out Guadalcanal Post – 5-6
U.S. Fliers Blast Japanese in China – 6
War News Summarized – 6
Slain Polish Jews Put at a Million – 7
Thanksgiving in War (Baldwin) – 8
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on Fighting in Various Zones – 9-11
4 Nazi Soldiers Flee Prison Train * – 11

* Homer’s father, part of an MP detachment in Oakland, undoubtedly played an important role in foiling the wily Huns’ escape plot. The final sentence of the article provides an interesting change of subject: “Lorenc predicted that Rommel would fight at El Agheila only long enough to cover his retreat to Sicily.”

[alfa6]

The article about the 4 escaped German prisoners remind me of the story of the group of Germans who escaped from a POW camp in North Carolina.

The local sherrif had no trouble rounding them up, all he had to do was follow the reports of a group of men “goosestepping” down the middle of the road:-)

Regards

alfa6

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Churchill again, thinking about future campaigns

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Winston S. Churchill, The Hinge of Fate