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Prime Minister to General Ismay, for C.O.S. Committee 19 Jan 43

Measures should be taken immediately to bring some long-range 9.2 mobile equipments in order to command from a very long range the airfields in Bizerta and Tunis. I do not know whether this has been done yet, but there should just be time. The omission would be disastrous.

Winston S. Churchill, The Hinge of Fate

[Homer_J_Simpson]

The index by author on Homer’s profile is now updated through February 15, 1943.

Soviet Gains Grow – 2-3
Hungry Leningrad Defied Huge Force – 4
F.B.I. Drops Inquiry in Tanker Sinking – 4
As Russians Pushed Ahead on Two Fronts in Their Relentless Drive Against the Nazis (photos) – 5-6
War News Summarized – 6
22 Bombers Lost – 7-8
Londoners Clean Up After Visit by Nazi Airmen (photo) – 7
Nazi Press Violent in Stories of Raid – 8
Allied Planes Smite Rommel as 8th Army Gains in Libya (Parr) – 8
U.S. Planes Strike at Foe in Tunisia – 9
British Click Off Thirty Miles More in Libya (map) – 9
Curran Asks Ships to Add 9 Men Each – 9
U.S. Airmen Blast North Burma Line – 10
A Son Decorates His Father (photo) * – 10
Child Savagely Hurt by Japanese Finds a Haven with U.S. Marines (Hailey) – 11
The War in Russia (Baldwin) – 12
Hitler Strategy Called a Failure – 12
The Texts of the Day’s War Communiques – 13-15

* See reply #3 on January 16 for Barbara W. Tuchman’s account of this award ceremony.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

The index by author on Homer’s profile is now updated through February 15, 1943.

Soviet Gains Grow – 2-3
Hungry Leningrad Defied Huge Force – 4
F.B.I. Drops Inquiry in Tanker Sinking – 4
As Russians Pushed Ahead on Two Fronts in Their Relentless Drive Against the Nazis (photos) – 5-6
War News Summarized – 6
22 Bombers Lost – 7-8
Londoners Clean Up After Visit by Nazi Airmen (photo) – 7
Nazi Press Violent in Stories of Raid – 8
Allied Planes Smite Rommel as 8th Army Gains in Libya (Parr) – 8
U.S. Planes Strike at Foe in Tunisia – 9
British Click Off Thirty Miles More in Libya (map) – 9
Curran Asks Ships to Add 9 Men Each – 9
U.S. Airmen Blast North Burma Line – 10
A Son Decorates His Father (photo) * – 10
Child Savagely Hurt by Japanese Finds a Haven with U.S. Marines (Hailey) – 11
The War in Russia (Baldwin) – 12
Hitler Strategy Called a Failure – 12
The Texts of the Day’s War Communiques – 13-15

* See reply #3 on January 16 for Barbara W. Tuchman’s account of this award ceremony.