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.
http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1943/jan1943/f19jan43.htm
Red Army Reports over 50,000 Prisoners
Tuesday, January 19, 1943 www.onwar.com
Axis prisoners march into captivity [photo at link]
On the Eastern Front... The Soviet Voronezh Front continues to make rapid progress toward Kharkov. Valuyki and Urazavo are captured. In the rear of the advance, a pocket of Hungarian troops is driven from Ostrogozhsk. The Soviets have taken more than 50,000 Axis prisoners in this drive. Only 2500 are Germans.
In New Guinea... Japanese General Yamagata orders his troops to pull out of Sanananda. Heavy fighting continues.
In North Africa... The British 8th Army’s offensive continues. Tarhuna is captured and the Axis defensive line between here and the Mediterranean is outflanked.
In Morocco... The Casablanca Conference. The Anglo-American strategy discussions continue.
Just enough good war news to keep up morale.
4 year old Chinese girl in Guadalcanal? A little young for a “comfort woman” isn’t she?
Follow-up on Chinese infant found on Guadalcanal:
http://obamareleaseyourrecords.blogspot.com/2013/01/new-york-census-confirms-obama-alias.html
When a miracle was in the offing, Father Gehring always had help. There was, for example, Foster Hailey, the New York Times war correspondent who stumbled on Patsy Lee and wrote the series of articles that brought her to national attention.
Because he could not communicate with her in any of the eight Chinese dialects he knew, Father Gehring had made up the name Patsy Lee. But when a Singapore woman read the Times clippings sent to her by a sister in New York after the war, the woman, who had lost a 6-year-old daughter named Patsy Li at sea when their ship was torpedoed off Singapore in April 1942, refused to accept it as a coincidence.
Going in 1946 to the New Hebrides orphanage where the girl had been taken, the woman, Ruth Li, declared that Father Gehring’s Patsy Lee was the child she had last seen drifting away on a piece of wreckage, 4,000 miles from Guadalcanal.
Father Gehring, who had corresponded with Mrs. Li, warning her that the Guadalcanal child could not possibly be hers — but suggesting that she adopt the girl, was not one to argue with miracles.
After all, the Navy doctor who first examined her on Guadalcanal had told Father Gehring that she could not live through the night.
She did better than that. After a troubled home life in Singapore, Ms. Lee was brought to the United States by Father Gehring in 1950, became a nurse, married, and after her husband died, married a man named Angelo Fasano.
After Father Gehring retired to Florida to live with his sister, Mariette Santangelo, his only survivor, Ms. Fasano, who now lives in Las Vegas, Nev., was a frequent visitor.
At Father Gehring’s funeral on Thursday at St. Vincent’s Seminary in Philadelphia, where he was ordained in 1930, she was there as was a Marine honor guard, reminders of a time when Guadalcanal was a name to reckon with and a little girl was a miracle of war.