Prime Minister to First Sea Lord 7 Mar 43
You very kindly last time arranged to take some of the Red Cross stores in the destroyers to Murmansk. How did this work? Did it cause trouble or risk? Could it be repeated?
Winston S. Churchill, The Hinge of Fate
Red Army Races On – 2
Rommel Hits Back (Kluckhohn) – 3-4
Rank of Marshal is Given to Stalin – 4
Seven from Lost Flying Fortress Saved after 8 Hours on Rafts in North Sea Storm – 4
War News Summarized – 4
Attack Fires Krupp Works; U.S. Fliers Raid Lorient, Brest – 5
Tojo Calls 1943 Decisive Year; Version for Japanese Softened – 6
Halsey Bars Correspondents from Travel by Plane in the South Pacific War Zone (Trumbull) – 6
13 Ships are Sunk by U.S. Submarine – 7
Back from a Successful Hunt against the Enemy (photo) – 8
The Texts of the Day’s War Communiques – 9-10
‘Wings for Victory’ British Drive’s Aim – 10
The News of the Week in Review
The 1943 Pattern of Allied Air Attacks on “Fortress Europe” (map) – 11
Twenty News Questions – 12
The Course of the Battle for Tunisia (map) – 13
Tide in North Africa Turns Against the Axis (Kluckhohn) – 14
A New Phase Impends in the Southwest Pacific (map) – 15
Japan Masses Forces Off Australia (Durdin) – 16
Answers to Twenty News Questions – 17