[Homer_J_Simpson]

Union For a Test – 2-3
The Mine Union’s Letter – 2
Allies Lost Million Tons Net of Shipping in ’42, Says Knox – 3
First Army Gains (Middleton) – 4-5
War News Summarized – 5
Aid to Russia Gluts Iran Artery; Flow of U.S. Supplies Taxes Port (by Clyde Farnsworth and George Tucker, first-time contributors) – 6
Year More Needed to Equip Our Army, Somervell Says – 7
Something Fast for a General Who Travels Fast (photo) * – 8
Need for Balance (Krock) – 9
The Texts of the Day’s War Communiques – 10-11

* See April 11 excerpt from Ike: An American Hero, by Michael Korda (reply #3).

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1943/apr1943/f28apr43.htm

Panzers counterattack in Tunisia
Wednesday, April 28, 1943 www.onwar.com

German troops sleeping in the desert at night [photo at link].

In Tunisia... The German 8th Panzer Regiment counterattacks the British forces that have occupied Djebel Bou Aoukaz. American forces make some gains in “Mousetrap Valley.”

In the Atlantic... Convoy ONS-5 is attacked by 51 U-boats over the course of a following week (April 28-May6th). It loses 13 ships (out of 42) but 7 U-boats are sunk, 5 are seriously damaged and 12 are slightly damaged. This is considered a successful rate of exchange for the Allied convoys.