[Homer_J_Simpson]

Billboard Top Ten for the Week of May 22, 1943

#1 - “I’ve Heard That Song Before” – Harry James, with Helen Forrest
#2 - “Velvet Moon” - Harry James
#3 – “That Old Black Magic” - Glenn Miller, with Skip Nelson and the Modernaires
#4 - “Taking a Chance on Love” - Benny Goodman, with Helen Forrest
#5 – “Brazil” - Xavier Cugat
#6 – “It Started All Over Again” - Tommy Dorsey, with Frank Sinatra, Pied Pipers
#7 - “Don’t Get Around Much Anymore” - The Ink Spots
#8 - “As Time Goes By” - Jacque Renard, with unknown vocalist
#9 - “As Time Goes By” - Rudy Vallee
#10 – “Murder, He Says” - Dinah Shore

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Record Day in Air (Middleton) – 2
Sinclair Calls Air Victory Short-Cut (MacDonald) – 3
War News Summarized – 3
Nazis Seen Speeding Protection of Other Big Dams from R.A.F. – 4
Attu Foes to Be ‘Liquidated’ if They Fight On, Knox Says (Shalett) – 5
M’Arthur Fliers Destroy 11 Zeros – 5
Yamamoto Death Called Mystery; One Authority Suspects Suicide – 6
Staffs Reach Strategy Decisions; Roosevelt, Churchill Study Them (Lawrence) – 7
Allies’ Next Blow May Hit Axis Isles (Baldwin) * – 8-9
Jews’ Last Stand Felled 1,000 Nazis – 9
Big American Raids Continue in Burma – 9
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on Fighting in Various Zones – 10-12
5 Die in a Mutiny Aboard a U-Boat – 12
Australians Would Grant Air Bases to Us After War Has Ended, Gallup Poll Finds (Gallup) – 12

* This completes Hanson’s 12-part situation report for the European Theater of Operations. He finished with a little speculation as to where the next Allied blow will fall.

[colorado tanker]

Baldwin’s series was outstanding. One of the most perceptive things I have read about the North Africa campaign and general situation at its end. He was very coy about where we go next - today’s Slimes probably would have printed that our next target was Sicily.