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...enemy base is being built to compensate for the loss of Buna and Gona, the Wahoo had made a find. Anchored in a narrow inlet of Mushu Island was a Japanese destroyer. The Wahoo's first torpedoes, fired at long range, missed. The destroyer weighed anchor, bore down on the submarine. Once more the Wahoo launched a torpedo. This time the shot went home, blasted the destroyer in half...
Three Austrian deserters bore witness to the ferocity of fighting on both sides. They reported that U.S. planes had reduced three of their companies by 65%, said that it was their worst experience since the Russian winter...
...failed in their chief attempt to break through and save their Stalingrad army, Correspondent Kerr traced the history of Axis disaster. In a park which the Germans had made a cemetery when Kotelnikov was securely theirs, the German graves lay between neat rows of bricks, and wooden crosses, bore the name, birth date and rank of each soldier. Then there were shallow graves, marked rudely and in haste. On the battlefields outside the town, the German bodies rotted where they had fallen...
Franco's threat bore the Axis stamp and perhaps foreshadowed Axis strategy. Whether Washington's recent diplomacy -kind words to Franco from President Roosevelt, loans, trade pacts-had come utterly to naught remained to be seen. U.S. relations with Franco were as cloudy, and perhaps as expedient, as those with Admiral Darlan. But U.S. and British military men took no chances...
...early to tell what relation Montgomery's advance bore to Lieut. General Dwight David Eisenhower's campaign in the west. It might have been designed to relieve Eisenhower by forcing the Germans to divide their strength between Tunisia and Tripolitania...