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...troops have scored a 200 yard advance in one sector of the north Stalingrad factory area but they have been slaughtered to the last man in another sector and their losses for one day inside the city totaled more than 12 companies of infantry--2,400 men--the High Command announced today...
...vacillation in India, nor Franklin Roosevelt rebuke his own appointees for faulty administration of Lease-Lend. Complaints from Joseph Stalin or Chiang Kai-shek would have been dismissed as "Communist" or "Oriental" gripings. But when the titulary leader of the opposition party speaks his mind so candidly, his works command attention and respect...
...General Vandegrift, who can be seen in the evenings stretched out meditatively in a canvas deck chair in front of his heavily fly-sprayed cabin, has been cool, softspoken, crafty, hard and wonderfully cheerful. The Air Commander . . . wears his cigar and chooses his tactics with a jaunty air. The colonels who command Marine regiments and battalions lie in coral-crusted mud with their men, dodge the soprano-chattering Jap 25-caliber guns. . . . A private, a wire-stringer, carried a heavy steel spool of telephone wire eight miles up & down 60° slopes. . . . There are great squads of anonymous heroes. . . . Perhaps...
...Solomons campaign one more example of the still-divided U.S. command in the Pacific? (General MacArthur is responsible for attacking Rabaul; Vice Admiral Ghormley for Guadalcanal, 700 miles to the south...
MOSCOW--German assault troops captured two streets in the factory area of North Stalingrad Sunday while a Russian relief army hearing down from the northwest swept through an inhabited locality and seized a stronghold where 2,000 German dead were found lying in trenches and dugouts, the High Command announced today...