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...York Herald Tribune's London Correspondent Geoffrey Parsons Jr. cabled his paper: "Americans in Great Britain . . . blushed with embarrassment this morning when London papers reprinted the headlines of several New York evening papers . . . 'U.S. AND BRITISH INVADE FRANCE' . . . 'TANKS AND U.S. TROOPS SMASH AT FRENCH COAST.' All these headlines are outrageous exaggerations of the role American troops played. . . . Actually, not more than several score of American Rangers went along and, although they performed gallant and dangerous jobs, they played a minor role...
They might risk a final smash at Alaska, at the northwestern U.S., at Australia, India or Soviet Asia. But they could no longer nurse any one or all of these plans with the freedom of aggressors; they now had to allow for Allied attacks everywhere in the Pacific...
...second night Japanese cruisers and destroyers tried to smash the invasion fleet. Then came what U.S. tars had long prayed for: the first real, gun-to-gun test of U.S. and Japanese surface seapower. Result: a licking for the Japs. The Navy said that U.S. cruisers and destroyers kept the Japs well away from the transports, finally forced the whole Jap fleet to retreat. Both sides took their losses; the Navy's cryptic account indicated only that they were heavy, that the Japanese had not dared another test of surface strength. The Navy calmly left others to infer that...
...Caucasus-but not yet great enough to make 1942 Hitler's big year. Russian losses had been staggering-the last of the Donets Basin industrial area, control of the River Don, some of the oil and most of the wheat of the Caucasus-but not heavy enough to smash the Red Army. On the thunderous, smoky southern front the chips were still on the table...
...blond Burl Ives was already a very busy soldier. In nine shows each week he mugged, sang, cavorted in the smash hit This Is The Army (TIME, July 13). Each morning he drilled with the rest of the cast on a vacant lot in Manhattan. Two mornings a week (Sundays 8:45 a.m., Thursdays 9:30 a.m. E.W.T.) his strumming guitar and his warm tenor voice plugged the Army show over CBS. He took the daily Jive stint happily in stride...