Time The Weekly News Magazine Volume XXXIX Number 14 April 6, 1942 hd Back Cover Missing, Repaired

Luce, Henry R., et al

Published by Time & Life, New York, 1942

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Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 88. Fully illustrated with b-w halftones &tc. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. Weekly Timeline: The Eastern Sea Frontier, desperately short on suitable escort vessels after the Destroyers for Bases Agreement, institutes an interim arrangement known as the "Bucket Brigaid," wherein vessels outside of protected harbors are placed in anchorages protected by netting after dark, and move only under whatever escort is available during the day. As word of this and similar measures reaches Dönitz, he does not wait to test their effectiveness, but instead shifts his U-boats to the area controlled by the Gulf Sea Frontier, where American anti-submarine measures are not as effective. As a result, in May more ships will be sunk in the Gulf, many of them off the Passes of the Mississippi, than off of the entire Eastern Seaboard. 2: Over 24,000 sick and starving troops (American and Filipino) are now trapped on the Bataan Peninsula. Japanese make landings on New Guinea, most importantly at Hollandia. 3: Japanese forces begin an all-out assault on United States and Filipino troops in Bataan. Sustained Japanese air attacks on Mandalay in Burma. 4: Germans plan "Baedeker raids" on touristy or historic British sites, in revenge for the Lübeck bombing. The Japanese Navy attacks Colombo in Ceylon. Royal Navy heavy cruisers HMS Cornwall and HMS Dorsetshire are sunk southwest of the island. Adolf Hitler issues Directive No. 41, outlining his plans for the coming summer offensive in Russia. The main offensive is directed to seize the Russian oil fields in the Caucasus; a secondary thrust is to capture Stalingrad and protect the flank of the main advance.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Time The Weekly News Magazine Volume XXXIX Number 14 April 6, 1942 hd Back Cover Missing, Repaired
• Publisher: Time & Life, New York
• Publication Date: 1942
• Binding: Paperbound
• Condition: Back Cover Missing, Repaired
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  • History World War II