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...communiqué from Adolf Hitler's field headquarters boasted of 151 ships sunk with a tonnage of 1,029,000. A me-too Rome broadcast claimed that Italian submarines have accounted for 71,700 tons...
...troops and some equipment had arrived in Australia (see p. 20). The first ebullient unofficial accounts made these forces out to be strong, mightily equipped, perhaps enough to make a real difference in the battle for Australia. The Army's communiqué spoke only of "considerable numbers," gave no exact information as to strength. But if the Japs should enter Australia this week, they would find, on a slightly larger scale, the story of Java, where a few U.S. bombers had too little fighter protection, where a few hundred artillerymen were the sole ground troops...
...seven consecutive days before General Douglas MacArthur left Corregidor, the War Department's Philippine communiqués had a pleasant, unchanging sameness. U.S. scouting units continued to harass enemy communications. A Japanese cruiser fired several shells into the port of Cebu, but the slight damage inflicted hardly made the effort worthwhile. Another Jap division was landed at Mindanao, south of Luzon. Somehow-the means were not disclosed-a 3,000-ton enemy tanker was sunk. Otherwise, all was quiet in the Philippines...
During the winter, with quick, massed attack impossible, the porcupines were very hard to take and, as long as they resisted, Russian advances around or between them were vulnerable. The Russians found that guerrilla warfare between the quills of the porcupine was the best striking method. Russian communiqués, with nice understatement, referred to the quills as "inhabited localities...
...German communiqués admitted strategic withdrawals...