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...Navy's communiqué was a model of frankness, a relatively complete and orderly account. It was also proof that the Navy's crack COMINCH, Admiral Ernest Joseph King, had determined to make an honest effort to give the people the facts of battle. The Navy told the bad (or most of it) with the good. But there was more good than...
...returned from Africa, the Army released a communiqué on American participation in the Libyan battle, which Lodge later described to the officers and men at Fort Knox. Said he: "The men who went over from this force were the equal of anything they encountered in the desert. They came out with three tanks, and they left nine less to chase them. The tank that you call the M-3 is the match of anything in the world...
Japan is still at India's door. The R.A.F. sharply reminded India's sahibs and indifferent millions of this fact last week. A communiqué reported that in 46 days R.A.F. planes had dropped 100 tons of bombs on Japanese troop and supply concentrations moving into northern Burma, near the mountainous but by no means inpregnable,* border of India...
Near Leningrad the news was equally bad for Russia. Berlin and Moscow communiqués, conflicting in detail, made one fact all too clear: Field Marshal Georg von Keuchler had smashed a Russian effort to drive a deep salient into the Nazi forces around the city, to compel them eventually to lift their siege. Berlin said that the Germans had destroyed the Russians' Second Shock Army; Moscow declared that the army was saved, admitted in effect that its effort to relieve Leningrad and forestall a summer offensive in the north had failed...
Last week, for the first time since Dec. 7, Alaska's handful of 10?, six-page dailies were permitted to regularly print official U.S. Navy communiqu...