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...Japanese landed in Sarawak, on the wild and oily island of Borneo. So far this was only a holding attack on Singapore's flank; it might eventually develop into a quest for oil, but the British reported that they had already destroyed the wells in the region threatened by the Japanese...
...first Japanese landings would be established in Washington and Oregon. Their focus would be the rocky, grey, low land around Grays Harbor, where the Wynoochee, Chehalis, Wishkah and Humptulips Rivers have scooped out the best natural pass inland. Centering on Centralia and Chehalis, the invaders would throw their left flank toward Seattle, their right toward Portland. They would seize the passes in the Baker-Rainier-Hood chain and sit tight...
...Germans had advanced on Rostov in a narrow column, the left flank of which was insufficiently secured. Marshal Timoshenko drove down on the flank, then hit it head-on and sent it running. Before long the Russians claimed that the Germans' 14th and 16th Tank Divisions, 60th Motorized Division and two SS "Viking" Divisions had been pursued to Taganrog, 40 miles west of Rostov; that they were running for Mariupol, 65 miles farther west...
Consequently, when Oscar Griswold went after his slippery adversary, there was little up his sleeve but determination. The Rolling Fourth plowed into Drum's center, inflicting heavy "casualties" and slowing up the Blue advance. The First Armored swung to the west and plowed into Drum's flank. The Second went around the other end. In the center and on the flanks a Donnybrook Fair began...
...Russian side there was some doubt about the imminence of the attack on the Caucasus. It seemed more reasonable to guess that the Germans would first drive straight across to the Volga, perhaps at Stalingrad, thereby isolating the Caucasus and protecting the German flank for its drive south. If such was the program, it was not likely that the Caucasus would suffer attack for some time...