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Auchinleck

série:	2nd WW Afrika Korps
éditeur:	Time Magazine
auteur:	Collectif
classement:	dossier723A
année:	1941
format:	broché
état:	TBE
valeur:	20 €
critère:	**
remarques:	national affairs 1) the occupation of Dutch Guiana by the US to protect the bauxite mines furnishing 60% of the aluminium manufacture of the USA (exchanged against Manhattan from the British 1667) 2) USA warning Japan that they are surely on Hitler's list before America, meanwhile negotiations with Japan are being carried on 3) aid to Iceland, the US will pay in dollars all fish and fish oil supplied to Great Britain 4) dismissal of general Weygand by French Vichy which might cause to break diplomatic relations between France and USA world war 1) strategy: Caucasus, Iran, Irak and Syria may well prove to be the great battlefields of 1942 2) battle of the desert - the British offensive (Crusader) will be a turning point, the Mediterranean fleet has stopped about half of the supply ships headed for Tripoli and Benghazi, there are already some US planes fighting with the British (such as Tomahawks and even a few high-Flying Fortresses - description of Auchinleck (the AUK) and of the three Cunningham commanders (land, sea and air) 3) battle of Russia the Germans still achieved no progress in front of Moscow but Rostov had been occupied 4) death of Ernst Udet, the ace with nine lives who belonged to the famous Richthofen's flying circus, Udet was the inventor of the deadly Stukas and death of Werner Mölders, the ace pilot, in a crash when returning from Udet's funerals! 5) France's dismissed general Weygand, his biography 6) Stalin = a nice old gentleman and his invitation to a US team (a 7 hour 10-course meal!) 7) Rosenberg becomes minister of the East (Ukraine and Ostland being Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and White Russia) and is surnamed: the Jew Gobbler (= dévoreur de juifs), - biography of Alfred Rosenberg who hates communists and Jews 8) the situation in Italy - a population that is more afraid of a German victory than of a British - and with a very poor army equipment >> quite a good magazine stating major events end of 1941
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