Documente Academic
Documente Profesional
Documente Cultură
JANUARY 8 T H ,
FLIGHT
24
IN
THE
FRENCH
AIR
1942
INDO C H I N A
SAIGON
Victorious Russia
r\N
t h e Moscow front the Germans
^ - ' h a v e suffered a h e a v y defeat. They
are not routed, b u t t h e y are in retreat
over country which offers no hopeful
line of resistance, suffering terribly
from t h e cold, and o u t n u m b e r e d in
the air. Troops were brought up from
Cracow, it is said, by air in a vain
a t t e m p t t o stem the Russian advance. I t is reckoned t h a t up to 50
per eent. of their fighter strength has
been withdrawn to F r a n c e to meet the
British sweeps, while of late t h e y have
been massing bombers in Greece,
Crete and Sicily, no d o u b t hoping t o
check General Auchinleck's advance
before the whole of Italian Libya is
lost and the British forces advance up
to the boundaries of French Tunisia.
No wonder t h a t Hitler's New Year
message to the German people was
pitched in a minor key and contained
something like -a prayer t h a t Germ a n y might be saved in the coming
/ear.
.Stiff fighting has continued round
J e \ a b v a , where General Rommel ha-
SCALE IN MILES
In the Pacific
o<\ \<&\