The Ely miner., 1942-12-31
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January

January
Hitler takes command of retreating Nad
army on~MoScow front.
2-Manila falls to Japs.
12-Dutch East Indies invaded by Japanese:
MacArthur's men again hurl enemies
back on Luzon.
19-Japs take Burma port Tauoy.
23-Australia calls on u. S. for help.
25-Dutch. and Yanks take toll of 80 Jap
ships in Macassar strait.
26-U. s. AEF lands in North Ireland
3l-Malaya falls-Japs drive on for Singa.
pore.
February
3-Nazis rush air and tank reinforcements
70 southern Russia battlefront.
+AEF speeds aid to Far East Allies.
.6-hey oil town in Borneo captured by Japs.
11aItlerS fest eSeaPes from ron Brest to Kiel
16-Dutch destroy 100-million-dollar oil fields
in Sumatra.
5Eirst Jap Dombng .ang Sf Da5Mtn Australia
land on Timor island.
2l-U. S.-Dutch air feet sink or damage 10
2s-srftish chutists and Commands raid
France.
March. -
II-JJaps unload 50 transports on Java.
7-Japs invade New Guinea at two sectors.
1tYANKS LAND NJ AUSTRALIA.
1l-maCATIlur ana dlQeS escape 1TOIn Fnllp-
pines, land in Australia.
19-Jap invasion feet heading for Australia
smashed by Allies.
off Jap capital
27-Chinese smash Burma trap. relieve re-
treating British.
29-British Commands wreck Nazi-held st.
Nazaire port
April
1-Hand.to-hand fighting with Japs on Ba.
Navy admits three u S. warships sunk
s-Axs desert forces move against British
s-BATAAN FALLS ss. 900 U. S. SOL
DIERS TAKEN PRISONERS.
Sae ssas pIemr IsreX g spancs fGaeses
16-RAF blitz on German industrial centers
roars into fifth day.
1s-T0Kge ToKYe BOMBED BY U. S. AIR
22-cOmmandos raid France at Boulogne.
so-RAF again bombs Paris industries.
Nav
HITLER. Mussolini meet at salzburg. leave
5-Brftish. backed by U. S.. occupy NADIA.
-coRREGIDoR FALLS TO THE JAPs:
1000 U. S; TROOPS SURRENDER.
ships in southwest Pacific.
25-Allied plane sinks Axis sub off Brazil.
27-Nais launch terrific Libyan attack.
June
1-Nazs trapped in Libyan desert: Jap
Mai city Of Essen smashed by 1000
4-Dutch Harbor. Alaska. bombed twice by
5-ysps attack Midway island.
6-U; S. navy smashes Jap feet at Midway
1o-British announce $3.50 casualties dur
ing first two years of war ending Sep
&c, 1863 wounded.
12-yapanese land in .Aleutians, Kiska har-
Dor named by U. S. dispatches.
21-Tob-uk, British stronghold, held since
January p. 1s41. surrenders to Nazi des-
25-Rommei drives go miles into Egypt;
British abandon Solum. Sidi Omar.
July
1-Germans capture Sevastopol after eight.
e-U. S.-made General Grant tanks battle
NaZis in African war.
8-Nad 35,OOO-ton ship Tfrpitz. torpedoed
1s-Soviets place German losses for period,
sss.eoo Of their own killed in action
19-German drive eastward to Stalingrad,
and southeastward to Rostov, slowed by
Soviets; S.; RAE RAE. and Russians bomb Ber.
23-One of the largest U. s. conveys (the
fifth to cross Atlantic reaches North
Ireland.
26-U. S. pilots in action over France flying
British Spitfires One American-piloted
Spitfre shot down by Nazis.
N-Russians admit Rostov, gateway to Cau-
casus, falls after evacuation of troops.
31-According to u. S. naval official, 10, 900
Jap soldiers stationed in the Aleutians.
August
10-Marines land in Solomons. Navy raids
Jap Kiska positions In Aleutians.
A-German military begins march on Stall
ingrad.
19-Ten thousand Allied troops, mostly Ca.
nadians, supported by British Comman.
dos and few score u. S. Rangers raid
Dieppe, France, for nine hours. Casu-
alties heavy on both sides. Overhead
1000 British planes engage the enemy.
21-Japs attempt to retake Solomon island
positions. Repelled by u. S. marines
22-Fifteen Jugoslav guerrilla planes bomb
Axis garrison and Nazi troop columns
west Of Belgrade.
September
3-U s. pilots down German Focke-Wulf
bomber near Iceland. report U. S. mill.
tary authorities.
4ELieut. Gen. StilwelPs headquarters in
Chungking announces that bomb loaded
U: S. fighters hit Japs in five different
China zones.