Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-27
Offensive on All Fronts

are admittedly not great.
Offensive on All Fronts
On seven fronts in the four main
theaters Of the conflict, the United
Nations arc on the march offen-l
sively as 1912 recedes into history.
Nowhere throughout all the far
flung sectors OF combat is the
enemy calling the turn OF battle.
The year 1912 can be epitomized
as the year in which the Axis put
It's best foot forward but lost the
initiative 10 the Allies.
That Italy already has COM
menced To crack cannot be doubted.
With American and British troops
pounding in from west and east
on the last Axis bridgeheads in
Africa. that great continent is
Shaping swiftly out OF Hitler'sl
From the-east the leeiens
Russia are hsmmering ever wider
holes into the bulk OF Germany'sl
armies and those Of her satellites.
From Britain on the west the
bomber hosts OF America and the
Raj day after day. night after
night. lay waste the war factories
and airdromes, the railroads and
harbors that sustain the Nazii
fuehrer's military machine from
the North Sea TO the Mediter-
ranean.
Always tighter the Allies draw
their ring OF steel and fire around
what Hitler has chosen 10 call his
European fortress" II is not too
much 10 expect that before 1913
Is many months old that fortress
vii be stormed by the land forces
Of the United States and Britain
Gom the British Springboard and
Pom the invasion platform the
Allies are now setting up along
the North African shores
Fierce Battles to Come
The battles Of l943 promise TO
surpass those Of the dying year in
fcrocity and magnitude. Yet 1912
Itself produced events which in
scale and significance eclipsed
those Of the year before The out /
standing war developments of the
past year may be listed as follows:
Creation OF the United Ma
tons coalition on the very !
first day OF 1912. only "a days
after the United States had been |
plunged into the war by Japan's |
attack
DIT. Gen. Dwight D. Essen !
hower's landings in French !
Morocco and Algeria on Novem- |
Der s. launching the preliminary !
stages Of the second front"
2-The battle OF Stalingrad |
greatest single military en-
Tagement in history. which /
sealed the failure of Adolf Hit /
Ter 10 shstter the Red Army and
turn his undivided military al |
tention to Britain and America. Il
,i-The United States drive into |
r the Guadalcanal-Tulagi area
Of the southeast Solomons on /
August z. opening the wars first
United Nations offensive any
where in the Pacific.
Defeat of Rommel
S-The defeat of Field Marshal
~ Erwin Rommels Afrika
korps by the British Eighth
Army in November and the Axis
retreat from Egypt across Libya.
lifting the enemy menace from
Alexandria and the SueZ Canal.
c-Japan's conquest OF the
~ Philippines. the Netherlands
Fast Indies. Malaga and Burma
and the japanese landings on
the islands above Australia and
In the Aleutians in the first half
of the year.
1.-THE sea and air battles Of
the Coral Sea. Midway and
The Solomons waters which re-
suited in restoration Of the bal
ance Of naval power in the
southwest Pacific To America. II
removed the immediate peril 10
Hawaii and protected the north
ern flank of the supply route 10
Australia.
S-Gen. Douglas MacArthur's
q defeat Of the Japanese on
New Guinea Island in the au-
tumn, making the second United
Nations offensive in the Pacific
and alternating the closest
enemy menace 10 Australia.
Re-entry Into Burma
A-Gen. Sir Archibald p. Wa
Wells re-entry OF Burma in
december, setting the stage for
a third Allied Far Eastern Of
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