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8/13/1942, German Formations Fan Out East & West Along N. Caucasus Foothills Between Caspian & Black Sea, Part 1

8/13/1942, German Formations Fan Out East & West Along N. Caucasus Foothills Between Caspian & Black Sea, Part 2

Map, Eastern Front, May to November 1942, Wikipedia

Map, Southwest Russia, German Advance to Stalingrad, July to November 1942

Map, Caucasus Mountains, Google

8/13/1942, All-Volunteer Navy May Ask for Selective Service Help, Senate Considers Pay-as-You-Go Income Tax

8/13/1942, Riots in India Appear to Be Subsiding, 98 Leaders Arrested, Death Toll During Unrest Reaches 69

8/13/1942, U.S. European HQ Announces U.S. Army Air Forces Have Entered European War on Large Scale for First Time

8/13/1942, U.S. Marines Near Jap Air Base on Guadalcanal, Pacific's Most Savage Fighting So Far in Progress, Part 1

8/13/1942, U.S. Marines Near Jap Air Base on Guadalcanal, Pacific's Most Savage Fighting So Far in Progress, Part 2

Map, Guadalcanal, Google

Map, Pacific Theater, 1942, Limit of Japanese Advance, Wikipedia

Map, Guadalcanal Landings, West Point History Department

8/13/1942, New Income Tax Deduction Tables for Employers

8/13/1942, Stalin for Russia First, But United Nations Should Still Help Russians

8/13/1942, U.S. Airmen & Naval Task Force of Cruisers & Destroyers Raid Jap Encampment at Kiska Island in Aleutians

Map, Kiska Island, Google

8/13/1942, Milwaukee's Blackout Exercise Declared Success, Circling Plane Spots Only Light from War Production Plants

8/13/1942, News Photo, Pretty Blond Helen Mahri to Represent New York in Miss America Contest at Atlantic City

8/13/1942; American Association Race Heats Up; Four Games Separate Blues, Birds, Brews, Millers, Hens, & Colonels

8/13/1942, Baseball Standings & Scoreboard, Beaumont Leads Texas League at 71-50, Fort Worth in 2nd at 71-55

8/13/1942, Wheat Prices Best Since 1929, Farmers Grow Twice as Much as Needed, Uncle Sam Hoards Surplus for Peace

8/13/1942, Allied Bombers Blast Strong Jap Concentrations at Rabaul, Tokyo Reports Large Sea Battle at Close Quarters

Map; Rabaul, New Britain; Google

8/13/1942; Actor Clark Gable Jubilant Over Enlistment as Private in U.S. Army, Wants to Be Aerial Gunner

Actress Carole Lombard, Wife of Clark Gable, Killed in Air Crash After Selling War Bonds; 1/17/1942

8/13/1942; Brooklyn Sailor Describes 1st Round-Trip Voyage, Sails on Murmansk Convoy; Russian A.A. Defends Murmansk

8/13/1942, Germans Massing for Drive on Stalingrad, Dive-Bomber Concentrations Pace Nazis in Caucasus, Part 1

8/13/1942, Germans Massing for Drive on Stalingrad, Dive-Bomber Concentrations Pace Nazis in Caucasus, Part 2

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8/13/1942, Berlin Announces Destruction of Soviet 62nd Army at Don Bend, Russian POWs Captured Reaches 4,908,412

8/13/1942, U.S. Army Heavy Bombers Score Direct Hits on Three Axis Warships in Harbor on West Coast of Greece

8/13/1942, Berlin Radio Reports Rumors of Churchill Reaching Cairo on Return Trip from Moscow Conference with Stalin

8/13/1942, Pope Protests to Petain Against Inhumane Arrests & Deportation of French Jews to Occupied Russia

8/13/1942, Airliner from Marseilles to Algiers Riddled by MG Fire from Four Enemy Fighters, One Killed, Seven Wounded

8/13/1942, Sweden Issues Entry Permits for Elderly German Jews, Swedes Under Pressure from Hitler's "New Order"

8/13/1942, Powerful R.A.F. Squadrons of 500 Bombers Rain High Explosives on Mainz for Second Successive Night

Map, Mainz Germany, Google

8/13/1942, Canadian Icebreaker Montcalm Donated to Russia & Delivered to Murmansk After Surviving German Bombers

8/13/1942, P.C.L. Roundup: Last-Place Portland Beavers Split Twin Bill with First-Place L.A. Angels, Solons Top Oaks

8/13/1942, Major League Baseball Boxscores, Cards Sweep Cubs, French Outduels Melton, Javery Blanks Giants 1-0

8/13/1942, History of the Solomon Islands, Discovered by Spanish Explorers in 1567, Named After Temple in Jerusalem

The Solomon Islands, 11/7/1891

8/13/1942, Pacific Coast Conference Tentatively to Allow Officers to Play Football for St. Mary's Navy Pre-Flight School

8/13/1942, Texas League Last-Place Dallas Rebels Halt 22-Game Skid as Nicholas Blanks League-Leading Beaumont 1-0

8/13/1942, Pacific Coast League Hurler & Workhorse Dick Barrett (21-10) of Seattle Rainiers Completes 26 of 31 Starts

8/13/1942, Where American Boys Are Fighting Today, Western Europe, Mediterranean, S.W. Pacific, China War Front

8/13/1942, Dodgers & Yankees Determined to Save War-Time Transportation Costs by Staging 5¢ Subway World Series

8/13/1942, Japanese Occupiers in Philippines Arrogant & Brutal, Many Filipinos Jobless, Americans Held in Dungeons

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8/13/1942, Allies in Solomons Positioning for Bigger Offensives to Reconquer New Britain, New Guinea, & Philippines

Japanese-Controlled Manila Radio Reports U.S. Surrender in Philippines Complete, 5/8/1942, Part 1

Japanese-Controlled Manila Radio Reports U.S. Surrender in Philippines Complete, 5/8/1942, Part 2

8/13/1942, California Farm Bureau to File Protest Against State Dept.'s Intention to Sign Agricultural Pact with Iran

8/13/1942; Need a Job? Lodi Employment Office Opens 6:15am; Fruit Pickers, Ranch Hands, Laborers, Etc., Needed

8/13/1942, Meeting of 200 Grape Growers in Lodi Passes Unanimous Resolution Urging Gov't to Import Mexican Labor

8/13/1942, Radio Broadcast Schedule for the Northern Central Valley of California

8/13/1942, College Football Officials Issue Rules for Games Ended by Air Raids/Alerts; Leader After Two Quarters Wins

8/13/1942, P.C.C. Officials to Observe Training at St. Mary's Navy Pre-Flight School, Air Devils Add to Football Schedule

St. Mary's California Pre-Flight School Is Toughest of Five New Navy Teams this Fall; 10/20/1942

St. Mary's Navy Pre-Flight Eleven Outlast Santa Clara Broncos 13-6 to Remain Undefeated, 11/23/1942

Unbeaten Stanford Upsets Previously Unbeaten St. Mary's Navy Pre-Flight 28-13; 11/29/1942

P.C.C. Standings, Stanford Indians Bid for Rose Bowl with Rousing Win Over Navy Pre-Flight, 11/30/1942

Stanford Football Is War Casualty, Season Cancelled, Not Enough Able-Bodied Men on Campus, 8/17/1943

Note: There were two football teams at St. Mary's College in 1942 and '43.

Saint Mary's (Ca.) Pre-Flight Air Devils, Sports Reference, College Football

Saint Mary's (Ca.) Gaels, Sports Reference, College Football

8/13/1942, Division of Fish & Game Rescue Over 422,000 Steelhead Trout from Santa Ynez River

8/13/1942; Detroit Restaurant Owner Appeals Hanging Sentence, Convicted of Treason for Helping German POW Escape

8/13/1942, Price Administration Representatives & Eastern Petroleum Distributers Attend Oil Rationing Discussions

8/13/1942, World Reconstruction Program, Allies Must Collaborate for Policing the World Beyond the Peace Table

8/13/1942, Hotel in Clearwater Becomes Army Air Forces Training Center, Curriculum to Be Military Discipline

8/13/1942, Vander Meer 3-Hits Bucs, French Wins 12th, Beazley Wins 13th, Cards Pick Up Half Game on Dodgers, Part 1

8/13/1942, Vander Meer 3-Hits Bucs, French Wins 12th, Beazley Wins 13th, Cards Pick Up Half Game on Dodgers, Part 2

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8/13/1942, Intensification of Fighting Reported 85 Miles S.W. of Stalingrad, Elista in Caucasus Falls to Germans, Part 1

8/13/1942, Intensification of Fighting Reported 85 Miles S.W. of Stalingrad, Elista in Caucasus Falls to Germans, Part 2

Map, Elista, Google

8/13/1942, War Production Chiefs Eying Vast Reservoir of Natural Gas in S.W. Kansas Capable of Supplying War Industry

8/13/1942, Kansas Farmers Plant 859,000 Trees for Forestry Purposes, Red Cedar & Chinese Elm Leading Species

8/13/1942, Kansas Women & Poultry Producers Keep Abundant Supply of Nourishing Food Flowing to U.S. Fighting Men

8/13/1942, World Briefs, Famous French Cartoonist Passes, Portuguese Army Officers Visit Berlin, German Morale Low

8/13/1942, Army Authorizes 500 Individual Post Newspapers for Morale Purposes, Stars & Stripes Newspaper Revived

8/13/1942, Decorated Guerilla Fighter & U.S.S.R. Boxing Champ Exhorts Soviet Youth to Become Pilots, Snipers, Etc.

8/13/1942, American Association Roundup, Last-Place St. Paul Knocks Columbus Out of Lead, Toledo Topples Millers

8/13/1942, Eighty-Year Old College of the Pacific Football Coach Amos Alonzo Stagg Loses Assistant Coach to Army

Stagg at Pacific, 1933-1936

Stagg at Pacific, 1937-1939

Stagg at Pacific, 1940-1942

Stagg at Pacific, 1943-1946

Amos Alonzo Stagg, Wikipedia

Stagg Accepts Job as Head Coach for College of the Pacific, 2/5/1933

Stagg, Warner Now Closing Careers in Minor Grid Leagues; 9/25/1939

Stagg's Unbeaten Pacific to Collide with Unscored-on Southern Cal, Marine Call-Ups Delayed, 10/20/1943

Skagg's Pacific Bows 6-0 to Trojans, Exciting Game, Clipping Call Cancels Pacific T.D., 10/25/1943

Homecoming Week in Chicago for Stagg as Pacific Plays Northwestern Saturday, 10/24/1946

8/13/1942, Parking Meter Revenues Decline 12% in States with Gasoline & Tire Rationing & 5% in Other States

8/13/1942, South African Soldier in Egypt Claims His Small Pet Monkey Warns Him of Approaching Stukas

8/13/1942, American Indians Are on the Warpath, Bureau of Indian Affairs Says Indians Enlist at Highest % of Any Race

8/13/1942; Almost 1,000 New Englanders Leaving in Aug. for Army Flight Training, Will Be Qualified in Eight Months

8/13/1942, Hitler May Have to Consolidate Conquests of Russian Wheat & Oil Fields During Winter as Allies Strengthen

8/13/1942, Boston Braves Manager Casey Stengel Moves Error-Prone Nanny Fernandez from Thirdbase to Outfield

8/13/1942, Dodgers to Send Curt Davis Against Manny Salvo and the Braves in Twilight Contest

8/13/1942, Nashua City Hall Army Recruiting Station Announces Eleven Additional Enlistments in Recent Days

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8/13/1942; German Planes & Subs Intercept Malta-Bound Convoy, Three Aircraft Carriers Hit; Running Battle Underway

8/13/1942, Informed Military Men Believe Japs Still Planning to Attack Siberia, India Invasion on Hold for Monsoon

Note: Stalin had been laying out the heavy guilt trip to his Anglo-U.S. Allies, pressuring for a second front launched in France to divert German forces. He felt the British considered the Soviets as "farmhands." In a recent meeting with Churchill, Stalin accused the Allies of letting the Russians do all of the dying. Churchill countered by pointing out the British had been fighting the Germans long before the Soviets entered the war; Stalin had originally left the British holding the bag. ... The logistics for staging a cross-channel invasion had not yet been solved. To temporarily appease Stalin, the Anglo-U.S. informational services released stories designed to show that the western Allies were drawing German resources away from the Eastern Front. Japan unable to invade Siberia due to Allied Pacific operations would have qualified as a second-front contribution. ... However, Stalin knew from intelligence sources that, even before Pearl Harbor, Japan had decided on southward expansion. In fact, the Red Army had deterred Japan's Siberia ambitions in the late '30s by steamrolling overextended Japanese positions in Manchuria. (Overconfidence from easy Soviet victories against Japan contributed to Stalin's disastrous decision to invade Finland in late 1939.)

Soviets, Japan Prepare to Battle; Thousands of Troops Rushed to Manchuria; 4/5/1932

Tokyo Reports Clashes with Soviets in Siberia, 8/1/1938, Part 1

Tokyo Reports Clashes with Soviets in Siberia, 8/1/1938, Part 2

Soviets & Japanese Trade Artillery Fire in Siberian Border Dispute, 8/2/1938

Japanese Warplanes Launch Mass Dawn Surprise Attack on Soviet Concentrations in Outer Mongolia, 6/27/1939

Japanese & Russians Engaged in Fierce Battle in Mongolia, Heavy Casualties on Both Sides, 8/31/1939

Soviet Land & Air Offensive 'Liquidates' Japanese Army Expedition into Outer Mongolia, 9/1/1939

8/13/1942, Late Bulletins, U.S. Marines Entrenched on Solomons Beachheads, Nazis Threaten Executions in Holland

8/13/1942, Dies Committee to Present F.D.R. with 17,000 Names of Nazi Sympathizers, Strict Surveillance Suggested

8/13/1942, Major League Baseball Results, Cards Lead Cubs 3-1 After 3 Innings, Indians Edge Tigers 3-2

8/13/1942; U.S. Causalities in WWII: 4,801 Killed in War, 36,124 Missing; 30,000 Civilians Killed in Work Accidents

8/13/1942, Two U.S. Army Training Planes (BT-13s) Crash Separately Near Wasco, Two Cadets & Instructor Killed

Photo, BT-13 Trainer, Wikipedia

8/13/1942, Former Cal Football Star Ensign Harry Lieb Killed in Naval Airplane Crash Near Jacksonville

8/13/1942, Dept. of Labor Releases Bulletin: "Hazards to Women Employed in War Plants on Abrasive-Wheel Jobs"

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