April 15, 1942

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4/15/1942; Roosevelt Confident in Defeating Axis, but Warns It Will Take Two or Three Years to Ensure Civilization's Survival

4/15/1942; Japan's Next Aim, India or Australia? Needed Shipping Questionable for Both Operations … Map, S.E. Asia, Google

4/15/1942, War Dept. Reports U.S. Forts Along Manila Bay Under Constant Shelling from Japanese … Map, Manila Bay, Google

4/15/1942, British Stage Stubborn Retreat from Prome Burma; Many Units Fight to Last Man … Map, Prome Burma, Google

4/15/1942, Map of Burma Front … 4/15/1942, Map, Japanese Pressure in Burma Increases; Hard Fighting Along 35-Mile Front

4/15/1942, Allied Convoy of Tanks & Planes Fights Way to Murmansk Opposed by German Bombers … Map, Murmansk, Google

4/15/1942, Photo, Dressed for Russian Winter; British Seaman en Route to Russia Wears New Fur-Lined Visor & Mask

4/15/1942, Heavy Fighting Reported Along Eastern Front as Red Army Launches Spirited Offensives … Map, Europe, Wikipedia

4/15/1942, Marshal Timoshenko's Forward Troops Force Deep Breach in German Lines North of Kharkov … Battle of Kharkov

4/15/1942, British Merchant Ship (Carrying Refugees from Far East) Torpedoed & Sunk off Atlantic Coast by Unseen U-Boat

4/15/1942, Photo, U.S. Troops Rode in "Jeep" Bearing White Flag Surrendering Bataan to Nipponese … Map, Bataan, Google

4/15/1942, Washington Reports Communications with Cebu Island Cut Off … Map; Cebu, P.I.; Google … … Japan, 1923-1936

4/15/1942, Japanese Army Planes & Naval Units Bombard U.S./Filipino Military Positions on Corregidor Island, Part 1 … Part 2

Map, Corregidor, Google … 4/15/1942, Gen. Homma Thanks Troops for Heroism During Occupation of Bataan, Part 1 … Part 2

4/15/1942; R.A.F. Targets Industrial Ruhr, N. Italy, & Occupied Europe; Ten Bombers Missing … Map, Ruhr Region, Google

4/15/1942; List of 88 Men Newly Enlisted at Regional Army, Navy, & Marine Recruiting Stations … Map, Pittsburgh Pa., Google

4/15/1942, Fayette County Draftees Inducted & Sent to New Cumberland Reception Center … Map, Fayette County Pa., Google

Map, New Cumberland Pa., Google … … 4/15/1942, Wilmerding Mother Mrs. John Stevenson Sees News Photo of Son at Bataan

Map, Wilmerding Pa., Google … 4/15/1942, Photo, Mom Points to Front-Page Photo of Son Jack Stevenson, "There's My Boy"

4/15/1942, Ashburton Public Hospital Increases Admissions from 1,346 to 1,524 in One Year … Map, Ashburton N.Z., Google

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4/15/1942; Germany Is Public Enemy No. 1, but Russia Not Only Country Threatened by Axis; Britain Stretched too Thin

4/15/1942, Allied Patrols See Action Against Axis Artillery & Tanks South of Gazala Libya … Map, Gazala & Vicinity, Wikipedia

4/15/1942, Germans Begin Using Multi-Seat Night Fighters Equipped with Radio Location to Detect Position of Raiding R.A.F.

4/15/1942, Malta Raided by 150 Axis Planes; A.A. Batteries in Continuous Action; Three German Aircraft Shot Down

Map, Malta, Google … 4/15/1942; British Tax Revenues Exceed Expectations, but Total Cost of War Up; Lease-Lend Act Vital

4/15/1942, Filipino Evacuees Return to Burned-Out Towns After Japanese Occupation of Bataan … Map, Bataan, Google

4/15/1942, Temporarily Released Hostile (Filipino) Nationals Must Register with Japanese Concentration Camp Office

4/15/1942, American Public Strong in Desire for Professional Sports During War According to Poll as Baseball Season Starts

Democratic America Opens Big-League Baseball Season Today; Yanks Favored to Win in Baseball & on Battlefield, 4/14/1942

4/15/1942; Sir Waldron Smithers to Move in Parliament, "House" Expresses "Deep Sympathy" for Russian POWs in Germany

Molotov Details Atrocities Against Red Army Prisoners, 11/28/1941 … Berlin Denies Brutalities Against POWs, 11/28/1941

4/15/1942, Japanese Forces Thrusting Fiercely for Burmese Oil Fields of Yenangyaung … Map, Yenangyaung, Google

4/15/1942, British Destroyers Escort Damaged Troopship (Stalked by U-Boats) Safely to Gibraltar … Map, Gibraltar, Google

4/15/1942, Missouri Ag Yields Boom, Value Goes from $180 Million in 1940 to $232 Million in 1941 … Map, Missouri, Google

4/15/1942, R.A.F. Fighters Pound Nazi-Held European Coast in 24-Hour Offensive Launched by British & Canadian Airmen

4/15/1942, Industry & Defense Labor Needs Reduce Worker Rolls of Kansas Works Projects Admin. … Map, Kansas, Google

4/15/1942, Missing (& Declared Dead) Simcoe Postmaster Returns & Reports for Army Enlistment … Map, Simcoe, Google

4/15/1942, Hitler Eying Caucasus Oil; Russians Still Hold Sebastopol (Now Under Fierce Siege) … Map, S.W. Russia, Wikipedia

4/15/1942, Congress Looks at Funding Construction for 100 Submarines; U.S. Navy Had 186 Operational Subs in Oct.

4/15/1942; Saskatchewan Is Selling More Beef, but Shortage Could Develop Due to Demand … Map, Saskatchewan, Google

4/15/1942, Yanks & Dodgers Hog Spotlight with Relentless Precision on Baseball's Opening Day; Only 153 Games to Go

4/15/1942, Assistant A.G. Thurman Arnold in U.C. Berkeley Lecture Says Postwar Recession Only a Phobia, Part 1 … Part 2

4/15/1942, Berkeley Sets Tax-Filing Record; Tax Man Swamped … Map, Berkeley Ca., Google … … Map, New Zealand, Google

4/15/1942, Life in the Army; N.Z. Gov't Policy; Medical Officer's Duties; Conditions in Camps; Sick Parade at 7:am

4/15/1942, Pres. Vargas of Brazil Hopes to Develop World's Largest Jungle for Economic Exploitation … Map, Brazil, Google

Map, Washington State, Google … 4/15/1942, State Tax Commission Reports $610,228 Collected from Pinball & Slot Machines

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4/15/1942, Japanese Pour Artillery from Bataan Hills into Corregidor; Only Handful of U.S. Troops Left; Supplies Cut Off

Map, Corregidor, Google … Map, Corregidor, Wikipedia … Siege of Corregidor, Ibiblio, HyperWar … Map, Cebu, Google

4/15/1942, U.S. Fire from Corregidor Sinks Jap Boats; Contact Lost with Cebu … Photo, U.S. Rotatable Mortar, Wikipedia

4/15/1942, Japs Landing Large Forces on Cebu; Half of P.I. Archipelago (7,000 Islands) Still Remains Free of Invasion

4/15/1942; Heavy Fighting on Cebu, Communications Reestablished, Japs Advance; Corregidor Shelled from Two Sides

4/15/1942, Six Russian Divisions Without Regard for Losses Break into German Lines … Map, Eastern Front, Wikipedia

4/15/1942, Vichy-Washington Break Imminent Possibility; Germans to Oversee French N. Africa … Map, Vichy, Wikipedia

4/15/1942, Germans Pressure France; Vichy Unlikely to Yield French Fleet to Germans; Eastern Front Needs Troops

4/15/1942, British Report Skirmishes in Libya; German Column Ambushed Near Temrad … Satellite View, Temrad, Google

4/15/1942, Manila Office of City Treasury Reminds Taxpayers April 30 Is Last Day for Payment; Avoid Crowds, Pay Early

4/15/1942, Life in Occupied Poland, Guerilla Warfare, Brutal Deportations, Systematic Starvation, 70,000 Persons Shot

4/15/1942, Iran Breaks with Japan; Japs Ordered Out of Tehran for Paying Nazi Agents … Map, Tehran Iran, Google

4/15/1942, Japanese Fall Back in China's N. Chekiang Sector … Map, Chekiang, Google … Map, China, Emerson Kent

4/15/1942, Admiral Land Outlines U.S. Emergency Shipbuilding Expansion; Original 500-Ship Plan Increased to 1,600

4/15/1942, R.A.A.F & U.S. Planes Intercepted by Zeros During Raid on Lae New Guinea … Map, Lea New Guinea, Google

4/15/1942, Spitfire Accidently Strafes Group of British Soldiers at Imberdown Wiltshire During Training Exercise

Map, Imberdown England, Google … 4/15/1942, Numerous German Deserters Reportedly Hiding in Forests of Poland

4/15/1942, Greece Suffers 5x Death Rate Above Normal; Food & Medicine Lacking; Epidemics Spread with Intensity

Map, Greece, Google … Hitler Launches Balkans Blitz, 4/9/1941 … Battle of Crete, 5/29/1941 … Map, Crete, Google

4/15/1942, Activity in N. Africa Confined to No-Man's Land; British Mobile Units Engage Axis Columns in Dust Storms

4/15/1942, Spring Is Here; War Seems Remote; Few Autos; Numerous Trains, Trucks, & Busses; Soldiers Thumb Rides

4/15/1942, Wartime Baseball Opens; Yanks' Ruffing Checks Washington 7-0; Colorful Ceremonies, V.P. Wallace 1st Pitch

4/15/1942, Dodgers Stop Giants to Open Defense of '41 Crown, Allen Saves Win, 42,653, La Guardia Tosses 1st Pitch

4/15/1942, Selective Service Reclassifies Brooklyn's Pete Reiser 1-A … … Dodgers Clinch, 9/26/1941, Part 1 … Part 2

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Planning on spamming the entire site with your index of your topics?

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I posted the Index link at the end of several topics for navigational purposes.

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I posted the Index link at the end of several topics for navigational purposes.

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You're spamming the site for several topics you want us to peruse rather than for us to decide what topics we want to see, read, comment on.

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Actually, you guys at the Axis History Forum in general are the experts. My posts are only supplementary and cumulative.

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