Foe on Indies Isle (Peters) – 2-3
Nazi Post is Seized (Post) – 3-4
The War Summarized – 4
Kimmel and Short will Stand Trial; Date is Undecided – 5
Nazi Planes Fail to Break Red Trap – 5
Extinction Feared by Jews in Poland – 6
Pearl Harbor Raid as Seen by a Nun – 7
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on Fighting in Various Zones – 9-11
Detroiters in Riot on Negro Project – 11
The News of the Week in Review
Twelve Strategic Steps in the Japanese Drive (map) – 12
Twenty News Questions – 13
Submarine War Again Rising in Seriousness (Hurd) – 14-15
“The Red Army’s Aim is to Liberate Soviet Soil from the Invaders” (map) – 16
German Power is Sapped as Red Army Drives On (Brigham) – 17
Japan Holds Up Her End of Axis (by Henry C. Wolfe, first time contributor) – 18
Answers to Twenty News Questions – 19
http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1942/mar42/f01mar42.htm
Allied forces on move in Burma
Sunday, March 1, 1942 www.onwar.com
The “Flying Tigers”In Burma... The Chinese 5th Army moves into position at Toungoo on the Sittang River, 150 miles from Rangoon. The “Flying Tigers” volunteer air force under the command of Chennault’s move to the RAF bomber base after their exceptional air defense of Rangoon.
On the Eastern Front... The Red Army begins a new offensive in the Crimea.
From Germany... General Halder, estimates that German losses in the war with the Soviet Union have reached 1,500,000
In the East Indies... The remainder of Doorman’s naval squadron withdraws from Java fighting rear guard actions in the Sunda Strait. The force loses three cruisers and four destroyers. Japanese forces land with little or no opposition on Java at Kragan, Merak and Eretenwetan.
On an unrelated note I downloaded “World of Tanks” (a big download BTW) and it is actually pretty good.
"By 1944, the Allies were clearly winning, and national security would no longer wash as a barrier to trials.
A congressional act mandated the court-martials.
At last, the former Hawaiian commanders would have their day in court."In August [1944], the Naval Court of Inquiry opened.
A source inside the Navy Department had already tipped Kimmel and his attorneys about the scores of Magic intercepts kept from the admiral in 1941.
One of the attorneys, a former Navy captain, managed to get at the Department's files, and authenticated the existence of many.
Obtaining their release was another matter.
Obstruction after obstruction appeared — until Kimmel tried a ploy.
Walking out of the courtroom, he bellowed to his lawyer that they would have to tell the press that important evidence was being withheld."By the next day, the requested intercepts had been delivered — 43 in all.
The admirals on the Court listened to them being read with looks of horror and disbelief.
Two of the admirals flung their pencils down.
More than 2,000 died at Pearl Harbor because those messages had been withheld.
Navy Department officers gave additional testimony.
After nearly three months, the inquiry finished.
The verdict of the Roberts Commission was overturned.
Admiral Kimmel was exonerated on all charges.
Admiral Stark — who had rejected pleas of juniors to notify Hawaii on the morning of the attack — was severely censured."News of the intercepts leaked to the Army Pearl Harbor Board, convening at the same time.
The Board secured copies of Magic from War Department files.
The Board's conclusions still expressed modest criticism of General Short, but found overwhelming guilt in General Marshall and his Chief of War Plans, General Gerow.
Its report ended with this statement:"Up to the morning of December 7, 1941, everything that the Japanese were planning to do was known to the United States except [Tokyo's final diplomatic message] the very hour and minute when bombs were falling on Pearl Harbor." "
There is much more to the story, but this is a start...
This article says nothing about mass shootings or gas chambers, but does clearly indicate the scale of threat facing Poland's 3,000,000 Jews.
Never heard about the riot that happened a little over a mile from where I grew up. That project was torn down and a new one built, I think in the late 80’s.