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By Arthur Szky, 'The New York Times', 1942 Face of Evil: Szyk draws Hitler |
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Battle of Egypt 1942 |
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"The End of the Beginning." |
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By Low, 'The Evening Standard', February, 1942 |
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By Low, 'The Evening Standard', May 18, 1942 "With Malta in enemy hands, the Mediterranian route would be competely closed to us . . . - General Hastings Ismay, 1942 U.K. |
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By Strube, 'The Daily Express', May 28, 1942 Battle of Gazala - Rommel breaks the British positions and drives them back into Egypt. |
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By Illingworth, 'The Daily Mail', June 11, 1942 At the Battle of Bir-Hakeim, the Free French defended the site against Rommel for 16 days. |
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By Strube, 'The Daily Express', June 23, 1942 May 27 - June 29, 1942 |
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By Upton, 'The Daily Sketch', June 27, 1942 Rommel's Afrika-korps were threatening to overrun Egypt and the Middle East. |
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By Low, 'The Evening Standard', July 10, 1942 What was known in the West |
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By Upton, 'The Daily Sketch', July 25, 1942 On April 15, 1942, King George VI awarded the George Cross "to the island fortress of Malta" for its people's bravery and heroism. |
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. July 26, 1942 - First battle of El Alamein ends in a continued stalemate. |
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By Low, 'The Evening Standard', September 3, 1942 |
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By Strube, 'The Daily Express', October 26, 1942 October 23, 1942 - Second battle of El Alamein. |
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By Strube, 'The Daily Express', November 2, 1942 British Eight Army under General Montgomery breaks through Rommel's lines. |
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By Strube, 'The Daily Express' November 3, 1942. Churchill: "Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat." |
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By Strube, 'The Daily Express', November 4, 1942 Heavy RAF activity over El Alamein |
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By Illingworth, 'The Daily Mail', November 4, 1942 "A Knock Out" |
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By Low, 'The Evening Standard', November 5, 1942 A "V for Vendetta" to "Remember, Remember, The Fifth of November". |
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By Illingworth, 'The Daily Mail', November 8, 1942 Speech by Churchill at Mansion House, November 10, 1942: |
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By Low, 'The Evening Standard', November 8, 1942 |
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By Strube, 'The Daily Express', November 9, 1942 November 8, 1942, Operation Tourch. The United States 1st Armored Division lands at Oran, Algeria. |
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By Strube, 'The Daily Express', November 14, 1942 November 13, 1942, the Eighth Army 'returns' to Tobruk. |
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By Strube, 'The Daily Express', November 17, 1942 |
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By Ghilchik, 'The Daily Sketch', November 30, 1942 |
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By Low, 'The Evening Standard', December 1942 |
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By Strube, 'The Daily Express', December 14, 1942 Jan Karski, a Polish gentile who witnessed the horrors of the Warsaw ghetto and a German concentration camp. |
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By Strube, 'The Daily Express', December 15, 1942 By late December, Montgomery's 8th army had evicted Rommel's Afrika-korps from Libya. |
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