159 - Hitler Finally Fed Up with his Army - WW2 - September 11, 1942

So you knew Rommel was going to attack during the full the full moon

cause you knew he needed the light?

Smart. Yeah, I'm with ya!

Are you guys gonna attack him?

Huh?

Yeah you are...

But not untill the full moon

cause you need the light?

I see.

Okay. Yeah.

See ya.

September 11, 1942

You are not a career military man.

Sure, you served as a young man during wartime, but that was years ago.

Since you came to power, though, you've had to work closely with your armed forces for

many years, and since your country went to war that work has grown closer and constant,

but one day that's not enough.

You are unsatisfied.

So you take personal control of your armies, pushing aside the Field Marshall himself.

You can obviously do it better.

You are Adolf Hitler.

I'm Indy Neidell; this is World War Two.

Last week the Axis forces reached the suburbs of Stalingrad, but the Soviet defense was

tenacious and they even began counterattacks to cut off the advancing enemy.

In the Caucasus, Axis forces tried- and failed- to break out of the Mozdok Bridgehead or take

Novorossiysk on the coast.

They also failed in North Africa, as Erwin Rommel's forces were unable to take Alam Halfa Ridge.

Far to the east, the Japanese have realized the importance of retaking Guadalcanal and

subordinate their other operations to that primary goal.

That doesn't mean they're abandoning those operations, though.

The Battle of Mission Ridge is fought this week in the jungle on the Kokoda Track, which

the Japanese are attempting to cross to take Port Moresby.

Brigadier Arnold Potts had decided to make a stand as I said last week, but the battle

is a decisive Japanese victory and the Australians are pushed back the rest of the week.

But help will soon be on its way.

See, the Japanese are evacuating Milne Bay, though only 600 or so men will escape that

debacle of a battle that cost them 2,000.

But then since he doesn't have to focus on them anymore, Allied Theater Commander Douglas

MacArthur can focus on the Kokoda Track campaign, which might be good because the Japanese break