175 - And Now It's 1943... - WW2 - January 1st, 1943

by Panzer
Yeah?
Line two, okay.
Thanks Iryna.
Hello?
What?
wait, wait.
Okay, so if they give up the east then no more transport can come in.
What if they give up the west?
no more artillery support Hm... does artillery support equal food, cause they need food.
No?
Right.
Then I think they should keep the east.
January 1st, 1943.
Yep, 1943.
The war, which began in 1939- and in China in 1937- grows ever larger, month after month.
You all know that; this series comes out each and every week.
1942 was the darkest of the war so far, not just the active fighting, but the civilians
who were murdered, well, exterminated in occupied territories across Europe and Asia in the
millions.
Yes, that’s where we are, exterminated in the millions.
And now it’s 1943.
Happy New Year.
I’m Indy Neidell; this is World War Two.
Last week was Christmas, and as it rolled around, the Allies failed in the race to reach
Tunis before the rains set in, and their local civilian High Commissioner for the region,
Francois Darlan, was assassinated.
The Americans launched an offensive aimed at taking Mount Austen on Guadalcanal, and
the Japanese opened a new air base at Munda to help defend it.
In the Soviet Union, the Soviet Operation Mars ended in failure, but at both Velikie
Luki and Stalingrad it was anything but failure, as the Axis were surrounded at both.
The German Stalingrad relief offensive Operation Winter Storm failed, but the successful Soviet
Operation Little Saturn continued, shattering the Italian 8th Army and pushing 200km into
the enemy’s rear.
One Allied advance ends this week.
On the 29th, Bernard Montgomery’s western Libyan advance with the 8th Army is stopped
at Buerat.
Now, the offensive to the west in Tunisia that stalled on Longstop Hill last week has
brought a fair amount of finger pointing between the Americans and British, and as Rick Atkinson
points out in “An Army at Dawn”, “…a harsher, toxic tone now seeped into the alliance.