(I could, if I had the time, calculate the German merchant ship losses for the last four months, but I don't have the time. I will say, I have my doubts that the actual number is anything close to this.)

(The report probably refers to an action by HMS Torbay, under the command of Lt. Commander Anthony C. C. Miers, RN. What the British report does not say is that Miers had his men shoot German soldiers in the water and in small craft after sinking their vessels. Exactly how many were killed is not known to me. This happened on at least three occasions between July 4 and 10.

The Germans equated this to the Baralong Incident of the Great War when the Q-Ship, HMS Baralong, sank SMS U-27 then shot all the survivors in the water. None of the thirty-seven-man crew survived. A second incident involving HMS Baralong occurred when the Q-Ship sank SMS U-41. While the survivors were not shot, a lifeboat with survivors was run down by the ship. There were only two survivors from the thirty-seven man crew.)

(Another report based on Russian propaganda and nothing else.)

(The Stockholm correspondent for the Daily Telegraph, reports the rumor [referred to as "persistent reports"] that Generaloberst Heinz Guderian had been killed in Russia. Another false report based on a rumor. Unknown to the press, Guderian had just been awarded the Eichenlaub (Oak Leaves) to his Ritterkreuz (Knight's Cross.) The announcement is in the Völkischer Beobachter below. He was not dead, injured or even inconvenienced. But the press at that time would print anything that they thought the public might like to hear and a dead Nazi General was good news to the public. Whether it was true or not.)

(Radio Moscow claims that "informed circles in Berne" (Switzerland) are reporting that Adolf Hitler had collapsed of an epileptic seizure at his headquarters at Berchtesgarden. I don't believe that this was true. To the best of my knowledge, Hitler did not have epilepsy. You have to consider the source when reading this report.)

(Another 13 cases of polio reported in the Winnipeg area.)

(Taken the tough defended Smolensk. Breakthrough extended through Stalinlinnie between Mogilev and Vitebk.)

(The Führer honors the Crete fighters.)

(Supply harbor of Hull hit hard again.)

(Victorious dogfights near Malta.)

[Note the photos at top left. Three Generals are awarded the Eichenlaub (Oak Leaves) to their Ritterkreuz (Knight's Cross.) From left to right: General der Infanterie Hermann Hoth, Generalleutnant Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen and Generaloberst Heinz Guderian. Hoth was convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity for his activities in Russia and sentenced to 15 years in prison, but was released in 1954. He died in 1971. Richthofen, a cousin to Manfred [The red Baron] died of a brain tumor on July 12, 1945. Guderian, reported to be dead in the Sydney Sun above, probably should have been convicted as a war criminal, but because of a lack of direct evidence, he was never charged. He actually joined the U.S. Army Historical Division while in U.S. custody and was released from custody in 1948. Guderian died, not ever completely denouncing Nazism, in 1954.)