These maps show hoiv the major fighting trends-of a year ago have been reversed. At the start of 1942 the Axis was menacing Russia, England, West Africa, Egypt, the Near East, and India, and Japan was overrunning the north Pacific. The United Nations are now on the offensive, as illustrated here. In the ivest they threaten German forces all along the vast Russian front; the pincer offensive in Africa threatens the. Axis-held Mediterranean coast of Europe; and the Axis in France, Germany, and Italy is being blasted from the air. ln the Far East the m&ster plan of attack against Japan is revealing itself in sea, land, and air attacks. (Evening Post, 27 January 1943)

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These maps show hoiv the major fighting trends-of a year ago have been reversed. At the start of 1942 the Axis was menacing Russia, England, West Africa, Egypt, the Near East, and India, and Japan was overrunning the north Pacific. The United Nations are now on the offensive, as illustrated here. In the ivest they threaten German forces all along the vast Russian front; the pincer offensive in Africa threatens the. Axis-held Mediterranean coast of Europe; and the Axis in France, Germany, and Italy is being blasted from the air. ln the Far East the m&ster plan of attack against Japan is revealing itself in sea, land, and air attacks. (Evening Post, 27 January 1943)

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