Great as always - BTW you mentioned the aircraft in the illustrations - they’re Grumman Martlets, the Fleet Air Arm version of the American Wildcat fighter. Here’s one about to take off from HMS Formidable, which took part in the operation.

Thank you James!

Epic. Even our newspapers are doing flashbacks now.
You want revisionist history? We've got you.
It's all here in the #NEWSOFTHEWAR !!

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Our Cartoon of the week is a series. Like JACKIE. Or COMMANDO. But on old paper.

Trust us -#NOTW always makes sense when you tune in, as we dive into the happenings in. . . Diego Suarez.

(Which, got to be honest, always sounds like some market trader doing knock-off watches.)

Semyon Konstantinovich Timoshenko is the poster boy of the Soviet fight against the Nazi hoard…. Fighting is intense around the Kharkov front

This week, there's all the scandal you can handle of course, but some nice stories too. Touch of 'ow's yer father, here, but WE CAN EXPLAIN.

Joking aside, there was good re-por-taaaage on feats of hardship on the home front this week.

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He likely killed 2 others in 1941. In the 42 spree he also failed to kill two others:

Catherine Mulcahy, 25 who managed to fight him off

Margaret Heywood, Cummins was disturbed by a delivery boy mid attack.

Lots sensationalised stuff online but this is a good wee vid youtu.be/meRXHC5Ww0U?...

We’ve got lots more: censored letters in Aberdeenshire, pork products in the Punjab, German soldiers waking along Worthing seafront… so join @merrynwalters.uk and @andyaitch.bsky.social on News of the War

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You can have THE MAP PERSON on your podcast and not talk about maps… Map of the week is an interesting look at the importance of Cyprus

In a double whammy, Lord Lovat, of woolly Aran jumper fame is the pin up after the Commandos raid on Boulogne…. Closely followed by our cartoon of the week - Hitlers moustache singed by the COMMANDOS!

Dictator of the week - you wouldn’t have had arch imperialist-capitalist press baron and minister of aircraft production production, Lord Beaverbrook becoming Stalins number one fan, but 1942 is a desperate time for Britain…

Home news.. and we reveal the darker side of wartime Britain. The Blackout Ripper, RAF aircraft man Gordon Cummins is on trial for the murder of 4 women, but the trial stopped…

The Japanese are rampant as the brush the British and Indian armies aside in Burma, when will it end? And who can save the day?

Thanks James… please let us doubly reassure you: the headlines at the end are all real headlines from the day

Joking aside, in this week's #NewsoftheWar we do pause for thought. Singapore missing, and more to come. Makes you think - all the stories that start in the pages of a wartime newspaper, but remain unfinished even now. linktr.ee/NewsOfTheWar

Voila - the Far East. Not saying more about this - suffice it to mention, Australia's worried and by the looks of things, ships are being made BIGGER and BIGGER.