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Brit aerial photos reveal location of and damage done to Scharnhorst, Gneisenau and Prinz Eugen; Brit sees Axis plans affected by damage
charges UMWA payroll padding and coercion to support Lewis, s to SWOC group
Price control: Administrator Henderson asks housewives to learn what foods are excepted from ceilings
Petroleum Coordinator Davies urges consumers of heavy fuel oil to convert to coal
Difficulties facing Germans discussed; guerrillas harass German reinforcements; Mikhailovitch and officers families seizure as Axis hostages causes sabotage outbreaks; Croatians reptd joining Chetnik guerrillas; Germans admit Mikhailovitch capture rept is false
1942World War II: The Battle of the Coral Sea begins with an attack by aircraft from the United States aircraft carrier USSÂ Yorktown on Japanese naval forces at Tulagi Island in the Solomon Islands. The Japanese forces had invaded Tulagi the day before.[â ]
World War II or the Second World War was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries participated, with many nations mobilising all resources in pursuit of total war. Tanks and aircraft played major roles, enabling the strategic bombing of cities and delivery of the first and only nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II is the deadliest conflict in history, causing the death of 70 to 85 million people, more than half of whom were civilians. Millions died in genocides, including the Holocaust, and by massacres, starvation, and disease. After the Allied victory, Germany, Austria, Japan, and Korea were occupied, and German and Japanese leaders were tried for war crimes.