June 1943 – Daily Mirror News Update

Turning points have embroiled the Globe.

The shadow of Axis power that seemed to crawl across the world uncontested is finally shrinking. In January, the Soviet Union was able to finally push the Germans back and reclaim their own city of Stalingrad. Hundreds of thousands of civilians were killed in the siege. While all the Soviets have reclaimed is only now a pile of rubble, ash, and dead loved ones, they have been able to guarantee for the moment that the Nazis will not inch towards their claim to living space in Russia.

Meanwhile, the United States has finally crawled through the grass and maze of Jungle at Guadalcanal. The Americans were sleeping in the mud for months on end and being ambushed from every corner of jungle by banzai chargers. General Douglas MacArthur finally has some degree of retribution for the death marches of Bataan in the Pacific.

Weeks ago, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Winston Churchill met at the Trident Conference. A main topic that was being discussed was the prospective invasion by allied powers of German occupied France. FDR and Churchill have instead elected to invade Italy in its place. Will we ever see a proper go at the Atlantic Wall or will it forever be that unwanted pink elephant in the room? The allies are realizing that even though they have pushed Rommel out of the desert, they will have to pull every inch of German occupied Europe out of the cold , dead fingers of every soldier in their path. It will be a long time before we seen American and British boys heading home.