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This week, the Germans continue to advance in the Soviet Union, but as is now becoming very clear to everyone this advance is not going to plan. Soviet troops are not being captured in numbers anywhere near than those of the encirclements in 1941. After capturing a whole lot of nothing, extending their supply lines, and burning up fuel, the German forces finally reach one of the major oil producing cities in the USSR. The Soviets, as anyone who was paying attention would know, do not allow a single drop of this to fall into German hands, and do a spectacular job of destroying anything that could be remotely of use to the invaders.
There is action happening even further east too, as the Japan and the Allies, especially the US, fight fiercely in the air, sea, and land, for small pacific islands. This leads to a naval engagement know as the Battle of Savo Island, which scores Japan naval victories for but falls short of their objective of of halting a US invasion.
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