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Left: FBI agents dig up boxes of explosives buried in Florida. RIght: the military commission trial of the saboteurs.

FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover has announced the arrest of eight Nazi saboteurs who went ashore from submarines on Long Island and Florida with cash, weapons, explosives, and plans for blowing up rail lines, bridges, department stores and defense production factories.

Left: British woman says goodbye to a US air crew departing on a bombing mission. 70,000 British women married US military personnel during the war. Right: US personnel were housed in Nissen huts, prefabricated corrugated steel cylindrical buildings first developed in WWI.

The press has now been permitted to report that a large number of US Army Air Forces personnel have arrived in Britain, where they intend to take over many RAF airfields and participate in mass attacks on German targets.

Ukrainian peasants polish Nazi soldiers' boots.

German forces continue their slow advance east through Ukraine, with hand-to-hand combat against Soviet defenders in trenches and at gun emplacements reported.

Left: Rommel. Right: South African soldiers taken prisoner at Tobruk.

Despite Allied aircraft and submarine attacks on German supply lines in the Mediterranean, Field Marshall Erwin Rommel continues his advance into western Egypt in his bid to capture Alexandria and the Suez Canal.

This advance follows Rommel’s capture of the deep-water port at Tobruk, Libya, a week ago.

Left: Recruitment poster. Right: A Marine on Guadalcanal, August 1942, Harpoz photo.

The US Marine Corps has announced the arrival at an undisclosed South Pacific port of a major combat contingent along with equipment for offensive operations.

Left: Churchill is FDR's guest at his home in Hyde Park, New York, June 20, 1942. Right: German troops enter Oslo, May 1940.

President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill have restated their intention to open a Western Front in Europe to relieve pressure on the Soviets in the east.

Meanwhile, German occupation forces have driven millions of French residents of the Atlantic coastline from their homes, banned traffic along the coast of Denmark, and conducted anti-invasion maneuvers in coastal regions of southern Norway.

Churchill visits bomb-damaged areas of East London, September 1940.

The British Army has begun training exercises for house-to-house combat in bombed areas of London’s East End, where the rubble-strewn streets and Blitz-damaged buildings resemble those which they are likely to encounter in Europe.

British soldiers in Tobruk, late 1941.

And finally…

Two British lieutenants taken prisoner in the fall of Tobruk have arrived safely behind British lines in western Egypt after commandeering a British staff car and joining a German convoy heading east.

Rommel and his staff had taken many British vehicles in Tobruk for their own use, and German sentries whom the British lieutenants passed along the way assumed they were German officers and waved them through.

I’ll see you on Monday.

— Brenda

Stories from the New York Times.