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Age
19 Years

29th November 1942

For several days now I have been listening to German, Italian and Japanese – as well as Spanish – versions of the news, both verbal (English) and Morse. Combining these with our own versions you get a pretty complete understanding of the situation.

The recent naval victory announced by the US Navy Dept around the Buna-Gona region, was claimed by the Japanese to be a smashing victory for themselves, and one that was likely to change the whole course of the war in the Pacific! It is taking a bit of doing for the Australian and American forces to extricate the Japs from the last stand around Buna and Gona, but is is not expected that they will last much longer.

The Russians who have done exceedingly well both N and S of Stalingrad, have now announced a new offensive on the central front around Rzhev, which the Germans announced several days back. It is meeting with equal success.

The Soviets has now completely encircled the enemy in the Don elbow, cornering about 25 divisions or 250,000 men.

We shall leave for Gwadar today.