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.
Guadalcanal is now quiet.
There is room for new life
