Churchill informed Stalin that in light of the PQ 17 disaster, convoys to Archangel would be suspended. Stalin already believed that the British were exaggerating about their losses.
It's worth noting, in my view, that Stalin's grasp, in my view, of the difficulties faced by the Western Allies tended to be clouded. The Soviet Union was no more of a naval power than Imperial Russia had been, indeed considerably less so, and Stalin's ability to grasp the problems faced by the United States Navy and Royal Navy was not necessarily great.
Red Army sniper Lyudmila Pavlichenko and Roza Shanina appeared on the cover of Life Magazine.
Pavlichenko, as her last name would indicate, was Ukrainian. She was sent on a tour of the United States and Canada in 1942, where she was very blunt in her comments and found the questions asked of her by the press to sometimes be stupid. Her husband died during the war, and she suffered from his loss and PTSD until her early death at age 58 in 1974.
Shanina was a Russian from northwestern Russia. Unlike Pavlichenko, she was highly photogenic and there are a great number of photos of her as a result, in which she is usally broadly smiling.
A bright, highly intelligent woman, she was killed in action in January 1945.
Australian and British forces at El Alamein attempted to take Miteirya Ridge, succeeded at first against Italian troops, but were later pushed back by combined German and Italian forces.
The Luftwaffe airlifts 200 tons of fuel to advancing German forces in Russia. Hitler moved his headquarters to Werewolf, where he plans to personally oversee Case Blue.
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