U.S. AND BRITAIN POOL ALL PRODUCTION AND ALL FOOD RESOURCES FOR VICTORY (6/10/42)

Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 6/10/42 | W.H. Lawrence, Ralph Parker, Henry Smith Leiper, Harold Denny, Arthur Krock, Byron Darnton, more

[Homer_J_Simpson]

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[Homer_J_Simpson]

Free Republic University, Department of History presents World War II Plus 70 Years: Seminar and Discussion Forum
First session: September 1, 2009. Last date to add: September 2, 2015.
Reading assignment: New York Times articles delivered daily to students on the 70th anniversary of original publication date. (Previously posted articles can be found by searching on keyword “realtime” Or view Homer’s posting history .)
To add this class to or drop it from your schedule notify Admissions and Records (Attn: Homer_J_Simpson) by freepmail. Those on the Realtime +/- 70 Years ping list are automatically enrolled. Course description, prerequisites and tuition information is available at the bottom of Homer’s profile. Also visit our general discussion thread

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
Southwest Russia, 1942: German Summer Offensive, Operations, 7 May-23 July 1942
North Africa, 1940: Rommel’s Second Offensive, 21 January-7 July 1942
India-Burma, 1942: Allied Lines of Communication, 1942-1943

[Homer_J_Simpson]

John Toland, The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Two Boards Set Up (Lawrence) – 2
Soviet Base Hold (Parker) – 3-4
War News Summarized – 3
R.A.F. in New Ruhr Attack; Far Bigger Raids Predicted – 4-5
Tokyo Press Hints at Midway Defeat – 5-6
Chuhsien is Held; 7,000 of Foe Slain – 6
Post-War Refuge in Palestine Asked – 6
Churchmen Who Defy Hitler-III: Archbishop de Jong of Holland (Leiper) – 8
Prisoners in Italy Ran a ‘University’ (Denny) – 9-10
War Reporters Sound a Warning – 10-11
Keeping Cars on the Road (Krock) – 12
American Pilot Battles a Crocodile after Parachuting to Dense Jungle (Darnton) – 12
The War in Libya (by Hanson W. Baldwin) – 13
The Texts of the Day’s War Communiques – 14-15

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1942/jun42/f10jun42.htm

Free French still hold Bir Hachiem
Wednesday, June 10, 1942 www.onwar.com
Free French troops defending at Bir Hachiem [photo at link]

In North Africa... The Free French forces still hold Bir Hachiem against heavy attacks by Rommel’s forces. During the night, 2700 of defenders are evacuated.

At the Panama Canal... The carrier USS Wasp and battleship USS North Carolina accompanied by cruisers and destroyers pass through the canal to join the US Pacific Fleet after service in the Atlantic and Mediterranean. There are now four American fleet aircraft carriers in the Pacific theater.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andrew.etherington/frame.htm

June 10th, 1942

CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Lidice: German security police surrounded the mining village of Lidice, outside Prague, early today and rounded up the whole population, more than 400 people. The 173 men and boys over 15 were shot and the 198 women and 98 children have been driven off to concentration camps. Houses and all other buildings have been razed to the ground and the name of the village erased from official records. Another village, Lezaky, suffered a similar fate later today; 17 men and 16 women were shot and 14 children gassed.

An official German statement said the action had been taken “to teach the Czechs a final lesson of subservience and humility” after the assassination of Reinhardt Heydrich, the deputy Reich protector of Bohemia and Moravia. Thirteen children of Lidice have been allowed to survive - because they have blonde hair. They will be raised as good “Aryan” Nazis in Germany.

The Nazis have offered a reward of ten million Czech crowns for information leading to the capture of the assassins. A raincoat, two briefcases and a lady’s bicycle which were found at the scene of the attack are on display in a city shoe shop. So far the perpetrators have eluded efforts to find them.

U.S.S.R.: Black Sea Fleet and Azov Flotilla: Shipping loss: MS “TSch-405 “Vzrivatel”” - is sunk by field artillery, close to Eupatoria (later raised) (Sergey Anisimov)(69)

MEDITERRANEAN SEA: Operation Harpoon involves a convoy from Gibraltar to Malta, under Admiral Curteis. His escort forces include 1 battleship, 2 carriers, 4 cruisers, and 17 destroyers and 6 merchant ships. There are also several merchant ships sailing independently. Admiral Vian leaves Alexandria with another convoy for Malta under Operation Vigorous. The 11 merchant ships are escorted by 8 cruisers and 26 destroyers.

NORTH AFRICA: German forces fight their way out of their defensive position, known as the “Cauldron”.

LIBYA: Bir Hakeim: Free French troops retreat to El Gobi on the third day of a heavy German attack.

JAPAN: Tokyo radio ignores the Battle of Midway and announces that the occupation of Attu and Kiska Islands in the Aleutian Islands is a “great victory.” The Japanese Army’s North Sea Detachment, which invaded Attu Island on 7 June, begins unloading equipment from ships and starts developing defensive positions.

CANADA: Minesweeper HMCS Port Arthur arrived Halifax from Montreal. (Dave Shirlaw)
U.S.A.: (Jack McKillop)
The U.S. Navy establishes a formal organization, Project Sail, at Naval Air Station (NAS) Quonset Point, Rhode Island, for airborne testing and associated work on Magnetic Airborne Detectors (MAD gear). This device is being developed to detect submarines by the change that they induce in the earth’s magnetic field. Principal developmental efforts are being carried out by the Naval Ordnance Laboratory and the National defence Committee. In view of the promising results of early tests made with non-rigid airships and an US Army Air Forces (USAAF) Douglas B-18 Bolo, 200 sets of MAD gear were procured.

An additional Lend-Lease Agreement is signed in Washington, DC. Secretary of State Hull signs for the US and Foreign Minister Maxim Litvinov signs for the USSR.

ATLANTIC OCEAN: Off the U.S. coast German submarines sink three merchant vessels:

- U-157 sinks a U.S. armed tanker and a U.S. unarmed freighter off Cuba

- U-68 sinks a British motor vessel in the Caribbean. (Jack McKillop)

[mick]

This day’s story about the US and UK combining all food and material productions reminds us that the old statement that “War is the health if the State” is true. The leviathan state that crushes our liberties today is perhaps more a result of WWII than the New Deal. Even necessary wars like WWII have unintended bad consequences.

[BroJoeK]

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June 10, 1942:

• "One thousand Jews are deported from Prague, Czechoslovakia, to the East, where they are murdered."

Kraków/Plaszów

"Home to one of the oldest and most important Jewish communities in Europe, Kraków, Poland, was transformed by the Nazis into a place of terror.
The city was occupied by the Germans in September 1939 and declared the capital of the Generalgouvernement of Poland.
All anti-Jewish legislation for the region was issued from Kraków.

"Terror campaigns against the Jews began in December 1940.
Jewish property was seized, synagogues were burned, and thousands of Jews were expelled from their residences.
A formal ghetto that measured 656 X 437 yards was established in March 1941.
Jews from the neighboring communities were packed into the ghetto; by the end of the year, 18,000 Jews were imprisoned in Kraków.
The overcrowding and deplorable sanitary conditions caused many deaths.
Those pictured were hanged for railway sabotage.

"Deportations from Kraków to the Belzec and Auschwitz death camps began in May 1942 and continued until March 1943.
On March 13, 1943, 2,000 Jews were transferred to the Plaszów forced-labor camp.
Located on the outskirts of Kraków, the Plaszów camp was run by the notorious Amon Goeth, a psychopathic killer who took pleasure in shooting Jews for sport from his balcony.
The Kraków Ghetto and Plaszów labor camp provided the setting for the film Schindler's List."

"A Jewish policeman from the Warsaw Ghetto removes a dead baby.
Note the emaciated condition of the corpse.
Jews lived in the ghetto on starvation rations, and the sick, young, and infirm were the first victims of famine and disease.
Infants, many of whom were born dead, were particularly susceptible to these conditions."

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[bd476]

Thanks for the Ping, HJS!

[Peter W. Kessler]

I’m a little late with this today; traveling, and I just got to the hotel.

http://ia701200.us.archive.org/0/items/1942RadioNews/1942-06-10-CBS-News-of-the-World-AM-Edition.mp3

[Homer_J_Simpson]

I’m a little late with this today; traveling, and I just got to the hotel.

Thanks for making time for the news. It's fun to listen to the radio reports in conjunction with the print medium. Even when they lose the connection to Australia.

[InMemoriam]

Did everyone catch Sulzberger being asked about Stalin overrunning Eastern Europe after the war, and assuring the questioner dismissively that that would never happen?

[PA Engineer]

Thanks for the posts and all of your hard work. BTTT. Please add me to your ping list. Thanks again.