CONGRESS LEADERS WILLING TO STUDY AID-BILL CHANGES BUT WANT MAIN OBJECTIVES (1/12/41)

Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 1/12/41 | Harold Hinton, Herbert L. Matthews, G.E.R. Gedye

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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 .)
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Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
North Africa, 1940: Graziani’s Advance and Wavell’s Offensive, 13 September 1940-7 February 1941 (Map 34a)
Marcks’ Plan, August 5, 1940
Operation Barbarossa (Dir. 21), December 18, 1940
The Mediterranean Basin (Map 33)
The Far East and the Pacific, 1941 – The Imperial Powers, 1 September 1939

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Winston S. Churchill, The Grand Alliance

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Time Limit is Urged – 2-3
The International Situation – 3
Rome Claims Hits – 4-5
Nazis Declare War Aims are Jobs and Security – 4
Parachute Jumps Tried by Marines – 5
50,000 Here to Aid Paralysis Campaign – 5
U.S. Fighter Planes Down Nazi Bomber – 6
New Battleship in Service April 11 – 6
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the War – 7

News of the Week in Review
Twenty News Questions – 8
Nazis Use Propaganda to Mask Balkan Aims – 9
Answers to Twenty News Questions – 9
The African Theatre of War (map) – 10

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http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1941/jan41/f12jan41.htm

British planes raid Axis airbase

Sunday, January 12, 1941 www.onwar.com

In the Mediterranean... British aircraft based on Malta attack Catania airfield on Sicily in an attempt to prevent German and Italian planes from attacking Malta while temporary repairs are carried out on the crippled aircraft carrier Illustrious.

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http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andrew.etherington/month/thismonth/12.htm

January 12th, 1941

UNITED KINGDOM: Minesweeping trawler HMS CELIA commissioned. (Dave Shirlaw)

SICILY: RAF Hurricane fighters based on Malta attack Catania airfield on Sicily in an attempt to prevent German and Italian planes from attacking Malta while temporary repairs are carried out on the crippled aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious. (Jack McKillop)

NORTH AFRICA: 33 Squadron is detailed to go to Greece.
ETHIOPIA: The Italian Duke of Aosta sends the Elite Savoia Grenadiers to defend Keren. (Jack McKillop)

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http://worldwar2daybyday.blogspot.com/

Day 500 January 12, 1941

Operation Compass. As the Italian defenses at Tobruk are the same as Bardia, Australian 6th Division plans to use the same tactics to pierce the wire and anti-tank ditches at a weak point and peel back the lines of gun pits from the inside. However, they have to wait while British 7th Armoured Division repairs as many Matilda tanks as possible and for fuel and ammunition to be brought up. Matildas are moved forward on heavy artillery tractors to preserve their tacks and engines. HMS Protector lays anti-torpedo nets at Bardia and departs for Alexandria with 1058 Italian POWs.

British aircraft based on Malta attack the airbase at Catania, Sicily, to prevent German and Italian bombers from attacking British shipping in the Mediterranean and the island of Malta. They are trying to protect damaged British aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious which limped into Valletta, Malta, for repairs due to Stuka attack.