Posted on 02/08/2011 5:13:00 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
#1 - “Frenesi”-Artie Shaw
#2 - “I Hear a Rhapsody” - Charlie Barnet, with Bob Carroll
#3 - “Anvil Chorus” – Glenn Miller
#4 – “I Hear a Rhapsody” – Jimmy Dorsey , with Bob Eberly
#5 – “There I Go” – Will Bradley, with Jimmy Valentine
#6 - “There I Go” - Vaughan Monroe
#7 - “Perfidia” - Xavier Cugat
#8 - “Along the Santa Fe Trail” - Glenn Miller, with Ray Eberle
#9 – “High on a Windy Hill” – Gene Krupa, with Howard Dulaney
#10 - “Summit Ridge Drive” - Artie Shaw and the Gramercy Five
The index at the bottom of Homer's profile has been upated to include articles from September 1939. The missing period is now Oct-Dec 1939.
http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1941/feb41/f08feb41.htm
Bulgarians cooperating with German
Saturday, February 8, 1941 www.onwar.com
In Sofia... The German and Bulgarian staffs agree on the detailed arrangements for German troops to enter Bulgaria.
In the North Atlantic... The Scharnhorst and Gneisenau approach the convoy HX-106 but do not attack because the escort includes the old battleship Ramillies.
In Washington... The Lend-Lease Bill is passed by the House by 260 votes to 165.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andrew.etherington/month/thismonth/08.htm
February 8th, 1941
UNITED KINGDOM: No. 263 Squadron equipped with the Westland Whirlwind Mk I, makes its first kill, an Arado 196, with the type. (Jack McKillop)
GERMANY: Berlin: The German and Bulgarian military staffs agree arrangements for German troops to enter Bulgaria.
U-83 commissioned.
U-602 laid down. (Dave Shirlaw)
ITALY: Naples: The first German troops and equipment for North Africa are loaded up in the port.
NORTH AFRICA: GENERAL GIUSEPPE TELLERA, Chief-of-Staff North African theatre command, also acting commander of Italian 10th Army is k illed. Tellera himself rode into battle in an M13 tank during the furious but ultimately unsuccessful three-day battle to break through the British roadblocks at Beda Fomm, which prevented 10th Army’s further retreat and led to its ultimate surrender. The battle was characterized by repeated— though poorly-coordinated— frontal attacks by the Italian armour, and during one of these Tellera’s vehicle was disabled, and the general mortally wounded. He was found inside the tank by the British after the battle ended, and died in the hospital the following day. (Michael F. Yaklich)
CANADA: Corvette HMCS Dawson launched Victoria, British Columbia. (Dave Shirlaw)
U.S.A.: Washington: The House of Representatives passes the Lend-Lease Bill by a vote of 260 to 165.
ATLANTIC OCEAN: Scharnhorst and Gneisenau sight convoy HX106 escorted by battleship HMS Ramillies south of Greenland. They do not attack.
U-37 discovers Convoy HG-53. She attacked on the 9th and sank 3 ships during the next 2 days but she also brought in Condor aircraft from 2/KG 40 which attacked on the 9th, sinking 5 more ships. The heavy cruiser Hipper is also vectored in to the scene but only finds a straggler on the 11th, sinking her. (Dave Shirlaw)
http://worldwar2daybyday.blogspot.com/
Day 527 February 8, 1941
General O’Connor has plans for Operation Compass to push onwards to Tripoli, Libya, and drive Italian forces from North Africa. However, Hitler has already decided to provide assistance to his ally Mussolini. The first Afrikakorps troops sail for Tripoli from Naples, Italy, aboard German steamers Ankara, Arcturus & Alicante (escorted by Italian destroyer Turbine and 3 torpedo boats). They dock at Palermo, Sicily, for 2 days to avoid British Force H from Gibraltar which is at sea in the central Mediterranean (bound for Genoa).
Stalemate continues between Greeks and Italians in the deep mid-Winter of the mountains in Southern Albania.
Battle of Keren, Eritrea, East Africa. There is a lull in the fighting between Allied and Italian troops.
Always interesting to read these historical snippets. If you go past the headlines, there’s a wealth of information on other events. I found the story on the public sector transit strikes quite illuminating. Also, there were concerns even back then about Greece’s financial position. Seems little has changed in 70 years!
So Helen Keller didn’t want to be used as a tool by the commies? Interesting story, and one you would NEVER see in the New York Times today. Instead, if Helen Keller resigned from a “progressive” organization, they’d crucify her as a “hate monger.”
They only printed the names of the graduates from New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. Altogether they graduated 396. How big is a class today, do you know?
Agreed. They would say that she lacks vision.
Ooooooohhhh!!!!!!!
I should have seen that coming...but I know Helen didn’t!
Do you know why Helen Keller can’t drive?
So Hipper, Scharnhorst & Gneisenau are all loose in the North Atlantic. This is the high water mark of the Kriegsmarine in WW2.
I noticed that Scharnhorst and Gneisenau didn’t want to tangle with Ramillies. Even though Ramillies is an “old” battleship, her 8 15” guns would make her a tough fight for the two German battlecruisers with their 11” guns. Ramillies was in the Royal Sovereign class of dreadnoughts that followed the Queen Elizabeth class. Somehow, as much as the QE class represented a significant step forward in naval design, the Royal Sovereign class seemed a step back as they were designed more as up-gunned “Iron Dukes.” Although they kept the same armament as the QE’s, they were not as fast and not as stable gun platforms. Part of the problem is that the British didn’t know whether to build them with oil-fired boilers (like the QE’s) or coal fired (like all previous dreadnoughts). They were originally “mixed” but then changed during construction to oil.
None of the five ships of this class had the distinguished WW2 war records of the QE’s.
I’m afraid to ask. Why can’t she drive?
Because she’s a woman....
That brought a tear to my eye.
First told to me by my son when he was in high school...
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