GERMANS TO BE HELD HERE PENDING FURTHER DECISION; BRITISH FIGHT AHEAD IN LIBYA (6/18/41)

Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 6/18/41 | Craig Thompson, Harold Denny, Eugen Kovacs, Herbert L. Matthews, Hanson W. Baldwin

[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 .)
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[Homer_J_Simpson]

Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
Marcks’ Plan, August 5, 1940
Operation Barbarossa (Dir. 21), December 18, 1940
The Mediterranean Basin
The Far East and the Pacific, 1941 – The Imperial Powers, 1 September 1939

Plus a special guest map from Churchill’s The Grand Alliance -
Diagram to Illustrate Operation “Battleaxe”

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Winston S. Churchill, The Grand Alliance

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Sorry about the late post. My DSL connection is down and I am posting this from a remote location. I don't expect the connection to be restored until some time Sunday, so thomrrow's thread may also be delayed.

All Borders Shut – 2
The International Situation – 3
Nazi Planes Found by Radiolocator – 3
Capuzzo Reached – 4
British and Nazis on Even Terms at Last in Desert Battle of Tanks – 5
Reich and Russia Long Set to Fight – 5
Nazi Propagandist Attempts ‘Suicide’ – 6
Italians Praised in Ship Sabotage – 6-7
The British Torpedo Crew that Sent the Bismarck to the Bottom (photo) – 8
German Shells Rain on a British Ship in North Sea (photo) – 8
Italy Issues Writ Blocking U.S. Funds – 9
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the War – 10-11
Britain Bares Peril of Aircraft Carrier – 11
No Easy Victory at Sea – 11
Americanization Group Can’t Hyphenate Name – 11

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1941/jun41/f18jun41.htm

Germans and Turks sign friendship pact

Wednesday, June 18, 1941 www.onwar.com

In Ankara... A German-Turkish treaty of friendship for 10 years is concluded by the Turkish government and the German ambassador, Von Papen.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andrew.etherington/month/thismonth/18.htm

June 18th, 1941

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

GERMANY: U-753 commissioned. (Dave Shirlaw)

U.S.S.R.: Stalin leaves Moscow for his holiday.
Ukraine: A German defector to Russian territory says the attack will be made at 4am on 22 June.

TURKEY: Ankara: Germany and Turkey sign a ten-year treaty of friendship.

SYRIA: Beirut: Vichy asks the American Consul-General to enquire of the British and the Gaullists what their conditions would be for a cessation of hostilities.

Lt-Gen Lavarack (1st Aust Corps) takes command of operations in Syria (vice Gen Wilson). During the night, 5 Ind Bde (Brig Lloyd) undertakes 12-mile advance through Mezze to cut Damascus-Beirut road. This is only partly successful and 5 Ind Bde is soon beleaguered by strong French counter-attack forces with armour. Six Gladiators surprise a formation of Dewoitine’s over Kissoue and shoot down two, the last kills by a Gladiator in WWII. (Michael Alexander)

U.S.A.: In baseball, the New York Yankees play the Chicago White Sox at Yankee Stadium in New York City. The Yankee’s star center fielder Joe DiMaggio hits a single off White Sox pitcher Thornton Lee and extends his hitting streak to 31-games. (Jack McKillop)

Escort carrier USS Copahee laid down.
Submarine USS Peto laid down. (Dave Shirlaw)

ATLANTIC OCEAN: West of Cadiz, U-138 is sunk by depth charges from HMS Faulknor, HMS Fearless, HMS Forester, HMS Firesight and HMS Foxhound. All U-boat crew survive. (Alex Gordon)

At 0328, the unescorted Norfolk was torpedoed by U-552 about 150 miles NW of Malin Head and sunk by two coup de grâce at 0419 and 0438. One crewmember was lost. The master, 63 crewmembers and six gunners were picked up by HMS Skate and landed at Londonderry. (Dave Shirlaw)

[Larry381]

Sorry about the late post. My DSL connection is down and I am posting this from a remote location

That location wouldn't be somewhere in eastern Poland, by chance. Never mind, you don't have to answer that.^g>

[hinckley buzzard]

The period of May-June 1941 was the most pivotal of the War. Hitler, having realized that the invasion of Britain was off indefinitely, had turned his obsessive attentions toward Russia, with Barbarossa scheduled for June 22.

He spared only a small fraction of his forces for Africa. If he had focussed on clearing the allies from Africa, and closed the Straits, both of which he could easily have done, and was being urged to do by his Naval War staff, he could well have essentially won the war right then.

The British empire was at stake and in serious deep trouble. They were on the ropes despite valiant fighting, and Churchill himself admitted in early May that the loss of Egypt might mean the end of hopes for victory.

But Hitler was by now a full-blown megalomaniac and would listen to no one. His obsession with crushing the Russians over-rode everything else. As it turned out, his decision to go ahead with Barbarossa rather than making the Mediterranean another "mare nostrum," was very likely the difference between victory and oblivion.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Hello, hello? I think the line is fixed.

That location wouldn't be somewhere in eastern Poland, by chance. Never mind, you don't have to answer that.

How did you know? And what are all these Germans doing here?

[BroJoeK]

Headline: "Americanization Group Can’t Hyphenate Name – 11"

Well, I guess that judge told them.
From now on, I'm sure, we won't see any more of this hypenation of names.

Whew!

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://worldwar2daybyday.blogspot.com/2011/06/day-657-june-18-1941.html

Day 657 June 18, 1941

At 4.38 AM 150 miles Northwest of Ireland, U-552 sinks British SS Norfolk (1 killed, 64 crew and 6 gunners picked up by destroyer HMS Skate). British destroyers HMS Faulknor, HMS Fearless, HMS Forester, HMS Foresight and HMS Foxhound sink U-138 with depth charges, 100 miles West of Gibraltar (all 27 crew rescued and taken prisoner).