TURKS AND NAZIS SIGN AMITY PACT; GERMAN-SOVIET SHOWDOWN NEAR (6/19/41)

Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 6/19/41 | C. Brooks Peters, C.L. Sulzberger, Herbert L. Matthews, Hanson W. Baldwin, Hilton H. Railey

[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
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

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Winston S. Churchill, The Grand Alliance

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Ten-Year Treaty – 2-3
Reich to Compensate Eire Bomb Victims – 3
The Turkish-German Pact – 3
Canadian Salvationist Tells of War Effort - 3
Reich Ultimatum to Soviet Reported in Turkish Capital – 4
Air Marshal Sees Control of Atlantic – 4
British Withdraw from Libyan Fight – 5
The International Situation – 5
Victory in Desert Reported by Nazis – 6
British Repel ‘Invasion’ in Huge Mimic Battle – 6
Brazil Gives U.S. Export Monopoly – 6
Army is Ordering Big Reserve of Planes, Tanks and ‘Anti’ Guns – 7
Says We Will Lead in Armored Forces – 7-8
14 Appointments for Mayor Today – 8
Plane Locator is Hailed Here; Held Real Advance in Radio Art – 8
Knox and Lehman Call for Seaway – 9
Trammell Calls FCC Move ‘Brutal’ (by Jack Gould) – 9
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the War – 10-11
France May Place Her Livestock on Rations; Feeding of Pet Animals Becomes a Problem – 11

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1941/jun41/f19jun41.htm

Vichy troops resisting Allies

Thursday, June 19, 1941 www.onwar.com

In Syria... There is heavy fighting just outside Damascus (June 19-20th) at Mezze where the Vichy French forces manage to cut off and eventually eliminate an Indian battalion.

From Rome... In retaliation for the closing of all Italian consulates in the United States, similar action is taken by Italy with respect to American consulates.

From Berlin... In retaliation for the closing of all German consulates and offices of other German agencies in the USA, similar action is taken by Germany with respect American consulates and offices.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andrew.etherington/month/thismonth/19.htm

June 19th, 1941

EUROPE: In tit-for-tat reprisals, Germany and Italy expel the US consuls. Germany and Italy requested United States consular staffs to evacuate territories under their control by July 15, following United States request of June 16 for German consular evacuation by July 10.
GERMANY: Berlin: News comes of a German-Turkish pact to respect each other’s neutrality and to further the economic interests of both states.

Berlin: The German News Bureau reported:

The most recent reports indicate that the British have lost more tanks than was earlier estimated: When we cleared up the battlefield, we found 200 British tanks destroyed or immobilised by German and Italian guns, which the British were forced to abandon when they retreated.

U-619, U-620 laid down. (Dave Shirlaw)

SYRIA: Heavy fighting between Vichy forces and an Indian Battalion near Damascus, Syria.

Generals Lavarack and Wilson decide to concentrate Aust 7 Div (Maj-Gen Allen) on coastal sector as offering best prospects of advance. In Mezze, 5 Ind Bde remains cut off and hard-pressed by French armour.

Australian attack on Merdjayoun is again repulsed after fighting in outskirts. Brig Berryman continues to pound Merdjayoun with artillery. (Michael Alexander)

CANADA: Corvette HMCS Moose Jaw commissioned.

Corvettes HMCS Kamloops and Chilliwack arrived Halifax from builders in Victoria and Vancouver respectively. (Dave Shirlaw)

U.S.A.: In a baseball game at Yankee Stadium in New York City, Yankee star Joe DiMaggio goes 3-for-3 against Chicago White Sox pitchers Eddie Smith and Buck Ross. DiMaggio’s home run and two singles extends his hitting streak to 32-games. (Jack McKillop)

The breakfast cereal “Cheerios” is invented. These O-shaped 1/2-inch (12.7 mm) diameter, .0025 ounce (71 mg) cereals with 400 equalling one serving are originally called “Cheerie Oats.” (Jack McKillop)

Destroyers USS Redoubt and Roebuck laid down. (Dave Shirlaw)

[abb]

See page 9 of the NYT in post #1 regarding NBC, the Red and Blue networks, the FCC and James Fly.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Lawrence_Fly

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Network

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Broadcasting_Co._v._United_States

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,851170,00.html

[Larry381]

For anyone interested in following the course of events on the Eastern Front by using maps, there is an excellent site that contains hundreds of detailed military-topographic maps in Polish-German-English & Russian.
The maps are principally Eastern European and cover Poland, White Russia, Ukraine, the Baltic states and Russia and many of them (especially the German ones) were published during the war and contain place names that were in use then. There are maps of almost all the areas where Germany & The Soviet Union would fight major battle in the coming months and years. Many of the maps are extremely detailed and also extremely large, so be warned.
The maps range from 1:100,000-1:300,000-1:25,000-1:500,000-1:750,000 and other scales. I consider many of them to be quite exceptional since many of the place and town names used during the war have changed since then. Click on the website and the maps listings are on the left.
By the way, they're free.

WIG Map Archives

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

I didn’t know about any of this.

What made you go digging around in NYT archives?

[abb]

Homer has been doing this WW2 plus 70 years thing for three years. I’m on his ping list. Just happened to notice that about NBC, Red, Blue, and James Fly. I had run into his name before.

[beebuster2000]

intersting day. most of the predictions about how great the tanks were turned out to be false i believe. the tanks were really awful, totally undergunned and underarmored.

also, nice catch on the reference to what i assume came to be known as RADAR

couldnt read the entire joe louis/conn article but that was also great.

[Larry381]

"A few days before the offensive started we received an order from the Supreme Command of the Armed Forces (O.K.W.) which has since become known as the ‘Commissar Order '.
The gist of it was that all political commissars of the Red Army whom we captured were to be shot out of hand as exponents of Bolshevik ideology. Now I agree that from the point of view of international law the status of these political commissars was extremely equivocal. They were certainly not soldiers, any more than I would have considered a Gauleiter attached to me as a political overseer to be a soldier.
Neither could they be granted the same non-combatant status as chaplains, medical personnel or war correspondents. On the contrary, they were - without being soldiers - fanatical fighters, but fighters whose activities could only be regarded as illegal according to the traditional meaning of warfare. Their task was not only the political supervision of Soviet military leaders but, even more, to instill the greatest possible degree of cruelty into the fighting and to give it a character completely at variance with the traditional conceptions of soldierly behavior. These same commissars were the men primarily responsible for the fighting methods and treatment of prisoners which clashed so blatantly with the provisions of the Hague Convention on land warfare.

Whatever one might feel about the status of commissars in international law, however, it inevitably went against the grain of any soldier to shoot them down when they had been captured in battle. An order like the Kommissarbefehl was utterly unsoldierly. To have carried it out would have threatened not only the honor of our fighting troops but also their morale.
Consequently I had no alternative but to inform my superiors that the Commissar Order would not be implemented by anyone under my command. My subordinate commanders were entirely at one with me in this, and everyone in the corps area acted accordingly. I need hardly add that my military superiors endorsed my attitude. It was only very much later, however, that all the efforts to get the Commissar Order rescinded were ultimately successful - when it had become clear, namely, that the order simply incited the commissars to resort to the most brutal methods to make their units fight on to the end."

[The fact that the rest of the army probably shared my view became apparent when I took command of Eleventh Army. The Commissar Order had not been carried out there either. The few commissars who were shot in spite of this had not been captured in action but picked up in the rear areas and sentenced as either the leaders or organizers of partisans' groups. Their cases were handled in accordance with military law.]

LOST VICTORIES
FIELD-MARSHAL ERICH VON MANSTEIN

[CougarGA7]

In a directive issued by Hitler today he reiterates some of the overall logistics of the up coming invasion of the Soviet Union:

"1. Eastern Front: The eastern front should as much as possible live from its own material reserve. In case of heavy losses panzer divisions should be consolidated together. Newly-established panzer divisions in Germany shall be staffed by personnel vacated due to the consolidations.

2. From these newly-formed units 2 panzer divisions are for France, 1 panzer division for Norway."

This directive from Hitler also goes on to say that tank losses in Africa are to be replaced as soon as possible so at the beginning of operation BARBAROSSA, Rommel still has priority on armor supplies than the three army groups about to jump off into Russia.

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

Oh, yeah. I didn’t notice the thread was started by another poster.

This is very interesting, with regards to net neutrality it seems as if Genachowski is following in Fly’s footsteps in many, many regards.

History does indeed repeat itself.

[abb]

More on Fly.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,884553,00.html
Radio: Fly in the Appointment

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://worldwar2daybyday.blogspot.com/2011/06/day-658-june-19-1941.html

Day 658 June 19, 1941

Syria. Indian and Free French troops launch a two-prong attack on Damascus, along the 2 roads from the South. Free French are held up at Qadim, 4 miles South on the road from Deera. 5th Indian Infantry Brigade marches across country to the village of Mezze at 5.30 AM (3 miles West of Damascus on the road from Quneitra, behind the Vichy French lines) but they lack support and become surrounded.