ROOSEVELT URGES US TO PLEDGE LIVES AS WELL AS WORK TO HUMAN FREEDOM (7/5/41)

Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 7/5/41 | Frank L. Kluckhohn, Daniel T. Brigham, Hanson W. Baldwin

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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
German Invasion of Russia – Operations, 22 June-25 August 1941
The Mediterranean Basin
The Far East and the Pacific, 1941 – The Imperial Powers, 1 September 1939

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Three different versions of “The Hut-Sut Song” make the list this week, and two of “Intermezzo.”

Billboard Top Ten for the Week of July 5, 1941

#1 - “Maria Elena” - Jimmy Dorsey, with Bob Eberly
#2 - “Daddy” - Sammy Kaye, with the Kaye Choir
#3 - “The Hut-Sut Song” – Horace Heidt, with Donna & her Don Juans
#4 – “The Hut-Sut Song” – Freddy Martin, With Eddie Stone
#5 - “My Sister And I” - Jimmy Dorsey, with Bob Eberly
#6 - “Intermezzo” – Wayne King
#7 - “Intermezzo” – Freddy Martin, with Clyde Rogers
#8 - “The Things I love” – Jimmy Dorsey, with Bob Eberly
#9 – “Green Eyes” - Jimmy Dorsey, with Bob Eberly and Helen O’Connell
#10 - “The Hut-Sut Song” – The Four King Sisters

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Blasts Appeasers – 2-3
The President’s Address – 2
The International Situation – 3
Final Jewish Law is Drafted in Italy – 3
Reich Losses Given – 4-5
Russians Holding on Finnish Front – 5-6
Stalin Line Looms as a Nazi Obstacle – 6
Guerrilla Success Listed by Moscow – 6
Democracy Stressed at San Juan Fourth – 7
Times Sq. Traffic Halts During President’s Talk – 7
Nazis Face Crucial Test – 7
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the Fighting in Various War Zones – 8-9
Gasproof Suits to Aid Australia’s Wool Sales – 9
Soviet Lists Pledges of Aid – 9

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http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1941/jul41/f05jul41.htm

Germans breakthrough in the Ukraine

Saturday, July 5, 1941 www.onwar.com

On the Eastern Front... The German 6th Army breaches the Soviet defense line west of Zhitomir. Panzer Group 1 (Kleist) begins to move through the gap but is somewhat held back by orders from Hitler. Farther north in the attacks east of Minsk the German advance reaches the Dniepr.

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http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andrew.etherington/month/thismonth/05.htm

July 5th, 1941

UNITED KINGDOM: Boom defence vessel HMS Barova launched. Destroyer HMS Oribi commissioned. (DS)

GERMANY: Rastenburg: Hitler’s adjutant says that the murder of thousands of Russian Jews by SS Einsatzgruppen [action squads] or by local militia is part of a “necessary mopping-up operation.”

U-197 is laid down. U-136, U-355, U-754 launched. U-133, U-208, U-654 commissioned. (DS)

AEGEAN SEA: The British submarine ‘Torbay’ sinks the Italian submarine ‘Jantina’.

YUGOSLAVIA: Belgrade: A 49-year-old Communist who organized groups of his fellow Yugoslav’s to fight Franco in the Spanish Civil War today issued a call to his country “to rise llike one man in this battle against the invaders and hirelings.”

Josip Broz, alias “Tito”, has recruited many partisans from the Yugoslavs who have fled to the mountains to escape forced labour under the Germans.

U.S.S.R.: The German Sixth Army breaks through the Stalin line near Lwow.
The Soviet defence line west of Zhitomir is breached by the German 6th Army. To the north, east of Minsk, the German advance reaches the Dniepr River.
AUSTRALIA: Minesweepers HMAS Cairns and Wollongong launched. (DS)

U.S.A.: The New York Yankees begin a three-game baseball series against the Philadelphia Athletics in Yankee Stadium in New York City. Joe DiMaggio hits a home run going 1-for-4 against A’s pitcher Phil Marchildon and extending his hitting streak to 46-games. (Jack McKillop)

Destroyer USS Frazier laid down. (DS)

CANADA: Corvette HMCS Drumheller launched Collingwood, Ontario. (DS)

ATLANTIC OCEAN: In the morning, U-96 was pursuing a convoy contact report from a Condor aircraft through fog about 300 miles north of the Azores, when she came upon a curious formation of six vessels: survey vessel HMS Challenger, leading the troopship Anselm, the AMC HMS Cathay and three corvettes, HMS Petunia, Lavender and Starwort, which were deployed to port, starboard and astern of the troopship. At 0829, U-96 fired a salvo of four torpedoes and thought that she had scored hits on the AMC and a yacht (the survey ship). However, two torpedoes hit the Anselm, sinking her within 22 minutes, but that was time enough for the crew to launch all but one of the lifeboats. None the less, four crewmembers and 250 of the service personnel on board were lost. The three corvettes immediately started a counter-attack on the U-boat, but the ASDIC of Starwort was out of commission, so Petunia and Lavender, which had firm contacts, delivered the attack. The first corvette launched six depth charges and the latter twenty. Then the attack carried the corvettes close to the survivors in the water, so the depth charging had to be broken off, but they had damaged U-96 so badly, that she had to abort her patrol. In the meantime the master, 93 crewmembers, three gunners and 965 service personnel were picked up by the survey ship (including 60 men from the water) and the third corvette. The survivors were later transferred to the AMC and landed at Freetown. (DS)

Sqn-Ldr the rev Herbert Cecil Pugh (b. 1898) asked to be lowered to some trapped men aboard the torpedoed troopship Anselm; he prayed with them as they went down with the ship. (George Cross)

Italian submarine Michele Bianchi sunk near Bordeaux by submarine HMS Tigris.

CANARY ISLANDS: U-103 refuelled from the German supply ship Charlotte Schliemann in Las Palmas. (DS)

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• "Some [vehicles] tipped over. Luckily none in our company. After 18 kilometers of marching on foot I sat on an armoured vehicle. It tipped so much that it balanced on two wheels, while the other two temporarily stood in the air; still it did not tip over. Along the way was a moor where the vehicles had to make a big detour...one by one vehicles got stuck or even turned over, resulting in breaks and slow tempo." - Alexander Cohrs, assigned to a panzer division on the condition of Russian roads.

• Panzer Group One penetrates the Stalin Line in the south.