NAZIS POUND 3 SECTORS, ADVANCE IN BALTIC AREA; RUSSIANS SAY LINES HOLD (7/10/41)

Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 7/10/41 | David Anderson, 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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[Homer_J_Simpson]

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

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Winston S. Churchill, The Grand Alliance

[He Rides A White Horse]

Very cool sir. Stalingrad doomed this effort. Should have seized the oil fields in the Caucuses instead of dividing his forces in that sector.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Battle at Ostrov – 2
Russia’s Food Seen as Hitler Problem – 2
German Destruction of Russia’s War Machinery (photos) – 3
Will Ask Congress for Funds This Week – 3
109 Vessels in All Taken for Defense – 3
Air Raids on Reich Widened by R.A.F. – 4-5
The Nazis Picture the Surrender of a Russian Sniper (photo) – 4
Donovan Will Take Information Post – 5
The International Situation – 5
Defense Aid by RFC is Nearly 3 Billion – 7
Nazis Ease Raids on Britain Again – 7
Wheeler Speech in Atlanta Today Postponed When Council Refuses Use of Municipal Hall – 8
Leon Henderson Quits SEC Job to Give His Full Time to Price Administration – 8
German Planes Raid Airport at Matruh – 8
A White Flag in Syria – 10
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the War – 11-12

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1941/jul41/f10jul41.htm

Italians to fight on the Eastern Front

Thursday, July 10, 1941 www.onwar.com

In Italy... Four Italian divisions leave Italy bound for the Eastern Front.

On the Eastern Front... Units of the Soviet Fifth Army counterattack southwest of Korosten. Kleist’s Panzer Group 1 holds the attack amid heavy fighting.

In Washington... Roosevelt submits new appropriations measures to Congress. He asks for $4,770,000,000 for the army.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andrew.etherington/month/thismonth/10.htm

July 10th, 1941

UNITED KINGDOM: RAF Bomber Command: 2 Group: Two low-flying formations of 12 Blenheims raid Cherbourg and Le Havre docks. One crew shot their bomb-load into a railway tunnel. This was direct disobedience since they had been ordered to avoid essentially civilian targets - the pilot was later court-martialled.
The pilots were also ordered to avoid flying so low that the wake made by the aircraft on the sea was visible to fighters.

London:

The first British citizen to die under the 1940 Treachery Act was hanged today at Wandsworth jail. he was sentenced to death at the old Bailey on 8 May. George Johnson Armstrong, a ship’s engineer, was arrested on his return to Britain from America. While in the US he had met a German consul and offered his services as a spy for the Nazis. But when he was caught spying it was for the Soviet Union. (Adrian Weale)

Three foreigners have been executed for treachery, having landed on a wild piece of the British coast with radio sets. The other Briton to be sentenced to death, Dorothy O’Grady, has had her sentence commuted to 14 years in jail.

Minesweeping trawler HMS Fetlar is launched.

Submarine HMS UMPIRE is commissioned. (Dave Shirlaw)

GERMANY: The Blohm and Voss, BV-222 flying boat (the largest to attain operational status during the war), completes its first freight mission for the Luftwaffe, flying from the Finkenwerder factory, near Hamburg to Kirkenes, in the far north of Norway.

U-376 and U-586 are launched.

U-503 and U-578 are commissioned. (Dave Shirlaw)

SYRIA:General Dentz asks for a cease-fire.

Pte James Heather Gordon (1909-86), 2/31 Bn Australian Military Forces, knocked out a machine-gun post at Greenhill, north of Jezzine, which was holding up his company. He bayoneted four French machine-gunners. Later he would say, “We had kidded ourselves that the Legionaires, being mercenaries, wouldn’t risk their lives. But they really believed in their ‘fight and die’ creed. It was a pity we had to fight them. They would have made good mates.” (VC) (Mike Mitchell)

LEBANON: Australian units occupy Damur, leaving Beirut as the only Vichy stronghold.

FINLAND: Lt. Gen. Heinrichs’ Karelian Army begins its main attack. Maj. Gen. Talvela’s VI Corps began its attack already late yesterday evening, and Maj. Gen. Hegglund’s VII Corps (7th and 19th Divs) initiates its assault today at 3:20 pm.
Field Marshal Mannerheim gives his so-called “Sword Scabbard” daily order. “I won’t put my sword back into its scabbard before Finland and East Karelia are free.” The order, which is mainly meant to inspire the troops, starts public discussion on what Finland’s war aims should be - not everybody is comfortable with the idea of capturing territory east of the 1939 border (’East Karelia’ is a name commonly used in Finland of the Soviet territory immediately east of Finnish border where there lived peoples related to Finns). The cabinet had no foreknowledge of the order, and is completely taken by surprise. Social Democrat members of cabinet demand explanation and threaten with resignation.

This is a contentious matter, as Finns generally feel the war is fought to take back the territories lost after the Winter War in 1940. Going beyond that raises all kinds of uncomfortable questions — especially abroad — about why Finland is in this war. Particularly the Social Democrats, the largest party, are not happy with fighting on the same side as the totalitarian Nazi Germany, but are ready to go along because they, like the great majority of the nation, consider the USSR a far greater evil.(Mikko Härmeinen)

U.S.S.R.: The Red Air Force announces that it has flown 47,000 missions since the start of the war, dropping a total of 10,000 tonnes of bombs.
Units of the Soviet 5th Army counterattack SW of Korosten.
Kleist’s Panzer Group hold the attack. 4 Italian divisions leave Italy bound for the Eastern Front.

Smolensk: General Guderian has crossed the Beresina and tonight he is preparing to cross the Dnieper in sight of Smolensk, the gateway to Moscow.

XXIV Pz.K.’s 3rd Pz. Div. (GL Walter Model) makes an assault crossing of the Dnepr a Starye Bykhov, about 110 miles down river from Smolensk. (Jeff Chrisman)

General Hoth is sweeping north to by-pass Smolensk and cut the road to Moscow.

On Stalin’s orders Pavlov, the failed commander of the Bialystock sector, has been shot, and a new line of defence has been established under the command of the defence minister, Marshal Timoshenko.

POLAND: Poles drive the entire Jewish population of Jedwabne (1,600 people) into the market place, torture them for several hours, and finally burn them alive in a barn. (Tom Hickox)

U.S.A.: Washington: The progress of the defence program is announced to the Congress. Only $3.6 billion out of $20 billion voted was actually spent on the army. During June 1,476 aircraft were produced out of a planned 3,000 a month. Last August the army has 300 modern combat planes, today it has 250. There are also fewer anti-tank guns than there were a year ago, but the number of rifles has increased by 200,000 and the number of motor vehicles rose from 745 to 125,000.

The Second Marine Aircraft Wing (2d MAW) is established at NAS San Diego, California.

The New York Yankees baseball team begins a three-game series against the St. Louis Browns in Sportsman’s Park in St. Louis, Missouri. Yankee center fielder Joe DiMaggio goes 1-for-2 today against Browns pitcher Johnny Niggeling thus stretching his hitting streak to 49 consecutive games. (Jack McKillop)

CANADA: Corvette HMCS Lunenburg launched Lauzon, Province of Quebec. (Dave Shirlaw)

PANAMA: Howard Field airfield is renamed Howard Air Base. (Jack McKillop)

[CougarGA7]

• Guderian's forces crosses the Dnepr River both north and south of Mogilev.

• In 18 days of combat, German Army Group Centre has moved 360 miles, occupied all of Belorussia, and inflicted 417,790 casualties including 341,073 killed. The Soviets by this point have also lost 4,799 tanks, 9,427 guns and mortars, and 1,777 combat aircraft.

• Potapov and Muzychenko attempt to slow the German advance towards Kiev by striking at the Sixth Army's northern group at the east of Novgorod-Volynskii. This force also hopes to rescue the 7th Rifle Corps which were encircled along the Sluch' river.

• The battle for Smolensk begins with Guderian's Second Panzer Group crossing the Dnepr and decimating the Russian 13th Army.

[Larry381]

In the middle of July the German front ran true along a north-south line from the mouth of the Dniester, on the Black Sea, to Narva, on the Estonian frontier.
But in the centre the reversed S of two gigantic salients bulged ominously. The Panzer groups of Army Group Centre, advancing on Moscow to the north and south of the Minsk highway, had already passed the longitude of Smolensk. But to their right the Russian 5th Army still held its forward positions in the Pripet Marshes.

In this way there was an extra "front" of over 150 miles which lay against the exposed flanks of Army Group Centre, and of Rundstedt's left wing as it approached Kiev. The Russian salient, although giving the appearance of mass, was in reality a fragmented hodgepodge of defeated units, stragglers, men without equipment, tanks without fuel, guns without ammunition. But this was not apparent from the large-scale war map at Rastenburg, and the Germans simply did not dispose of the men to probe the area in sufficient strength to find out. And so the Russian presence, poised (as it seemed) over its supply routes, acted as a brake on the freedom of the army groups to either side.

Meanwhile, as the days passed with them undisturbed, the Russians were exploiting to the full that extraordinary gift of improvisation which was to succor them on so many occasions during the campaign.
Under Potapov they were busy restoring cohesion to their shattered brigades, laying the foundations of the Partisan movement, and operating vigorously with their cavalry—the only mobile arm left to them in any strength.
The 5th Army and the units gathered around it were the largest concentration operating in the German rear, but there were many others still in vigorous action, even though (unlike the 5th Army) they were completely cut off from the main front. The garrisons at Orsha and Mogilev, great numbers of wandering infantry—some as far west as Minsk and Vilna— the whole stretch of the Baltic coastline up to the west of Tallinn, the continued resistance of all these "pockets," lent force to the arguments of those who believed that the Wehrmacht was being dangerously overextended.

With the intention of restoring concentration and asserting at the same time a strict priority of objectives, OKW had issued, on 19th July, Directive No. 33. This opened with a reminder that although the Stalin Line had been pierced along its whole front, ". . . the liquidation of important enemy contingents caught between the mobile elements of the Centre will take a certain amount of time." The directive went on to complain that Army Group South had its northern wing immobilised by the continued resistance of the Soviet 5th Army and by the defence of Kiev. Therefore ". . . the object of the immediate operation is to prevent the enemy from withdrawing important forces beyond the Dnieper and to destroy them."

Barbarossa-Alan Clark

[Larry381]

Photo dated mid-July. No description as to what type of unit this is-note armbands.

Soviet armor knocked out by at least two apparent hits.

Part of bag of over 200 Soviet troops who suddenly surrendered to passing German unit.

Pro-German Ukrainian partisan attempts to score with local peasant.

Although photo has no description, this appears to be the aftermath of a Soviet ambush on a German unit.

German panzer soldier says goodbye to members of his crew.

Wounded waiting for transportation to dressing station.

German signpost pointing eastward.

[toddausauras]

I really appreciate these photos everyday. I’d never seen any of them, which I guess shouldn’t surprise me because a lot of photos were taken. Thanks!

[central_va]

That tank more than 2 hits, look at the turret!