RUSSIANS REPORT INVADER CHECKED IN MOST SECTORS (8/11/41)

Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 8/11/41 | Cyrus L. Sulzberger, Daniel T. Brigham, James MacDonald, 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.
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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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John Toland, The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945

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William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

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Winston S. Churchill, The Grand Alliance

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Russians Report Invader Checked in Most Sectors – 2-3
Reich Mailbags Become a Bundle for Britain – 3
R.A.F. Hammers Nazis on Coast – 3
Hailed as World’s Most Powerful Plane: The Beau (photo) – 4
Casualties in Russia-I – 5
The International Situation – 5
Texts of the Day’s War Communiques – 6
Firmness in Dealing with Japan is Urged – 6

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http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1941/aug41/f11aug41.htm

Finns reach Vuosalmi

Monday, August 11, 1941 www.onwar.com

On the Eastern Front... The Finnish attacks south of Lake Ladoga reach Vuosalmi.

In Newfoundland... Churchill and Roosevelt continue their meeting at Placentia Bay. Both are accompanied by their military staffs. The discussions cover the situation in Europe and the Far East.

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http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andrew.etherington/month/thismonth/11.htm

August 11th, 1941

UNITED KINGDOM: Submarine HMS Unsparing laid down.

Corvette HMS Bellwort launched.

Minesweeper HMS Ipswich launched. (Dave Shirlaw)

GERMANY: U-416 laid down.
U-655 commissioned. (Dave Shirlaw)

FINLAND: Finnish attacks south of Lake Ladoga reach Vuosalmi.

CANADA: Minesweepers HMCS Gananoque and Nipigon commissioned.
Corvette HMCS Moncton launched.

Fairmile “B” patrol craft ordered for RCN: HMC ML 074, ML 075, ML 076, ML 077, ML 078, ML 079, ML 080, ML 081, ML 082, ML 083, ML 084 and ML 085. (Dave Shirlaw)

NEWFOUNDLAND: President Franklin D Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill confer twice today aboard the US heavy cruiser USS Augusta (CA-31) in Placentia Bay, Argentia, Newfoundland. (Jack McKillop)

U.S.A.: Glenn Miller and his Orchestra record “Elmer’s Tune” on Bluebird Records. (Jack McKillop)

Light fleet carriers USS Belleau Wood and Independence laid down as Cleveland Class cruisers. (Dave Shirlaw)

[iowamark]

Sumner Welles appears on the cover of Time today, August 11, 1941. He was close to both FDR and Eleanor Roosevelt and probably would have replaced Hull as SoS if not for his homosexual activity.

[BroJoeK]

August 11

"At the beginning of the war, the Jews of Lvov numbered 110,000--the third largest Jewish community in Poland.
A flood of refugees brought an additional 100,000.
The SS and their Ukrainian helpers murdered all but a few thousand.

"The killing began in June 1941.
Encouraged by Einsatzgruppe C, Ukrainian nationalists unleashed hellish pogroms that over the next two months claimed 6000 Jewish lives.
That fall the Nazis forced Jews to move into a section of the city that was sealed with barbed wire.
While moving into this ghetto, 5000 elderly and disabled people were murdered; the women were bludgeoned, the men lined against a wall and shot.

"In 1941 the SS set up a camp and forced Lvov's Jews to perform slave labor.
Sadistic camp commanders used Jews for target practice, aiming at noses or fingers.
The injured were finished off with a shot.
Those judged unfit for work were marched to a sandy area away from camp, where they were murdered.
As many as 200,000 were executed in this "Valley of Death."
Tens of thousands were shipped to the Belzec, Poland, death camp.

"While liquidating the Lvov Ghetto in 1943, SS members hunted down and killed every Jew they could find.
Some fled to nearby forests.
A handful survived by hiding in sewers."

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• "Regarding the general situation, it stands out more and more clearly that we underestimated the Russian colossus, which prepared itself consciously for war with the complete unscrupulousness that is typical of totalitarian states. This statement refers just as much to organizational as to economic strengths, to traffic management, above all to pure military potential. At the start of the war we reckoned with 200 enemy divisions. Now we already count 360. These divisions are not armed and equipped in our sense, and tactically they are inadequately led in many ways. But they are there and when we destroy a dozen of them then the Russians put another dozen in their place. The time factor favors them, as they are near to their own centers of power, while we are always moving further away from ours." - Franz Halder

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[CougarGA7]

21,000 lbs is pretty heavy for a fighter if you ask me. What is that, 4 times heavier than a P-40? Heck, I think this plane is heavier than a B-17.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

How does 330 MPH compare with other fighters out there?

[CougarGA7]

According to my book on U.S. planes, the P-38, which is also a two engined design had a top speed of 420 mph, so significantly faster. The P-39 maxed out at 400 mph, and the P-40 could go 375 mph.

Looks like even the Spitfire MK-V is faster at 370 mph.

There is also the XP-47J which flew at 504 mph, fastest sustained level flight speed obtained by a piston engine, but I don’t think this plane is flying yet. the XP-47B only made its first flight back in May.

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So it’s slower and less maneuverable than the likely opposition, but better armed. Maybe they could put treads on it and use it on the ground.

[CougarGA7]

That or they can put an AVS Mark II radar in it and make it a submarine hunter. Assuming of course that it has decent range.

[Chi-townChief]

They were probably ‘checked’ into all the local hotels.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Tight bodice alert - Pg 33.

They finally ran illustrations of the Bismarck affair. I don't see the picture someone posted back in May from a Time/Life archive. Maybe Time magazine did their own feature.

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They were probably ‘checked’ into all the local hotels.

You're parsing their report. You should have more trust in our Soviet ally. I mean our future ally. I mean our potential ally if some unforeseeable event should force us to enter the war.