R. A. F. UNIT ARRIVES TO AID SOVIET; RUSSIANS YIELD CITY EAST OF DNIEPER (9/15/41)

Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 9/15/41 | Robert P. Post, Cyrus L. Sulzberger, 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
Advance on Moscow – Operations, 26 August-5 December 1941
The Mediterranean Basin
The Far East and the Pacific, 1941 – Major Japanese War Objectives and Planned Opening Attacks

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Michael Korda, Ike: An American Hero

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Winston S. Churchill, The Grand Alliance

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Air Unit in Russia – 2
Wood Group Asks Congress to Act – 2
Kremenchug Lost – 3-4
The International Situation – 3
Gale Holds Back War Game Start – 4
102D Troops Move to War Game Today – 4-5
1,600 Men to Go to 44th Division – 5
Dewey Denounces Lindbergh’s Talk – 5
Texts of the Day’s War Communiques – 6

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http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1941/sep41/f15sep41.htm

Germans complete isolation of Leningrad

Monday, September 15, 1941 www.onwar.com

On the Eastern Front... Near Leningrad, German forces capture Schlusselburg on the south shore of Lake Lagoda, effectively cutting the city off completely. The siege of Leningrad begins.

In the United States... The Attorney General rules that the Neutrality Act is not violated when US ships carry war material to British territories in the Near and Far East or the Western Hemisphere.

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http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andrew.etherington/month/thismonth/15.htm

September 15th, 1941

GERMANY: U-157 and U-506 commissioned. (Dave Shirlaw)

U.S.S.R.: Schlusselburg on the south side of Lake Ladoga falls to the Germans. Leningrad is completely isolated from land routes to the rest of the Soviet Union. This siege will last for 3 years.

Moscow: Stalin asks for 25 to 30 British divisions to be sent to aid the Soviet struggle against invasion.

YUGOSLAVIA: Widespread unrest causes martial law to be imposed in Zagreb, Serbia and Croatia.

U.S.A.: The US Attorney General rules that the Neutrality Act does not prohibit US ships carrying war material to British possessions.

The 1st Battalion, 297th Infantry Regiment, Alaska National Guard is inducted at Juneau. (Jack McKillop)

Aircraft carrier USS Bunker Hill laid down.
Submarine USS Pogy laid down.
Destroyers USS Stanly, McCalla and Lardner laid down.

Submarine depot ship HMS Forth commences refit in USA. (Dave Shirlaw)

ATLANTIC OCEAN: U-94 sank SS Empire Eland, SS Newbury and SS Pegasus in Convoy ON-14. (Dave Shirlaw)

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• Guderian's forces link up with Kleist's First Panzer Group near Lokhvitsa, encircling the 21st Army and the entire Soviet Southwestern Front.

• Hoepner's Fourth Panzer Group begins shifting to Army Group Centre.

• Stalin demands that 25 British divisions should be sent to Russia either through Iran or the northern port at Archangel.

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Sorry Mike, but Monty was part of an “old boys” netrwork, just a different one. Alan-Brooke’s network, to be exact. And many of Monty’s subordinates were from yet another old boys’ network. His.

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Have you requested your ‘color reprint’ of the ad on Page 61?

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I wonder if that offer is still good.