RUSSIANS REPORT MOSCOW LINES HOLD; SOVIET SHIFTS ITS ARMY COMMANDERS (10/24/41)

Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 10/24/41 | Daniel T. Brigham, C.L. Sulzberger, Lansing Warren, 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 .)
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
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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Gordon W. Prange, At Dawn We Slept

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Winston S. Churchill, The Grand Alliance

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http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1941/oct41/f24oct41.htm

Germans capture Kharkov
Friday, October 24, 1941 www.onwar.com
On the Eastern Front... The Ukrainian city of Kharkov falls to a coordinated attack by the German 6th and 17th Armies of Army Group South.

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http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andrew.etherington/month/thismonth/24.htm

October 24th, 1941

UNITED KINGDOM: No. 137 Squadron RAF begins operations over Europe equipped with the Westland Whirlwind. (Jack McKillop)

Corvette HMS Saxifrage launched. (Dave Shirlaw)

FRANCE: Bordeaux: The Germans execute another 50 hostages bringing to 100 those killed in the last 24 hours.

GERMANY: Berlin: Adolf Eichmann approves a scheme to gas Jews using exhaust fumes in specially adapted vans.

U.S.S.R.: The German 6th and 17th Armies succeed in their joint attack and capture Kharkov.

EAST AFRICA: The last combat between a Gloster Gladiator and a CR-42 occurs near Ambazzo, when a 3 Squadron RSAAF (Royal South African Air Force) intercepts an Italian fighter. (Steve Alvin)(163, 164 and 165)

COMMONWEALTH OF THE PHILIPPINES: MacArthur requests an additional US $3 million (US $43.6 million in 2008 dollars) to build facilities at Del Monte (Mindanao) and five other airfields. (Jack McKillop)

ATLANTIC OCEAN: The IIWO of U-97 was badly injured in an accident onboard, forcing the boat to return to base.

After some successful attacks in the morning against convoy HG-75, U-564 was attacked twice in the evening, first by an aircraft with one bomb and 3 hours later by an escort with depth charges. The boat sustained no damage.

While escorting convoy HG-75 from Gibralter to the U.K., the destroyer HMS Cossack (G 03) is hit by a torpedo from the German submarine U-563. The explosion blows off the bow and forward section of the ship killing 159 officers and ratings. Still afloat, the vessel is taken in tow stern first by a tug from Gibralter but bad weather causes the tow to be slipped and the Cossack sinks soon after about 229 nautical miles (425 kilometers) west of Gibraltar in position 35.56N, 10.04W. Some survivors are rescued by the destroyer HMS Legion (G 74) and the corvette HMS Carnation K 00) and taken to Leith, Scotland.

U-564 sank SS Alhama, SS Ariosto and SS Carsbreck in Convoy HG-75. (Dave Shirlaw)

[txroadkill]

You forgot the ping!

[Homer_J_Simpson]

You forgot the ping!

Sorry everyone. I haven't done that in quite a while. I was wondering at the lack of activity. I figured maybe readers were tired of the same old war on the eastern front.

Nazi Claims Denied – 2-3
New Commander of Russia’s Central Armies (photo) – 2
Moscow Thrusts Gain, Nazis Claim – 3-4
Reprisals Mount – 4-5
The International Situation – 4
All in Odessa Saved, Russian Report Says – 5
Egypt Held Secure against Axis Drive – 6
Archangel News Irks White House – 6
From Vladivostok to New York in Wartime (photo) – 7
Zhukoff Assisted in Revamping Army – 7
Gas Industry Begins Task of Organizing – 7
Germans Edge Forward – 8
Vichy Ministries Cite Penal Power – 8
Texts of the Day’s War Communiques – 9

[texanyankee]

lol....i was wondering if you were taking a day off....

thanks for your daily reports..

[ichabod1]

Sometimes it seems like the current headlines are so dreadful that I don’t have enough heart to start looking at the headlines from 70 years ago - other than to read the pings. Seems like one must have gotten inured to it all after a while... 12 airplanes today, a destroyer and a frigate tomorrow...

Well, at least WE aren’t in a shooting war! Something is coming which should remind us that it can all change on one really really bad day.