Posted on 11/03/2011 4:54:43 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
Gordon W. Prange, At Dawn We Slept
Winston S. Churchill, The Grand Alliance
http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1941/nov41/f03nov41.htm
Germans 100 miles east of Leningrad
Monday, November 3, 1941 www.onwar.com
Germans troops battling along a railway lineOn the Eastern Front... In the Leningrad area, German forces of Army Group North continue to attempt to isolate the city by taking Tikhvin a railway center 100 miles east of the city. Fighting is fierce and the Soviet counterattacks are ineffective. Further south, Kursk falls to German units at the junction of Army Group Center and Army Group South .
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-order-is-given-bomb-pearl-harbor
Nov 3, 1941:
The order is given: Bomb Pearl Harbor
On this day in 1941, the Combine Japanese Fleet receive Top-Secret Order No. 1: In 34 days time, Pearl Harbor is to be bombed, along with Mayala, the Dutch East Indies, and the Philippines.
Relations between the United States and Japan had been deteriorating quickly since Japan’s occupation of Indochina in 1940 and the implicit menacing of the Philippines (an American protectorate), with the occupation of the Cam Ranh naval base only eight miles from Manila. American retaliation included the seizing of all Japanese assets in the States and the closing of the Panama Canal to Japanese shipping. In September 1941, Roosevelt issued a statement, drafted by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, that threatened war between the United States and Japan should the Japanese encroach any further on territory in Southeast Asia or the South Pacific.
The Japanese military had long dominated Japanese foreign affairs; although official negotiations between the U.S. secretary of state and his Japanese counterpart to ease tensions were ongoing, Hideki Tojo, the minister of war who would soon be prime minister, had no intention of withdrawing from captured territories. He also construed the American “threat” of war as an ultimatum and prepared to deliver the first blow in a Japanese-American confrontation: the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
And so Tokyo delivered the order to all pertinent Fleet commanders, that not only the United States—and its protectorate the Philippines—but British and Dutch colonies in the Pacific were to be attacked. War was going to be declared on the West.
Very interesting stuff on Finland. If anyone else has more info or links about Finnish involvement in WW2 (Were they ideological allies of the Nazi’s or just looking for help from anyone who would give it?) I would appreciate it. Thanks!
Finland In The Second World War: Between Germany and Russia by Olli Vehvilainen professor of history at University of Tampere, Finland.
great art work on page 10, the tank and battle ship. Can’t imagine the hours off work. I like weird stuff like that.
I found the artillery piece particularly interesting. I bet Par gives me hell for where they are about to shove that round of ammo.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andrew.etherington/month/thismonth/03.htm
November 3rd, 1941
UNITED KINGDOM: Destroyer HMS Meteor launched.
Destroyers HMS Wheatland and Beaufor commissioned.
Escort carrier HMS Tracker laid down.
(Dave Shirlaw)
GERMANY:
U-755 commissioned.
U-200, U-229, U-669 laid down. (Dave Shirlaw)
U.S.S.R.: German attacks continue in the Leningrad sector. Their goal is Tikhvin, 100 miles east of Leningrad. The Soviet counterattacks will be aimed at some of the strongest German positions.
Kursk falls to the Germans.
MEDITERRANEAN SEA: British planes stage a series of attacks on Sicily.
JAPAN: Tokyo: Japan has one good reason for expansion in the Far East: oil. The country has been starved of oil since the USA decided in July, following the Japanese occupation of French Indochina, to extend the licensing of exports to Japan. It was not intended to ban oil exports to Japan, but US officials refused all applications to export oil and gas.
Roosevelt felt that to reverse the refusals would be a sign of weakness; since then the USA has operated a de facto embargo. With virtually no oil supplies of its own, Japan’s eyes are now firmly set on the oil-rich Dutch East Indies.
CANADA: Minesweeper HMCS Quatsino commissioned.
/Lt Latham Brereton ‘Yogi’ Jenson, RCN, was appointed to HMCS Ottawa, a River-class destroyer. ‘Yogi’ lived a charmed life during the Second World War: three times leaving ships, including the battlecruiser HMS Hood, just before their loss. He had many other harrowing combat experiences as well. His writing and drawings about life in the RCN during the inter-war and wartime eras are excellent descriptive works. His most recent work, Tin Hats, Oilskins, and Seaboots, was published in the summer of 2001. (Dave Shirlaw)
U.S.A.: A Joint Board meeting is held in Washington. Marshall states that there would only be sufficient B-17’s in the Philippines to “have a deterrent effect on Japanese operations.” The Joint Board concurred in opposing the State Department’s hard line towards Japan and advocated the US making minor concessions to buy time. (Marc Small)
Destroyers USS Mervine and Quick laid down. (Dave Shirlaw)
WEST INDIES: HMS Indomitable is accidentally damaged while training. This carrier was scheduled to join HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse as the British Far East Fleet.
ATLANTIC OCEAN: Convoy SC-52 was attacked by several U-boats.
U-202 sank SS Flynderborg and Gretavale in Convoy SC-52.
U-203 sank SS Gemsbuck and Everoja in Convoy SC-52.
(Dave Shirlaw)
Thanks for the tip!
Finland in the Second World War: between Germany and Russia
http://books.google.com/books?id=p2A3ufN7jNMC
Finland’s War of Choice:
The Untidy Coalition of a Democracy and a Dictatorship in World War II
http://books.google.com/books?id=1izr3Cwhtz8C
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