12,000 JAPANESE LANDING ON CEBU, AS GUNS HAMMER AT CORREGIDOR (4/12/42)

Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 4/12/42 | C. Brooks Peters, Frank Hewlett, Dean Schedler, Hanson W. Baldwin

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THE NEWS OF THE WEEK IN REVIEW

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[Homer_J_Simpson]

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
Battle of Bataan, 1942
The Far East and the Pacific, 1941 – American Carrier Operations, 7 December 1941-18 April 1942
Micronesia, Melanesia and New Guinea: Japanese Centrifugal Offensive-Japanese Fourth Fleet and South Seas Detachment Operations, December 1941-April 1942
Luzon, P.I., 1941: Centrifugal Offensive, 10 December 1941-6 May 1942-Fourteenth Army Operations on Luzon
Netherlands East Indies, 1941: Japanese Centrifugal Offensive, December 1941-April 1942, Sixteenth Army and Southern Force (Navy) Operations
Southern Asia, 1941: Japanese Centrifugal Offensive (and Continued Operations), January-May 1942
Eastern Europe, 1941: Soviet Winter Offensive – Operations, 6 December 1941-7 May 1942
North Africa, 1940: Rommel’s Second Offensive, 21 January-7 July 1942

[Homer_J_Simpson]

John Toland, The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945

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Carroll V. Glines, The Doolittle Raid

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Fighting on Island (Peters) – 2-3
Bataan’s 98 Days a Terrible Ordeal (Hewlett, Schedler) – 3-4
10,000 March Down Fifth Avenue in War’s First Parade of Women – 5-6
War News Summarized – 5
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the War – 7-8

The News of the Week in Review
Twenty News Questions – 9
Offensive Actions by Both Axis and United Nations are Indicated (Baldwin) – 10-11
Answers to Twenty News Questions – 12

[AlexW]

To much for me to read now, as I am about off to bed, but since I live on Cebu, it should be interesting.
I have yet to see any evidence of WW2 here on Cebu.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Japanese advance in Burma continues
Sunday, April 12, 1942 www.onwar.com

Japanese soldiers fighting among ruinsIn Burma... Despite reinforcement by the Chinese 38th Division, the Japanese take Migyaungye from the Allied defenders and threaten the British positions in the valley.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andrew.etherington/frame.htm

April 12th, 1942 (SUNDAY)

INDIA: The Congress Party leader, Pandit Nehru, promises no surrender and full resistance to the Axis, despite the rejection of Stafford Cripp’s plea for greater Indian military co-operation in exchange for independence after the war.

BURMA: American Volunteer Group P-40s attack Toungoo Airfield and destroy 3 Japanese bombers. (Jack McKillop)

COMMONWEALTH OF THE PHILIPPINES: Australia-based USAAF B-25s, staging through Mindanao Island, hit the harbour and shipping at Cebu, Cebu Island while B-17s carry out single-bomber strikes from Mindanao against Cebu harbour and Nichols Field on Luzon.

Motor torpedo boat PT-35, undergoing repairs on the marine railway at the Cebu Shipyard and Engineering Works, is destroyed by crew as the Japanese capture Cebu Island.

(Jack McKillop)

U.S.A.: Lieutenant General Henry H “Hap” Arnold, Commanding General USAAF, sends air plans for Operation BOLERO, the build-up of US armed forces in the UK for an attack on Europe, to General George C Marshall, Chief of Staff US Army, in London. The plan calls for establishment of the 8th Air Force in the UK. (Jack McKillop)

ATLANTIC OCEAN: German submarines sink 4 merchant vessels:

- Armed U.S. freighter SS Delvalle, en route from New Orleans, Louisiana to Buenos Aires, Argentina, via St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, is torpedoed and sunk by U-154 south of Haiti.

- Armed Panamanian motor tanker MT Stanvac Melbourne is torpedoed by U-203 about 15 miles (24 km) off Frying Pan Shoals, North Carolina.

- Unarmed U.S. tanker SS Esso Boston, en route from Venezuela to Nova Scotia, is torpedoed and shelled by U-130 northeast of Puerto Rico.

- Unarmed U.S. freighter SS Leslie is torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-123 approximately 3 miles (4,8 km) southeast of Hetzel Shoals Gas Buoy, Florida. (Jack McKillop)

[PzLdr]

Baldwin’s appreciation of German PROBABLE intentions is really good.

[iowamark]

Mrs. Winthrop Aldrich’s husband Winthrop Aldrich (1885–1974) was president of Chase Bank. He was the son of Sen. Nelson Aldrich of Rhode Island, Republican Senate leader. His sister Abby Aldrich married John D. Rockefeller, Jr.. One of their sons was Nelson Rockefeller.

[CougarGA7]

• In the worse single incident during the Bataan Death March, near the town of Balanga, Japanese soldiers for no known reason massacred almost 400 Filipino officers and NCOs from the 91st Division by hacking them to death with swords.

[BroJoeK]

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April 12, 1942:

"Evidence at the trial included what appears to be a timer for a bomb.
Whether seized from the defendants or the creation of the prosecution, the device was likely little more than window dressing, for Nazi courts did not subscribe to the legal philosophy of "innocent until proved guilty.""

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