BRITISH COMMANDOS RAID BOULOGNE; NAZIS SHOOT MORE HOSTAGES IN PARIS (4/23/42)

Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 4/23/42 | Raymond Daniell, Alan Humphreys, David Anderson, Ralph Parker, 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 .)
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Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
Battle of Bataan, 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

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2-Hour Foray Made (Daniell) – 2-3
Commandos Begin by Ending a Patrol (by Alan Humphreys, first-time contributor) – 3-4
War News Summarized – 3
Battles in 3 Areas (Anderson) – 4-5
100 Hostages Slain in Week to Protect Nazis in France – 5
Red Army Balks German Tanks by Cutting Off Their Support (Parker) – 6
Air Offensive in Europe (Baldwin) – 8
Morale of Forces in Manila Bay High - 8
Texts of Day’s War Communiques – 9

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http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1942/apr42/f23apr42.htm

Japanese advancing Burma
Thursday, April 23, 1942 www.onwar.com

Japanese soldiers crossing water obstacleIn Burma... Advances by the Japanese 56th Division from Taunggyi toward Lashio forces the retreat of the Allied forces from the Irrawaddy Valley as their left flank is now exposed. The Chinese 6th Army survivors begin a withdrawal from Taunggyi toward Yunnan Province.

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

April 23rd, 1942

BURMA:The IJA 56th Division moves from Taunggyi toward Lashio, Burma, causing the Chinese 6th Army to retreat from Taunggyi toward Yunnan Province. Stilwell tries to lead the Chinese soldiers back to Taunggyi; they only obey orders when promised a cash reward.

GERMANY: Berlin: A decree issued by Fritz Sauckel, the Reich Plenipotentiary for Labour orders schoolboys aged 14-16 and schoolgirls aged 16-17 to perform agricultural service.

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NAZIS SHOOT MORE HOSTAGES IN PARIS (4/23/42)

the resemblance to Islamic radicals is uncanny.

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• Eugene Wigner, Harold Urey, and John A. Wheeler and other chemists already assigned to Met Lab (Chicago) including Seaborg meet to discuss the seven possible ways that it is thought that plutonium can be extracted from irradiated uranium.