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AMERICANS TIGHTEN ARC AT METZ, SHATTER FOE’S COUNTER-ATTACKS (11/16/44)
Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 11/16/44 | Drew Middleton, Gene Currivan, Lindesay Parrott

Posted on 11/16/2014 4:20:51 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson

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1 posted on 11/16/2014 4:20:51 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
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2 posted on 11/16/2014 4:23:23 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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Continued from November 14.

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Major General H.W. Blakeley, USA, Ret., 32d Infantry Division in World War II

3 posted on 11/16/2014 4:24:30 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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The Nimitz Graybook

4 posted on 11/16/2014 4:25:28 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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Continued from yesterday.

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

5 posted on 11/16/2014 4:26:01 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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The first of the following excerpts is continued from yesterday.

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Winston S. Churchill, Triumph and Tragedy

6 posted on 11/16/2014 4:26:43 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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To: r9etb; PzLdr; dfwgator; Paisan; From many - one.; rockinqsranch; 2banana; henkster; meandog; ...
3 More Forts Fall (Middleton) – 2-3
Americans Can See Buildings of Metz (Currivan) – 3-4
Russians Capture Budapest Bastion – 4-5
War News Summarized – 5
Foe’s Escape Road Severed on Leyte (Parrott) – 6
Like a Bird in the Hand (photo) – 7
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the Fighting in Various War Zones – 8-9
7 posted on 11/16/2014 4:27:56 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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http://onwar.com/chrono/1944/nov44/16nov44.htm

Allies bomb German defenses
Thursday, November 16, 1944 www.onwar.com

On the Western Front... Allied air strikes support offensives of US 9th and 1st Armies; about 10,000 tons of bombs are dropped by some 1200 US 8th Air Force planes and 1100 RAF bombers with the goal of obliterating the fortified towns of Duren, Julich and Heinsberg as well as the German defensive position west of Duren.. The US 9th Army advances toward Geilenkirchen and Eschweiler with the objective of reaching the Roer River. To the right, the US 1st Army attacks toward Duren, east of Aachen.

In Liberated Belgium... Political disagreements between the Belgian government and representatives of the resistance movement results in the resignation of three ministers.


8 posted on 11/16/2014 4:28:47 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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http://www.etherit.co.uk/month/10/16.htm

November 16th, 1944 (THURSDAY)

UNITED KINGDOM:

Aircraft carrier HMCS Magnificent (ex-HMS Magnificent) launched Belfast.

Corvettes HMCS Coppercliff and Collingwood left Londonderry to escort 55-ship Southend to New York City Convoy ONS-266. The convoy arrived safely on 3 Dec, 1944.

Frigate HMS Bigbury Bay launched.

Minesweeper HMS Maenad commissioned.

Destroyer KNM Arendal commissioned.
FRANCE: The second “Red Ball” express supply route is de-activated.

In U.S. Third Army’s XX Corps area, 357th Infantry Regiment, 90th Infantry Division, silencing guns of the Hackenberg, takes a ridge beyond; the 358th Infantry seizes Inglange and Metzervisse. Combat Command B, 10th Armored Division, reaches Kirschnaumen; Combat Command A’s Task Force Chamberlain gets beyond Laumesfeld while Task Force Standish takes Ste Marguerite. Task Force Bacon, 95th Infantry Division, starts south toward Metz along the east bank of the Moselle River, advancing steadily 4.5 miles (7,25 kilometers) miles to Trémery. In the region west of the Moselle River, the 377th and 378th Infantry Regiments take up pursuit as the Germans begin withdrawing their bridgehead, abandoning Woippy; the 379th Infantry, strengthening its attack, takes St Hubert Farm and Moscou Farm. The 5th Infantry Division attacks north toward Metz: the 11th Infantry Regiment contains the Verdun Forts and is heavily engaged at Frescaty Airfield; the 10th Infantry finishes clearing

Marly and pushes on toward Magny; the 2d Infantry is largely engaged at the Nied Francaise River line, but a battalion pushes toward Frontigny. In the XII Corps area, Combat Command A, 6th Armored Division, and 318th and 319th Infantry Regiments, 8oth Infantry Division, attack toward Faulquemont, supported by massed fire from Cote de Suisse, and seize the high ground south of town; during the advance, the Germans are driven from five towns and about 1,200 prisoners are taken.

In the U.S. Seventh Army’s XV Corps area, the 79th Infantry Division gains ground toward the Vezouse River, overrunning Barbas. The French 2d Armored Division, which is to exploit the expected breakthrough of infantrymen, clears the Nonhigny with reconnaissance elements of Combat Command R. In the VI Corps area, 103d Infantry Division clears part of the triangular hill mass southwest of St Die.

In the French First Army area, I Corps overruns Ste Marie and pushes on toward Montbéliard on the left and thrusts to Roches-les-Blamont on the right.

BELGIUM: Three government ministers resign because of differences between the government in exile and the resistance.

Ten V-bombs kill 263 civilians in Antwerp.

NETHERLANDS: In the British Second Army’s VIII Corps area, the 15th Division finds Meijel clear of the Germans. In the XII Corps area, patrols reach the Zig Canal, southeast of Meijel.

GERMANY: Allied strategic air strikes are made in preparation for the upcoming offensives by the 9th and 1st US Armies. The biggest contingent came from the US Eighth Army Air Force, which deployed 1,208 B-17s and B-24s on targets such as railway lines and gun positions in Düren and Eschweiler near Aachen. RAF Bomber Command joined the attack on Düren, Julich and Heinsberg.

All three towns were seriously damaged, with 2,403 people killed in Düren. Around 9,400 tons of high-explosive bombs were dropped by the combined forces in an action to assist the US armies as they prepare to cross the Roer river. It reflects the increasing co-ordination between land and air forces.

Control of the air was an essential pre-requisite for the success of the landings in Normandy, and the Allied air forces (including the Poles and Canadians) have continued to attack German airfields and supply lines. Launch sites for the V2 rocket and synthetic oil plants are prime targets, but Sir Arthur Harris is now planning an outright assault on German cities, with Berlin as the prime target.

The US 9th Army advances toward Geilenkirchen and Eschweiler heading for the Rühr. The US 1st Army advances toward Düren to the east of Aachen.

The U.S. Ninth and First Armies open a co-ordinated offensive to clear the Roer Plain between the Wurm and the Roer Rivers. The combined air- ground effort is called Operation QUEEN. The air phase of QUEEN marks the greatest close support effort yet made by Allied air forces, British and U.S. strategic and tactical air forces joining in the assault on relatively small zone of attack and dropping more than 9,400 tons (8 528 metric tonnes) of high-explosive bombs.

In the U.S. Ninth Army area, XIX Corps attacks for a crossing of the Roer at Juelich at 1245 hours. Combat Command B, 2d Armored Division, pushes toward Gereonsweiler on the left flank of corps from Waurichen and Beggendorf, seizing Immendorf, Floverich, and Puffendorf. Puffendorf is in the outer ring of the Juelich defenses. Efforts of one column to take Apweiler are costly and unsuccessful, but another column seizes a hill 700 yards (640 meters) northeast of Puffendorf on the highway to Gereonsweiler. In the center, the 29th Infantry Division, committing a battalion each from 115th and 175th Regiments, attacks from the Baesweiler-Oidtweiler area toward Aldenhoven en route to Juelich but is stopped close to the line of departure near the villages of Siersdorf and Bettendorf. The 30th Infantry Division, reinforced by a regiment of the 84th, attacks south in the Wuerselen area with three regiments abreast, the 117th taking Mariadorf and 120th overrunning Euchen; bit littl

e progress is made in Wuerselen.

In the U.S. First Army area, VII Corps opens an attack at 1245 hours, pushing toward Dueren and Cologne to secure Roer River crossings, with the 104th Infantry Regiment, 3d Armored, 1st Infantry, and 4th Infantry Divisions from left to right. The 104th Infantry Division makes their main effort on the right with 414th Infantry Regiment, reinforced by a battalion of the 415th Infantry, driving toward the Donnerberg (Hill 287) and Eschweiler Woods; German opposition from commanding ground of the Donnerberg limits progress, but elements secure a weak hold on the Birkengang, suburb of Stolberg northwest of the Donnerberg; the rest of the 104th Infantry Division conducts limited actions to the north without making appreciable headway. Combat Command B, 3d Armored Division, attacks in the Stolberg corridor toward four villages at the western base of Hamich Ridge. Task Force Mills loses 15 tanks in a vain effort to take Hastenrath and Scherpenseel. Task Force Lovelady seizes Kot

tench and Werth. The 1st Infantry Division, reinforced by the 47th Infantry Regiment, 9th Infantry Division, makes the main effort of the corps from Schevenhuette, pressing through Huertgen Forest toward Langerwehe and Juengersdorf; the 47th Infantry Regiment gets a battalion into Gressenich; the 16th and 26th Infantry Regiments attack in the Huertgen Forest astride the Schevenhuette-Langerwehe highway, the 26th Infantry Regiment on the right, but lacks tank support and advance slowly; the 16th Infantry reaches the edge of the woods overlooking Hamich. The 4th Infantry Division, reinforced by Combat Command R of the 5th Armored Division, attacks on a broad front in the Huertgen Forest at the scene of earlier battles in an effort to break through between Schevenhuette and Huertgen, making their main effort on the left in order to support the 1st Infantry Division: elements of the 8th Infantry Regiment on the north and the 22d Infantry Regiment in the center make extremely slo

w progress against well-organized positions within the forest; the 12th Infantry Regiment can scarcely move on plateau southwest of Huertgen.

The USAAF Eighth Air Force flies Mission 715 in support of Operation QUEEN: 1,243 bombers and 282 fighters, along with Ninth Air Force and RAF aircraft, are dispatched to attack tactical targets east of Aachen, Germany in support of the US First and Ninth Armies’ offensive; 1 fighter is lost: 713 B-17 Flying Fortresses and B-24 Liberators hit Eschweiler and 478 B-17s hit Duren.

Eighty USAAF Ninth Air Force 9th Bombardment Division bombers hit defended areas and strongpoints at Echtz, Luchem, and Eschweiler; IX Tactical Air Command fighter-bombers dive-bomb gun positions and other targets in the Stolberg and Hurtgen areas and XIX Tactical Air Command supports the US XX Corps in the Merzig, Trier, and Saarbrucken area; the XXIX Tactical Air Command attacks targets in 12 west German towns.

During the day, RAF Bomber Command is asked to bomb three towns near the German lines in the area between Aachen and the Rhine in support of Operation QUEEN. The RAF dispatches 1,188 aircraft to attack Duren, Jülich and Heinsburg in order to cut communications behind the German lines. Duren is attacked by 485 Lancasters and 13 Mosquitos, Jülich by 413 Halifaxes, 78 Lancasters and 17 Mosquitos and Heinsberg by 182 Lancasters. Three Lancasters are lost on the Duren raid and a Lancaster on the Heinsberg raid.

Four hundred forty eight USAAF Fifteenth Air Force B-17 Flying Fortresses and B-24 Liberators attack the Munich marshalling yard with the loss of three aircraft. Over 250 P-51 Mustangs and P-38 Lightnings support the attack on Munich.

U-2333, U-3020 launched.

U-2339 commissioned.

AUSTRIA: The primary target for the USAAF Fifteenth Air Force today is the Main marshalling yard at Innsbruck: 62 B-17 Flying Fortresses bomb the yard with the loss of three aircraft. One each B-17 bomb the marshalling yard at Villach and the railroad at Zillertaller.

ITALY: In the U.S. Fifth Army area, the British XIII Corps pauses to regroup so that troops may be rotated.

In the British Eighth Army area, V Corps halts along the line of the Montone and Cosina Rivers and regroups.

USAAF Twelfth Air Force medium bombers fly 250+ sorties against rail lines in the Brenner Pass and other parts of northeastern Italy destroying the railroad bridge at Sacile; fighter-bombers in support of the British Eighth Army advance to the northwest of Forli, hit guns, ammunition supplies, and other military targets, attack pipeline crossings of the Po River at Ostiglia and Ferrara, and pontoon stores near Ficarola, as well as hitting communications targets north of the battle area.

USAAF Fifteenth Air Force bombs hit three targets: three bomb a railroad bridge at Casarsa, two attack the railroad in the Brenner Pass and one hits a railroad bridge at Pinzano.

During the night of 16/17 November, RAF bombers of No. 205 (Heavy Bomber) Group fly two missions: 77 drop supplies to partisans in Northern Italy and ten bomb a pontoon bridge at Ficorolo.

YUGOSLAVIA: Twenty USAAF Fifteenth Air Force B-24 Liberators bomb Visegrad Airfield and five others hit a highway; 26 P-38 Lightnings strafe transport targets on roads between Sarajevo and Novi Pazar.

CHINA: Twenty three USAAF Fourteenth Air Force B-24 Liberators bomb Changsha; eight B-25 Mitchells hit Lohochai and bomb the Wanling, Burma area. Over 70 P-40s and P-51 Mustangs over SE and SW China on armed reconnaissance attack road, river, and rail traffic, town areas, and other targets of opportunity at several scattered locations.

BURMA: In the Northern Combat Area Command (NCAC) area, the British 36th Division is still held up in the railroad corridor by stubborn opposition in the Pinwe area. Two companies are isolated by a Japanese roadblock and have to be withdrawn.

Thirty USAAF Tenth Air Force P-47 Thunderbolts hit troop concentrations and supply areas at Naungmo, Nawngmoloi, and Lashio; 11 support ground forces in the Pinwe area, four attack bridges at Meza and over the Sindaw River; four bomb the Meza railroad station, 16 sweep the railroad from Sagaing to Kanbalu, and 16 strafe Nawnghkio and Hsumhsai Airfields.

FRENCH INDOCHINA: Sixteen USAAF Fourteenth Air Force B-25 Mitchells hit Nghia Trang, Duc Tho, Nha Trang, and Do Len.

COMMONWEALTH OF THE PHILIPPINES: LEYTE—In the U.S. Sixth Army’s X Corps area on Leyte, two battalions of the 128th Infantry Regiment, 32d Infantry Division, begin a drive on Ormoc, passing through the 21st Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division, on Breakneck Ridge. One battalion is soon halted but the second pushes forward 350 yards (320 meters) without opposition.

In the central Philippines and in the Mindanao Island area, USAAF Far East Air Forces B-25 Mitchells, B-24 Liberators, and fighter-bombers hit airfields, harbors, shipping, and targets of opportunity.

EAST INDIES: In the Kendari area and on the northeast peninsula of Celebes Island, and on Halmahera Island in the Netherlands East Indies, USAAF Far East Air Forces B-24 Liberators, B-25 Mitchells, and fighter-bombers pound airfields, villages and shipping. B-25 Mitchells also support ground forces in the Mapia Island and bomb Namlea Airfield on Boeroe (Buroe) Island.

BONIN AND VOLCANO ISLANDS: Twelve USAAF Seventh Air Force B-24 Liberators bomb shipping at Chichi Jima Island while two others attack barges at Haha Jima. During the night of 16/17 November, a B-24 on a snooper mission in the Bonin Islands attacks shipping.

MARIANA ISLANDS: Twelve USAAF Seventh Air Force P-47 Thunderbolts and three P-38 Lightnings hit the airfield on Pagan Island in the first combat strike by P-38s in the Mariana Islands.

U.S.A.: Submarine USS Trutta commissioned.


9 posted on 11/16/2014 4:29:57 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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Re: picture on page 8: I didn’t know we had choppers during the WWII period. Does anyone know if they were ever used in combat during that war, or if they were used at all for combat support?

I can vaguely remember some use of helicopters (maybe for moving troops?) during Korea, and of course they were critical in Vietnam, but I didn’t know they were even available during the mid ‘40’s.


10 posted on 11/16/2014 5:57:38 AM PST by Stosh
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As per wiki:

Wiki outline the very early history of helicopter development which was mostly experimental.

Birth of an industry

Heinrich Focke at Focke-Wulf was licensed to produce the Cierva C.30 autogyro in 1933. Focke designed the world’s first practical transverse twin-rotor helicopter, the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, which first flew on 26 June 1936. The Fw 61 broke all of the helicopter world records in 1937, demonstrating a flight envelope that had only previously been achieved by the autogyro. Nazi Germany used helicopters in small numbers during World War II for observation, transport, and medical evacuation. The Flettner Fl 282 Kolibri synchropter — using the same basic configuration as Anton Flettner’s own pioneering Fl 265 — was used in the Mediterranean, while the Focke Achgelis Fa 223 Drache twin-rotor helicopter was used in Europe.[citation needed] Extensive bombing by the Allied forces prevented Germany from producing any helicopters in large quantities during the war.

In the United States, Russian-born engineer Igor Sikorsky and W. Lawrence LePage competed to produce the U.S. military’s first helicopter. LePage received the patent rights to develop helicopters patterned after the Fw 61, and built the XR-1. Meanwhile, Sikorsky settled on a simpler, single rotor design, the VS-300, which turned out to be the first practical single lifting-rotor helicopter design and potentially the best-flying one since the Soviet TsAGI 1-EA, which had flown nearly a decade before. After experimenting with configurations to counteract the torque produced by the single main rotor, Sikorsky settled on a single, smaller rotor mounted on the tailboom.

Developed from the VS-300, Sikorsky’s R-4 was the first large-scale mass-produced helicopter, with a production order for 100 aircraft. The R-4 was the only Allied helicopter to serve in World War II, when it was used primarily for rescue in Burma, Alaska, and other areas with harsh terrain. Total production reached 131 helicopters before the R-4 was replaced by other Sikorsky helicopters such as the R-5 and the R-6. In all, Sikorsky produced over 400 helicopters before the end of World War II.

While LePage and Sikorsky built their helicopters for the military, Bell Aircraft hired Arthur Young to help build a helicopter using Young’s two-blade teetering rotor design, which used a weighted stabilizing bar placed at a 90° angle to the rotor blades. The subsequent Model 30 helicopter showed the design’s simplicity and ease of use. The Model 30 was developed into the Bell 47, which became the first helicopter certified for civilian use in the United States. Produced in several countries, the Bell 47 was the most popular helicopter model for nearly 30 years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicopter


11 posted on 11/16/2014 8:23:44 AM PST by Steven Scharf
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Nimitz writes of SeaFox firing 11 torpedoes to sink one medium freighter. I doubt the freighter had a torpedo belt. Some of the fish may have malfunctioned, or been badly aimed but I suspect the freighter was carrying a load of something very bouyant. I wonder why after three hits and she was still afloat the captain didn’t surface and go at her with the deck gun?


12 posted on 11/16/2014 9:01:24 AM PST by fso301
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Per Wiki, some of the SeaFox's torpedoes did malfunction:

On 26 October, she conducted her first attack and damaged an enemy freighter; then proceeded on to the Nansei Shoto in the Ryukyus. There, on 8 November, after firing 11 torpedoes in four attacks, she sank an engines-aft cargoman. Of the 11 torpedoes fired, several broached and one circled and passed over Sea Fox's conning tower.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Sea_Fox_%28SS-402%29#First_patrol:_October.E2.80.93November.C2.A01944


13 posted on 11/16/2014 9:08:31 AM PST by fso301
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The way the Wiki is written, it may have been 11 torpedoes in four attacks on different ships.


14 posted on 11/16/2014 9:25:06 AM PST by fso301
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To: Homer_J_Simpson

Something very interesting I stumbled across last night:

No Banality in This Evil
A new documentary and a new book look at Himmler and Eichmann through newly discovered letters

http://tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/186722/no-banality-in-this-evil?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Post&utm_content=No+Banality+in+This+Evil&utm_campaign=Nov2014


15 posted on 11/16/2014 9:25:56 AM PST by EternalVigilance
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To: EternalVigilance
Here is George Will today on the Bettina Stangneth book discussed in the article you linked to.
16 posted on 11/16/2014 10:59:31 AM PST by untenured
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To: Homer_J_Simpson

One more month until the Bulge.


17 posted on 11/16/2014 11:45:52 AM PST by CPT Clay (Follow me on Twitter @Clay N TX)
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To: Steven Scharf

Thanks - “rescue in Burma, Alaska, . . .” - not quite the opening scene in M*A*S*H, but headed in that direction.


18 posted on 11/16/2014 12:26:45 PM PST by Stosh
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The Sub made 4 attacks. It did not say that it attacked the same ship four times.


19 posted on 11/16/2014 4:43:35 PM PST by Ecliptic (.)
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“The Mark 14 torpedo was the United States Navy’s standard submarine-launched anti-ship torpedo of World War II. This weapon was plagued with many problems which crippled its performance early in the war”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_14_torpedo


20 posted on 11/16/2014 5:01:26 PM PST by occamrzr06 (A great life is but a series of dogs!)
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