Posted on 03/09/2015 4:19:38 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
James Bradley, with Ron Powers, Flags of Our Fathers
John Toland, The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945
Winston S. Churchill, Triumph and Tragedy
Barrier Breached (Middleton) – 2-3
Americans Ignore Army Ban on Fraternizing As ‘They Feel Sorry’ for Cologne Civilians – 3
Spaatz Goes to Switzerland to Map Plans To Avert Further Allied Bombings There – 3
Germans Bomb Bridgehead, But Line Over Rhine Is Strong (Hill, Howard Cowan, first-time contributor) *– 4-5
1918: When Americans First Crossed Rhine at Remagen (photo) ** – 4
Watch on the Rhine Found Not Working (Currivan) – 5
War News Summarized – 5
As the Americans Smash the Germans Back in Drive Through the Rhineland (photos) – 6-7
Zhukoff Cuts Line – 8-9
Tightening the Ring Around the Germans in Breslau (photo) – 9
Bombers Rip Ruhr in Shell-Free Sky (Gruson) – 10
Marines Fight Way to Iwo’s North Rim – 10-11
Iwo’s Inner Fires Heat Battlefield (Trumbull) – 11
Marine Hero Slain First Day on Iwo – 11
Soldier is Hanged as London Slayer – 12
The First Navy Flight Nurse on Iwo (w/photo) – 12
First Negro Nurse Sworn into Navy – 12
Americans Stride in Luzon Campaign – 13
Transport Battle Off Luzon is Told – 13
Manila Prisoners Freed – 13
The President Welcomes Ranger Heroes and Decorates an Admiral (photos) – 14
Nimitz, in U.S., Suggests Landing On China Coast Is Being Planned (by Sidney Shalett) – 15
The Battle for Iwo-V (by Hanson W. Baldwin) – 17
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the Fighting in Various War Zones – 18-20
Dog Teams Used to Move Wounded – 20
Stimson Demands Home Front Spurt – 20
* From article: “Censorship will not permit any indication of the location or type of the crossing on the theory that it might give the Germans valuable information.”
** On a completely unrelated topic, here is a picture of Americans crossing the Rhine at Remagen in 1918.
http://www.etherit.co.uk/month/2/09.htm
March 9th, 1945 (FRIDAY)
GERMANY: US forces capture Bonn.
U-2548 is launched.
JAPAN: US B-29s raid Tokyo with 1650 tons of incendiary bombs. This is the first of many fire bombing raids on various Japanese Cities.
This was the XXI Bomber Command’s Mission Number 40 flown by the 73d, 313th and 314th Bombardment Wings (Very Heavy). During the night of 9/10 March, 325 B-29s are dispatched from the Mariana Islands to hit the Tokyo urban area; the bombers flew in a stream rather than in bomber formation. The bombers carry neither bomb bay fuel tanks nor guns and ammunition except for the tail turret guns. The bombers departed at sunset and attacked Japan between 0100 and 0300 hours on 10 March; 279 bombers hit the primary target with 1,665 tons of incendiary bombs from an altitude between 4,900 and 9,200 feet (1,494 and 2,804 meters). Twenty B-29s hit secondary targets and targets of opportunity. Fourteen B-29s are lost, one to AA, five ditched, one made it back but was scrapped and seven were missing. This is the first of the night fire bomb raids on Japanese cities and results in 15.8 square miles (40.9 square km) of Tokyo being burned out and an estimated 83,000 Japanese killed.
REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA: Frigate SAS Natal commissioned.
U.S.A.: Destroyer USS Furse launched.
For which we are VERY grateful!
And it is greatly appreciated.
Many thanks for what you do and have done here for the past several years. 2000+ consecutive days posting the news of the war in the way you have is just amazing, and I really appreciate it.
Thanks also to Free Republic for hosting your efforts. What a great website.
Roger that.
ditto to what henkster stated. I’m not looking forward to this ending....
Will we be able to find all of these wonderful threads re WWII all in one place somewhere on FR? I sincerely hope so. Would be great to go back and reference these articles or use them for research or students could use them for reports. Talk about a great place for original source material.
There are semi-shortcuts to all the threads from 1938-1943 are available on my profile. At the top of the index by author there are links to the Year in Review for each of them. From those there are links to each thread for the year. I expect to have the 1944 Year in Review before long. Until then you can find the 1944-45 threads fairly easily by scrolling through my posting history. There is a link to that at the top of my profile.
Soldier is Hanged as London Slayer – 12
We read about his arrest and trial. I didn’t recall seeing in the previous article that he had a wife and child back in Boston when he decided to play Natural Born Killers with an English stripper.
Thanks Homer. Well done.
Page 13 bottom right, “Malarial Expert Dies.”
No, an expert didn’t die from malaria. An expert ON malaria committed suicide, poor fellow, only 45. He “blamed no one for his death,” but he was “too tired to go on asking nothing.”
Things that make you go Hmmmm ...
Great. One step in the right direction, but it would be even better if there could be one archived spot to click on to get to all of them, listed chronologically from the first year/day of the war through the last year/day. So that it would be easy to access. There must be some not too hard way to do that. Maybe with a little help from the website owner JimRob? Where there is a will there is a way.
I have so enjoyed these threads and appreciate so very much all the work you have done here. You should put it into a “Kindle” book form and sell it on Amazon. History buffs of WWII would really get off on it I would assume. I know I’d buy it in a nano second. Bravo to you on your WWII masterpiece!
Sad that he left behind a wife and child. On the other hand, I’m doubting he was going to be much of a husband or father anyway. And there are so many more men who are honorably dying for their country who are also leaving behind wives and children.
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