JAPANESE LOSE 111 PLANES IN ATTACK OFF OKINAWA BUT HIT 11 LIGHT SHIPS (5/26/45)

Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 5/26/45 | Bruce Rae, W.H. Lawrence, Warren Moscow, Drew Middleton, James A. Hagerty

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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 and the occasional radio broadcast 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. Also visit our general discussion thread.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
Southern Okinawa: Naha-Shuri-Yonabaru, 1945 – Tenth Army Operations, 10 May-30 June 1945
Okinawa, Ryukyus Islands, 1945: Japanese Thirty Second Army Defensive Dispositions, 1 April 1945
Luzon, P.I., 1941: Final Operations on Luzon, 3 February-20 July 1945
Southeast Asia, 1941: Final Allied Offensives in the Southwest Pacific Area 19 February-1 July 1945
China, 1941: Operation Ichigo, 1945 and Final Operations in the War
Southern Asia, 1941: Third Burma Campaign-Allied Victory, April-May 1945

[Homer_J_Simpson]

The Nimitz Graybook

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Billboard Top 10 (or Top 11) for the Week of May 26, 1945

#1 – “Sentimental Journey” – Les Brown, with Doris Day
#2 – “There! I’ve Said It Again” – Vaughn Monroe
#3 - “Bell Bottom Trousers” - Tony Pastor, with Ruth McCullough
#4 - “Candy” - Johnny Mercer, with Jo Stafford and the Pied Pipers
#5 - “Dream” - Pied Pipers
#6 – “Caldonia” – Louis Jordan
#7 - “Dream” - Frank Sinatra
#8 - “My Dreams are Getting Better All the Time” - Les Brown, with Doris Day
#8 – “You Belong to My Heart” – Bing Crosby, with Xavier Cugat Orchestra
#9 – “Laura” - Johnnie Johnston
#10 - “Caldonia” - Woody Herman

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Battle Fantastic (Rae) – 2-3
6 Suicide Planes and 2 Bombs Hit Destroyer Laffey, She Gets Home – 3
Destroyer Little Lost Off Okinawa – 3-4
Marines Find Many Naha Houses Standing And a Lot of Japanese in Ruins of City (Lawrence) – 4
War News Summarized – 4
Palace in Area Hit (Moscow) – 5-7
Marines Engage in Bitter Fighting as They Drive Into Okinawa Capital (photos) – 5-6
Luzon Guerrillas Win Towns in East – 7-8
Tydings Stresses Ties With Philippines, Field for Investment and Need fro Bases – 8
Chinese Win More of Foe’s Corridor – 8-9
Surly Germans Still View Allies’ Victory as ‘Fluke’ (Middleton) – 9
Military Training is Urged by Bard – 10
A War Bond is the Admission for Visit to This U-Boat (photo) – 10
Browder Shift Seen Aiding Flynn And Strengthening Liberal Party (Hagerty) – 11
The Texts of the Day’s War Communiques – 12

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.etherit.co.uk/month/4/26.htm

May 26th, 1945 (SATURDAY)

UNITED KINGDOM: Corvettes HMCS Lachute and West York departed Londonderry as escort for Convoy ON-305.

GERMANY: Lüneberg: Sergeants Ray Weston and Bill Ottery bury Himmler in an unmarked grave.

BURMA: Allied forces occupy Bassein, 90 miles west of Rangoon.

JAPAN: The USAAF’s Twentieth Air Force in the Mariana Islands flies Mission 184: During the night of 26/27 May, 29 B-29 Superfortresses mine waters in Shimonoseki Strait and at Fushiki, Fukuoka, and Karatsu, Japan.

Emperor Hirohito and the Japanese imperial family escaped with their lives today as flames started by B-29 fire-bomb attacks surrounded their main palace in Tokyo and destroyed the nearby business district of Marunouchi. Twenty-six Marianas-based B-29s were lost.

Later Tokyo Radio confirmed US Army Air Force claims that parts of the imperial palace and Omiya palace had been damaged, but said that both the emperor and empress were safe and uninjured. The raid was the second in 48 hours, with 464 B-29 Superfortresses dropping 4,000 tons of incendiaries on the Marunouchi district just south of the imperial palace. With scores of new buildings - many supposedly fire and earthquake proof - the area was, until today, the pride of modern Japan.

The Tokyo raid came as Japanese flyers, absent from combat in recent weeks, launched desperate mass Kamikaze attacks on US ships off Okinawa plus bizarre suicide raids on the island’s Yontan and Katena airfields. Planes deliberately crash-landed on the two airstrips before heavily-armed commandos jumped out with orders to cause maximum damage. All were killed immediately. Offshore, Japanese flyers damaged 11 US ships, sacrificing 111 aircraft in the attack.

Kamikazes are again active off Okinawa damaging two ships:

- High-speed minesweeper USS Forrest (DMS-24, ex-DD-461) is attacked by three aircraft. AA fire downs two but the third crashes her starboard side at the waterline, killing five and wounding 13 of her crew. The ship remains afloat and heads for Kerama Retto for repairs.

- The submarine chaser PC-1603 is damaged.

CANADA: Frigate HMCS Royalmount begins tropicalization refit Sydney , Nova Scotia.

U.S.A.: The US government cancels the 98 out of 100 Hughes D-5s. Also known as the F-11 it had two Pratt and Whitney R-4360 engines driving eight bladed contra-rotating propellers. (John Nicholas)
Destroyer USS Brinkley Bass launched.

Destroyer USS Steinaker commissioned.

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The joy of VE Day felt by our troops weeks before in that theater had to be tempered by this news. Many were expecting the transfer to the Pacific in preparation for the invasion of mainland Japan.

[Stosh]

“U.S.A.: The US government cancels the 98 out of 100 Hughes D-5s. “

Had not heard of the F-11/Hughes D-5 before - if anyone’s interested:

http://hsfeatures.com/features04/f11tc_1.htm

[Hebrews 11:6]

Surly Germans Still View Allies’ Victory as ‘Fluke’ (Middleton) – 9

Million dollar line: "...German civilians are an unattractive lot..."

You may be a Germanophile, but I'm half-German, too.

[Hebrews 11:6]

Ol’ Howard always had big plans, but so often they fizzled. And then he did.

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The U-505 on display in New York is the sub that will eventually be put on display at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. It's definitely worth a visit. And no, I would not want to be on that boat for a long ocean voyage. It felt claustrophobic with a tour group of a dozen people.

Lt. Col. John Mosely passed just before this Memorial Day at age 93. He was a Denver native and one of a handful of blacks in his generation who attended Colorado A&M (now Colorado State). He was the first black known to have been on the Aggie football team (now the Rams).

Determined to fly, he paid for his own flight physical and lessons. Initially sent to an artillery unit, his persistence eventually got him a transfer to Tuskegee. After a career in the Air Force, he returned to Denver where he was very active in the local Tuskegee Airmen chapter.

One of their activities is the Mile High Flight Program which exposes youth to flight orientation and career possibilities in aviation and aerospace. The best students are selected for flight training and many have gotten their licenses.

[Stosh]

I used to travel Lake Shore Drive every day past the U505 in front of the Museum of Science and Industry - one of my favorite pictures (the second in the series at the link below) is the sub being transported from the lake across the lake front and Lake Shore Drive to its display site at the museum.

When I’d go by, I’d sometimes think what it would be like driving along and suddenly getting caught up in a traffic snarl because you had to wait for a submarine to cross the highway!

Link: http://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/butowsky1/u505p.htm

[Homer_J_Simpson]

I guess its legal. I have seen “No U-Turn” signs but never a “No U-Boat” sign.

[colorado tanker]

Here's a cool time lapse video of the Museum moving the sub to the new indoor location.

http://www.msichicago.org/online-science/videos/video-detail/activities/moving-the-u-505-submarine/

[Stosh]

Outstanding - thanks much!

I’ve gone through it in both locations, and never gave a second thought to how it got moved (the last time I visited was with a German exchange student who was very cool about the whole thing).

The one thought that passed through my head when I saw the sub mounted on its trailer was that’s probably the only wheeled vehicle I’d leave overnight in Jackson Park without any worries of someone stealing it!

[alfa6]

The Hughes F-11 was in competition with the Republic XF-12 for the Photo Recon job.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_XF-12_Rainbow

FWIW the wiki on the Hughes XF-11

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hughes_XF-11

Regards

alfa6 :>}