OKINAWA SURRENDER IS DEMANDED AS AMERICANS TOP FINAL RIDGE; INVASION OF WEST BORNEO GAINS (6/12/45)

Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 6/12/45 | Warren Moscow, Lindesay Parrott, Sydney Gruson, Daniel T. Brigham, Dana Adams Schmidt, Gladwin Hill

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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 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

[Homer_J_Simpson]

The Nimitz Graybook

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Winston S. Churchill, Triumph and Tragedy

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Last Line Broken (Mosley) – 2-3
Foe’s Shell Sinks Trapped Warship – 3-4
Private Promotes His Assistants to Rank of Sergeant (photo) – 3
4 Landings Made (Parrott) – 4-5
B-29’s Hit Japan 172 Times in May – 5
Drive at Kweilin is 10 Miles Away – 6
New Town is Won in Manila District – 6
Decree Rule Wins in Japanese House – 6
Reich Will Not Rise Again, Says Eisenhower in London (Gruson) – 7
Germans on the Trail Home by Covered Wagon (photo) – 7
Terezin Emptied of 30,000 Captives (Brigham) – 8
War News Summarized – 8
Scrip Plan Will Raise Dollar Value For U.S., British Soldiers in France (Schmidt) – 9
Young Germany and Austria as of Today (photos) – 9-10
Von Kluge Sought to Yield Last Year – 10
Query on Ill Soldier Gives Writer Acute Case of Red Tape Fatigue (Hill) – 11
Finnish Reds Ask Swedes to End Strike So Metal Products Can Be Sent to Russia – 11
Third Army Commander Meets Wounded Veterans (photo) – 12
Britain Proposes to Vacate Levant – 13
Mauldin Insists the Soldier’s Newspaper Is ‘the One Thing That Should Be Left Free’ – 13
The Texts of the Day’s War Communiques – 15

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.etherit.co.uk/month/5/12.htm

June 12th, 1945 (TUESDAY)

UNITED KINGDOM: General Eisenhower is awarded the Order of Merit and given the Freedom of the City of London.

ITALY: Yugoslav forces withdraw from the disputed port of Trieste.

U.S.S.R.: Baltic Fleet: MS “T-357” - mined in Danzig bay. (Sergey Anisimov)(69)
JAPAN: Okinawa: Japanese troops begin committing suicide on the Oruku peninsula believing that further resistance is futile. They are now forced into a pocket of 1,093 square yards.

Mines previously laid by USAAF B-29 Superfortresses sink a Japanese army cargo ship, two freighters and a liaison ship off Japan.

The USN’s Task Force 38 retires from the Okinawa area.

CANADA:
Auxiliary HMCS Laymore commissioned.

Lt John Rawson Kenneth Stewart RCNVR Awarded Mention in Dispatches.

Minesweeper HMCS Transcona paid off and became RCMP ship French at Sydney , Nova Scotia.

Corvette HMCS Fennel paid off and returned to RN at Londonderry.

Destroyer HMCS Columbia paid off.

U.S.A.:
Aircraft carrier USS Tarawa launched.

Submarine USS Pomodon launched.

Destroyer USS Turner commissioned.

[God luvs America]

topping the ridges in Okinawa wasn’t the issue...holding them was...

[iowamark]

Reich Will Not Rise Again, Says Eisenhower

Today, Germany rules the European Union.

[henkster]

The one strategically sound decision Monty made was to not get into a drinking contest with the Russkies.

[colorado tanker]

I don’t know what kind of drunk Monty would have been, but I’m guessing it wouldn’t have been pretty. :-))

[henkster]

He would still have glorified himself and belittled everyone else, but only with greater volume and colorful language.

[Hebrews 11:6]

I got a kick out of that picture a couple of days ago, showing DeGaulle pinning a medal on Monty. I’m sure Monty was enormously proud of himself at that moment, but he certainly, in that context, looked like a midget.