Posted on 06/29/2015 5:06:02 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
Is it possible that we are pursuing a policy of treating the Austrians the same as the Germans in the matter of non-fraternisation? All this matter requires grave and urgent attention. We are dignified and insulting, and the Russians are boon companions and enslavers. I never realized such follies were being committed.
Winston S. Churchill, Triumph and Tragedy
http://www.etherit.co.uk/month/5/29.htm
June 29th, 1945 (FRIDAY)
UNITED KINGDOM: Minesweeper HMS Marmion commissioned.
CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Prague: The government cedes 4,781 square miles of Ruthenia to the USSR.
JAPAN: Two missions are flown during the night of 29/30 June by Twentieth Air Force B-29s without loss:.
Mission 238: 32 B-29s drop 209 tons of bombs on the Nippon Oil Company refinery at Kudamatsu, Japan.
Mission 239: 25 B-29s mine the W Shimonoseki Strait and waters around Maizuru and Sakata.
34 P-47s from Ie Shima Island hit airfields at Kanoya and Kushira on Kyushu Island, Japan with rockets and machinegun fire, and attack shipping while returning, claiming seven small vessels sunk.
US Navy PB4Y-2 Privateers based on Okinawa continue their nightly aerial mining missions off Korea.
NETHERLANDS EAST INDIES: Nine Liberators from No25 Squadron under Wing-Cmdr John Hampshire raided Malang in daylight. They staged through Corunna Downs (Western Australia) at 0800. Bombing began at 1422 in a tight box formation with 200 feet stepped down between each element of three aircraft. The bomb pattern fell between the No1 Hangar and the barracks area at the southern side of the airfield, bracketing the main bomber strips. Interception by fighters was expected but no attempt was made and anti-aircraft fire, although encountered, burst well away from the Liberators [Odgers p 476]. (Mike Mitchell)
U.S.A.: President Truman approves the invasion plans for the invasion of Japan. These plans provide for landings in southern Kyushu on November 1, 1945 to be followed by landings on Honshu near Tokyo on March 1, 1946. The first landings will utilize troops already in the Pacific Theater. The 2nd landings will include forces transferred from Europe. British and other Allied forces are included as support forces. British aircraft, in the VLR (very-long-range) “Tiger” bomber force, staging from Okinawa, are included. But no British or Imperial ground troops were to be used in either landing, though a “Commonwealth Corps” would have been a follow-on force for CORONET. (JN and MJS)
Destroyer USS Charles P Cecil commissioned.
CANADA: Corvette HMCS Morden paid off Sorel, Province of Quebec.
German Star Wars and US cell phones. WWII changed everything.
The bombing of Okayama basically burned down the whole city, since it was made of mostly wood-based buildings. Also as the article pointed out, Okayama was a transportation hub: even today, from Okayama you can go north to Tottori, NW to Matsue, east to Kobe/Osaka and on to the Kanto, west to Hiroshima and on to Kyushu, and south (via ferry at the time) to Shikoku. The only other ways to Shikoku were from Kobe via Awaji-shima, except that by this time Kobe was also a cinder, and from Onomichi across the Seto island chain to Imabari and from there to Matsuyama, except that there was no longer a reason to go that way since Matsuyama was also a cinder. In hindsight, it’s a bit surprising that they didn’t bomb Okayama earlier to disrupt the transportation of military ordnance and survival goods, but the factories at Nagoya and Yokohama were hit first.
The Battle of Mount La Difensa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKLG4F4eqkA
From Page 10
Amazing, great men all, and this is just from one short article of one days paper.
I have spent many years on rock and ice, also a couple in the RVN.
I cannot imagine mixing of the two in the dark.
WOW!
Canada Ping!
That was a fascinating p9 article. I never before heard of German plans for a death ray, or that they invented base bleed artillery.
Seems like something was lost in translation, or more likely in typical scientifically-ignorant reporting, when the Germans were reported to have claimed that at 5,100 miles up “gravity dwindles to zero.” No one with even a slight introduction to physics would think that—after all, what holds our moon in orbit at eighty times that distance?
Er, make that 47 times.
Lake Toplitz, where the rocket experiments were conducted, has been the place where a fictional hoard of Nazi gold was found. As I recall that was the story in Goldfinger about the gold bar Bond was given as “bait.”
My guess is this wasn't much more than a half baked thought experiment.
These surgical strikes by hi tech fighter/bombers aren't working. At all.
I had just watched the old movie “The Devil’s Brigade” on tv awhile ago. Lots of big names (early sixties? Holden, Carol O’connor, etc.). “Based on actual events.”
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