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3/4/38, Moscow, Soviet Aide Asserts Guilt, Again Reversing Himself
10/11/38, Moscow, Soviet Fliers Denounce Lindbergh as ‘Hired Liar’ for German Nazis
11/27/38, Moscow, Blow to Isolation Talk
12/12/38, Moscow, World Climate Growing Warmer, Say Russians, Citing Arctic Data
3/11/39, Moscow, Stalin Says West Seeks to Foment Soviet-Reich War
5/4/39, Moscow, Ill Health is Cited (L)
6/1/39, Moscow, Appeasing Scored (L)
7/16/39, Moscow, Soviet and Britain on Better Terms (W)
7/27/39, Moscow, New Moscow Talk Brings Optimism
7/30/39, Moscow, Mystery Clothes Talks in Moscow (W)
8/12/39, Moscow, Three-Staff Talks Opening in Russia
9/17/39, Paris, Soviet Moves Puzzling
10/20/39, With the British Forces, in France, British Air Chief Visits France; Finds His Force Superior to Nazis’
10/27/39, With the British Forces in France, British ‘Digging In’ on Western Front
11/3/39, With the British Forces in France, Two Nazi Planes Downed
11/23/39, With the British Forces in France, Briton Wins Air Duel
12/5/39, With the British Forces in France, King George on Visit to Troops in France; Crosses on Bridge of British Destroyer
12/25/39, With the Finnish Army on the Karelian Isthmus, Christmas Battle to be Finns’ Fare
12/26/39, With the Finnish Army, on the Karelian Isthmus, Finns Push Battle over Foe’s Border; Menace Rail Line (L)
12/27/39, With the Finnish Army, on the Karelian Isthmus, Bombing of Viborg Misses Objectives
12/28/39, Helsinki, Pierce Soviet Line (L)
1/1/40, Helsinki, Win Major Victory (L)
1/2/40, Helsinki, Seaport is Bombed (L)
1/3/40, Helsinki, Soviet Lost 12,000 in Battle on Lake
1/5/40, Helsinki, Finnish Pamphlets Rain on Leningrad; Reds Bomb Tornea
1/6/40, Helsinki, New Finnish Blows Dealt to Russians
1/7/40, Helsinki, Why the Russian Army has Bogged in Finland (W)
1/8/40, With the Finnish Army, on Karelian Isthmus, Karelian Drive “Frozen Up”
1/9/40, With the Finnish Army, on Karelian Isthmus, Victory is Biggest
1/10/40, With the Finnish Army, on Karelian Isthmus, Finns Make Front Almost Like Home
1/11/40, With the Finnish Army, on Karelian Isthmus, Border Cleared at Fourth Point
1/12/40, Helsinki, Finns Fear Curtailed Aid
1/13/40, Helsinki, Russian Bombers Raid Finnish Cities in Mass Attacks (L)
1/14/40, Helsinki, Helsinki Bombed as Soviet Presses Offensive in Air (L)
1/15/40, Helsinki, Soviet Bombs Hit U.S. Envoy’s Home
1/20/40, Helsinki, Red Bases Bombed (L)
1/23/40, Helsinki, Russians Repulsed on Five Fronts in Renewed Offensive, Finns Say
2/1/40, With the Finnish Army, on the Central Northern Front, Soviet Prisoners Deplore Bombings
2/2/40, With the Finnish Army, on Central Northern Front, Finns Drive Foe at Kuhmo
2/5/40, With the Finnish Army, on the Central Northern Front, Rout of Russians at Suomussalmi Described as Finns’ Masterpiece
2/9/40, With the Finnish Army, on the Arctic Front, Russians Renew Attack in Arctic
2/13/40, Helsinki, Reds Try to Flank Isthmus Line with Attacks over Ice at Both Ends
2/14/40, Helsinki, Helsinki Alarmed (L)
2/15/40, Helsinki, Soviet Dents Line (L)
2/16/40, Helsinki Russians Widen Area of Drive
2/17/40, Helsinki 22 Positions Fall
2/18/40, Helsinki, Mannerheim is Confident
2/19/40, Helsinki, Finns Find Pressure Eased
2/20/40, Helsinki, Defeat of 18,000 Russians Halts Red Drive to Flank Isthmus Line
4/27/40, London, Hard Norse Task is Seen by British
5/2/40, London, News Lacking in Britain
5/3/40, London, British Silent on Plans
5/7/40, A Scottish Port, Norway Veterans Return to Britain
5/9/40, A Northern British Port, More Allied Norway Units Return; Get Hint They May be Sent Back
5/14/40, With the British Army in Belgium, British Fliers Smash into Nazis; Aim at Air Mastery in Belgium
5/16/40, With the British Army in Belgium, British Fiercely Attacked, Say Line Holds in Belgium
5/17/40, With the British Army in Belgium, Battle at Louvain
5/18/40, With the British Army in Belgium, British Fall Back behind Brussels
5/19/40, With the British Army on the Western Front, British Lines Firmly Held
5/22/40, London, Britain Withdraws Writers with B.E.F.
5/24/40, London, Churchill Admits Fight in Boulogne
5/26/40, London, Bombers Hammer at Nazis’ Columns>br> 5/27/40, London, R.A.F. Lists Victory in 4-Hour Air Duel
5/28/40, London, British in Counter-Attacks
6/1/40, London, Britain Hails Men (L)
6/11/40, London, British Navy Guns Hammer at Nazis
6/12/40, London, British are Hoping for New ‘Miracle’
6/23/40, London, British Torpedo and Bomb the Scharnhorst; Submarine, Planes Waylay Nazi Battleship
6/27/40, London, Nazi Coast Raided
10/3/40, Washington, Navy Forming New Atlantic Force in One Command for Efficiency
10/4/40, Washington, Parachute Troops Adopted by Army
10/24/40, Washington, U.S. will Dispatch Air Reinforcement to the Philippines
10/30/40, Washingon, Capital Hears of Parleys to Get Vital Raw Materials of Britain
11/21/40, Washington, U.S. Sells Britain 26 Air Fortresses
3/17/41, Freetown, Sierra Leone, De Gaullists Cowed in French West Africa by Purge and Fear of Reprisals on Kin
4/23/41, With the British Army, in the Western Desert, British Stand Off Axis Drive on Suez
4/24/41, With the British Army, in the Western Desert, British Quicken Libyan Offensive; Take Captives in Tobruk Sorties
5/14/41, With the British Forces, in the Western Desert, Nazis Break Off Sortie into Egypt
5/15/41, With the British Forces, in the Western Desert, Tanks and Luck Aid Axis in Egypt
5/20/41, With a British Advanced Striking Force, in the Western Desert, Desert Push Puts British Far Ahead
5/27/41, Cairo, Big Phase of War Balanced in Crete
6/2/41, Cairo, Evacuated from Beaches
6/11/41, With the British Army, in the Western Desert, Nazi Desert Attack Likely
6/18/41, With the British Advance Force, Before Solum, Egypt, British and Nazis on Even Terms at Last in Desert Battle of Tanks
6/20/41, Cairo, German Tank Coup Won Desert Fight
9/28/41, A British Air Base in Egypt, Reporter Flies on Bengazi Raid
10/29/41, With British Forces, in the Egyptian Desert, Three Britons Flee Axis Camp; Walk Week in Desert Till Saved
11/20/41, With a British Armored Force, in the Western Desert, U.S. Tanks Lead Desert Drive
11/22/41, With the British Armored Force, in Libya, British Unopposed in Entering Libya
11/27/41, With the British Forces, Outside Tobruk, Desert Tank War is Hard to Follow
6/3/42, Writer Captured in Libya Tells of Desert Tank Battle
6/4/42, Rommel Lectured Britons on Tactics
6/5/42, Reporter Yielded by Italy to Reich
6/6/42, Life in Berlin Gestapo Jail a Study in Mental Torture
6/7/42, Gestapo’s Inquiry Strangely Eased
6/8/42, British are Brave as War Prisoners
6/9/42, Prisoners of War Go Hungry in Italy
6/10/42, Prisoners in Italy Ran a ‘University’
7/19/42, We Can Out-Rommel the Rommels (NY Times Magazine)
11/1/42, Desert War Reopened by Big Allied Drive (W)
12/23/43, Madrid, Liberal Trend in Spain Discerned in Arrese’s Speech and Amnesty
1/25/44, London, U.S. Bombers Hit at Reich; Pounding of Coast Goes On
2/5/44, London, U.S. Bombers Rock Frankfort Again
2/11/44, A U.S. Eighth Air Force Heavy Bomber Station, in England, 84 Planes Bagged
3/4/44, London, P-38’s over Capital (L)
3/5/44, London, Fortresses Strike (L)
3/11/44, London, Parliament Acts to Invite Congress
3/19/44, London, Pole Tells Story of Ghetto Battle
3/24/44, London, Allies Assert Death Blow for Luftwaffe is in Sight
4/26/44, London, U.S. Navy Practices Landing in Britain
5/14/44, London, Offensive in Italy Rasps German Invasion Nerves
5/21/44, London, Eisenhower Tells Patriots to Get Data for Invasion
5/22/44, London, Eisenhower Order Alarms Vichyites
5/25/44, London, Eisenhower Asks New Invasion Data
5/28/44, London, Eisenhower Calls for Clear Roads
5/31/44, London, ‘Heavies’ Again Pound Reich; Rock Luftwaffe Plants, Bases
6/1/44, London, Reich Rail Points, Ploesti Attacked
6/4/44, London, Bases in Russia Long-Kept Secret
6/6/44, London, RAF Bombers Out
6/7/44, London, Planes Blast Out Paths for Assault
6/8/44, London, Bombings Curtain Our Ground Front
6/9/44, London, Allies Rain Bombs over 150-Mile Arc
6/17/44, With American Forces in France, St. Sauveur Taken as Nazis Weaken
6/18/44, With American Forces in France, U.S. Troops Fight All Day and Night
6/19/44, With the American Forces in France, Americans Slash Germans in Bitter, Close Battles
6/20/44, With the American Forces in France, Americans Rush On in Rain as Speed Bewilders Nazis
6/21/44, With American Forces in France, Americans Eager to Enter Cherbourg without Pause
6/22/44, With the United States Troops before Cherbourg, Allied Guns Ready to Drive Foe Out
6/23/44, With American Forces before Cherbourg, Bombs and Shells Open Path for Assault on Cherbourg
6/24/44, With the American Forces, before Cherbourg, Germans Battle Furiously under Fight-or-Die Order
6/25/44, With the American Forces before Cherbourg, Germans Surrender in Daze at Might of American Blows
6/26/44, With the American Forces before Cherbourg, Blasting of Forts Viewed from ‘Box Seat’ on Cliff
6/27/44, With the American Forces at Cherbourg, Pockets of Nazis Kept on Sniping as Americans Overran Cherbourg
6/28/44, Cherbourg, France, Cherbourg Given to French as Their First Liberated City
7/2/44, Cherbourg, Allied Officials Keep Hands off All Civic Affairs of Cherbourg
7/4/44, With American Forces in France, Americans Push On in Mud and Water
7/5/44, With American Forces, in France, U.S. Guns Crash in Unison to Mark Fourth
7/6/44, With the American Forces, in France, Normandy Battle is Hedge to Hedge
7/10/44, With American Forces in Normandy, German Snipers Fight to End as Americans Capture La Haye
7/12/44, With American Forces in Normandy, U.S. Planes and Guns Hammer Foe into Grogginess on Hill Near St. Lo
7/12/44, With American Forces, in Normandy, P-47 Fliers Smash Nazi Tank Assault
7/17/44, With American Forces in Normandy, Floods at Lessay Curb U.S. Advance
7/18/44, With American Forces in Normandy, St. Lo Battle Savage and Bloody as Germans Try to Hold Key Base
7/23/44, With American Forces, in Normandy, Our Men Drive Forward in France (W)
7/24/44, With American Forces, in Normandy, German Captives Confused by Plot
7/26/44, With American Forces on the Norman Front, Germans Shaken by Big Air Blow
7/27/44, With American Forces in Normandy, Germans’ ‘Crust’ Cracked at Last
7/28/44, With the American Forces in Normandy, Foe Reels before Blitzkrieg Mightier than His in 1940
7/31/44, With the American Forces, in Normandy, U.S. Drive Becomes Romp as Nazis Crack under Fire
8/12/44, With the American Forces in Brittany, Brittany Fighting Proves to be Tough
8/16/44, On the First United States Army Front, Norman Trap Lines 1,000 Miles of Ruin
8/25/44, Near Paris, Allied Arms near City
9/1/44, With United States First Army in France, First Army Sweep Becomes a Rout
9/5/44, With American First Army, in Belgium, Americans Destroy Army that Set Out to Rule World
9/8/44, With American Armored Column at Namur, Belgium, Enemy Resistance Pockets Only Amuse U.S. Infantry
9/11/44, With the American First Army, in Belgium, Van of First Army at German Border
9/12/44, With American First Army at the German Border, Bombs and Shells Pave Way to Reich
9/13/44, With the American First Army, in Germany, Germans’ Hostility in Eupen Shows Americans How Reich Will React
9/14/44, With American Forces, in Germany, Westwall’s ‘Dragon Teeth’ Ripped Out by U.S. Guns
9/20/44, With American Forces in Germany, Nazi Order to Flee Flouted by People
9/21/44, United States First Army Headquarters, Germans Fight with Desperation
9/22/44, United States First Army Headquarters, 3 American M.P.’s Vanish in Germany
10/22/44, With American Troops in Aachen, All Aachen Resistance Ends as 1,000 More Surrender
10/24/44, Aachen, Germany, Berlin Rescinds Mass Evacuation of Civilians in Rhineland Area
10/27/44, Aachen, Germany, Aachen Refugees Give Aid to Jews
11/4/44, Verviers, Belgium, Aachen Refugees Give Aid to Jews
11/5/44, With American Forces in Germany, Schmidt Blasted to Ruin after Foe Retakes Hamlet
11/6/44, With American Forces in Germany, American Position Near Schmidt Called as Treacherous as St. Lo
11/8/44, First United States Army Headquarters, Americans Battle Foe in Vossenack; Fight in a Church
11/9/44, United States First Army Headquarters, Foe Retakes Town on Huertgen Front
11/10/44, United States First Army Headquarters, Huertgen Area Simmers
11/18/44, With the American First Army in Germany, Professor Leads First Army Sweep
11/19/44, With American First Army in Germany, German Guns Blown to Bits by Air-Artillery Teamwork
11/21/44, With American First Army, in Germany, Hitler Highway Clogged as Foe Flees Eschweiler
11/22/44, With American First Army, in Germany, Eschweiler Folk Flee to Our Lines
11/23/44, With United States First Army, in Germany, Americans in Slashing Drive, Begun at 3 A.M., Upset Foe
11/25/44, Headquarters American First Army, Germany, Rain, Mud and Foe Slow Push on Ruhr
11/28/44, With American First Army in Germany, Each Yard to Roer Costly to Allies
11/29/44, With the United States First Army, in Germany, Trench Network Snarls First Army
12/3/44, With American First Army in Germany, Germans Now Led by Expert Hands
12/5/44, With American First Army in Germany, Lucherberg’s Fall Hard Blow to Foe
12/7/44, With the First United States Army, U.S. 1st Infantry Division Honors Men and Memories of 6 Months
12/12/44, Langerwehe, Germany, Battle for Roer River Won as Germans Flee to East
12/13/44, Before Dueren, Germany, Doughboys Shove Germans, Many Unnerved, upon Roer
12/17/44, With American First Army, in Germany, German Assaults on 1st Army Fierce
12/17/44, With the United States First Army, Weather Fights Against Us (W)
12/18/44, With American First Army, in Germany, German Assault is a Major Effort
12/20/44, With United States First Army, Our Men Confident (L)
12/20/44, With the United States First Army, Joy Becomes Gloom in a Belgian Town
12/21/44, With the United States First Army, 1st Battles in Fog that Aids Germans
12/22/44, With the United States First Army, Our Men Belt and Jolt Foe on Line Built under Stress
12/23/44, With the United States First Army, Fog at Front Lifts on a Scene of Ruin
12/26/44, With United States Forces, in Belgium, Belgian Foxhole Belies Christmas
12/28/44, With United States Forces, Nazi Thugs Murder Belgian Villagers
12/28/44, With the United States Forces, Writer Killed by a German Bomb; Hit while Resting behind Front
12/29/44, With United States Forces, in Belgium, New German Thrust Looked for as Present Drive Grinds to a Halt
12/31/44, With American Forces, on the Western Front, U.S. Battalion’s Stand Saves Regiment, Division and Army
1/3/45, With the United States Forces, Nazis Admit Massacre of Belgians; Officers Ordered Civilians Killed
1/5/45, Northern Flank of the Belgian Bulge, Ice and Fog Slow First Army Tanks
1/7/45, On the Northern Flank of the Belgian Bulge, Rundstedt Faces Trap in Belgium
1/8/45, On the Northern Flank of the Belgian Bulge, Cutting of St. Vith-La Roche Road is an Important Victory for Allies
1/9/45, On the Northern Flank of the Belgian Bulge, 1st Army Drives On in Biting Blizzard
1/10/45, On the Northern Flank of Bulge, Belgium, U.S. Men Closing Trap on Germans
1/11/45, Samree, Belgium, Trap on Germans May Get Only Few
1/14/45, On the Northern Flank of the Belgian Bulge, Driving Yanks Go Foodless 48 Hours
1/15/45, On the Northern Flank of the Belgian Bulge, Belgian Highways Avenues of Death
1/17/45, On United States First Army Front, Houffalize Ours in Historic Victory
1/18/45, Houffalize, Belgium, Houffalize Scene of Awful Ruins
2/2/45, On United States First Army Front, Reich Line Softer on Western Front
2/4/45, With American First Army, in Germany, Americans Storm Medieval Castle
2/24/45, With American First Army, on the Roer, Massive Barrages Precede st and 9th Army Attacks (with Sydney Gruson)
2/27/45, With the American First Army, on the Cologne Plain, Tanks Speed Up 1st Army Drive Along Hitler Highway to Rhine
3/2/45, With a United States Armored Unit, on Cologne Plain, Engineers Hardy in Bridging Erft
3/3/45, With the American First Army, in Germany, Luftwaffe Tries to Halt 1st Army
4/4/45, London, Beloved by His Troops
4/20/45, Buchenwald, Germany, Despair Blankets Buchenwald Camp
4/23/45, On the United States First Army Front, U.S. Armies Tense as Junction Nears
4/28/45, At a Red Army Outpost, on the Elbe, First Link Made Wednesday By Four Americans on Patrol
5/1/45, At a Red Army Headquarters in Germany, Red Army Honors Hodges on Link-Up
6/4/45, With the United States First Army, in the Port of New York, Hodges Nearly Captured By Enemy in Bulge Dec. 18
http://www.etherit.co.uk/month/6/04.htm
July 4th, 1945 (WEDNESDAY)
GERMANY: Berlin: Watched by several thousand Berliners, the British occupation force arrived in the former capital of the Third Reich this afternoon. Women and children clambered over heaps of rubble to gain a better view as the 11th Hussars of the 7th Armoured Division appeared after a 14-hour, 120-mile journey from the British occupation zone. They had been held up for three hours at Magdeburg waiting for the Russians to give them permission to enter their zone.
They passed lines of Russian infantry riding in horse-drawn carts. Beside the gleaming fresh paintwork of the Hussars’ tanks, the Russians looked shabby and tattered. Berlin seems populated almost entirely by women and thousands of them are employed by the occupation powers clearing the rubble, brick by brick. At first they worked 13 hours a day; that has now been reduced to seven. There are long food queues, fuel is scarce and most buildings lack glass.
Berlin: Rumours that Hitler is still alive start to spread.
BORNEO: Thirteenth Air Force B-24s bomb Japanese defensive positions near Balikpapen, Borneo in support of Australian troops. Meanwhile, the Australians capture Manggar Airfield which will be needed because the three escort aircraft carriers supporting operations, part of Task Group 78.4, begin retiring to Leyte.
BURMA: RAF Republic Thunderbolt fighter-bombers of No. 42 Squadron, knock out three 105-mm field guns which are hindering the British Army’s advance. (22)
COMMONWEALTH OF THE PHILIPPINES: General MacArthur announces the complete liberation of the Philippine Islands.
Mindanao: US and Filipino guerrilla forces sweep Sarangani Bay, to try to clear a stubborn pocket of Japanese resistance.
JAPAN: The USAAF’s XXI Bomber Command dispatches 159 Iwo Jima-based P-51s to attack the Yokosuka naval base, and airfields in the Tokyo area (Imba, Tsukuba, and Kasumigaura); they claim 9-25 aircraft on the ground; one P-51 is lost. At the same time, Okinawa-based Far East Air Forces P-51s fly a massive sweep along the west coast of Kyushu .
General Spaatz will command the US Army Strategic Air Forces in the Pacific (USASTAF) when it is activated in mid-July .
(Jack McKillop adds) On 16 July 1945, General Carl Spaatz assumed command of the U.S. Army Strategic Air Forces (USASTAF). USASTAF will have administrative and operational control of all B-29 units, plus supporting fighter units, in the Pacific, i.e., the Twentieth Air Force in the Mariana Islands and the Eighth Air Force which is transferred without personnel and equipment from England to Okinawa on 16 July.
To celebrate the 4th of July, 8 Eleventh Air Force B-24s radar-bomb the Kataoka naval base on Shimushu Island, Kurile Islands, with napalm.
CANADA:
Corvette HMCS Baddeck paid off Sorel, Province of Quebec.
HMC ML 085 paid off.
The Prince-class auxiliary anti-aircraft cruiser HMCS Prince Robert departed Esquimalt for duty with the British Pacific Fleet. The ship arrived at the RN’s main base at Sydney, Australia, on 10 Aug. It was intended that Prince Robert would help to provide escort in the forward operating areas for troop convoys carrying invasion forces for the final assault against Japan. (DS)
U.S.A.: The keel of the USS SALEM is laid down in Boston. (Russell Folsom)
I'm sure that was an amazing fireworks display.
I hope you have a great Independence Day, Homer.
Empire Mac Ships
Built from freighters and tankers, their slow speed and short flight decks made them challenging to fly off of, and their small complement of aircraft seemed impotent, yet their record was exemplary. All 19 Empires survived the war to have their flight decks removed and go back to their original tasks, and no ships of any convoy escorted by an Empire MAC ever lost a ship!
Empire Class Grain Carriers
Approximately 8,000 tons deep load, 12 knots, 4 aircraft, crew 107, launched December 1942-January 1944. Equipped with hangar and lift.
Armament: 1 x single 4 in (102 mm) QF MK IV, 2 x single 40 mm Bofors, 4 x single 20 mm Oerlikon cannons.
Japan Boosts of New Plane (to fight B-29)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dMog3T3CAc
There are intrusions of liberalism here and there, but two things strike me. First, ER is an American exceptionalist. In 1945, EVERY American was an American exceptionalist (OK, maybe not Henry Wallace, thank God it wasn't "President Wallace" on 7/4/45). Today, to be an American exceptionalist is to be, well, an exception.
Second, ER pictures the United Nations as a means for expanding American ideals around the world. Certainly sounds a lot more like Bush 43 than Michelle 44--if ANY Democrat gave this radio address today, s/he would be pilloried as [insert stream of pejorative epithets here].
I'm guessing that "Kasumigaura" is actually what today is known as Ibaraki Airport. I remember some US military activity there when I was a teen at Yokosuka in the late '60s; according to the Wikipedia link there was practice bombing going on.
But back to the quote...that's one bomb per plane. A set of 20 Superforts could have accomplished much more damage: Yokosuka was the only remaining IJN base from Kanto south, and the design of the base is such that the ships and SRF are concentrated on the west side of the base, they could have been obliterated in two run-throughs. I wonder if the reason they used P-51s was that there was no longer any need for fighter escorts with the Superforts, so there were a bunch of planes on Iwo, an island halfway between Guam and Tokyo which had been obtained with such a high cost in blood, that the brass wanted then to be doing something. The only viable target for P-51 bombings would have been the Kanto area; anything west or north would be out of range, as would be Formosa or the Philippines. The more logical thing would have been to move them to Amami and let them bomb and strafe the shipping in Tsushima Strait, but that would have made it look like we took Iwo for no reason, so it's understandable.
The press would vilify a bombing to celebrate the 4th of July today.
The press - at least the New York Times and ilk, if not the Monroe Enquirer - vilifies anything to celebrate the 4th of July.
Elliot Roosevelt Investigated for loans
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott_Roosevelt
Most famously, Elliott claimed that he nearly lost his life when flying through the fireball of the explosion that killed Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. in August 1944. Air Force records show that a Mosquito photographic airplane did indeed suffer this dramatic fate, but its crew was a pilot and a photographer under Roosevelt’s command, and Elliott’s participation is unmentioned in official accounts.[31]
Elliott’s New York Times obituary claimed that he had been twice wounded, and his widow had written (I Love a Roosevelt, 1965) that he had received four purple hearts (”for each of the four times he was wounded”). His discharge papers explicitly state that he was not wounded (although he had close calls in aircraft). Consequently, the Veterans Administration rejected his disability claims.[13]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Augustine_Hartford
During these events, in March 1939 Hartford received a call from a friend of President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) inquiring if John was interested in loaning the President’s son, Elliott Roosevelt $200,000 to invest in Elliott’s foundering broadcasting network, the Texas State Network. When the President’s son met with Hartford, John was reluctant to help him out and insisted that the President approve the transaction. In an arranged move, Elliott said “Let’s get Dad on the phone,” and called FDR in Warm Springs, Georgia. The President (who did not know Hartford) began the conversation with “Hello John!” He assured Hartford that he knew all about the matter, and that it was a sound investment. Despite the furious opposition of brother George Hartford, John felt he could not refuse the deal, especially as the Patman bill was still pending. After the loan, the White House arranged for the defeat of the bill in Congress. However, Elliott’s broadcasting network, for which he had also obtained other loans in return for political favors, went bankrupt by the end of 1939.
In late 1941, after Elliott had joined the Army, the President asked Jesse Jones to negotiate settlements with his son’s creditors. Though he later said he assumed the President would back up Elliott’s debts, Hartford, influenced by the outbreak of war, in March 1942 agreed to accept $4,000 and then wrote off the remaining $196,000 on his taxes. He also agreed to give up his security in TSN stock, which Jesse Jones represented as “worthless.” Hartford soon found that the stock rose rapidly after Elliott left the network and was in fact worth far more than the loan. In his memoir Fifty Billion Dollars, Jesse Jones detailed the matter and asserted that FDR had manipulated him into settling the deal with Hartford and two other major creditors.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation under J. Edgar Hoover had been aware of Elliott’s schemes from the beginning. The Hartford loan scandal, which involved several other parties, was discovered by Congressional subcommittees investigating the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in 1943, but FDR’s top aide (then in private practice) Thomas Corcoran succeeded in keeping it under wraps until after FDR’s death in April 1945. On wiretaps, Corcoran is heard saying that if the case (and related FCC matters) had broken in 1944, it would have finished FDR politically. However, soon after FDR’s death John Hartford agreed to talk to syndicated columnist Westbrook Pegler about the matter, and a major investigation was launched, thanks to which the financial details are known today.
The matter caused bitter public controversy in August 1945, but in Congress the Democratic majority shelved the matter, though registering a blistering Republican minority opinion. Both sides agreed Hartford’s tax deduction was probably legitimate but Republicans contended that the President’s son should have reported the debt forgiveness as income.[1] Hartford testified to the Bureau of Internal Revenue that he never would have issued the loan without the President’s personal assurances, and that he assumed FDR’s word was “as good as S&P.” Although he maintained that the Patman bill would have bankrupted A&P, he absolutely denied that he dealt with Elliott and Jones in order to obtain political favors.
The head Japanese rep refused to attend the event.
“And in todays English language paper, the China Post, from Taiwan”
Aren’t they a little early for the 70th anniversary?
“And in todays English language paper, the China Post, from Taiwan”
Aren’t they a little early for the 70th anniversary?
They are referring to Taiwan’s victory over Japan. Don’t know if there was a inal vicotry at this time, but it was not our nation.
Taiwan’s government is the Republic of China, so it is the descendant of Chaing’s government and army. Although 70 years ago the initiative had gone over to the Chinese army, the victory was not yet won. But the article also references September celebrations so this may be one of many.
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