CARRIER PLANES LASH REMNANTS OF FOE’S NAVY AS OUR WARSHIPS SHELL TOKYO BAY ENTRANCE (7/19/45)

Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 7/19/45 | W.H. Lawrence, George E. Jones, Sidney Shalett

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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
Luzon, P.I., 1941: Final Operations on Luzon, 3 February-20 July 1945
China, 1941: Operation Ichigo, 1945 and Final Operations in the War

[Homer_J_Simpson]

The Nimitz Graybook

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Enemy in Hideout (Lawrence) - 2-3
2,000 Tons of Naval Shells Rip Hitachi in Fifty Minutes (Jones) – 3-4
Fliers from Europe Blast Many Centers on Kyushu – 4
Nevada Survives Plane and Gun Hits (Shalett) – 4-5
Weathering Suicide Attacks and Storms in Pacific (photos) – 5
1,322 Fighting Ships Built in Five Years – 6
6 Chinese Forces Aiming at Kweilin – 6-7
Superfortresses Leave Japanese City in Flames (photo) – 7
2d Formal Parley – 8
War News Summarized – 8
Tokyo Peace Bid via Stalin Denied – 9
Plea to Aid Poland is Sent to Truman – 9
President Truman Pays a Call on Generalissimo Stalin in Potsdam (photos) – 10
Car of Future comes from Overseas (w/photo) – 11
Ciano Says Duce Wanted Long War – 12-14
Texts of Day’s War Communiques – 15
Draft of Fathers Halted in the City – 15

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.etherit.co.uk/month/6/19.htm

July 19th, 1945 (THURSDAY)

JAPAN: During the night of 19/20 July, Twentieth Air Force B-29 Superfortresses fly 1 mining, 4 incendiary and 1 bombing missions against Japan and Korea; 3 B-29s are lost.

- Mission 276: 27 B-29s lay mines in the Oyama, Niigata, Miyazu, Maizuru, Tsuruga, Nezugaseki, Obama Island, and Kobe-Osaka areas of Japan and at Wonsan, Korea; 1 B-29s mines an alternate target.
- Mission 277: 127 B-29s attack the Fukui urban area destroying 1.6 sq mi (4.2 sq km), 84.8% of the city; 1 other B-29s hits an alternate target.
- Mission 278: 126 B-29s hit the Hitachi urban area destroying 0.88 sq mi (2.28 sq km), 64.5% of the city; 1 other B-29 hits an alternate target; 2 B-29s are lost.

- Mission 279: 91 B-29s attack the Choshi urban area destroying 0.379 sq mi (0.982 sq km), 33.8 % of the city.

- Mission 280: 126 B-29s hit the Okazaki urban area destroying 0.65 sq mi (1.68 sq km), 68% of the city; 1 B-29 hits an alternate target.

- Mission 281: 83 B-29s bomb the Nippon oil plant at Amagasaki; 1 other B-29 hits an alternate target.

- Iwo Jima-based P-51s strike airfields, factories, railroads, power lines and other tactical targets at Kagamigahara, Nagoya, Meiji, Izumi, Nishinomiya, and Tambaichi during the day.

90+ Far East Air Forces P-51s pound numerous targets on sweeps over the Nagoya area and hit airfields, factories, power facilities, and gun positions at locations including Kagamigahara, Nishinomiya, and Osaka.

Carrier-based aircraft of Task Force 38 attack the Kure naval shipyard in Japan and damage the aircraft carriers HIJMS Amagi and HIJMS Katsuragi and the battleship HIJMS Haruna. Meanwhile, Task Group 35.4 consisting of four light cruisers and destroyers, completes its bombardment of Japanese radar stations at Nojima Saki on Honshu Island.

Off Okinawa, Japanese kamikazes damage the destroyer USS Thatcher (DD-514) and another barely misses the destroyer USS Charles J Badger (DD-657).

BORNEO: Thirteenth Air Force P-38s support Australian ground troops by hitting a suicide boat hideout at Sandakan while B-25s bomb Jesselton Airfield.

CANADA:

End of Halifax ammunition dump crisis after day of terror.

Corvettes HMCS Peterborough, Rosthern and Owen Sound paid off Sorel, Province of Quebec.

HMC ML 076 and ML 077 paid off.

U.S.A.: Congress ratifies the Bretton Woods monetary agreement.

[bert]

I hope to get in early this morning to inform all of a special movie.

I saw it yesterday. It is titled “The Last BomB” . It is the story of whatwe are reading these last days about the tremendous air campaign against Japan

The movie is very nearly all actual 1945 footage put together by the War Department showing a typical mission from beginning to end. The mission is determined by weatrher. only Tokyo was to be open so that’s where they set the targets. General LaMay made the final decision to attack tarhets 533 and 534. They brought up all the plans for those targets including how many B 29’s from Guam, Tinian and Saipan and P51’s from Iwo Jima. It showed the rendavues, the siteing of rescue vessels along the way, flight paths and on an on. Included were fuel requirements, bomb loads etc.

The movie went with the bombers and showed lots of a B29 interior including pressurized gunner spaces operating remote controlled guns exposed to the atmosphere. It showed P51’s strafinf and destroying stuff after the bombers were safe. The P51’s accompanied but no opposition showed up so they had full loads of ammo to shoot up all kinds of stuff....... fantastic pictures.

The movie I saw came from NetFlix but itwas originall shown on the Smithsonian Channel . All those old movies are archived at he Smithsonian out near dulles.

I recommend highly making an effort to get this movie and read these daily accounts of exactly what is shown.

It was fantastic.

[Gamecock]

These people are fanatics! How many of tens of thousands of Americans and Allied troops are going to die invading the Japanese homeland to achieve final victory?

I sure hope we have some type of secret weapon that will force Tojo into submission.

[LS]

Several years ago I wrote a privately-published book/bio of William Verity, CEO of AK Steel in OH and Reagan's second Commerce Sec after Malcolm Baldridge died. He was a Higgins boat driver in the Pacific and told me of the great concern, even fear the men all had about invading Japan. They knew that the Japanese would be suicidal and that it would be incredibly costly.

He said when the news came aboard ship of the atomic bomb, wild cheering broke out because the men all knew that there would be no invasion. He said when the surrender occurred that every ship in that section of the Pacific was ordered in to sit in the harbor as far as the eye could see, and that planes flew over in formation by the hundreds. He said, "We wanted the Japanese to know who won the war."

As I wrote in "A Patriot's History of the Modern World," once MacArthur took over Japan, he thoroughly demilitarized the nation. He was so successful that not long afterward, an American reporter was there interviewing Japanese. He talked with some children drawing pictures of their heroes. They had doctors, businessmen, but only one had a picture of a soldier . . . MacArthur.

[alfa6]

Thanks Bert

looks like you can find the movie on You Tube

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=the+last+bomb+%281945%29

Regards

alfa6 ;>}

[fella]

On YoyTube The Last Bomb:2008

[PeterPrinciple]

Nevada survives plane and guns hits.

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This happened earlier but reported now. Any one know why it was called the “Old Maru”?

I didn’t know that it was rebuilt to almost a South Dakota class battleship. It also got the guns taken off Arizona. Not used to bomb Japan homeland.

http://militaryhistory.about.com/od/worldwariiwarships/p/World-War-Ii-Uss-Nevada-Bb-36_.htm

[BroJoeK]

Page 1 headline: "65 Cent Hourly Pay Proposed in Bills as National Level"

Today's Federal minimum wage is $7.25/hour.

So, there are several ways to measure past versus present values.
By simple consumer price index, $.65 in 1945 equals $8.65 today.
Compared to average unskilled wages, $.65 in 1945 equates to $14.70 per hour now.

The article estimates 10 million Americans (15+% of the workforce) were then making minimum wage, or less.

Today the estimate is around 2.5% make minimum wage, which would be 4 million, the majority of whom are teenagers.
But 90+% of working teenagers make more than minimum wage.

Percent of labor force earning minimum wage or less:

Average wages per industry:

[PeterPrinciple]

Austin 10 arrives in New York.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin_10

[PeterPrinciple]

223 Major ships still in the production line. 1,500 warship navy. 100,000 for all ships.

[BroJoeK]

headline: "1,322 Fighting Ships Built in Five Years – 6"

"Navy Now Has 1,500 Craft [warships]... Tonnage of Combatant Craft Has Risen from 1,313,390 in 1940 to 4,433,418 Now."

Today's numbers are roughly 273 major warships, with a total tonnage somewhere around 3 million.

Technologically, there's just no comparison of today's ships to those of WWII.
The only real question is whether our Navy today is as dominant world-wide as it was in years past?

USS Enterprise in WWII:

Today's USS Ford class carrier:

[alfa6]

I have posted this link in the past so my apologies if you have already seen it.

Japanese vs American production in World War II

http://www.combinedfleet.com/economic.htm

Adm. Yamamoto knew what the Japanese would be up against, eh?

Regards

alfa6 ;>}

[PeterPrinciple]

The grim price Japan paid — 1.8 million military casualties, the complete annihilation of its military, a half million or so civilians killed, and the utter destruction of practically every major urban area within the Home Islands — bears mute testimony to the folly of its militarist leaders.

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Hind sight is better than foresight by a damn sight. There is none so blind as those that will not see.

[PeterPrinciple]

Not related to 1945 but there is a War planes to Siberia recreation going on about now.

http://undertheradar.military.com/2015/07/warplanes-to-siberia-recreating-an-untold-story-of-wwii/

Didn’t know there were 177 fatal crashes in getting more than 8,000 planes over there.

[PeterPrinciple]

Again, not related to today’s post but I found the following detailed list of lend/lease to Russia interesting. We tend to think it was all military equipment .............

Info is from Russian records, our records destroyed or not released? Over 1/3 delivered was illegal under the lend/lease act? Some are identified as 1945 items.

http://undertheradar.military.com/2015/07/warplanes-to-siberia-recreating-an-untold-story-of-wwii/

Included in list
one dozen pair of nylon hose
Lots of leather and shoes
1,883 doz eggs in shell

Another source says some are atomic related.

[PeterPrinciple]

Logwood extract

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Was on the lend lease manifest. interesting history here if you have time to read. Very valuable stuff at one time.

http://www.researchgate.net/publication/227706084_The_progress_of_logwood_extract

These effects show that the tingent matter of logwood, is capable of producing, with different mordants or bases, almost all the possible varieties of colour.

English privateers, during the reign of Henry VIII, responded to the Spanish hegemony in the Caribbean by harvesting logwood illegally from territories in the Americas and by sacking Spanish ships bound for Europe. These activities continued throughout the sixteenth century. One notable pirate was the poet, politician, and adventurer, Sir Walter Raleigh, who saw privateering as good business as well as a patriotic duty. Renowned for his hatred of Spain, he captured Spanish ships laden with log-wood off the coast of the Azores.

Today logwood is still used in histology, in specialty silk dyeing applications, and ink formulations, but it is unlikely to attract the attention of pirates. Logwood chips may be best known to readers of this article who, like myself, found a bottle of them included in the chemistry kits that were popular with American children in the 1960s.