GERMANY STRIPPED OF INDUSTRY BY BIG 3; 5 POWERS TO PLAN PEACE; FRANCO BARRED (8/3/45)

Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 8/3/45 | Felix Belair Jr., John H. Crider, Tania Long, Frank L. Kluckhohn, George E. Jones, John Stuart, more

[Homer_J_Simpson]

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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
China, 1941: Operation Ichigo, 1945 and Final Operations in the War
The Western Pacific: Japanese Homeland Dispositions August 1945 and Allied Plans for the Invasion of Japan (Operation Downfall)

[Homer_J_Simpson]

The Nimitz Graybook

[Homer_J_Simpson]

No Word on Japan (Belair Jr.) – 2-4
The Leaders of the Big Three as They Neared the End of Their Conference (photo) – 3
President Truman is Piped Aboard the Renown (photo) – 4
Communique Highlights – 4-5
Economy Mapped (Crider) – 5
Conference Scene Reveals Dilemmas (Long) – 5-6
Russian War Step Believed Hinted – 6
Enemy Port Ruined (Kluckhohn) – 7
116 Japanese Ships Fleet Fliers’ Toll (Jones) – 8
Japanese in China Nearer Junction – 8
Mitscher Warns on War Optimism (Stuart) – 8-9
Some Officers See Japan’s Collapse (by W.H. Lawrence) – 9
Big Three Prescribe Freedom of Press – 10
War News Summarized – 10
The Berlin Communique (by Hanson W. Baldwin) – 12
50,000 Due to Get Phones This Year – 12
Day’s Communiques – 13
Midget Television Receiver in Debut (w/photo) – 13

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.etherit.co.uk/month/7/03.htm

August 3rd, 1945 (FRIDAY)

UNITED KINGDOM: London: Attlee appoints 19 new ministers, including Aneurin Bevin as health minister.

FRANCE: The battle-cruiser STRASBOURG, scuttled in 1942, is refloated.

CZECHOSLOVAKIA: All ethnic Germans and Hungarians are deprived of Czechoslovak citizenship.

BURMA: Organized Japanese resistance comes to an end as the Allies win the “Battle of the Breakthrough”; of 10,000 Japanese troops defending the Pegu Yoma range, 8,300 are dead.

KURILE ISLANDS: 4 USN PB4Y-2 Privateers based in the Aleutians bomb Torishima Island and 11 small enemy craft are attacked in a bay north of Otomari Zaki on Onekotan Island.

JAPAN: US Twentieth Air Force 90+ VII Fighter Command P-47s and P-51s from Iwo Jima fly nearly 100 effective sorties throughout the Tokyo area, hitting airfields, rail installations, and trains.

B-29s drop mines to seal off all of Japan’s main ports, leaving the country totally blockaded.

Mines previously laid by Twentieth Air Force B-29 Superfortresses sink two freighters and a transport and damage three other vessels.

CANADA: Armed yacht HMCS Husky paid off Sydney, Nova Scotia.
Minesweeper HMCS Fort Frances and HMC ML 117 and 119 paid off.

MARTINIQUE: Pan American World Airways Sikorsky S-43 seaplane, msn 4306, registered NC15066, sinks on landing at Fort de France; 10 of the 14 aboard survive.

[chajin]

When the article talks about bombing Nagasaki, my guess is that they are talking about the shipbuilding areas to the south of the city, at the entrance of Nagasaki bay. The city itself would have been spared the effects of the bombing, especially if the secondary targets were on the north side of Omura Bay in the Sasebo area, where the big naval base was (and still is); whether there was shipbuilding going on there as well I do not know. Six days from now...

Incidentally, there was an article in Japan Today about the women whose job it was to wave at kamikaze pilots as they went off to their one and final mission; you can read about it here.

[chajin]

Mines previously laid by Twentieth Air Force B-29 Superfortresses sink two freighters and a transport and damage three other vessels.

One of the assignments of the post-Imperial Navy was the removal of all these mines. There is an interesting article in today's Japan Times concerning this here.

[RJS1950]

FDR, being the POS he was actually did agree to hand over German industry to Stalin, let him dismantle and ship the factories and equipment to the Soviet Union, ship Germans as slaves to go with the factories, and forcibly turn Germany into one large agricultural cooperative to feed the Russians.

Fortunately, FDR finally died and Truman had enough sense to back out on most of those promises.

[central_va]

Seeds of the Cold War being planted.

[RJS1950]

Yep, although the Cold War in some form was inevitable. It was part of Stalin’s plan from the start. FDR the feeble minded just handed him the entire package without a fight. Truman was many things and something of a progressive but he wasn’t the hardcore socialist that FDR was.

[henkster]

I enjoyed looking at the ad for the midget television set. I was looking at it on my tablet.

[Tax-chick]

LOL! It’s only the size of a medium box of diapers, and the screen is a whole 5”x7”!

I’m always interested to see the mentions of Orthodox Jewish practice in the ads. There’s a tailoring ad that says, “Closed all day Saturday in summer months,” because of course the sun doesn’t set until after work hours. I suppose they could add, “But open all day Friday!”

[Jean2]

Does anyone know what the deal with Franco was? Why he was considered something of a pariah? Thank you.

[Alas Babylon!]

Yeah, he was a Fascist, friend of Hitler and Mussolini, but was smart enough to stay out of the war.

His treatment post WWII was payback for that friendship.

Later, when the Cold War started, his anti-Sovietism became his fortune, and the USA opened relations and established bases there, including Rota Naval Station, Torrejon and Valencai Air Bases, and a few more. Lots of good times for GIs 1950’s-1990s (including me!).

[Jean2]

Thank you.

[Cronos]

Yalta — when FDR and Churchill sold out Poland — the Poles who had shed their blood for the allies were left out in the cold and under Uncle Stalin’s boot

[freedumb2003]

Wow — plans for a 5X7 $100 tabletop TV. That is a heck of an advance for 1945!

[iowamark]

Equivalent to $1,325.77 in 2015 dollars.

[Hebrews 11:6]

50,000 Due to Get Phones This Year – 12

I imagine most on here remember when Bell owned all the telephones. But I wonder how many recall "party lines."

[EternalVigilance]

We didn’t know anything else but party lines when I was a kid.

And yes, Ma Bell owned the phones and all of the equipment.

Seems so strange now.