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Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 6/18/45 | James B. Reston, Warren Moscow, W.H. Lawrence, Lindesay Parrott, Jay Walz, Hanson W. Baldwin, more

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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

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The Nimitz Graybook

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Continued from June 15.

John Toland, The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945

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Barbara W. Tuchman, Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45

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Edict by Moscow (Reston) – 2-3
6th Marines Surge Near Okinawa’s Tip on Return to Line (Moscow) – 3
7th Recesses War to Try Propaganda (Lawrence) – 4
B-29 Attack Fires 4 Japanese Cities – 4-5
LeMay in B-29 Breaks Record In Hop From Hawaii to Capital – 6
Cagayan Valley Drive Is Speeded As Foe Weakens in North Luzon (Parrott) – 6
M’Arthur’s Planes Blast Balik Papan – 7
Liuchow Thrusts Halted by Chinese – 7
Borneo and Luzon: The March of the Victorious and Surrender of the Vanquished (photos) – 8-9
War News Summarized – 8
86th Division Here on Way to Japan – 9-10
Our ‘Blackhawks’ Return to Rest Their Wings Before Spreading Them Towards Tokyo (photos) – 10-11
Capital to Greet Eisenhower Today; Lands in Bermuda (by Jay Walz, first-time contributor) – 12
Mayor’s Proclamation – 12
Lower Broadway to See Eisenhower – 13
Ciano Diary Cites Hitler Aim For Years: ‘We Want War’ – 14-15
Votes From This Area In Congress Last Week – 14
He is Heading for a Happy Landing (photo) – 15
Army Discharge Flaws (Baldwin) – 16
French Trap Nazis amid Repatriates (by Dana Adams Schmidt) – 16
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the War – 17

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http://www.etherit.co.uk/month/5/18.htm

June 18th, 1945 (MONDAY)

UNITED KINGDOM: William Joyce is put on trial in London. The charge is treason. He will be convicted and executed for broadcasting propaganda from Germany during the war as “Lord Haw Haw”. (He will be hung in January 1946)

Mass demobilization begins today for servicemen in Britain’s armed forces, even though the war continues in the Far East. Government officials predict that initially 30,000 men will return to “civvy street” each week, but this figure is expected to rise to around 60,000 a week by August. Some have already left, each kitted out in a “demob suit” and other civilian clothing on the day of release.

Destroyer HMS Camperdown commissioned.

U.S.S.R.: Moscow: 16 officers of the Polish Home Army are put on trial for fighting the Red Army.

CHINA: Chinese forces capture Wenchow port.
JAPAN: Six Eleventh Air Force B-24s join two US Navy Lockheed PV-2 Harpoons in attacking Kataoka, Shimushu Island and Tomari Cape, Paramushiru Island; cloud cover prevents observation of effects; 1 B-24 flies a radar-ferret mission over the Kurile Islands.

The Submarine USS Bonefish (SS-223), CO Lawrence L. Edge, is sunk by ASW forces in Toyama Wan, West coast of Honshu. All hands are lost. (Joe Sauder)

COMMONWEALTH OF THE PHILIPPINES: Organized Japanese resistance ends on Mindanao Island in the Philippines.

CANADA: Minesweeper HMCS St Joseph paid off.

U.S.A.: General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower receives a tumultuous welcome in Washington, D.C., where he addresses a joint session of the U.S. Congress.

The Pacific Fleet issues a staff study that strongly implies that MacArthur”> MacArthur will not take command of ground forces during the invasion of Japan (Operation Olympic) until these forces were established ashore. MacArthur “announces that he is going ashore with the troops, and that he would exercise control, as required, of the actual assault.” (Keith Allen)(211)

Escort carrier USS Puget Sound commissioned.

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86th Division

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The 86th Infantry Division arrived in France, 4 March 1945, and moved to Köln, Germany, taking over defensive positions near Weiden, 24 March, in relief of the 8th Infantry Division. After a short period of patrolling on both sides of the Rhine, the division was relieved, and moved across the Rhine to Eibelshausen, Germany, 5 April. In a rapid offensive advance, the 86th moved across the Bigge River, cleared Attendorn, 11 April, and continued on to the Ruhr, taking part in the Ruhr pocket fighting. On 21 April, the division moved to Ansbach and continued to advance, taking Eichstätt on the 25th, crossing the Danube at Ingolstadt on the 27th, securing the bridge over the Amper Canal, 29 April, crossing the Isar and reaching Mittel Isar Canal by the end of the month. The division was ordered to take Wasserburg, 1 May, and leading elements had reached the outskirts of the city when they were ordered to withdraw, 2 May, and to move east to Salzburg.

On 4 May, the division captured the crown jewels of Hungary in Mattsee, Austria.[1] At the end of the war, the division was securing the left flank of the XV Corps. After processing German prisoners of war, it was redeployed to the United States, arriving in New York 17 June 1945. The division trained briefly at Camp Gruber, Oklahoma, 21 June-11 August 1945; and then left San Francisco, 24 August 1945, for the Philippines. The 86th Division was aboard ship in Leyte harbor when the Japanese surrendered. After landing on Luzon the unit was dispersed throughout the Island, some to Marikina, some to other locations. A few were assigned to Corregidor Island to guard Japanese prisoners of war.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/86th_Infantry_Division_(United_States)

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UNITED KINGDOM: William Joyce is put on trial in London. The charge is treason. He will be convicted and executed for broadcasting propaganda from Germany during the war as “Lord Haw Haw”. (He will be hung in January 1946)

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There are pictures of him in a hospital bed. here is the answer:

Capture and trial[edit]

On 28 May 1945 Joyce was captured by British forces at Flensburg, near the German border with Denmark. Spotting a dishevelled figure while resting from gathering firewood, intelligence soldiers – including a Jewish German, Geoffrey Perry (born Horst Pinschewer), who had left Germany before the war – engaged him in conversation in French and English. After they asked whether he was Joyce, he reached for his pocket (actually reaching for a false passport); believing he was armed, they shot him through the buttocks, leaving four wounds.[25]

Two intelligence officers then drove him to a border post, and handed him to British military police. Joyce was then taken to London and tried at the Old Bailey on three counts of high treason:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Joyce

[chajin]

The 86th never made it to Japan, even as part of the occupying force: cf. here

[henkster]

They hanged Joyce but didn’t hang Klaus Fuchs.

[colorado tanker]

According to the vet's statement on the 86th Div. website, the 86th was slated to go in the first wave of the invasion of Honshu. A while back we had a discussion about what units were transferring from the ETO to the Pacific and in that regard looked at the Army's map of the Coronet operation:

Note that the 86th Div. is not on the map. We commented at the time that First Army is shown as participating, but none of the units in its order of battle are First Army units from the ETO.

I am increasingly of the opinion that this map was more of a concept document with units listed as placeholders but was not reflective of the actual order of battle had Operation Coronet actually gone forward.

[henkster]

I agree. This was a concept based on transfer of an Army HQ but relying upon forces already in theater. Coronet could not have been any more concrete than Overlord was in November 1943.

[central_va]

The first at the far right is a Marine division.

[colorado tanker]

Both 1st and 6th Marine Divisions are shown on the Coronet map although both are now engaged on Okinawa.