500 SUPERFORTRESSES FIRE FOUR KEY JAPANESE CITIES; SASEBO NAVY BASE A TARGET (6/29/45)

Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 6/29/45 | Warren Moscow, Lindesay Parrott, W.H. Lawrence, William M. Blair, Gladwin Hill, Harold Callender

[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
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

[Homer_J_Simpson]

The Nimitz Graybook

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Prime Minister to Sir Alexander Cadogan 29 June 45

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

[Homer_J_Simpson]

3,500 Tons Dropped (Moscow) – 2-3
7th Fleet Fights Foe’s Planes in Macassar Strait Waters (Parrott) – 3
Mass Suicide Corps Trained by Japan – 3-4
Ryukyu Glory Won by Little Warships (Lawrence) – 4
U.S. Fliers Batter 3 Ships Off Japan – 4
Propaganda War Swaying Japanese – 4-5
Invasion of Japan Forecast by King (Blair) – 5
Ten Commando Pilots of Unarmed Planes Are Home Eager to Fly Armed Ones in War – 5
Parleys in India Come to a Halt – 5
These Japanese Preferred Surrender to Suicide on Okinawa (photos) – 6-7
A Hero’s Return: Wounded Pilot Landing Flaming Plane on Carrier (photos) – 7-8
War News Summarized – 8
Nazis’ Scientists Planned Sun ‘Gun’ 5,100 Miles Up (Hill) – 9
Secret Force Did Hard Jobs in Italy – 10
2,000 U.S. Soldiers in Discipline Camp (Callender) – 10
Senator for Speed (by C.P. Trussell) – 11
Turkish Officials Awaited in London – 11
‘We Must Lead Way to Peace of World,’ President Warns (by Bertram D. Hulen) – 12
Radio-Phone for Autos Ready; Motorists Can Have 2-Way Talks – 13
Blockade of Japan (by Hanson W. Baldwin) – 14
SS General Belittles Nazi Chiefs when Questioned by U.S. Officers – 14
Day’s Communiques – 15
6 Marianas Isles ‘Seized’ by Voice – 15

[Homer_J_Simpson]

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.

[Rebelbase]

German Star Wars and US cell phones. WWII changed everything.

[chajin]

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.

[DUMBGRUNT]

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!

[Squawk 8888]

Thanks Homer, ping to page 10.

Canada Ping!

[fso301]

That was a fascinating p9 article. I never before heard of German plans for a death ray, or that they invented base bleed artillery.

[Hebrews 11:6]

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?

[Hebrews 11:6]

Er, make that 47 times.

[colorado tanker]

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.”

[colorado tanker]

The American professor was much closer to the physics in saying to maintain that altitude the object would have to be in orbit.

My guess is this wasn't much more than a half baked thought experiment.

[Dartman]

Seems to me we could use a little of that massive bombing tactic right about now. Guess where?

These surgical strikes by hi tech fighter/bombers aren't working. At all.

[21twelve]

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.”