Posted on 07/07/2015 4:57:22 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
Winston S. Churchill, Triumph and Tragedy
#1 Sentimental Journey Les Brown, with Doris Day
#2 There! Ive Said It Again Vaughn Monroe
#3 - Bell Bottom Trousers - Tony Pastor, with Ruth McCullough
#4 - On the Atchinson Topeka & Santa Fe - Johnny Mercer, with the Pied Pipers
#4 - Sentimental Journey - Hal McIntyre
#5 - Bell Bottom Trousers - Kay Kyser, with Ferdy Slim Quartet
#6 - Gotta Be This Or That - Benny Goodman
#6 - Chopins Polonaise - Carmen Cavallaro
#7 - Bell Bottom Trousers - Guy Lombardo, with Jimmy Brown
#8 You Belong to My Heart Bing Crosby, with Xavier Cugat Orchestra
#9 Caldonia Louis Jordan
#9 Sentimental Journey Merry Macs
#10 I Wish Mills Brothers
#10 Who Threw the Whiskey in the Well Lucky Millinder
http://www.etherit.co.uk/month/6/07.htm
July 7th, 1945 (SATURDAY)
JAPAN: HQ XX Bomber Command, Twentieth Air Force, arrives at Sakugawa, Okinawa from India. 100+ P-51s dispatched from Iwo Jima to hit airfields in the Tokyo area abort due to bad weather.
Taking off from bases in the Marianas during the late evening hours of 6 July, 517 XXI Bomber Command B-29 Superfortresses make four incendiary and one high explosive attacks on Japanese cities between 0700 and 0800 hours local on 7 July; one B-29 is lost:
Mission 251: 124 B-29s attack the Chiba urban area destroying 0.86 sq miles (2.23 sq km), 43.4% of the city; one other B-29 hits an alternate target.
Mission 252: 123 B-29s hit the Akashi urban area destroying 0.81 sq miles (2.10 sq km), 57.0% of the city; one other B-29 hits an alternate target.
Mission 253: 133 B-29s attack the Shimizu urban area destroying 0.71 sq miles (1.84 sq km), 50% of the city; one B-29 is lost.
Mission 254: 131 B-29s hit the Kofu urban area destroying 1.3 sq miles (3.37 sq km), 65% of the city; one other B-29 hits an alternate target.
Mission 255: 59 B-29s drop 500-pound (227 kg) bombs on the Maruzen Oil Refinery at Wakayama; one other hits an alternate target.
110 Iwo Jima-based P-51s attack airfields in the Tokyo area (Kumagaya, Yamagata, and Chiba); they claim 1-0-0 aircraft in the air and 6-25 on the ground; one P-51 is lost.
Iwo Jima: VII Fighter Command, United States’ Seventh Air Force bases the 414th Fighter Group flying P-47Ns at North Field.
The first B-29 runway has now been paved to 8,500 feet and is in operation.
BORNEO:Thirteenth Air Force B-24s, B-25s and P-38s and RAAF aircraft support Australian troops in the Balikpapan, Borneo area.
U.S.A.: The first Beechcraft A-38 ‘Grizzly’ is delivered to the USAAF at Wight Field, Dayton Ohio.
President Harry S. Truman, Secretary of State James F. Byrnes and Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy board the heavy cruiser USS Augusta (CA-31) enroute to Antwerp, Belgium. Their ultimate destination is Potsdam, Germany for a conference with British and Soviet leaders.
Destroyer USS BASILONE is laid down. Destroyers USS Brownson and Richard B Anderson launched.
A-38 Grizzly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beechcraft_XA-38_Grizzly
However, instead of going into that today, I will leave the group with a feature-length animation which was being shown in Japanese theatres about this time. "Anime," the animation for which Japan has become famous and which is all the rage among young geeks, is invented long after the war, in part because of the inability of Japanese movie studios to compete with Disney and WB animators. However, old-fashioned cell-by-cell animation was common in the Japanese studios of the time, and during the war a few cartoons were made by Imperial Japanese propagandists to gin up the population.
The movie is Momotarō: Umi no Shinpei or "Momotato: Divine Warriors of the Sea," "Momotaro" being a well-known character of Japanese fiction. You can read the whole story here, but if you don't have the 80 minutes to "enjoy" the whole feature, skip to the last ten minutes or so, to watch how the Japanese portray themselves as Gen. Momotaro vis-à-vis the stupid, bumbling, and cowardly British of the Celebes, and then the final scene where the Japanese, in this case the animals following Momotaro, play at paratrooping into the continental US.
Still, this movie strikes me as delusional. They have lost every battle with us since 1943, their cities are burned out and they are on the verge of invasion. And they still think they can invade the U.S.???
It isn't all that different from the attitudes found in Goebbel's movies of the same time: they had to keep telling the homeland that victory could be snatched from defeat.
I’m ready to take a sentimental journey in my bell-bottom trousers.
While on leave he married fellow Marine, Lena Riggi, who christened the ship.
She never remarried.
I am not surprised she never remarried. I would not have married her for the reason no man could possibly have lived up to Sgt. John Basilone. I’m sure she felt the same way.
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