Posted on 09/10/2009 5:38:37 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
America is Mobilized as a Watchful Neutral – 1-2
Germany is Off Again on a War of Conquest – 3-4
Vast Differences From 1914 Are Noted by Paris – 5-6
German Gains in Poland Add to Task of Allies – 8-9
Sea Action Key to Strategy – 10
AMERICA WEIGHS ITS WARTIME ROLE – All Sections Hold We Must Keep Out – 12-14
Roosevelt Seeks Unity Before Congress Acts – 15-16
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR – 19-22
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It's scary how wrong they were on this.
These are amazingly fascinating.
Thank you for posting.
NAVAL EVENTS-Sunday, 10 September
Northern Patrol - light cruiser EMERALD departed Scapa Flow for Northern Patrol and arrived back on the 17th.
Northern waters - destroyer FEARLESS at sea with battlecruiser HOOD was detached from the screen to investigate a merchant ship which proved to be Swedish.
British west coast – patrol sloop PUFFIN attacked a submarine contact off Barmouth in Cardigan Bay.
British east coast - convoy FS.3 departed Methil and arrived at Southend on the 12th.
steamer GOODWOOD (2796grt) was sunk by a mine, one mile southeast of Flamborough Head, laid by U.15 on the 6th. One member of the crew was lost.
steamer MAGDAPUR (8641grt) sailing in ballast to Southampton to embark BEF equipment for France was sunk on the 10th off Orfordness by a mine laid by U.13 on the 4th. Six crew were lost.
North Sea - the British submarine force suffered its first loss of the war. On the Montrose-Obrestad air patrol line, SW of Stavanger, TRITON sighted OXLEY. After repeated challenges to which OXLEY failed to respond, TRITON fired two torpedoes at 2100 believing her to be an enemy. One torpedo struck and sank OXLEY. Only the commanding officer Lt Cdr H.G. Bowerman and AB H S Gluckes survived. The casualties were Lt R P Coppinger, Lt FK Manley RNR, Sub Lt W H Palmer, Warrant Engineering Officer R W C Robertson and forty nine ratings. Lt Cdr Bowerman was not held at fault for the loss and assumed command of destroyer WALPOLE on 21 November.
German waters - U.17 arrived at Kiel.
Baltic - a small German fishing vessel was sunk on a mine off Trelleborg, S Sweden and the survivors rescued by another German trawler.
Dutch waters - minelaying destroyers ESK and EXPRESS left Portsmouth early on the morning of the 10th and laid 120 mines that night in minefield AA off Terschelling in 53-32N, 5-07E before returning to Immingham. Next night, the 11th/12th, they laid field QQ in the Bight
English Channel – destroyer JACKAL attacked a submarine contact 10 miles S by W of the Needles, Isle of Wight.
Aircraft carrier HERMES and destroyers ILEX, IMOGEN, ISIS departed Portland on anti-submarine patrol, arriving at Plymouth on the 12th.
UK-France convoys and sailings - convoy of steamers BRIGHTON, CANTERBURY, MAID OF ORLEANS, PARIS departed Southampton on the 9th and anchored in the Solent overnight before setting of with troops for Cherbourg. MAID OF ORLEANS was damaged in a minor collision with the escort at the start, but was able to continue.
Convoy MB.1 of six slow cargo ships departed Southampton escorted by destroyers SARDONYX and two others (possibly VENOMOUS and WREN) from Portsmouth Command, arriving at at Brest on the 12th.
Bay of Biscay - U.34 was attacked by an Allied aircraft with a single bomb in the Bay, but no damage was done.
Mediterranean - destroyers COSSACK, MAORI, NUBIAN, ZULU had departed Alexandria on the 4th and after a patrol off Crete reached Malta. Leaving there on the 8th, they joined the escort of convoy AB.2 (Green 1) on this date, the 10th. Sister ships AFRIDI, GURKHA, MOHAWK, SIKH sailed from Alexandria on the 11th for escort duties and returned on the 17th. AFRIDI, GURKHA, SIKH left again on the 19th and headed for Malta. These duties continued until 7 October when 4th Flotilla was ordered to return to England.
Caribbean - light cruiser ORION arrived at Kingston.
Australian waters - Australian heavy cruisers AUSTRALIA, CANBERRA and light cruiser ADELAIDE searched for suspected German minelayers off Gabo Island until the 13th.
Pacific - Canadian destroyers FRASER and ST LAURENT, which departed Vancouver on 31 August, passed through the Panama Canal en route to Halifax where they arrived on the 15th.
German steamer TACOMA (8268grt) arrived at Talcuhuano, Chile to avoid New Zealand light cruiser ACHILLES on patrol off the west coast of Chile. There she joined steamers OSORNO (6951grt) which had arrived on the 1st and FRANKFORT (5522grt) on the 6th. ACHILLES made a 70 mile dash on this date to intercept LAHN (8498grt), but the German steamer escaped into territorial waters and later arrived at Talcuhuano on the 16th. Meanwhile, ACHILLES arrived at Valapariso late on the 10th.
In Poland... Polish armies are ordered to conduct a general retreat to defensive positions in the southeast. The Luftwaffe conducts 15 air raids on Warsaw. German forces broadcast a false news bulletin, announcing the fall of the capital on the same wavelength as Radio Warsaw.
On the Western Front... In reply to insistent demands by the Polish Commander-in-Chief, Marshal Smigly-Rydz, the French Chief of the General Staff, General Gamelin, announces that more than half of his active divisions are in contact with the enemy on the northeast front and that he can do no more.
In France... The first major units of BEF begin to land. Field Marshal Lord Gort is in command. Small advance parties have been arriving since September 4th. In the first month 160,000 men, 24,000 vehicles and 140,000 tons of supplies are sent to France.
Candian Broadcasting Company-Canada declares war on Germany
Broadcast Date: Sept. 3, 1939
War!
On Sept. 10, 1939, a special session of Parliament approves Prime Minister Mackenzie King’s request that Canada join the war in Europe. The decision, seen by most Canadians as inevitable, comes exactly one week after England and France declare war on Nazi Germany.
It is the first time that Canadians make their own declaration of war as a sovereign nation.
CBC Audio of the announcement is HERE:
http://archives.cbc.ca/on_this_day/09/10/
You are enrolled. Thanks for your interest and welcome aboard.
Homer
Excerpt.
The forces of evil have been loosed in the world in a struggle between the pagan conception of a social order which ignores the individual and is based upon the doctrine of might, and a civilization based upon the Christian conception of the brotherhood of man, with its regard for the sanctity of contractual relations and the sacredness of human personality.
Refreshingly straighforward, but isn't he afraid this will just make the pagans hate us more?
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The first nine days of the Second World War ended last week with German legions - in a practical field demonstrtion of the technique of "Blitzkrieg" (lightning war) sweeping to the gates of Warsaw.
He ends his essay with a safe but accurate prediction:
The war promises to be long; Germany has won her first victory; she will probably win many more, but she will probably lose the war.
Oxley was the older O class:
Triton was the newer T class, lost in Southern Adriatic Sea, Dec 18, 1940:
"Twenty-five years ago Germany invaded Belgium and started the World War. Her aim was one of conquest. In general, the Kaiser sought for the Reich a "place in the sun" which would have put every one else in Europe in the shade and, specifically, he sought a sizable slice of Northern France and enough of Belgium to bring him to the Channel ports. There were four years of holocaust and six million men died before, at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, he was defeated in 1918. Maybe it should have lasted past that eleventh hour.
"Now Germany has invaded Poland d and started another war of conquest. This time Germany strikes first to the east instead of to the west. but the main idea is the same -- hegemony of Europe..."
Note some key phrases here:
For sure, these were common-place accepted, indeed personally remembered truths in 1939. Today they are not part of many "politically correct" histories, which emphasize the tragedy and senselessness of it all, and how all were to blame, so none were really to blame, etc, etc.
It's especially eerie to see the words "holocaust" and "six million" side-by-side here in September 1939. Spooky.
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