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NAZIS PUSH ON IN WESTERN CAUCASUS, BUT DRIVE ON STALINGRAD IS STALLED (8/1/42)
Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 8/1/42 | C. Brooks Peters, Hanson W. Baldwin

Posted on 08/01/2012 4:14:21 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson

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TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: milhist; realtime; worldwarii
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 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. Course description, prerequisites and tuition information is available at the bottom of Homer’s profile. Also visit our general discussion thread
1 posted on 08/01/2012 4:14:30 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
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2 posted on 08/01/2012 4:15:42 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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Richard Tregaskis, Guadalcanal Diary

3 posted on 08/01/2012 4:17:25 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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Barbara W. Tuchman, Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45

4 posted on 08/01/2012 4:18:28 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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To: r9etb; PzLdr; dfwgator; Paisan; From many - one.; rockinqsranch; 2banana; henkster; meandog; ...
Danger at Bataisk – 2-3
Nazis Push Deeper in North Caucasus – 3
War News Summarized – 3
Americans Blast Harbor at Tobruk – 4
Decision on Saboteurs – 4
Aircraft Carrier Launched by Navy (Peters) – 5
New Guarantee of Victory Over the Axis: The Essex Takes to Water (photo) – 6
Russia Still a Bulwark (Baldwin) – 7
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the War – 8-9
5 posted on 08/01/2012 4:21:22 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1942/aug42/f01aug42.htm

Churchill visits North Africa
Saturday, August 1, 1942 www.onwar.com

Prime Minister Churchill arrives in North Africa [photo at link]

In Egypt... British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and General Brooke arrive in Cairo. The poor performance of the British 8th Army is a major concern and replacement commanders are being sought. Churchill is very upset over the massive losses of equipment and supplies to the Germans.

On the Eastern Front... German Army Group A continues to attack Kletskaya. 4th Panzer Army, now across the Don River, is advancing east near Kotelnikovo. The 1st Panzer Army is staging attacks from its position on the Kuban, east to Stavropol and south to Maikop.


6 posted on 08/01/2012 4:24:07 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andrew.etherington/frame.htm

August 1st, 1942

UNITED KINGDOM: USAAF 31st Fighter Group and the 309th Fighter Squadron move to Westhampnett, Sussex.

307th Fighter Squadron moves to Biggin Hill, Kent.

308th Fighter Squadron moves to Kenley, Surrey. (Jack McKillop)

Minesweeping trawler HMS Gateshead launched. (Dave Shirlaw)

GERMANY: Hitler scorns the US:

It is very difficult to argue with Americans. They immediately shout: “Say, take a look at what our workers earn!” True, but let us take a look at the shady side as well. The industrial worker earns his $80; but the man who is not in industry gets absolutely nothing. At one time they had no less than 13 million unemployed.... I grant you that our standard of life is lower. But the German Reich has 270 opera houses - a standard of cultural existence of which they over there have no conception. They have clothes, food, cars and a badly constructed house - but with a refrigerator! This sort of thing does not impress us. (207)

U-1305, U-1306, U-1307, U-1308 ordered.

U-545 laid down.

U-226, U-448 commissioned. (Dave Shirlaw)

U.S.S.R.: The Germans cut the railway line between Krasnodar and Stalingrad at Salsk.
German Army Group A continues the advance through Salsk and reaches the Kuban River near Kropotkin.

The Soviet Far East Command’s Reconnaissance Bureau establishes the 88th Special Independent Sniper Brigade with the survivors of the NEAJUA [Northeast Ant-Japanese United Army], of Korea. Zhao Baozhong is appointed its commander. The 88th Special Independent Brigade’s primary mission is to collect intelligence on Imperial Japanese Army movements in Korea and China. It has a total personnel (men and women) of approximately 600-800 and is initially organised into a headquarters, headquarters staff, four battalions (1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th) and a signal unit. An independent Chinese language school and a separate accounting company are also attached to the brigade.

The 1st Battalion is commanded by Kim Il Song. This consists of approximately 200 personnel. (Mike Yared)

MEDITERRANEAN SEA: During the night of 1/2 August, US Army Middle East Air Force (USAMEAF) B-24s hit a convoy, scoring 3 direct hits on a large merchant ship which the last aircraft reports sinking; 1 B-24 is lost in crash landing at base.

The St Simon was sunk at 1325 by U-77 35 miles NW of Beirut. (Dave Shirlaw)

SOLOMON ISLANDS: US B-17s attack the Japanese seaplane base on Gavutu Island.

PACIFIC OCEAN: A USN submarine sinks a Japanese merchant freighter and oiler off Japan. (Jack McKillop)

NEW GUINEA: Allied Air Force B-17 Flying Fortresses attack installations at Gona and shipping 75 miles (121 km) east of Salamaua in Huon Gulf.

TERRITORY OF HAWAII: Ingram M. Stainback is appointed governor. (Denis Peck)

TERRITORY OF ALASKA: ALEUTIAN ISLANDS: Weather and photo reconnaissance is flown by a US 11th Air Force B-24 and LB-30 Liberator over Korovin Bay and North Cape.

CANADA: Frigate HMCS Prince Rupert laid down Esquimalt British Columbia.

Former fishing vessels HMCS Mayas and Sakura commissioned. Former Japanese-Canadian owned gillnetters. Sakura became a boom attendant vessel at Prince Rupert. (Dave Shirlaw)

U.S.A.: Roosevelt urges citizens in the eastern states to use coal rather than oil as a household fuel.
An armed Grumman J4F Widgeon from Houma, Louisiana sinks U-166 off the mouth of the Mississippi.
German submarine U-166, which had laid mines off the mouth of the Mississippi River, is sunk in the Gulf of Mexico, in position 28.37N, 90.45W, by depth charges from the USN submarine chaser, USS PC-566. All hands, 52 men, on the U-boat are lost.

In the U.S., the American Federation of Musicians (AFM) goes on strike because they are told that phonograph records are a “threat to union members’ jobs.” During the next several months, union musicians refuse to play in recording sessions but live, musical radio broadcasts continue. In September 1943, Decca Records becomes the first record company to sign a deal with the AFM to pay royalties of up to five cents a record to the AFM benevolent fund for unemployed musicians. The strike finally ends in November 1944 when RCA Victor and Columbia Records agree to terms. (Jack McKillop)

Destroyer escort USS Charles Lawrence laid down.

Submarines USS Seahorse, Skate laid down. (Dave Shirlaw)

ATLANTIC OCEAN: At 0220, the unescorted Kentar was hit on the port side in the boiler room by one torpedo from U-155 and sank immediately after being hit by a coup de grâce 50 minutes later. The survivors were eventually rescued from whaleboats and rafts, but some men died of exposure.

At 0023, the unescorted Krest´janin was torpedoed and sunk by U-601 west of Mesduzarskij Island. The survivors landed in lifeboats at Beluschja, Nowaja Semlja.

At 1758, the unescorted Clan MacNaughton was torpedoed and sunk by U-155 about 180 miles east of Tobago. Four crewmembers and one gunner were lost. The master and 28 survivors in his boat landed on Tobago Island. The chief officer and 24 survivors were picked up by the Empire Bede and landed at Port of Spain on 5 August. The third mate and 22 survivors landed at Trinidad. (Dave Shirlaw)


7 posted on 08/01/2012 4:26:03 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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http://usswashington.com/worldwar2plus55/dl26jl42.htm

August 1st, 1942...Guadalcanal scout and government clerk Daniel Pule provides Martin Clemens with a detailed report with a map of Lunga plain showing tents, workshops, bomb sheds, and a wireless station. Trenches and dugouts are marked in red pencil. Clemens radios this to Townsville, Australia. Townsville immediately asks for the exact location of the radio station. Clemens provides it.

Aboard the Guadalcanal invasion force, Marines hold Sunday services in shifts, Catholics first, Protestants second.

After church, Marines buy candy (pogy bait) from the ship’s store, and return to classes on tactics and memoranda. One describes the Tenaru River as following “a serpentine course with a current averaging four knots. During the rainy season and flood the water rushes at much greater speed. The river is full of deep holes and well over a man’s head...”


8 posted on 08/01/2012 4:29:48 AM PDT by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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The “Cairo Massacre”. Churchill will fire Auchinleck and several of his senior commanders will also be sacked, either by Winnie, or Auchinleck’s eventual successor, Bernard Law Montgomery.

Monty wasn’t Churchill’s first choice. “Strafer” Gott was. But Gott was killed on a routine flight back to Cairo that was ambushed by the Luftwaffe. There is some speculation that the plane was attacked because the Germans thought Churchill was on it, and were attempting a “Yamamoto” on it.

Monty is one of Brooke’s acoloytes, and he will fill Eighth Army with a number of HIS acoloytes while slighting, transferring and relieving a bunch of the Eighth Army old hands. He will appropriate Auchinleck’s plan as his own, begin issuing orders before the change of command, and generally demonstrate the pattern of conduct that will endear him to so many, including your humble poster.


9 posted on 08/01/2012 5:14:37 AM PDT by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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Wonder where the fixation with U.S refrigerators comes from. If anybody has an inkling how formidable the U.S economy can be, because of his interest in automobile construction, and his correspondence with Henry Ford, it’s Adolf Hitler.

And his concern for the peoplke in the U.S not working is touching. In Germany, tey’re sent to the camps.

And finally, an anecdote. Rommel was returning to Africa at one point, and was being taken through Italy on Goering’s train. When he expressed his concern about U.S. war production, Goering replied, in sum and substance, “Don’t worry. All they can make is razor blades and refrigerators”. To which Rommel replied, “We could use some of those razor blades and refrigerators.”.


10 posted on 08/01/2012 5:21:49 AM PDT by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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First Essex class CV launched!


11 posted on 08/01/2012 6:27:55 AM PDT by C19fan
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I love these WW II posts!


12 posted on 08/01/2012 7:34:43 AM PDT by The Toad
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