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SOVIET FLIERS SET ABO AFIRE; ACCUSED OF RAID IN NORWAY (1/2/40)
Microfiche-New York Times archives, McHenry Library, U.C. Santa Cruz | 1/2/40 | Harold Denny, K.J. Eskelund

Posted on 01/02/2010 4:49:28 AM PST 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”.)
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.
1 posted on 01/02/2010 4:49:31 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
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2 posted on 01/02/2010 4:50:07 AM PST 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; GRRRRR; 2banana; henkster; ...
Seaport is Bombed – 2-2
Foreign Writers Barred On Russian Side in War – 3
The International Situation – 3
Finns Hold Foe in Icy ‘Death Trap,’ Then Rout Half-Frozen Regiments – 4
Nazis Now Build a Fleet of Midget U-Boats For Vast Drive Against Allies, Paris Says – 6
Tennessee Girl Marries Soldier in Maginot Line – 6
Incidents in European Conflict – 7
3 posted on 01/02/2010 4:51:03 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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http://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/myday/displaydoc.cfm?_y=1940&_f=md055465

MY DAY - By Eleanor Roosevelt

WASHINGTON, Monday—We had a very pleasant dinner last night, after which Miss Cornelia Stabler gave us some delightful monologues. Her long one on “The Refugee” was particularly touching. I think all of us were glad to have it followed by a very light-hearted comparison of a girl saying good night to her mother after a party in the 80’s or 90’s, and a present day girl doing the same thing in quite a different way.

Afterward, Mr. Pare Lorenz showed us a movie which he has written and directed and which is taken from Dr. Paul de Kruif’s book, “Fight for life.” I found the picture interesting, but I doubt whether it will have a great popular appeal. However, for the sake of the interest which we should all have in this subject of maternity and infant care, I sincerely hope that large audiences see it.

When the President offered his annual toast to the United States on the stroke of midnight, many of us drank a little private toast, I think, in gratitude to a kindly Providence which has seen fit to spare the nation from participation in war and, therefore, in mass tragedy. Personally, I was grateful for two fairly narrow escapes in our own family. Ethel is practically well again, though she is still hobbling a little about the house, and Franklin, Jr., who acquired a little cold to add to his discomfort, is still more or less an invalid. Both of them, however, will look quite presentable in the course of the next few days and feel much more like themselves.

Our party here is beginning to break up. Major Hooker left this morning. Johnny and Anne are going back on the night train to Boston. Anna and John are taking the midnight train and going to work in New York City. The family is growing smaller, though some of them remain and return off and on, and the grandchildren will be with us for some time.

I must tell you of a number of interesting books which have come to me within the last few days. One of them is particularly delightful and has impressed me because of my necessity to think a good deal about food. This is a small book called: “Honor Among Cooks,” with some recipes in it which I have been anxious to obtain for some time. Then, to jump to something entirely different, there is a new Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, which should be extremely interesting to anyone wanting authoritative information on the Jewish people and their religion.
E.R.


4 posted on 01/02/2010 5:39:04 AM PST by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1940/jan40/f02jan40.htm

Red Army fights for Finnish positions
Tuesday, January 2, 1940 www.onwar.com

The Winter War... Heavy Soviet attacks on the Karelian Isthmus are noted. Soviet forces launch a major offensive. The Battle of Salla begins: Finns make unsuccessful attempts to encircle the Soviet 122nd Division in the “Waist” of the front.

In Britain... The blackout is said to have established the importance of Vitamin A for good eyesight in the dark. A survey indicates that one in five persons have had an accident in the blackout. Furthermore, deaths by road accidents in the four months since the blackout began exceed 2000, about 1700 more than the average for the period in peacetime. People are advised to take Cod-liver oil capsules.

In Prague... Journalists and officers of the former Czechoslovakian armed forces are rounded up in a new wave of arrests by the Nazis.


5 posted on 01/02/2010 5:40:05 AM PST by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andrew.etherington/month/thismonth/02.htm

January 2nd, 1940
UNITED KINGDOM:
The blackout is said to have established the importance of Vitamin A for good eyesight in the dark. Experiments have shown that it improves the ability of the eyes to adjust quickly in going from light to dark - as happens on going outdoors in the blackout. Cod-liver oil is recommended.
Surveys also reveal that 1 in 5 Britons have had an accident in the blackout. Road deaths exceed 2000, 1,700 more than the same period in peacetime. Most of the victims are pedestrians. Things may get better though. There are fewer cars due to petrol rationing and motorists have to paint the bumpers and running boards white. Kerbs and tree trunks are also being whitened. From February a 20 mph speed limit is to be introduced and British Summer Time will begin on February 25th.

RAF Bomber Command: North Sea reconnaissance. Three German aircraft destroyed; two British aircraft lost.

AA cruiser HMS Coventry damaged in a German air attack on the Shetland Islands. (Dave Shirlaw)

GERMANY: U-555, U-556, U-751 laid down. (Dave Shirlaw)

CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Prague: Journalists and ex-army officers are rounded up in a new wave of arrests by the Nazis.


6 posted on 01/02/2010 5:41:15 AM PST by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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"Nazis Now Build a Fleet of Midget U-Boats For Vast Drive Against Allies, Paris Says – 6"

OK, I'll bite. What was this all about? Anyone?

7 posted on 01/02/2010 6:41:32 AM PST by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective...)
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the finnish thing sounds brutal. i guess the russians learned a lot, which they used at stalingrad two years later. they played finn and the germans russian in that i guess.


8 posted on 01/02/2010 7:52:20 AM PST by beebuster2000
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To: BroJoeK

Type II C and D were a little larger than that, but they are the only ones I can come up with.

What about the XIII? It was to be a follow on to the II, but was never built. Looks like the right time frame. Haven’t run down the specs for it.


9 posted on 01/02/2010 8:57:16 AM PST by PAR35
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Day 34 of the Winter War, January 2, 1940


Abroad: more than 10,000 Swedish homes have volunteered to receive Finnish mothers and children. To date, 50 mothers and 400 children have been evacuated to Sweden.
Photo: SA-KUVA

Major Finnish victory at Suomussalmi


10 posted on 01/02/2010 10:33:52 AM PST by CougarGA7 (Happy New Year)
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Looks like the Type XIII were going to be slightly larger than the Type II, so the specs don’t quite match up, but given the dates, that has to be what they were talking about.


11 posted on 01/02/2010 11:11:20 AM PST by PAR35
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