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FINNS HALT TANKS AS RUSSIANS PRESS MANNERHEIM DRIVE (2/7/40)
Microfiche-New York Times archives, Cabrillo College Library | 2/7/40 | K.J. Eskelund, G.H. Archambault

Posted on 02/07/2010 6:47:11 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” 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.
1 posted on 02/07/2010 6:47:11 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
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2 posted on 02/07/2010 6:47:40 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; ...
Finns Halt Tanks as Russians Press Mannerheim Drive – 2-3
The International Situation – 3
Anxiety Reported in Near East; Big Allied Armies Ready There – 4-5
London and Tokyo in Partial Accord – 6
Tokyo Bid to U.S. on Trade Assailed – 7
Gains in Northwest Claimed by Japanese – 7
Incidents in European Conflict – 8
Official Schedule of the National League for 1940* - 10

* This caught my eye as I was zipping past the sports section. I guess they ran the AL schedule on another day.

3 posted on 02/07/2010 6:49:11 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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To: Homer_J_Simpson

5 cent Pepsi’s, the drink of sand lot baseball players. I remember it well. Actually they were 7 cents, there was a 2 cent deposit tacked on. It was before little league came into play. No parents, no fights, disputed plays settled by fingers (odds/even).


4 posted on 02/07/2010 7:01:56 AM PST by Bringbackthedraft
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Another amazing post.

Liked the Gay Pepsi Ad. LOL


5 posted on 02/07/2010 7:07:09 AM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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To: Homer_J_Simpson

The winter war...70 years ago...time flies, doesn’t it?


6 posted on 02/07/2010 7:07:26 AM PST by dr_who
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To: Bringbackthedraft

STEP OUT . . . BE GAY . . . THE PEPSI-COLA WAY!

Too funny


7 posted on 02/07/2010 7:07:51 AM PST by 70th Division (I love my country but fear my government!)
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Like the Gay 90’s? Amazing how word meanings change over the years, remember the Flintstone’s Gay ole time too.


8 posted on 02/07/2010 7:11:02 AM PST by Bringbackthedraft
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To: Homer_J_Simpson

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1940/feb40/f07feb40.htm

Irish ship sunk by mine

Wednesday, February 7, 1940

In the North Atlantic... In the Irish Sea, the Irish passenger-mail ship Munster is sunk by a mine.

In Britain... IRA members, Barnes and Richards, are executed at Winson Green Prison, Birmingham. They were sentenced to death on December 11, 1939 at the “Coventry Explosion” trial for the murder of 5 people in Coventry on August 25, 1939.


9 posted on 02/07/2010 8:37:59 AM PST 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/month/thismonth/07.htm

February 7th, 1940

UNITED KINGDOM: Birmingham, Winson Green Prison: Peter Barnes of Banagher and James MacCormack of Mullingar, both in the Republic of Ireland, are the IRA men hanged for the Coventry bomb murders of 25 August 1939.
GERMANY: U-562 laid down. (Dave Shirlaw)

FINLAND: In Soviet air raids 4 died at Kajaani. (Mikko Härmeinen)

U.S.S.R.: Soviet submarine SC-311 received the Red Banner Award (Orden Krasnogo Znameni). (Dave Shirlaw)

CANADA: Flower-class corvettes HMCS Napanee, Sudbury and Prescott ordered. (Dave Shirlaw)

U.S.A.: The motion picture “Pinocchio” premiers at the Radio City Music Hall in New York City. This Walt Disney animated feature contains the song “When You Wish Upon A Star.” (Jack McKillop)

ATLANTIC OCEAN: About 0600, SS Munster struck a mine laid on 6 January by U-30 in the Queens Channel and sank. The master, 44 crewmembers and 190 passengers were picked up by the British coaster Ringwall and landed at Liverpool. (Dave Shirlaw)


10 posted on 02/07/2010 10:26:22 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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Pretty neat seeing how the world was concerned over a Soviet invasion of Iran. They went after Finland, Poland, and then only after Germany invaded did they become an “ally”.


11 posted on 02/07/2010 10:33:21 AM PST by icwhatudo ("laws requiring compulsory abortion could be sustained under the existing Constitution"Obama Adviser)
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The motion picture “Pinocchio” premiers at the Radio City Music Hall in New York City. This Walt Disney animated feature contains the song “When You Wish Upon A Star.” (Jack McKillop)

Sounds like a winner. We'll send Nugent.

12 posted on 02/07/2010 11:46:06 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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To: Vendome

The message - step out (of the closet?)...be gay. A woman with a ‘man sized bottle’ Pretty clear what their market is. I’ll stick to Coke, RC, or Dr Pepper.


13 posted on 02/07/2010 12:32:58 PM PST by PAR35
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Day 70 of the Winter War, February 7, 1940


Northern Finland: in the Suomussalmi sector an enemy detachment which had entered Finnish territory to the south of Raate is pushed back across the border. Photo: SA-KUVA

Surprise enemy air raid on Kajaani


14 posted on 02/07/2010 2:22:07 PM PST by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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Sorry about missing class this morning. Was busy on some other stuff.

abb


15 posted on 02/07/2010 2:40:41 PM PST by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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