Posted on 04/15/2010 6:01:48 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
Additional authors not listed in the 100-character-only field in the header: James Aldridge, Raymond Daniell, C. Brooks Peters
Assured on Radio – 2-4
Lord Haw Haw Errs in Talk About Times – 4
The International Situation – 4
Merchant Ships Sunk in War – 4
Nazis Push Inland – 5-7
New Leaders in Cabinet Urged in British Survey – 6
Police Find Way to Curb Columbus Circle Orators – 6
Britain Buying Up 117 U.S. Securities – 8
Nazis Try to Bomb King, Norse Say; A ‘Battle of Lexington’ Saved Him – 9-10
Simpson Accepts Dewey Challenge; Seeks Re-election – 10
Says Lewis Plots ‘U.S. Dictatorship’ – 11
British Navy Work Eases Washington – 11-12
Roosevelt Charge is Denied By Nazis – 12
Need of Allied Aid Obvious in Norway – 13-14
British See Reich in New Bold Moves – 14
Berlin Renews Threat to Britain, Charging Air Bombing of Bergen – 15
Reports Nazis Seized Jews in Scandinavia - 15
Police find way to curb Columbus Circle Oratore
I wonder what ever happened to French Vichy Celestines bottled mineral water?
Censorship so strict in Denmark that the reporters not even allowed to leave?
CIO Chief was treasonous!! He plotted revolution?
15- NAZI’s seized jews in Scandanavia!!
http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1940/apr40/f15apr40.htm
British force lands at Harstad
Monday, April 15, 1940 www.onwar.com
In Norway... The main body of the 24th British Guards Brigade arrives in Harstad.
In Oslo... Quisling resigns and is replaced for the moment by Ingolf Christensen as the head of the German-sponsored government.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andrew.etherington/month/thismonth/15.htm
April 15th, 1940
UNITED KINGDOM: RAF Bomber Command: 4 Group. Bombing - Stavanger Airfield. 102 Sqn. Six aircraft attacked successfully.
2 Group. 110 Sqn( Blenheim ). Two aircraft to Heligoland. Reconnaissance. One aircraft attacked a patrol ship encountering heavy fire and was shot down.
On return 110 Sqn. is ordered north to Lossiemouth in Scotland to join 107 Sqn for attacks on Norway.
RAF Coastal Command: No. 22 Squadron’s Bristol Beauforts make their first mine-laying sortie in the mouth of the River Jade.
A single Hudson on patrol off the Norwegian coast is attacked by two Bf110s one of which crashes into a mountain while trying to attack the Hudson. Another Hudson FTR from the same area.
Bletchley Park: British Intelligence deciphers the German Enigma code used in Norway.
NORWAY: The Main Body of the British 24th Guards Brigade arrives at Harstad, Norway.
Oslo: The Germans remove Quisling from the government, replacing him with the puppet Ingolf Christensen.
As the Harstad troopships approach the port, escorting destroyers HMS Brazen and HMS Fearless find U-49 and sink her. RAF Bomber Command lays its first mines off the German and Danish coasts.
During an attack on the Vigra radio station mid-way between Bergen and Trondheim a Junkers Ju 87R rams one of the aerials, putting the transmitter out of action.
As the allied landings begin, the commitment of the Luftwaffe to the Norwegian campaign is increased leading to the establishment of Luftlotte 5’s HQ at Hamburg to exercise command over Norway. Milch is the temporary commander of Luftlotte 5.
The main British expeditionary force arrives in the Narvik area.
HMS Furious was detached from the Home Fleet with three escorting destroyers, HMS Isis, HMS Ilex, and HMS Imogen and proceeded to enter a heretofore unnamed fiord which was immediately dubbed “Furious” fjord. At 1050, three Swordfish were flown off. One was assigned to photograph the German positions in the Narvik area, while the other two were to fly an A/S search of Vaagsfjord. In the event, the camera was unserviceable and no pictures were obtained. However, the observer noted an estimated 11 German transport aircraft on a frozen lake North of Narvik.
At 1726 a striking force of nine Swordfish, six from 816 Squadron, led by the OC, Lieutenant-Commander H. H. Gardner, RN, and three from 818 Squadron, were dispatched to bomb grounded German aircraft. The aircraft each carried 8 x 20 lb. Cooper bombs while the commander’s aircraft carried two additional 250 lb. bombs for experimental purposes. The aircraft attacked in clear weather and results were good. Several direct hits were obtained. It was noted that the 250s blew large holes in the ice, and it was felt that the “runways” were made unserviceable. Heavy Flak was encountered. Five aircraft were hit, U4B:P4167 in the petrol tank, necessitating a water-landing near the task force, Sub-Lieutenant(A) J. N. Ball, RN (P), Lieutenant A. S. Marshall, RN (O), and Naval Airman first class R. Pike (AG) being rescued by HMS Zulu. (Mark Horan)
GIBRALTAR/ATLANTIC OCEAN: HMS Ark Royal remains at Gibraltar. HMS Glorious, in company with the destroyers HMS Velox and HMS Watchman continue towards the Clyde.
EGYPT: Cairo: Wavell discusses the possibility of war with Italy -
..it was obvious that we had little or no knowledge of the general Allied appreciation and plan for war against Italy, naval, military or air. The essential factors were
a. to what extent air action will be taken against objectives in Italy itself, which will influence Italian reinforcement for Libya.
b. plans for French action, by air and land against Tripoli.
c. whether action against Libya or the Dodecanese would be the primary commitment of any forces that become available for offensive action against Italy.
C-in-C Med. considers that the reduction of Libya is of the greatest importance to enable the route through the Mediterranean to be maintained.
JAPAN: Tokyo: The Foreign Minister, Mr. Arita, warns that if hostilities spread to the Netherlands and thus to the Dutch East Indies, peaceful co-existence in the Pacific will be damaged.
FRANCE: Anticipating an invasion RAF units are dispersed around France. No. 1 Sqn. moves its Hurricanes to Pontavert alongside Battles of 12 and 45 Sqns and places three aircraft on constant patrol.
U.S.A.: The motion picture “Dark Command” is released. Directed by Raoul Walsh, this western about an 1860s renegade stars Claire Trevor, John Wayne, Walter Pidegeon, Roy Rogers, George “Gabby” Hayes and Marjorie Main. The film is nominated for best art direction and best music Academy Awards. (Jack McKillop)
Fort Hancock: A Coast Artillery crew starts the service tests of the US Army’s first radar system. This is the SCR-268 (Radars were designated as radio equipment for security reasons. SCR = Signal Corps Radio). It was developed as a searchlight control set for coast artillery AAA units. By great efforts the Signal Corps was able to reach a frequency of 205 MHz — high for the day, but absurdly low for the purpose. Owing to the very long resulting wavelength of 1.46 m, a very large and cumbersome antenna array was necessary in an attempt to achieve reasonable accuracy. It was the first radar to employ lobe-switching to improve elevation and azimuth accuracy. Even so, the practical precision was no better than +- 1 deg, and multipath reflections made the elevation accuracy much worse within about 10 deg above the horizon, except at very favourable sites. However, it was powerful, rugged, and readily movable, and gave good range indication. Because the beam was relatively fat, it was fairly useful for search over limited sectors, and it gave useful height indication for fighter direction. (Will O’Neil)(157,158,159,160,161 and 162)
http://worldwar2daybyday.blogspot.com/
Day 228 April 15, 1940
British 146th Territorial Brigade (a reserve formation) begins arriving at Namsos, North of Trondheim, coming under the energetic command of the much-decorated one-eyed one-handed WWI veteran General Carton de Wiart VC DSO. General de Wiart is made aware of German air superiority when his Short Sunderland flying boat is attacked by a German fighter on landing (his aide is wounded and invalided home). He immediately orders 146th to advance South towards Trondheim.
Major-General Pierse Joseph Mackesy (in charge of land forces at Narvik) is not convinced to land troops directly at Narvik, despite the enthusiasm of naval commanders Vice-Admiral Whitworth and Admiral of the Fleet William Henry Dudley Boyle, Earl of Cork and Orrery. General Mackesy’s force has been cut in half, leaving only 24th Brigade which is not armed to make opposed landings and, in any case, much of its equipment has been diverted to Namsos on ships carrying 146th Brigade. Narvik is under several feet of snow, has poor facilities for an amphibious landing and is defended by an unknown number of German troops. Mackesy is unwilling to subject the Norwegian inhabitants to the naval bombardment his colleagues advocate to remove the Germans from the town. Therefore, he elects to land his troops at safer locations North of Narvik and wait for the snow to melt.
Depth charges from British destroyers HMS Fearless and Brazen sink U-49 near Narvik (1 dead, 41 taken prisoner).
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vichy_C%C3%A9lestins
Nestles apparently owns it now.
Translated from the French Wikipedia page
The Commercial Company of Mineral Water Basin Vichy (SCBV) controls the bottling of water Celestine Vichy and Vichy Saint-Yorre .
Vichy Celestine is bottled in a bottling plant common to the waters of St. Yorre and Vichy located in Saint-Yorre 9th Street sources.
The company employs 219 employees.
Production of 200 million bottles per year
Turnover: 50 million euros
For what it’s worth, I tried Vichy water one time - thought it tasted pretty bad, but not not near the horrible stuff I purchased in Southern Poland (Zuber, I think - you can get your daily dose of Uranium from it http://www.pmgeiser.ch/mineral/index.php?func=disp&parval=2847 That’s something you won’t get from Vichy http://www.pmgeiser.ch/mineral/index.php?func=disp&parval=2708 ). If you want bad tasting water, it’s cheaper to get it from Midland, TX.
Isn't the article on Narvik a little out-dated by press time?
A couple of the ads on page 6 seem a little racy. Hubba hubba.
Lol. I was thinking the same thing about the ads. They really were on the edge there. It’s funny in one respect because the news has been out of date as it gets published in Life, but at the same time it is relevant detail that is not making it to the papers. I look at it as a supplement to the events of the the recent past. I will say this. Looking at the actual structure of the ore facilities at Narvik it would seem to me that it is a more important facility than on that is just slated for use during the winter months. I think there is something more significant about the place than meets the eye. Perhaps that is why both sides put what would seem undo significance on the port.
Hey, just as an aside. Did you find the article on the native people on Bougainville kind of ironic? Here it is seen as a curiosity, and here in a few years it will be a spot on everyone’s mind.
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