AXIS CHIEFS SET TERMS TO CRUSH FRANCE; HUGE U.S. NAVY, NATIONAL SERVICE PLANNED (6/19/40)

Microfiche-New York Times archives, McHenry Library, U.C. Santa Cruz | 6/19/40 | Guido Enderis, Raymond Daniell, Percival Knauth, Harold Hinton, T.J. Hamilton, P.J. Philip

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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 .)
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Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
CAMPAIGN IN THE WEST, 1940, The Pursuit, 13-25 June
The Far East and the Pacific, 1941 – The Imperial Powers, 1 September 1939

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French Await Note – 2-3
The International Situation – 4
Britons Instructed How to Act in an Invasion: ‘Stay Put,’ Ignore Rumors, Give Nazis Nothing – 4
Churchill in Plea – 5
Mexican Cabinet Approves Compulsory Service Law – 5
Text of Prime Minister Churchill’s Address Before House of Commons – 6-8
Munich Is Gay as Dictators Meet; Peace Hope Adds to Crowd’s Joy – 8
For 2-Ocean Navy – 9
Major French Naval Units Join British at Alexandria – 10
Nazis Raid Thames; British Bomb Reich – 11
Roosevelt Proposes Training For Youth in Vast Program (by Felix Belair Jr.) – 12
French Shift to Britain Of Funds Here Reported – 12
Can Britain Win? (by Hanson W. Baldwin) – 13
Churchill’s Quotation from Ode on Cromwell – 13
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the War – 14-15

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http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1940/jun40/f19jun40.htm

Poles evacuated from France

Wednesday, June 19, 1940 www.onwar.com

On the Western Front... On the Loire Nates and Saumur are taken. In Brittany Brest falls and in central France, between the Saone and the Loire, the Germans are approaching Lyons. There are more evacuations from the west coast. In the following week 19,000, mostly Poles, are taken off from Bayonne and St. Jean-de-Luz. Since Dunkirk 144,171 British, 18,246 French, 24,352 Poles, 4938 Czechs and a few Belgians have got away.

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http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andrew.etherington/month/thismonth/19.htm

June 19th, 1940

UNITED KINGDOM:
RAF Bomber Command: 4 Group (Whitley). Bombing - Industrial works - marshalling yards.
10 Sqn. Five aircraft to industrial plants Mannheim and Koblenz. One returned early, three bombed, one crashed on return.
51 Sqn. Three aircraft to marshalling yards Mannheim. All bombed.
58 Sqn. Three aircraft to industrial plant Ludwigshaven. All bombed.
77 Sqn. Five aircraft to marshalling yards Wanne-Eickel. All bombed. One damaged by Flak, one damaged by two Bf109s (Two wounded) and ditched off Hastings Pier.
102 Sqn. Eight aircraft to marshalling yards at Schwerte. All bombed.
London: The Polish and Belgian governments in exile move to London.

Today Brooke lands at Plymouth. With him he brought out nearly 150,000 British troops, more than 300 guns and another 47,000 Allied servicemen. Tomorrow he will go straight to the War Office where he will be asked why he had not brought out more vehicles and equipment.

Brooke had been sent to France on a fool’s errand to buck up French morale but it is fortunate that he was on the scene to bring out the British troops who came under his command. He brought order to a disordered situation and saved many valuable British soldiers for the fight ahead. (Jay Stone)

Submarine HMS Ultimatum laid down.
Submarine HMS P-711 commissioned. (Dave Shirlaw)

FRANCE:
Cherbourg: The Allies complete their withdrawal by blowing up the docks.

The Germans occupy Lyons.
Evacuations take place over the next week from the west coast of France. These evacuations add another 19,000 to the list of those evacuated. Many of these are Poles.

Since Dunkirk 144,171 British; 18,246 French; 24,352 Polish; 4,938 Canadian; and a few Belgian troops have been evacuated.

GERMANY: Hermann Göring is promoted to Reich Marshal. (Gene Hanson)

U-205 laid down. (Dave Shirlaw)

MEDITERRANEAN SEA:

RN: HMS Orpheus (submarine) is lost north of Tobruk, Libya, while on patrol at 32.30N, 24.00E to destroyer ‘Turbine’ of the Italian Navy.

ARABIAN SEA: Italian submarine ‘Galileo Galilei’ on patrol off Aden is captured by British Anti-Submarine trawler HMS Moonstone in position 12.48N, 45.12E.

ITALIAN EAST AFRICA: The South African Air Force sent 17 Junkers Ju 86 bombers and 10 Junkers Ju52 and Ju53m transport aircraft to intervene in the fighting in Italian East Africa. The SAAF won its first victory today when it bombed the Italian air base at Yavello (southern Ethiopia). Three Ju86s and 2 Hawker Hurricane fighters under Captain Truter, shot down a Fiat CR42.

NEW ZEALAND: Niagara-steel-screw steamship liner NIAGARA of 7582 tons built in 1913 is sunk today off Bream Head after striking an enemy mine. She was carrying a cargo of gold bars. All but five gold bars were recovered after the incident. Those five bars are still in the wreck. (John Rogers)

CANADA: HMCS Ross Norman commissioned via charter from owners. Built Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. Employed successively as auxiliary minesweeper, coil skid towing craft, and mobile deperming craft.

Canada and Britain plan steps to be taken if the Royal Navy is forced to withdraw to Canada. (Dave Shirlaw)

U.S.A.: The comic strip “Brenda Starr,” created by Dale Messick, appears in an experimental comic book published by the Chicago Tribune Syndicate. This is the first U.S. comic strip drawn by a woman. (Jack McKillop)

ATLANTIC OCEAN:

U-25 damaged SS Brumaire.
U-28 sank SS Adamandios Georgandis.

U-32 sank SS Labud.

U-48 sank SS British Monarch, Baron Loudon and Tudor in Convoy HGF-34.

U-52 sank SS The Monarch and Ville de Namur. (Dave Shirlaw)

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http://worldwar2daybyday.blogspot.com/

Day 293 June 19, 1940

The race to the Channel continues, as the Germans try to take the ports before the Allies can escape. In the morning, Rommel shells the forts defending the port of Cherbourg while attacking with infantry. At 5 PM, local officials and police persuade the French garrison defending the town to surrender. This is 7th Panzer’s last major action in the Battle of France. Since May 10, they have captured 100,000 Allied prisoners, 450 tanks, 300 artillery or anti-tank guns & 4,000 trucks and incurred losses of 700 killed, 1650 wounded & 300 missing. During this time, Rommel has been awarded Iron Cross 1st & 2nd class (for the second time, having won these medals in WWI) and, on May 27, Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross.

5th Panzer Division makes even better progress and takes the port of Brest another 150 miles to the West. However, the Allies have evacuated their personnel and demolished the port facilities.

Operation Ariel. Germans have not arrived at St. Nazaire as expected, so British send 7 troop transports and 6 destroyers to evacuate 2,764 Polish troops (in addition to the 54,411 British embarked over the last few days). 4,000 Poles are also rescued from La Pallice. Evacuations begin from the ports of the River Gironde and Bayonne & St Jean-de-Luz, close to the Spanish border. Over the next 5 days, over 6,000 Polish troops are evacuated from Gironde and 19,000 Polish soldiers are rescued from Bayonne and St Jean-de-Luz. http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/operation_aerial.html

U-boats sink or damage 8 Allied or neutral merchant vessels (a total of 40,000 tons of shipping) between Southern Ireland and the Bay of Biscay. U-48 alone sinks 3 ships (15,500 tons). http://www.uboat.net/ops/convoys/convoys.php?convoy=HG-34F

Italian submarine Galileo Galilei is depth charged by British destroyer HMS Kandahar and anti-submarine trawler HMS Moonstone in the Gulf of Aden. Galileo Galilei surfaces and shells HMS Moonstone, which returns fire killing the captain and capturing the submarine. Galilei is towed to Aden by HMS Kandahar and will be renamed X 2 by the Royal Navy to be used as a training boat.

[beebuster2000]

bad day in the US and Britain. talk about having to discard your old world view. must have taken some serious spine to look ahead and see victory.

[henkster]

The “Two Ocean Navy” act looks like it’s on the fast track to passage. The Japanese don’t realize it, but they are about to lose WW2.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

I bet Admiral Yamamoto is connecting the dots.