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YIELD OR FACE RUIN, HITLER DEMANDS; LONDON IS SCORNFUL OF HIS THREAT; WIDE AIR RAIDS (7/20/40)
Microfiche-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 7/20/40 | Guido Enderis, Raymond Daniell, James B. Reston, James MacDonald

Posted on 07/20/2010 5:27:53 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson

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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 .)
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 07/20/2010 5:27:59 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
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To: Homer_J_Simpson
Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
The Far East and the Pacific, 1941 – The Imperial Powers, 1 September 1939
2 posted on 07/20/2010 5:28:35 AM PDT 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
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Winston S. Churchill, Their Finest Hour

3 posted on 07/20/2010 5:29:28 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; GRRRRR; 2banana; henkster; ...
Speaks as a Victor – 2-3
Hitler Says War Keeps Him From Goal in Reich – 3
New Kind of Bread to Aid Britons Bear the Strain – 3
U.S. Will Reopen Martinique Office – 3
The International Situation – 4
Britain is Defiant – 5-6
British Navy Aids in Land Defenses – 6
U.S. Ambulance Corps to Stay On in France – 6
Sea Battle Fought in Mediterranean – 7-8
British Fire Heavy on Fort Capuzzo – 8
150 Planes Battle over British Coast – 9
Nazi Raider Sinks 2 British Ships Off West Indies; Sea Hunt Begins – 10
Ironside Replaced as Defense Chief – 10
The Texts of the Day’s War Communiques - 11
4 posted on 07/20/2010 5:30:46 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/1940/jul40/f20jul40.htm

German night-fighter achieves kill

Saturday, July 20, 1940 www.onwar.com

An Me110 of NJG 1specially outfitted for night fighting, with its pilot and radio operator prepare for take off.
Over Germany... First Lieutenant Werner Streib in an Me110 night-fighter, using only visual contact, achieves the first nighttime kill of the war by shooting down a British Whitley bomber over northwestern Germany.

In Berlin... Goring, the commander in chief of the Luftwaffe, orders the creation of the first specialized night-fighter wing — Nachtjagdgeschwader 1 (NJG 1) — under the command of Colonel Josef Kammhuber.

In the Mediterranean... Off the coast of Tobruk in Libya, 2 Italian destroyers and a cargo ship are torpedoed by British Swordfish torpedo bombers.


5 posted on 07/20/2010 5:33:37 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/month/thismonth/20.htm

July 20th, 1940

UNITED KINGDOM: Whilst escorting Channel convoy CW7, Destroyer HMS Brazen is attacked by a large force of German bombers off Dover at 51 01N 01 17E. She is taken in tow, but later sinks. (Alex Gordon)(108)
RAF Bomber Command: 4 Group (Whitley). Bombing - industrial plant at Dusseldorf and Dornier factory at Wismar.

10 Sqn. Nine aircraft to Dusseldorf. Eight bombed. Opposition severe. One hit by flak.

51 Sqn. Three aircraft to Wismar. All bombed. Opposition severe.

58 Sqn. Eight aircraft to Wismar. Six got off, one returned early, four bombed primary, one bombed alternate. Two hit by flak.

78 Sqn. One aircraft to Wismar. Bombed, but hit by flak.

The buying and selling of new cars is banned.

Now that the so-called “phoney war” is over, women all over Britain are expecting to be asked to play a larger part in the war effort - whether they want to or not.

For many, work in a munitions factory, even on a part-time basis, seems out of the question. Caring for children and elderly relatives, just keeping a home together, takes even more time and energy now than in peacetime. There are long queues for essential provisions; little economies around the home to make things last longer and go further all take time. Many are also taking the full responsibility of raising families alone with their husbands away.

The reluctance felt by many women about taking jobs outside the home is reinforced by their men-folk’s disapproval. There have been public outcries over every new opening, however small, for women that the war has created. The Land Girls have been seen as a threat to agricultural training programmes and moral standards, the women pilots of the Air Transport Auxiliary have been accused of taking the jobs not “for the sake of doing something for the country but for the sake of publicity.”

Add these popular beliefs to the very real burdens of caring for a family in war time, and it’s no wonder that many women prefer to remain at home.

Submarine HMS P-612 launched. (Dave Shirlaw)

MEDITERRANEAN SEA: Tobruk: While HMS Eagle is in Alexandria with the main portions of the Mediterranean Fleet, 824 Sqn, FAA was detached to Sidi Barrani Aerodrome to continue operations against Italian shipping. In the late evening of 20 July, six Swordfish I aircraft, carrying torpedoes, departed to attacking shipping known to be in Tobruk harbor, 95 miles away. In a daring attack in the face of heavy anti-aircraft fire they succeeded in torpedoing and sinking the destroyers Nembo and Ostro. (Mark Horan)

Submarine HMS Parthian landed an agent on Crete. (Dave Shirlaw)

CANADA: Patrol vessel HMCS Ambler departed refit Quebec City for Riviere du Loup patrol duties.
Corvette HMCS Trail laid down North Vancouver British Columbia.
Patrol craft HMCS Norsal (ex yacht Norsal) hired from the Powell River Co. Built Vancouver, British Columbia, 168/21, 122.3x19x10.5ft, 10kts, crew 3/17, 1-.303mg. Returned to owners 1945. Renamed 1973 Maui Lu. (Dave Shirlaw)

U.S.A.: “Billboard” magazine publishes its first listing of best-selling single records. Ten tunes are listed. (Jack McKillop)


6 posted on 07/20/2010 5:36:08 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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http://worldwar2daybyday.blogspot.com/

Day 324 July 20, 1940

Battle of Britain Day 11. Enjoying fine flying weather, Germans attack convoys along the South and East coast of England and the East coast of Scotland. Germans bomb a convoy near Dover, sinking Steamer SS Pulborough (trawler Lady Philomena takes off 17 survivors) and badly damaging destroyer HMS Brazen (taken in tow by tug Lady Brassey). Brazen’s anti-aircraft guns claim 3 German aircraft shot down. http://www.uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/4356.html Destroyer HMS Acheron is bombed and damaged by near misses, 10 miles off the Isle of Wight. Acheron will go to Portsmouth for repairs. Another costly day for the RAF losing 5 Hurricanes, 1 Spitfire and 1 Blenheim (7 pilots and 1 gunner killed). Germans lose at least 6 fighters, 2 bombers and a seaplane.

Following Battle of Cape Spada yesterday, 6 Swordfish torpedo bombers from aircraft carrier HMS Eagle at Sidi Barrani, Egypt, seek Italian cruiser Giovanni dalle Bande Nere at the Italian naval base at Tobruk, Libya. Bande Nere is not there so they sink Italian destroyers Ostro & Nembo and steamer Sereno instead. Italy will soon abandon Tobruk as a sea base but guns from the sunken destroyers will be saved and used in the defense of Bardia.


7 posted on 07/20/2010 5:37:53 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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It seems a bit trite now, but it’s an interesting exercise, nevertheless; make a mental picture of the entire world conflagration, and then contemplate the fact that, indeed, at the time, and in the midst of the whole cataclysmic struggle, there was never any guarantee that the allies would win.

What might the world be like if we were all speaking German or Japanese?


8 posted on 07/20/2010 5:39:17 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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Can’t be. When the educrats told us that the Iraq war was taking longer to win than WWII, they insisted that World War II began on December 7th, 1941. That’s more than a year later than this article is dated.

They also omit the detail that the war was ended with two nuclear bomb attacks.


9 posted on 07/20/2010 6:20:01 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (I wish our president loved the US military as much as he loves Paul McCartney.)
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To: Jack Hammer

You’d need to learn to speak the local language inside the prison work camps?


10 posted on 07/20/2010 6:21:02 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (I wish our president loved the US military as much as he loves Paul McCartney.)
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To: Homer_J_Simpson
Battle of Britain Campaign Diary

Date: 20th July 1940


11 posted on 07/20/2010 6:28:34 AM PDT by CougarGA7
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I suspect if we had lost, the Germans and Japanese would not be as kind to us as we were to them.


12 posted on 07/20/2010 6:29:46 AM PDT by GOPJ (Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous - Einstein.)
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Interesting about the Swordfish strike on the destroyers. This is a warm-up for the main event of the war as far as the Swordfish biplane is concerned.

No spoilers for FReepers who might not know - just be sure to read Homer’s post on the 11th November.


13 posted on 07/20/2010 6:31:38 AM PDT by agere_contra (Obama did more damage to the Gulf economy in one day than Pemex/Ixtoc did in nine months)
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When the educrats told us that the Iraq war was taking longer to win than WWII

Another thing they like to harp on about is why American troops are still in Iraq.

My answer is always: "American troops are still in Germany".

14 posted on 07/20/2010 6:34:46 AM PDT by agere_contra (Obama did more damage to the Gulf economy in one day than Pemex/Ixtoc did in nine months)
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To: a fool in paradise

And if you consider the Japanese invasions of China, the war started years ago from this date in 1940.

This thing did not start overnight. I know YOU know that, but others might want to think back to around the time of 9/11 s the starting dates. And consider that the US would still be out of the direct war until NEXT December, and then not fully engaged for another six months or so from that date.


15 posted on 07/20/2010 6:50:57 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (I lived in VT for four years. That was enough.)
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To: agere_contra

Better yet, troops were in Cuba until almost 1908. That was ten years after the SA War.


16 posted on 07/20/2010 6:52:50 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (I lived in VT for four years. That was enough.)
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I love the public notices on P 9. They read like something from a spy novel. I wonder which are legitimate and which are clandestine.


17 posted on 07/20/2010 6:54:39 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (I lived in VT for four years. That was enough.)
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I am curious, and I am not suggesting more work for you—but are there any accounts on line from the Axis point of view from this day to day perspective. It would be interesting to view the day by day from both sides.

Thanks for all of your work on this project. It is a wonderful fifteen minutes of education in the morning.


18 posted on 07/20/2010 6:57:52 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (I lived in VT for four years. That was enough.)
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Enter into the fray Sir Alan Brooke. He will be a real pain in the neck for Marshall and Eisenhower in the time to come. But then again, I wouldn’t expect anything different from an Ulster boy. I wonder how he felt about Churchill’s offer last month to give Ireland the northern counties if they would enter the war against Germany?


19 posted on 07/20/2010 6:58:00 AM PDT by CougarGA7
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To: Vermont Lt; a fool in paradise
There are definitely many schools of thought on when to mark the beginning of World War II. Many of them make compelling arguments to the fact and it really comes down to the individuals interpretation.


20 posted on 07/20/2010 7:17:28 AM PDT by CougarGA7
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