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BRITISH BEAT OFF MASS RAIDS BY SWARMS OF NAZI PLANES; R. A. F. BOMBS GERMAN BASES (7/21/40)
Microfiche-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 7/21/40 | James MacDonald, Joseph M. Levy, Hallett Abend, Anne O’Hare McCormick, Robert P. Post

Posted on 07/21/2010 4:38:30 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson

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NEWS OF THE WEEK IN REVIEW

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TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: catholic; milhist; realtime; worldwarii
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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 07/21/2010 4:38:34 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
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William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

2 posted on 07/21/2010 4:40:02 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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Winston S. Churchill, Their Finest Hour

3 posted on 07/21/2010 4:40:45 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; ...
Someone broke into the Times offices and poured coffee all over today’s issue. Probably someone from Free Republic. That’s just the kind of dirty trick those right-wing terrorists would pull.

Sky Battles Fierce – 2-3
London Cardinal Urges Crusade Against Nazis – 3
The International Situation – 3
Konoye Leisurely in Cabinet Choices – 3
A French Warship Now in Control of the British (photo) – 4
British Raid Bases of Italy in Africa – 5
Trade Halt Reported in Syria and Lebanon – 5
Shanghai Guards American Writers – 6
New Governor Takes Office in Indo-China – 6
A Defensive Manoeuvre in a Mediterranean Sea Battle – 7
Texts of the Day’s War Communiques – 8

News of the Week in Review
Twenty News Questions – 9
The New Deal is the Issue, Conventions Reveal – 10-11
Removal of Children a Live Issue in Britain – 12-13
How the British are Taught to Recognize the Enemy – 13-14
U.S. in Pacific Held to Be Impregnable (by Hanson W. Baldwin) – 15-16
Japan Girds to End Her War (by Hugh Byas) – 17
Answers to Twenty News Questions - 17

4 posted on 07/21/2010 4:42:56 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/f21jul40.htm

USSR annexes Baltic states

Sunday, July 21, 1940 www.onwar.com

From Moscow... The Soviet Union formally annexes Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania and they become constituent republics of the USSR.

In Berlin... In an OKH conference Hitler again says that Germany must prepare to attack the USSR. Although the generals would prefer to deal with Britain first, they raise no objections. Later in the month Jodl tells an OKW planning section that Germany will attack in the east in the spring of 1941 and that planning for the movement of the armed forces to eastern Europe should be begun.


5 posted on 07/21/2010 4:46:13 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/21.htm

July 21st, 1940

UNITED KINGDOM: RAF Bomber Command: 4 Group (Whitley). Bombing - marshalling yards at Hamm and Soest and aircraft factory at Kassel.
51 Sqn. Three aircraft to Hamm. One bombed - direct hits. Opposition heavy.

77 Sqn. Ten aircraft to Kassel. Nine bombed. Eight fighters sighted but none attacked.

78 Sqn. Five aircraft to Hamm and Soest. Four bombed, one FTR

102 Sqn. Ten a/ to Kassel. One returned early, nine bombed. Two fighters seen but none attacked.

2 Group ( Blenheim). 107 Sqn. Bombing - Caen, Morlaix and Querqueville.

GERMANY: Hitler again brings up the attack in the East in an OKH conference. Planning for troop movements east will begin later this month.

BALTIC STATES: The Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania today succumbed to Russian pressure and “unanimously” decided to become Soviet Republics and join the Soviet Union.

The newly-elected parliaments of the three countries met to announce their decision, but the Soviet influence was easy to see under the facade of democracy. Estonia’s parliamentary session was attended by Stalin’s representative, Mr Zhdanov, and the hall was decorated with Soviet flags. The Baltic peoples are bitter at losing their hard-won freedom from Russia, but there is nothing they can do in the face of Soviet might.

ATLANTIC OCEAN: At 2239, the unescorted Ellaroy was torpedoed and sunk by gunfire by U-30 about 180 miles west of Cape Finisterre. The master and 15 crewmembers landed at Vigo, Spain. (Dave Shirlaw)


6 posted on 07/21/2010 4:47:46 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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http://worldwar2daybyday.blogspot.com/

Day 325 July 21, 1940

Battle of Britain Day 12. Overnight, 15 Handley Page Hampden bombers from 61 and 144 Squadron attack German battleships Admiral Scheer and Tirpitz at dock in Wilhelmshaven. Neither battleship is damaged but 3 Hampdens are shot down. With fine weather again, Germans focus on attacking convoys in the English Channel instead of bombing raids over land targets. Göring’s strategy is to bring British fighters into the air over the Channel, while exposing his aircraft to minimum danger. RAF loses a Hurricane and a Spitfire while Luftwaffe loses 3 fighters and 1 Dornier Do17 bomber. British losses since July 10 are about 45 fighters destroyed, but production of new aircraft has kept pace. More worrying is the loss of trained pilots who are not so easily replaced. http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/war-air/20582-69-years-ago-tonight-20-21-july-1940-a.html

After being bombed near Dover yesterday, HMS Brazen sinks while under tow. Destroyer HMS Boreas takes off the crew but 1 sailor is killed.

U-30 sinks British steamer Ellaroy 180 miles West of Cape Finisterre, Spain. The crew abandons ship in lifeboats. All 16 crew are rescued by Spanish trawler Felix Montenegro and landed at Vigo, Spain.

Soviet Union annexes Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, following ‘elections’ held on July 14 voting for union with USSR. These countries will be under Soviet control until 1989, apart from a period of German occupation from 1941-1944.


7 posted on 07/21/2010 4:49:51 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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Thus begins the number of enemy planes shot down daily claims.


8 posted on 07/21/2010 4:54:17 AM PDT by mainepatsfan
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Sorry, I never got past “BRITISH BEAT OFF...”.


9 posted on 07/21/2010 4:59:52 AM PDT by Mich Patriot
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Hitler planning invasions of Britain and Russia at the same time. Madness.


10 posted on 07/21/2010 5:18:23 AM PDT by iowamark
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A good SciFi novel about this time period in England is called “Blackout” by Connie Willis. Time travelers from 2060 come back to witness the evacuation of Dunkirk then get stuck in London during the Blitz. The spotting of enemy aircraft (as described in one of the stories above) is discussed in the book.


11 posted on 07/21/2010 5:35:19 AM PDT by Azeem (The world will look up and shout "Save us!"... And I'll whisper "No.")
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To: Homer_J_Simpson
I find these articles interesting. When I was a little boy I remember so well sitting before a radio listen to the war news of WW2, use to scare the dickens out of me, blankets over the windows, no lights allowed anywhere in the house. I was just a wee little boy but remember it so well.

Thanks!

12 posted on 07/21/2010 5:39:44 AM PDT by gulfcoast6 (GOD IS!)
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Thank you sir. I have been posting these articles more or less since January 2008. Yours is the first contribution I recall that gives an actual first-hand account of the time. A wee little boy’s notwithstanding.


13 posted on 07/21/2010 6:06:38 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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To: gulfcoast6

I love the article about the political conventions...

The Dems didn’t even want to mention the fact that FDR was running for an unprecedented Third Term... they, just marched on with it...

I also love how, the Republicans were saying, “the NEW DEAL is following a worldwide trend toward National Socialism”... and they didn’t want to give up on the American system. I’ve often wondered whether people at the time realized that they were embracing Socialism... I guess, they were... and, just didn’t care.

Sort of like today... :-(


14 posted on 07/21/2010 6:14:22 AM PDT by SomeCallMeTim
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Battle of Britain Campaign Diary

Date: 21 July 1940


15 posted on 07/21/2010 6:41:07 AM PDT by CougarGA7
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To: Homer_J_Simpson

I remember those days so very well, collecting news papers, tying them up in bundles with string, put pots and pans out by the curb, momma talking about how it was hard to buy things in a store. I really remember turning the raido on at night, blankets over the window so the slightest light would not be seen.....


16 posted on 07/21/2010 7:24:05 AM PDT by gulfcoast6 (GOD IS!)
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I know my daddy didn’t like Roosevelt at all.....


17 posted on 07/21/2010 7:26:35 AM PDT by gulfcoast6 (GOD IS!)
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"Hitler planning invasions of Britain and Russia at the same time. Madness."

And that's not all.
They are also, in the summer of 1940, considering another invasion -- which would have been relatively easy, and might even have won the war: Gibraltar.

At the time of his Nuremberg trial, Hermann Goering said Hitler's failure to take Gibraltar was the biggest mistake of the war.
Closing off Gibraltar to the British would have made Rommel's march to the middle east oil fields a cake walk.
And German control of the middle east would have changed strategic equations in the Soviet Union.

Now, everyone knows that Spanish dictator Franco dissuaded Hitler from taking Gibraltar.
But how many know who it was pulling Franco's strings, and why?

18 posted on 07/21/2010 11:50:48 AM PDT by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective....)
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To: Mich Patriot
"Sorry, I never got past “BRITISH BEAT OFF...”."

If you had, you'd learn of that French war ship now in control of the British. Just one warship controlling all those Brits!

Did our language change, or is it just me? ;-)

19 posted on 07/21/2010 11:57:50 AM PDT by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective....)
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Franco and Spain were war-weary. It hadn’t been that many months since the Spanish Civil War ended, and they just weren’t up for another round.


20 posted on 07/21/2010 5:10:35 PM PDT by PAR35
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