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AERIAL WARFARE SLACKENS BUT EACH SIDE RAIDS A CITY (8/2/40)
Microfiche-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 8/2/40 | George Axelsson, Hugh Byas, James Aldridge

Posted on 08/02/2010 5:03:25 AM PDT 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 08/02/2010 5:03:29 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
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Winston S. Churchill, Their Finest Hour

2 posted on 08/02/2010 5:05:55 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; ...
Hanover is Bombed – 2
The International Situation – 3
Windsors Sail on U.S. Liner for New York; Risk Seizure by Germany on the High Seas – 3
Roosevelt and Leaders Talk Hemisphere Defense – 3
Japan’s New Order Expanded to Cover Greater East Asia – 4
Two Ships Report Attacks by U-Boats – 4
Besieged Capuzzo is Battered Daily – 6
R.A.F. Units Raid Kassala 10 Times – 7
British King, Queen Tour Bombed Areas – 7
Tackles 3 Senators at Anti-Draft Rally – 9
Scotsmen Convince Nazis Their Gaelic Is Russian – 9
Texts of Day’s War Communiques - 10
3 posted on 08/02/2010 5:07:12 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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British send fighters for Malta

Friday, August 2, 1940 www.onwar.com

HMS Argus, left, carrying Hurricanes for Malta. They will take off and fly 400 miles to the island.
In the Mediterranean... The carrier Ark Royal with Force H attacks the Italian base on Sardinia at Cagliari. The old carrier Argus which is also based on Gibraltar, is at sea to fly off a cargo of Hurricane fighter aircraft to Malta.

In the English Channel... There are German attacks on shipping.

In London... Lord Beaverbrook, Minister of Aircraft Production is taken into the inner circle of Churchill’s War Cabinet.


4 posted on 08/02/2010 5:11:02 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/02.htm

August 2nd, 1940

UNITED KINGDOM: Battle of Britain:
RAF Bomber Command: 4 Group (Whitley). Bombing - oil refinery at Salzbergen.
10 Sqn. Seven aircraft. Two returned early, five bombed primary. Weather bad, opposition severe.
51 Sqn. Eight aircraft. Seven bombed primary. Weather bad, opposition severe.

RAF Fighter Command: Weather, fine, drizzle over sea. Luftwaffe attacks shipping off south-east coast. At night South Wales and the Midlands are attacked.

Luftwaffe bombs Dundee for the first time, Swansea suffers a heavy raid. Off Harwich Me110s of Erpro 210 sink HM Trawler Cape Finisterre with a direct hit. Gunners aboard the SS Highlander in a convoy off Scotland shoot down one of two He-111s of KG76 which are attacking it. The Heinkel crashes onto the deck to provide a trophy!

Southern England: German bombers drop leaflets detailing Hitler’s August peace proposals.

Losses: Luftwaffe, 4; RAF 0.

At 0427, the Alexia in Convoy OB-191 was torpedoed by U-99 in position 55°30N/15°30W and fell out of convoy, where she was shelled by the same U-boat but did not sink.

At 0345, the Lucerna in Convoy OB-191 was torpedoed by U-99 and later shelled, but the damaged tanker reached port and was repaired.

U-99 damaged motor tanker Strinda at 55.10N, 17.16W.

Corvette HMS Peony commissioned. (Dave Shirlaw)

London: Lord Beaverbrook joined the war cabinet today. The Prime Minister brought Beaverbrook into the government in May, and he has been one of its outstanding successes. Since he became Minister of Aircraft Production - a new post - in May, he has boosted output of fighters for the RAF. In February there was a shortfall: 141 planes produced against a planned 171. In May, however, this had been turned around with 261 planes planned and 325 built. This month’s planned output of 282 is expected to be exceeded by up to 200 machines.
The Canadian-born press baron’s success has been achieved through force of personality. He has been aggressively cutting through Whitehall red tape and treading on ministerial toes in purloining all accessible supplies for aircraft factories.

River class submarine HMS Thames is believed to have been sunk in a minefield whilst on her homeward passage. All crew of 61 are lost. In conforming with her navigational instructions, HMS Thames would have passed through four minefields. Currently believed to lie around 56 45N 03 26E. (Alex Gordon)(108)

FRANCE: VICHY FRANCE: The government sentences General de Gaulle to death in his absence.

GERMANY: Hitler issues war directive number 17 -

“1. To destroy the RAF and the British aircraft industry,
2. to disrupt the British food supply, and
3. to inflict extensive damage on the British merchant and war navy. The intensified air offensive should be launched by August 5.”
Thence the Luftwaffe assembles 14 bomber wings, 8 fighter wings, 4 Stuka dive-bomber wings and 3 Me110 fighter-destroyer wings, nearly 1700 aircraft (600 bombers, 700 fighters, 200 Stukas, 200 fighter-destroyers).

MALTA: Operation Hurry: The first delivery of 12 Hurricanes of 261 Squadron flies off the carrier HMS Argus. All aircraft arrive on the island. They are the first Hurricanes to operate in the Mediterranean theatre.
(Mark Horan) In in effort to curb further attacks on the 2nd, HMS Ark Royal lays plans for a dawn attack on the Italian bomber bases in Sardinia.

“Operation Hurry” concludes. After recognizing the need to close significantly closer to Malta to successfully launch the Hurricane Is of 418 Flight on their transit flight from HMS Argus, Force H opts to launch a pre-dawn strike on Regia Aeronautica’s airfield at Cagliari, Sardinia by aircraft from HMS Ark Royal. The plan calls for 9 Swordfish of 810, 188, and 820 squadrons to go after the airfield while simultaneously, 3 additional 820 Squadron Swordfish will lay mines in Cagliari harbour. The 0230 takeoff is marred when one Swordfish of 810 Squadron crashes. Most unfortunately for those involved, the strike planes had difficulty finding their targets until after dawn. Although the harbour is successfully mined and the bombing destroyed 4 Italian aircraft and several hangers, one aircraft is downed by a defending fighter. Back with the fleet, dawn’s early light sees the 12 Hurricanes and their 2 Skua II guides depart HMS Argus and, ultimately, arrive safely at Malta. Covered by Ark Royal’s Skua II fighters of 800 and 803 Squadrons, the entire force sails past the rock en-route to the UK, where Force H will stay for most of the month. (Mark Horan)

CANADA: Norwegian whalers commissioned as minesweepers (former names retained) HMCS Star VXI, Suderoy IV, Suderoy V and Suderoy VI. (Dave Shirlaw)

U.S.A.: President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his cabinet have a long discussion in a cabinet meeting concerning “ways and means to sell directly or indirectly” 50 to 60 overage destroyers to the British. Everyone agrees “that the survival of the British Isles under German attack might very possibly depend on their (the British) getting these destroyers.” Everyone also agrees that legislation to permit the sale of these ships is necessary. (Jack McKillop)


5 posted on 08/02/2010 5:12:55 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 337 August 2, 1940

Battle of Britain Day 24. Overnight, steamer Highlander in convoy FN.239 is attacked by 2 He115 torpedo bombers, 20 miles south of Aberdeen, Scotland. 1 He115 is shot down by escort sloop HMS Weston. The other clips Highlander’s mast while strafing her, crash landing onto Highlander’s poop deck. Clouds again restrict flying during the day. Germans bomb convoys in the English Channel and along the East coast, sinking anti-submarine trawler HMT Cape Finesterre off Harwich (1 sailor killed). 2 Spitfires crash on take off at Hornchurch and 1 Hurricane crashes on landing (1 pilot killed). http://www.battleofbritain1940.net/0023.html

Overnight, British submarine HMS Thames hits a mine and sinks Southwest of Stavanger, Norway (all 62 crew lost). U-60 has another lucky escape, suffering no damage when bombed in error off Hagesund, Norway, by Stukas flying from Stavanger. U-99 torpedoes 3 empty tankers in convoy OB-191 (British MV Alexia and MV Lucerna, Norwegian MV Strinda). All 3 are damaged but none sink and no lives are lost. http://www.uboat.net/allies/merchants/ships/445.html

French military court sentences General Charles de Gaulle to death in absentia for leading the Free French movement in London.

Operation Hurry. At 4.45 AM, 12 Hurricanes launch from aircraft carrier HMS Argus Southwest of Sardinia and fly about 300 miles to Malta, forming new 261 Squadron. Admiral Somerville’s Force H returns safely to Gibraltar (arriving August 4) or to England (arriving August 10). Meanwhile, to prevent Italian air attacks on the carrier group, 8 Swordfish torpedo bombers from aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal (escorted by battlecruiser HMS Hood, cruiser HMS Enterprise and 4 destroyers) attack an Italian airfield at Cagliari on the South coast of Sardinia, destroying several Italian aircraft and laying mines in the harbour.


6 posted on 08/02/2010 5:15:00 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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I see that on the front page that the Dems made long time Bronx party leader Flynn the National Dem Chairman. My Irish grandmother, who has been gone for about forty years now, was a party worker for ‘Boss’ Flynn, back in the 20’s and 30’s. He also held the antique sounding title of ‘Chamberlain of the City of New York’, which no longer exists. He was succeeded as Bronx Boss by Charles A. Buckley, who was the party leader into the 1960’s.


7 posted on 08/02/2010 5:26:24 AM PDT by Lucius Cornelius Sulla (Good night. I expect more respect tomorrow - Danny H (RIP))
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Churchill finally manages to get the Duke of Windsor to sail for Bermuda. German agents have been trying to keep the Nazi sympathetic Windsors in Europe.


8 posted on 08/02/2010 5:40:33 AM PDT by iowamark
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"Tackles 3 Senators at Anti-Draft Rally – 9"

You would not know it from this particular article, but two of the three anti-draft senators were Democrats, one a Republican.

The one Republican was the highly notable North Dakota Senator Gerald Nye:

"In 1934 Senator Nye headed an investigation of the munitions industry.
He created headlines by drawing connections between the wartime profits of the banking and munitions industries to America's involvement in World War I.

"Many Americans felt betrayed: perhaps the war hadn't been an epic battle between the forces of good (democracy) and evil (autocracy).

"This investigation of these "merchants of death" helped to bolster sentiments for isolationism.1
A leading member of the Nye Committee staff was Alger Hiss...

"...Nye was instrumental in the development and adoption of the Neutrality Acts passed between 1935 and 1937.
To mobilize antiwar sentiments, he helped establish the America First Committee.

"Upon the bombing of Pearl Harbor on the evening of December 7, 1941, Nye addressed an America First meeting in Pittsburgh, and was quoted as saying, "this was just what Britain had planned for us" and that "we have been maneuvered into this by the President."

"However, the next day Nye joined the rest of the Senate in voting for a unanimous declaration of war.[3]

"Nye was a Freemason and attended Grace Lutheran Church in Washington, DC.
He gained further prominence in 1941 when he accused Hollywood of attempting to “drug the reason of the American people,“ and “rouse war fever.“
He was particularly hostile to Warner Brothers."


9 posted on 08/02/2010 6:10:14 AM PDT by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective....)
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Intersting that for the second time in two days, Churchill is fixated on BISMARCK and TIRPITZ.


10 posted on 08/02/2010 6:23:23 AM PDT by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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To: Homer_J_Simpson
Battle of Britain Campaign Diary

Date: 2 August 1940


11 posted on 08/02/2010 7:34:33 AM PDT by CougarGA7
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To: Homer_J_Simpson; henkster; BroJoeK; PAR35

Today starts the last big push towards finishing my masters thesis and degree. I’m starting a 16 week seminar that is designed to help you finish out this last major paper. Because of this I may not be as active on these threads as usual since things will be very busy.

I will however continue the Battle of Britain postings that I am committed to and have prepared a couple items for August and will also have one ready for September. I also had something planned for mid-October, but I’m not sure if I’ll get to it. I may with Homer’s permission post a thread sometime this week asking the students of this class if they can help me with finding some sources. Particularly, I’m looking for anyone who knows a WWII vet that was a mechanic in the U.S. Army or U.S. Navy that would be willing to be interviewed. I’m working on a question list now for these interviews and have one vet in Arizona lined up already.

As always I will look forward to these postings as my morning routine, though I’m betting I wont be able to read them end to end like I had been doing for a while.


12 posted on 08/02/2010 7:47:12 AM PDT by CougarGA7
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Ol’ Senator Wheeler of Montana (a democrat by the way) is deeply embroiled in the isolationist movement isn’t he. His crowning achievement I think would have possibly even ended FDR’s political career had not other events overshadowed it.


13 posted on 08/02/2010 8:52:25 AM PDT by CougarGA7
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To: CougarGA7
I’m starting a 16 week seminar that is designed to help you finish out this last major paper. Because of this I may not be as active on these threads as usual since things will be very busy.

The way things are going, the Germans will probably be in London by then.

14 posted on 08/02/2010 5:39:08 PM PDT by PAR35
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I sure hope the Brits can hold out.


15 posted on 08/02/2010 8:42:30 PM PDT by CougarGA7
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