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NAZIS POUND LONDON IN ALL-DAY RAIDS, BOMB NORTHWEST CITY FOR SIX HOURS (9/1/40)
Microfiche-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 9/1/40 | Raymond Daniell, James MacDonald, Hanson W. Baldwin

Posted on 09/01/2010 5:51:33 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 09/01/2010 5:51:38 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
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Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
German Fighter Range and British Radar Deployment
Marcks’ Plan, August 5, 1940
The Far East and the Pacific, 1941 – The Imperial Powers, 1 September 1939

Plus a special guest map from Michael Korda’s, “With Wings Like Eagles,” showing the air defenses of England and Wales, August 1940.

2 posted on 09/01/2010 5:55:01 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

3 posted on 09/01/2010 5:57:03 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

4 posted on 09/01/2010 5:58:49 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; ...
Suburbs Damaged – 2-3
Reich Has Alarm – 3-4
Count of Paris Bids for France’s Throne – 4
The International Situation – 5
Day’s War Communiques – 6

The News of the Week in Review
One Year – And the War Goes On – 8
(1) Britain’s Battle – 8-9
(2) Balkan Turmoil – 9-10
Twenty News Questions – 10
Fifteen Outstanding Events in the European War – 11
Month-by-Month History of the First Year of the War – 12
First Year of ‘Totalitarian War’ has Taught New Type of Strategy – 13-14
Answers to Twenty News Questions - 14

5 posted on 09/01/2010 6:01:19 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/sep40/f01sep40.htm

Italians capture Buna

Sunday, September 1, 1940 www.onwar.com

In East Africa... In Kenya the Italians capture the small town of Buna in the northeast of the country.

Over Britain... The German attacks on the British airfields continue but with less strength than in the previous two days.


6 posted on 09/01/2010 6:14:53 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 367 September 1, 1940

Battle of Britain Day 54. Luftwaffe again targets RAF airfields, using the same tactics but on a reduced scale compared to the last 2 days. RAF ignores probing flights of Messerschmitts only in the morning. 3 large raids come across the Channel at 11 AM, 1.30 PM and 5.30. As usual they split up. Airfields at Hawkinge, Lympne, Kenley, Detling & Sherburn and docks in the East End of London are attacked. Biggin Hill is bombed again, in the middle of funerals for those killed in the last 2 days. Luftwaffe loses 17 fighters but the fighter screen is so dense that only 8 bombers are shot down. RAF loses 15 fighters (6 pilots killed). There is less bombing than previous nights, with attacks in Kent, Bristol Channel and South Wales plus Tyne and Tees in the Northeast of England. Oil tanks at Llandarcy, South Wales are bombed and set afire. http://www.battleofbritain1940.net/0032.html

Just after midnight, U-101 sinks Greek SS Efploia, 100 miles Northwest of Ireland. The entire crew abandons ship in two lifeboats and are picked up by destroyer HMS Anthony. At 5.25 PM, U-32 hits British cruiser HMS Fiji with the last torpedo (5 killed) 200 miles West of Isle of Lewis, Scotland. Fiji is badly damaged but returns to the Clyde under her own power escorted by 4 destroyers (out of service until February 1941). Fiji’s place in the expedition to Dakar (Operation Menace) will be taken by Australian cruiser HMAS Australia. http://uboat.net/allies/merchants/ships/507.html

Cruisers HMS Orion & HMAS Sydney and destroyers HMS Decoy & Ilex shell the Italian Dodecanese islands of Scarpanto (now Karpathos) and Stampalia (now Astypalea) in the Southern Aegean Sea. HMS Ilex rams and sinks Italian motor torpedo boat MAS537.

British submarine HMS Tigris sinks the small French fishing vessel Sancte Michael with the deck gun near Brest, France. Submarine HMS Sunfish, leaving Grangemouth at 11.30 PM, collides with patrol launch Mesme which sinks (all 3 crew lost).

British minesweeping trawler HMT Royalo sinks on a mine off Penzance, Cornwall, England (7 killed).


7 posted on 09/01/2010 6:17:30 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST POSTS IN THIS SERIES!!

The One Year look back has some very interesting comments..

The idea of “Totalitarian War” was, apparently, rather a new concept to them. The “win or lose”, all or nothing approach was not really the way they had been fighting wars.

Notice... there was ZERO discussion about concern for civilian deaths... this was, Kill, or be killed.. for EVERYONE, not just the soldiers.

It is still amazing to me, that the US was standing idly by... even as this was going on in Britain. Wow...


8 posted on 09/01/2010 6:19:48 AM PDT by SomeCallMeTim
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I have a distant cousin in England whose father died in Nov 1940 in London from “a bomb blast” in his back yard...

he was in the house protecting his wife and my cousin who was just a baby 3 weeks old with his body....


9 posted on 09/01/2010 6:23:22 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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Is it any wonder so many Canadians, Australians and New Zealanders rushed to sign up and fight to protect Jolly ol England ???

6 of my mothers 7 brothers all went ...

I to Europe, the rest to the Pacific...


10 posted on 09/01/2010 6:26:21 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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Battle of Britain Campaign Diary

Date: 1st September 1940


11 posted on 09/01/2010 8:09:21 AM PDT by CougarGA7
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To: Tennessee Nana
6 of my mothers 7 brothers all went ...

I to Europe, the rest to the Pacific...

Did any join up in 1940? You must have a lot of inherited war stories accumulated. I hope you can share them with us when as we go along.

12 posted on 09/01/2010 9:22:01 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST POSTS IN THIS SERIES!!

Thanks. I enjoy putting the Sunday edition threads together. They take more time but there is usually cool stuff in the News of the Week in Review. Unfortunately I don't think they get noticed much. Wednesday seems to be slow here.

13 posted on 09/01/2010 9:39:12 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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New Zealand went into the war in 1939 with England

Most of my uncles that went to the Pacific were in the Solomon Islands as coast watchers...

(Lt Joe Cable in South Pacific...)

One would tell us funny stories about the way their food was deelivered etc...


14 posted on 09/01/2010 10:04:44 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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I guess we (the USA) was not ready, the draft bill was going through Congress, people were still stunning from the depression.

I think what it would be like today - if say - NK crossed into the south, over ran our positions, kill or captured 30K American troops?

- I bet with our current regime

- we would stand down.


15 posted on 09/01/2010 10:15:40 AM PDT by Tank-FL (Keep the Faith - Congratulations - Albert - your Old Corps Now!-)
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“Unfortunately I don’t think they get noticed much. Wednesday seems to be slow here.”

There is such a chasm between the Times’ account of that epochal era and its public men(Churchill!) and our own seemingly diminished political caste and our diminished expectations of life itself.

This is one post I read avidly every day, I assure you; but I usually feel at a loss to comment.

Thanks for posting this invaluable series.


16 posted on 09/01/2010 12:50:10 PM PDT by headsonpikes (Genocide is the highest sacrament of socialism - "Who-whom?")
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Stay Tuned for the September 16th Issue of LIFE magazine for more on the plane crash that killed Farmer-Labor Party Senator Lundeen.


17 posted on 09/01/2010 1:33:37 PM PDT by CougarGA7
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I appreciate the kind words. I sort of regret my comment about lack of notice. That was a whiney thing to say. I should have more faith in my fellow freepers. If the threads are interesting and instructive readers will find them.


18 posted on 09/01/2010 1:49:23 PM 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/01.htm

September 1st, 1940

UNITED KINGDOM:
RAF Bomber Command: 4 Group (Whitley). Bombing - industrial targets at Milan, Turin, Munich and south-east Germany.
51 Sqn. Three aircraft to Fiat works at Turin. All bombed. Three aircraft to Munich marshalling yards. All bombed.
78 Sqn. Three aircraft to Milan. One bombed primary, one bombed French airfield. Two aircraft to BMW works at Munich. One bombed primary, one bombed alternative.

Battle of Britain:
RAF Fighter Command: Tilbury, Chatham are bombed.

South-east airfields attacked include Debden, Biggin Hill (severely damaged), Eastchurch and Detling.

At night Bristol, South Wales, Midlands and Merseyside are bombed.

In the afternoon a clutch of very low flying Dorniers penetrated to Biggin Hill, delivering the third and most damaging bombing of the day when one scored a direct hit with a 250-kg HE on its Sector Operations Room whose reinforced concrete ceiling collapsed into the building where two WAAF’s remained at their posts. Such devotion to duty won both Sergeant Helen Turner and Corporal Elspeth Henderson a Military Medal. A new, temporary, operations room was established in a village shop.

Losses: Luftwaffe, 14; RAF, 15.

Destroyer HMS Ivanhoe working with the 20th Destroyer Flotilla is scuttled in the North Sea off the Dutch Coast at 53 25N 03 48E after suffering mine damage. (Alex Gordon)(108)

GERMANY: Propaganda radio station NBBS declares that ‘Dover is already practically German territory.’

U-131 laid down.

LITHUANIA: Kovno: The Japanese consul Sempo Sugihara, who has been issuing exit visas to Jews, is expelled.

MEDITERRANEAN SEA:
Reinforcements are sent to the Mediterranean Fleet right through until the end of the year. They are covered from Gibraltar by Admiral Somerville and Force H, and then met in the central basin by Admiral Cunningham. The opportunity is taken to run in supplies of men and material to Malta.
Early in September the new fleet carrier HMS Illustrious, with an armoured flight deck, battleship HMS Valiant and two cruisers are transferred in this way in Operation ‘Hats’. On passage with them, aircraft from HMS Ark Royal attack Sardinian targets. HMS Illustrious, having joined with Eagle, sends aircraft against Rhodes. The Italian Fleet sorties during these operations, but fails to make contact. The arrival of HMS Illustrious allows Admiral Cunningham to go ahead with his plans to attack the Italian battlefleet at Taranto.

KENYA Buna falls to the Italians.

COMMONWEALTH OF THE PHILIPPINES: Grunert advises Quezon that planning towards both civil defence and economic mobilization should commence immediately.

Grunert advises Marshall that the failure of the US government to adopt a consistent policy towards the Philippines was adversely affecting the morale of the populace.

US Navy announces it will no longer send dependents to the Far East. (Marc Small)

ATLANTIC OCEAN:
Cruiser HMS Fiji is torpedoed by U-32 off Rockall as she escorts troop transports for the Dakar expedition. Her place is taken by the heavy cruiser HMAS AUSTRALIA.

At 0055 hours local, German submarine U-101 torpedoes a Greek merchant freighter, the SS Efploia, which straggled from convoy OB-205. The wreck was scuttled by a British warship with gunfire at 55.43N/13.05W. (Jack McKillop)


19 posted on 09/02/2010 6:02:02 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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ping for later read,

thanks Homer I read every day

20 posted on 09/02/2010 4:59:08 PM PDT by deadmenvote (goverment is a waste of tax payers money)
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