Posted on 09/03/2010 5:14:36 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
Plus a special guest map from Michael Korda’s, “With Wings Like Eagles,” showing the air defenses of England and Wales, August 1940.
William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
Winston S. Churchill, Their Finest Hour
* A remarkable finish carried Byron Nelson, former national open champion, to victory over Sam Snead in the final of the Professional Golfers Association tournament in Hershey, Pa.
Those names may be familiar to you older duffers in the gallery.
http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1940/sep40/f03sep40.htm
Germans preparing to invade Britain
Tuesday, September 3, 1940 www.onwar.com
From Berlin... The operational orders for the invasion of Britain are issued. It is confirmed that the decision to go will be taken 10 days before the invasion is to take place. S-Day is now scheduled for September 21st. The Sea Lion plan now provides for elements of 11 divisions to make the assault. Two airborne divisions are to be sent in at once, but the other nine will start 6700 strong and will only reach full strength after several days. About 250 tanks are to accompany the assault. Four divisions of the 16th Army with airborne support are to land near Folkestone, two of the 9th Army near Eastbourne and three more of the 9th Army, also with airborne support, at Brighton. These beachheads will not be mutually supporting in the early stages. At this time the defending British forces have only made a partial recovery from the equipment losses at Dunkirk. There are perhaps four divisions fully equipped and about eight more in a reasonable state. In addition, there are various mobile brigade groups. There are about 350 cruiser and heavy tanks in the country and about 500 antitank guns.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andrew.etherington/month/thismonth/03.htm
September 3rd, 1940
UNITED KINGDOM:
RAF Bomber Command: 4 Group (Whitley). 51 Sqn. 1 aircraft crashed on take-off from Dishforth on operations. Crew injured. 10 Sqn. 1 aircraft damaged by Flak. Crew unhurt. 1 aircraft bellylanded at Nether Stilton, near Northallerton, on return from Berlin. Crew unhurt.
Bombing - oil plants at Berlin.
10 Sqn. Seven aircraft. All bombed. One damaged by Flak and one crashed on return, crew safe.
Since yesterday a total of 84 RAF bombers have attacked a U-boat base at Lorient in France and tried to set forests alight in South Germany.
Battle of Britain:
RAF Fighter Command: Airfields attacked again include Manston, West Malling and North Weald (severely damaged) and heavy fighting occurs.
At night Merseyside, South Wales and south-east England are bombed.
Losses: Luftwaffe, 16; RAF, 16.
The cabinet approves compensation of up to GBP 2000 for each house destroyed by Luftwaffe air raids.
Lydd, Kent: Mabel Cole, the wife of the publican of the Rising Sun, had every reason to be suspicious when a well-dressed young man knocked on the door at nine o’clock in the morning and asked for a glass of cider. He spoke with a foreign accent in a prohibited area - and he was plainly ignorant of English licensing laws. Mrs Cole sent him across the road to Tilbey’s stores to buy some cigarettes while she summoned help.
The young man, a Dutchman, was one of four well-dressed spies - two of them German - who landed on the beach here today before being arrested.
Corvettes HMS Daniella and Snapdragon launched. (Dave Shirlaw)
Submarine HMS Upright commissioned. (Dave Shirlaw)
GERMANY:
Berlin: Hitler postpones the invasion of Britain, scheduled for 15 September, to 21 September, but issues Operational orders.
Hitler also asks for an increase in the output of 2,200lb bombs, designed for use against built up areas.
U-57 (Type IIC) is sunk at 0015hrs at Brunsbüttel (the western entrance to the Kiel canal) in position 53.53N, 09. 09E, after a collision with the Norwegian steamship Rona; 6 dead. Raised in Sept 1940. Repaired and returned to service as a training boat on 11 Jan, 1941. Scuttled on 3 May, 1945 at Kiel. (Alex Gordon)
U-455 and U-456 laid down. (Dave Shirlaw)
ROMANIA:
Bucharest: King Carol of Romaniasurvives an assassination attempt.
JAPAN: The Japanese army and navy agree on a southern advance strategy.
The land service needed much time to prepare itself for the Southward Advance even after mobilization was approved formally. When the admirals procrastinated, Tanaka Shin’ichi, head of the Army General Staff’s Operations Division, scathingly asked if the navy was up to its old game of using the name of war preparations to secure additional allocations of funds and materials. But he also agreed to a simultaneous attack on Malaya and the Philippines using ten, not six, divisions. This concession got the navy off the hook and, by September 3, it agreed to join the army in pressing for a definitive peace-or-war decision by early October at the latest, as the generals had desired. (201)(Will O’Neil)
CANADA: Minesweeper HMCS Wasaga laid down. (Dave Shirlaw)
U.S.A.: President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces the “destroyers-for-bases” agreement. The President tells Congress that he acted on his own authority in trading the 50 overage destroyers for bases in British colonial territory in the Western Hemisphere.
The US government warns the Japanese government against making aggressive moves in Indochina.
In New York City, the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) television station W2XAB transmits the first high definition color TV broadcast from the Chrysler Building, using 343 lines of resolution. This was the first telecast of any kind from CBS since the closing of their scanner station in 1933.
Clarinetist Artie Shaw and the Gramercy Five records the song “Summit Ridge Drive” for Victor Records. (Jack McKillop)
Destroyer USS Macomb laid down. (Dave Shirlaw)
ATLANTIC OCEAN: While escorting a convoy, destroyer ORP Blyscawica observed a periscope and attacked a U-boat with depth charges. Two hours later, in fog, she encountered a U-boat on the surface at a distance of 700 meter and attacked it with guns and depth charges. (Dave Shirlaw)
U-60 sinks SS Ulva. (Dave Shirlaw)
http://worldwar2daybyday.blogspot.com/
Day 369 September 3, 1940
Battle of Britain Day 56. The weather is again good for flying. Luftwaffe sends 1 main raid of 50 Dornier Do17 bombers, 80 Messerschmitt Bf110 fighter bombers and 40 Bf109 fighters up the Thames Estuary which splits up and bombs RAF airfields at North Weald, Hornchurch and Debden. All are badly damaged but still operational. Luftwaffe loses 17 fighters and 8 bombers. RAF loses 20 fighters, including 2 Blenheims returning to North Weald accidentally shot down by Hurricanes mistaking them for Bf110s (6 pilots killed). There is relatively little bombing overnight, as on recent nights, with attacks in Kent, Liverpool, and South Wales.
At 3.26 AM, U-60 sinks British collier Ulva about 150 miles Southwest of Isle of Barra, Outer Hebrides, Scotland (3 crew lost). 17 survivors make land at Castlebay, Isle of Barra. U-57 collides with Norwegian steamer Rona and sinks just after midnight at Brunsbüttel, at the Western end of the Kiel Canal (6 dead, 19 survivors). U-57 will be raised in September and returned to service as a training ship in January 1941. 200 miles West of Ireland, U-101 is attacked with depth charges by a British convoy escort. U-101 is damaged and partially flooded but is able to reach base at Lorient, France, on September 16.
The video is labelled 1941, but that might be the release date.
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"When Stalin signed the non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany in 1939, the Communist Party turned from fighting fascism to advocating peace. The Washington Commonwealth Federation newspaper {"Washington New-Dealer"} vigorously promoted this new line. May 23, 1940"
2ND PHOTO: August 8, 1940
Very nice of you to include the article on the TVA dam and Great Smoky Mountains National Park. While as a conservative I have some trepidation about large-scale government civilian programs, overall I have to score the TVA a success. The lakes contributed to flood control in an area where economic development was impossible due to recurring floods. The electricity generated brought power to previously impoverished rural areas, and also provided electricity for the growth of the aluminum smelting industry, which was needed to make the thousands of American airplanes that won WW2. The surplus electricity was also quite helpful in establishing another industry needed in war; that of separating various isotopes of Uranium from each other.
The dams are still there, with the lakes supporting the recreational industry, they control flooding and are still generating electricity.
I know that 0bama is trying to some extent to emulate the TVA in his “stimulus bill” but his goals and accomplishments are way off what the TVA did. In fact, for 0bama’s “stimulus” we have very little to show for it, and really nothing that will provide the long-lasting benefits of the TVA. The other thing is that there is no way we would replicate the TVA today because of the environmental whackos. It was the little snail darter that more or less killed the TVA back in the 1970s and 1980s.
So today, we just waste money.
Date: 3rd September 1940
Enemy action by day
The enemy's effort was directed to one main attack in East Kent and the Estuary in the morning, and to one minor attack in the early afternoon. In these engagements twenty-five enemy aircraft were destroyed (plus 11 probable and 10 damaged). Our casualties were 15 aircraft and 7 pilots killed or missing.
North and East
At 1610 hours two reconnaissances took place off East Anglia reporting on convoys, and at 1700 hours two other single aircraft reported on convoys East of Skegness and East of Yarmouth.
South East
At about 0830 hours one aircraft at 22,000 feet made a reconnaissance to North Foreland, along the Kentish Coast to Eastchurch, and out by Dungeness. At 0915 hour, 40 minutes after assembly south and East of Calais, 20+ aircraft at 20,000 feet approached Deal but appeared to be intercepted by one squadron off North Foreland. A further formation of about eighty aircraft flew up the North side of the Estuary at 25,000 feet. These were followed by other raids composed by thirty Dos and fifty Me110's and the objective was North Weald where damage was caused. One of our squadrons had just landed there from a previous patrol and was refuelling. Pilots were unable to gain height in sufficient time to attack the enemy. Splits from this raid flew towards Debden, Hornchurch and Thames Haven. One small raid made towards Maidstone and one of fifteen aircraft towards Biggin Hill but no definite objective was singled out.
At 1115 hours when the attacking forces were dispersing two other raids consisting of thirty aircraft in all went inland at Deal and North Foreland. They penetrated only a short distance before returning. Manston however was bombed at this time but no damage was caused. Casualties were inflicted by fighters.
At 1300 hours two raids of 12+ aircraft flew from Calais towards Foreness but were driven off by one fighter squadron. At 1400 hours six enemy raids were active off the Kent Coast and one of these entered the Estuary. Four squadrons engaged them and enemy aircraft were destroyed.
South and West
At 0830 hours one aircraft made a reconnaissance flight to within 15 miles South of the Needles. At 1130 hours three high level reconnaissances by single aircraft were tracked in the Bristol, Liverpool, and Birmingham areas. At 2055 hours aircraft approached Start Point and Portland. No interceptions were made.
By night
Enemy activity was on a similar scale to that of recent nights but confined almost entirely to the Liverpool, South Wales and Kentish areas. Very little attention was paid to the Industrial Midlands. From 2100 hours a steady stream of raids from the Brest and Cherbourg areas was plotted to South Wales and Bristol. Many aircraft flew on to Liverpool and a few as far as Barrow-in-Furness. Successive waves followed to Liverpool and whilst the rest of the country was almost clear by 0100 hours raids were still passing towards Liverpool at 0230 hours.
Extensive mine-laying is suspected along the whole of the East Coast from Aberdeen to the Thames Estuary and along the South Coast as far as Poole. Some of these raids penetrated a short distance inland in the Tyne, Tees, Yorkshire, and Kent areas. Others were suspected of mine-laying in the Bristol Channel and in Liverpool Bay.
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Statistics
Fighter Command Serviceable Aircraft as at 0900 hours, 3rd September 1940
Casualties:
| Enemy Losses | ||
| By Fighters | ||
| Destroyed | Probable | Damaged |
| 6 Me109 | 1 Me109 | 1 Me109 |
| 11 Me110 | 8 Me110 | 7 Me110 |
| 2 Do17 | ||
| 1 Ju88 | 1 Ju88 | |
| 4 Do215 | 2 Do215 | 1 Do215 |
| 1 He113 | ||
| 25 | 11 | 10 |
Patrols:
Balloons:
Aerodromes:
Attacks on Aerodromes
Organisation:
Home Security Reports
The TVA program was built on at least one lie by the New Dealers. When Fontana Dam was built, they promised to build a road to a hillside cemetery which would end up on the ‘wrong’ side of the lake. To this day, family members are waiting for the promised road. The feds take them across by boat a few times a year to visit family gravesites.
Hardly "wasted" if it buys enough votes to reelect the Dems who passed it.
But just suppose it doesn't?
Might then even some Dems begin to see the foolishness of their spend-spend-and-more-spend ways? ;-)
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