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YUGOSLAV-SOVIET AMITY PACT TO ACCOMPANY AXIS TIE-UP; BRITISH SINK ITALIAN RAIDER (3/10/41)
Microfilm-New York Times archives, McHenry Library, U.C. Santa Cruz | 3/10/41 | David Anderson, James MacDonald, Hanson W. Baldwin

Posted on 03/10/2011 5:21:33 AM PST 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. Also visit our general discussion thread
1 posted on 03/10/2011 5:21:39 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
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Winston S. Churchill, The Grand Alliance

2 posted on 03/10/2011 5:22:48 AM PST 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; ...
A Diplomatic Step – 2
Armed Fascist Ship Caught by Cruiser in Indian Ocean – 3
The International Situation – 3
Nazis Strike Hard at London Again – 4
Increasing Unrest in Italy Reported – 4
The Texts of the Day’s War Communiques – 5-6
British Riflemen Likened to U.S. Squirrel Shooters – 6
The Planes of Britain, Part II – 6
3 posted on 03/10/2011 5:24:17 AM PST 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/1941/mar41/f10mar41.htm

British encounter Italians at Dagabur

Monday, March 10, 1941 www.onwar.com

In East Africa... Since taking Mogadishu General Platt’s troops have advance 600 miles north from there into Abyssinia and only now come into contact with any Italian forces. Their encounter is at Dagabur, only 100 miles south of Jijiga.


4 posted on 03/10/2011 5:29:43 AM PST 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/10.htm

March 10th, 1941

UNITED KINGDOM: Portsmouth is raided by 244 bombers, the heaviest yet this year. 750 people are killed.
The government rejects a plan to feed the small democracies stating that “Nothing has since occurred to alter the view of His Majesty’s Government that it is the responsibility of the German Government to see to the material welfare of the countries they have overrun, nor to weaken their conviction that no form of relief can be devised which would not directly or indirectly assist the enemy’s war effort.” (Jack McKillop)

Destroyer HMS Chiddingfold launched. (Dave Shirlaw)

FRANCE: RAF Bomber Command attacks Le Havre during the night of the 10th/11th and at the same time gives the new 4-engine Halifax bomber it debut. One of the six Halifax’s involved is mistakenly shot down on its return flight by an RAF night fighter. (Jack McKillop)

VICHY FRANCE: Darlan ratifies Murphy-Weygand agreement for provisioning of French North Africa.

Darlan again threatens to use the French navy to protect convoy foodships bound for France if the Royal Navy continues to seize them. Darlan was speaking in the presence of Marshal Petain to a press conference for American journalists.

“I am responsible for feeding 40 million people, plus millions more in Africa. I will feed them even if I have to use force.”

GERMANY: A secret report by the SS on the mood of the German people notes that the sale of “Pictures of the Fuhrer at Annual Fairs ... At present popular feeling ... does not approve of the sale of pictures of the Fuhrer alongside images of saints, rosaries and devotional objects.”

POLAND: Germans shoot 17 civilians after resistance fighters kill an actor who announced he was not Polish but German.

ALBANIA: In what will be the only success of the entire offensive, the alpini of the Pusteria Division capture the fortified peak of Mali Spadarit, on the extreme left wing. However, this leaves them far in advance of any friendly troops, and heavy fire from adjacent Greek positions on their flanks and rear forces them to withdraw somewhat back down the slope. In Gambarra’s sector, attempts to manoeuver against Monastery Hill get nowhere, and Gambarra already has to bring up troops from his reserve Bari Division to reinforce the Puglie and Cagliari. Meanwhile, it has begun to rain, negating the Italian advantage in the air, and increasing the footsoldiers’ misery. (Mike Yalkich)

GREECE: Athens: The Greek War Ministry announced:

We have continued our offensive operations and won new enemy positions. The enemy has launched violent counterattacks that have been repulsed with heavy losses.

Wavell reports that the “ ‘Lustre’ programme is up to date. First flight landed Piraeus, second flight half strength enroute, third flight half strength loading, extra flight in gap between third and fourth flights will complete second and third. Passing of ships through canal has made full programme possible.”

ETHIOPIA: Since taking Mogadishu, Italian Somaliland, the troops of Major General William Platt, General Office Commanding British Troops in Sudan, have advanced 600 miles (966 kilometres) north from there into Abyssinia and only now come into contact with any Italian forces. Their encounter is at Dagabur, only 100 miles (161 kilometres) south of Jijiga. (Jack McKillop)

EGYPT: Major General Thomas Blamey, General Officer Commanding Australian 6th Division, sends a message to the Australian Government concerning the upcoming operations in Greece. He ends his message saying, “Military operation extremely hazardous in view of disparity between opposing forces in numbers and training.” (Jack McKillop)

THAILAND: Japan steps in to mediate the undeclared war between France and Thailand; France cedes territory to Thailand and gives Japan a monopoly of the Indochinese rice crop and the right to the airfield at Saigon. (Jack McKillop)

CANADA: Submarine HMS Thunderbolt departed Halifax escort for Convoy SC-25. (Dave Shirlaw)

U.S.A.: Carrying a US prototype centimetric air-interception radar, a B-18 Bolo fails to achieve any results. On the same day, the British centimetric AI radar made its first confirmed contact. Honours for this “first” thus go to the British. (Cris Wetton)

13 Northrop YP-61s are ordered for the USAAF. (Jack McKillop)

The USAAF 73d Squadron begins its transfer from McChord Field, Tacoma, Washington to Elmendorf Field, Anchorage, with eight Douglas B-18 Bolos. This will take four days. (Jack McKillop)

Baseball’s Brooklyn Dodgers announce that their players would wear batting helmets during the 1941 baseball season. General Manager Larry MacPhail (he started the Dodger dynasty in the thirties) predicted that all baseball players would soon be wearing the new devices. (Jack McKillop)

ATLANTIC OCEAN: At 2052, U-552 hit steam trawler Reykjaborg with a dud and then fired at her between 2314 and 2347 with 103 rounds from the deck gun and 592 rounds from the 2cm AA gun. The trawler sank about 459 miles SE of Iceland. She was probably the largest Icelandic-owned trawler at the time. (Dave Shirlaw)


5 posted on 03/10/2011 5:31:57 AM PST 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 557 March 10, 1941

At midnight 460 miles Southeast of Iceland, U-552 sinks Icelandic trawler Reykjaborg with the deck gun and anti-aircraft gun (12 killed). 3 survivors escape on a raft (1 dies, 2 picked up by British corvette HMS Pimpernel on March 14).

British submarine HMS H.28 is damaged in a collision with a freighter in the Irish Sea (under repair at Belfast until April 14).

Operation Canvas. General Platt’s Nigerian Brigade has advance 450 miles North from Mogadishu, Italian Somaliland, into Ethiopia. They meet Italian resistance at Degehabur, on the road 100 miles South of Jijiga. Known as the “Hindenburg Wall”, these old trenches and gun pits were built by the Ethiopians in 1936 against the Italian invasion during the 2nd Italo-Abyssinian War.

Continuing the attack on Italian convoy from Palermo, British submarine HMS Unique sinks SS Fenicia 100 miles Northwest of Tripoli, Libya.

Overnight, Luftwaffe bombs town of Portsmouth and Royal Navy docks, damaging destroyers HMS Sherwood, HMS Witherington (under repair at Portsmouth for 5 months) & HMS Tynedale (repaired in 9 days), training ship HMS Marshal Soult (ex-monitor with 15-inch guns removed) and 4 minesweeping trawlers. Minesweeping trawler HMT Revello is sunk (1 killed, Revello will be raised, repaired and recommissioned). 10 shore-based Naval personnel are also killed.


6 posted on 03/10/2011 5:33:32 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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The “secret SS reports on the mood of the German people” were compiled by AMT III of the SD. The commander of AMT III is an SS General named Otto Ohlendorf. Ohlendorf will soon be appointed to a different command, effective in June.


7 posted on 03/10/2011 6:30:54 AM PST by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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Re: Herbert Hoover offering to feed civilians in German occupied countries. It would be interesting to see the “Texts of British statement and Hoover’s reply” mentioned on page 1.

The British were almost certainly correct that food sent to occupied Europe would directly or indirectly feed Germany.


8 posted on 03/10/2011 6:49:08 AM PST by iowamark
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I'm traveling today so I wont be able to view this issue until late tonight. PAR35 will have to do the censoring on this issue. Just as a precaution I've rated this one PG-13, but how bad can it be....there's a schoolmarm on the cover.

9 posted on 03/10/2011 7:34:50 AM PST by CougarGA7
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That's no school marm. It's Marguerite Sharpe, 22-year-old government girl.

"Six months ago she was a Hollywood stenographer dreaming about getting in the movies. In October, having passed civil service examinatins, she was called to Wahington to work in the Navy's Bureau of Supplies and Accounts."

The profile mentions that the federal workforce grew from 500,000 in June 1933 to 1,000,000 in June 1940. Hmm. What happened in 1933 that set off this expansion?

There is a lot of good stuff in this edition of Life, as usual.

10 posted on 03/10/2011 8:32:15 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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Page 81 for the nudes; lots of racy pictures showing legs - gypsy dancer on 12, bowler on 81, fashion shoot on 36.

Don’t miss the photo spread on the Rickenbacker crash.


11 posted on 03/10/2011 5:08:04 PM PST by PAR35
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It would be interesting to see the “Texts of British statement and Hoover’s reply” mentioned on page 1.

I made it to the library today. Compare the quality of this copy with what I have posted lately. Nice, huh? You don't have to guess at what the text says. This will be the look for the next month or so, at least.

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12 posted on 03/12/2011 9:08:37 PM PST 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

Dear Homer,

Thank you for copying those! You are really doing a great public educational service!

As to the content of the Hoover-British exchange, I think that Churchill understood something that many other cultured gentleman did not, namely, that this was Total War and that there could be no compromises with Hitler.


13 posted on 03/13/2011 5:30:32 PM PDT by iowamark
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To: Homer_J_Simpson

See. I didn’t even get that. I’ve been out of town the last few days so I’m working on getting caught up now.


14 posted on 03/14/2011 2:46:44 PM PDT by CougarGA7
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To: CougarGA7

I’ll bet her independently operating eyeballs, enabling her to read two documents simultaneously, helped a lot when she was studying for those civil service examinations.


15 posted on 03/14/2011 2:55:42 PM 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

Perhaps the left one is just so attractive that the right one keeps admiring it.


16 posted on 03/14/2011 3:55:07 PM PDT by CougarGA7
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