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SALONIKA FALLS, BUT TRAPPED GREEKS FIGHT ON (4/10/41)
Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 4/10/41 | C. Brooks Peters, Hanson W. Baldwin

Posted on 04/10/2011 7:15:18 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. Also visit our general discussion thread
1 posted on 04/10/2011 7:15:19 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
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Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
The Balkans, 1941: Invasion of Yugoslavia and Greece, April 1941
North Africa – Rommel’s First Offensive, 24 March-15 June 1941
Marcks’ Plan, August 5, 1940
Operation Barbarossa (Dir. 21), December 18, 1940
The Mediterranean Basin
The Far East and the Pacific, 1941 – The Imperial Powers, 1 September 1939
2 posted on 04/10/2011 7:16:07 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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Gordon W. Prange, At Dawn We Slept

3 posted on 04/10/2011 7:17:53 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, The Grand Alliance

4 posted on 04/10/2011 7:19:05 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; ...
Sorry for the late delivery, folks. The paper boy slept in.

Nazis Smash Lines – 2-3
Suppression Charge Disproved at Library – 2
Nazis Split Greece by Salonika Drive – 4-5
Austrians to Fight Nazi Spying Here – 5
Hungarians Report Repulsing Yugoslavs – 5
U.S. Aid Adds to Booty in Yugoslavia, Nazis Say – 5
Massawa Falls in British Mop-Up; Nazis Seize Six Generals in Libya – 6
Vichy Plans a Curb on Early Divorces – 6
The International Situation – 7
Navy Commissions Mightiest Warship – 7-10
A Mountain Blitzkrieg – 11
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on Fighting in Europe and Africa – 12-13

5 posted on 04/10/2011 7:20:46 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1941/apr41/f10apr41.htm

Croats desert Yugoslavian army

Thursday, April 10, 1941 www.onwar.com

In the Balkans... In the advance of the German 2nd Army, Zagreb is captured. The German advance is helped by the desertion of many Croat troops from the Yugoslav army. During the day Zagreb radio proclaims the establishment of an independent Croatian republic. The Croatian nationalist leader, Pavelic, is in Rome. Meanwhile, to the south, the Germans begin their attacks through the Monastir Gap route into Greece from Yugoslavia.

In Occupied France... In Brest, during the night of April 10-11, the Gneisenau is hit four times by bombs during a British air raid. The Scharnhorst is also in the port undergoing engine repairs. Neither battle cruiser will be able to join the Bismark in its cruise in May.

In North Africa... Rommel’s troops begin to attack Tobruk with a small improvised force but are beaten off.


6 posted on 04/10/2011 7:24:02 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/10.htm

April 10th, 1941

UNITED KINGDOM: The war cabinet agrees to send troops serving in India under General Auchinleck to Iraq.
GERMANY: Daily Keynote from the Reich Press Chief:

Next the Minister calls our attention to reports about Belgrade. Expression like “The city is one single heap of rubble, its streets covered with corpses of women and children” are naturally to be omitted before publication.

YUGOSLAVIA: Zagreb falls to the German 2nd Army.
Also, Croatia declares independance and proclaims the “Independant State of Croatia” (Nezavisna Drzava Hrvatska - NDH). One week later Croatia declares war on Britain and thereby joins the Axis.

GREECE: The Germans attack the Florina gap, held by a force known as the Amynteion Detachment and including the 27th New Zealand Machine Gun Battalion (less two companies), the 64th Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery, and the 3rd Royal Tank Regiment along with units of the 6th Australian Division.

The attack is halted by artillery fire and the RAF bombing the enemy columns on the roads.

At Vevi the German and British guns exchang fire in the valley and Mackay is ordered to hold until the night of 12 April before withdrawing. Mackay’s infantry is commanded by Brigadier Vasey who has 3 battalions spread across ten miles of front much of which is covered with snow; the 2/8th Australian Battalion on the east, the 1st Rangers in the centre and the 2/4th Australian Battalion on the hills to the west.

The 16th Australian Brigade, having established itself on the Veria Pass, is ordered to march back through the snow covered mountains to fill a gap on the New Zealand front west of Servia. (Anthony Staunton)

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LIBYA: Rommel lays siege to the Australian 9th Division, which has retreated to Tobruk.

MALTA: A striking force of four destroyers under Captain Mack in HMS Jervis are sent to Malta to operate against Rommel’s convoys.

ATLANTIC OCEAN: Germany and the US have their first military encounter when the US destroyer USS Niblack engages a U-boat.
In March 1941, Hitler declared that Iceland and surrounding waters were to be considered as war zones. Admiral Stark received orders from Roosevelt to ‘reconnoitre’ the approaches to this strategic island. USS Niblack (DD-424) was dispatched for this mission.
Approaching Iceland on April 10, Niblack sighted three lifeboats of survivors from a torpedoed Dutch merchantman. As the crew of the DD completed this rescue, sonar contact was made on an approaching submarine.
LtCdr E. Durgin called for General Quarters and a depth charge salvo was ordered by Commander D.L.Ryan (ComDesDiv 13). The attack sent the submarine scurrying away and USS Niblack continued on to Iceland. (55)

U.S.A.: Ickes repeats his request to Roosevelt to be placed in charge of Philippine defence. (Marc Small)
The actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr has been commissioned as a junior-grade lieutenant in the US Navy.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorizes the transfer of ten Lake-Class US Coast Guard cutters to the Royal Navy. Coast Guardsmen will train the RN crews in the waters off Long Island, New York. (Jack McKillop)

Washington:

All ships of alien flags are to be commandeered for purveying war materials to Great Britain and the Suez Canal.

The USN’s heavy cruisers USS Chicago (CA-29) and USS Portland (CA-33) and destroyers USS Clark (DD-361), USS Conyngham (DD-371), USS Reid (DD-369), USS Cassin (DD-372) and USS Downes (DD-375) arrive at Pearl Harbor, Territory of Hawaii, thus winding up the Australia-New Zealand good-will cruise. (Jack McKillop)

President Roosevelt orders 10 Coast Guard cutters transferred to the Royal Navy.


7 posted on 04/10/2011 7:26:14 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 588 April 10, 1941

Overnight, RAF bombs Berlin destroying the Opera House (Deutsche Staatsoper built in 1743). It will be restored by 1943 and then bombed out again in February 1945.

At 3.45 AM, U-107 sinks British tanker Duffield carrying 11,700 tons of fuel oil to Gibraltar (25 crew lost, 28 survivors make land at Hierro Island, Canary Islands). At 7.55 PM 500 miles Southwest of Iceland, U-52 sinks Dutch SS Saleier carrying coals from Newcastle to Port Said, Egypt. All 63 crew abandon ship in 3 lifeboats and are picked up next day by American destroyer USS Niblack (which is en route to Reykjavik, Iceland, and not a convoy escort). USS Niblack makes a false sonar contact and drops 3 depth charges (first “shot fired in anger” against Germany).

Kriegsmarine orders the construction of 60 U-boats.

In Yugoslavia, German troops capture the Croatian capital of Zagreb. Further South, 9th Panzer Division and Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler Regiment move through the Monastir gap and capture the town of Florina 8 miles across the Greek border.

East Africa. Although most of Italian Somaliland, Ethiopia and Eritrea is in British hands, pockets of Italian resistance still hold out (Assab in Eritrea; in Ethiopia, Amba Alagi in the North, Jimma in the South and Gondar in the West). In Ethiopia, Nigerian troops (11th African Division) moving Southwest down the road from Addis Ababa towards the Italian stronghold at Jimma reach the Omo River crossing at Abalti, to find the bridge blown and Italian troops dug in on the far side. In Eritrea, 5th Indian Division moves back from Massawa to Amara to pursue the Italians South to Amba Alagi in Ethiopia. Italians anticipate the arrival of British forces at Assab and seek to deny them use of the port facilities, scuttling 7 freighters in the harbour.

Rommel orders probing attacks on the defenses at Tobruk but they are turned back by Australian in fantry and British artillery. General von Prittwitz, commander of 15th Panzer Division (which will soon come from Italy to join the Afrika Korps), has been flown to Libya with an advanced party of 3500 troops as reinforcements. He is killed when his reconnaissance group of armoured cars is hit by anti-tank fire on the Tobruk perimeter.

Overnight, RAF again bombs German battlecruisers at dock in Brest, France. Gneisenau is badly damaged by 4 bombs and will be under repair at Brest until December. Luftwaffe bombs Birmingham, England, for a second night. 206 aircraft drop 246 tons high explosive bombs and 1,183 incendiary canisters.


8 posted on 04/10/2011 7:28:47 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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Don’t mean to digress, but re: page 1, “Complaint Lays Violence to T.W.U. [transportation workers union]:” nothing new under the sun.


9 posted on 04/10/2011 7:37:47 AM PDT by the invisib1e hand (You is what you am.)
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Yugoslavia Simple

Thought I'd give myself a lesson in posting a map to see how it came out-if it doesn't work-blame Hitler.

10 posted on 04/10/2011 6:09:52 PM PDT by Larry381 (Sentio aliquos togatos contra me conspirare)
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Looks good to me. Hitler’s not off the hook, though. I’ll think of something else to blame him for. Global warming, maybe.


11 posted on 04/10/2011 6:44:16 PM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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