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Final Vote 369-40 – 2-3
The International Situation – 2
Finn Gets Highest Award for Anti-Tank War Feat – 3
600 Americans Stranded in Japan as She Holds Her Vessels in Port – 3-4
President Names 7 Major Generals – 4
Hull Indicates that American Vessel May Go to Orient to Get U.S. Nationals – 4
Germans Battle for Ukraine City – 5
U.S. Planes Spur British in Africa – 6
An American-Made Defense Project in Northern Ireland (photo) – 6
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on Fighting in Various Zones – 7-8
Nazi Vessel Caught in British Blockade – 8
The Russian Winter – 8

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1941/aug41/f05aug41.htm

Germans eliminate Smolensk pocket

Tuesday, August 5, 1941 www.onwar.com

On the Eastern Front... The fighting around Smolensk comes to an end. The Germans claim to have taken 310,000 prisoners and to have killed many of the 700,000-strong Soviet force. The Soviets admit far lower losses.

In Vichy France... Admiral Darlan is promoted to be in charge of government policy in North Africa. Wegand is to be his subordinate.

Headline: FINAL VOTE 369-40

THIS COSTS $323,000,000

A defense revenue bill, described by a Representative as the 'greatest tax bill ever imposed by a civilization upon its people,' was passed today by the House by a vote of 369 to 40, and sent to the Senate...

And which liberal-progressive-Democrats have forever hoped to reimpose in the name of "social justice" or "shared sacrifice," or whatever other slogan they felt might convince voters that our government is still too small and needs to grow and grow and ever grow to the sky.

;-)

Headline: "President Names 7 Major Generals – 4"

I noticed on one of the lists a certain Lt.Col. Mark W Clark, promoted to one-star.

Wonder if he'll ever amount to anything?

August 5-8:

"Eleven thousand Jews are murdered in the Polish city of Pinsk."

Maximilian Kolbe
"Father Maximilian Kolbe, a Polish-Catholic priest and an inmate at the Auschwitz, Poland, concentration camp, sacrificed his life by volunteering to take the place of a fellow prisoner condemned to death.
The Nazis agreed to the switch and brutally murdered the priest.

"Incarcerated for disseminating his religious and social views, Kolbe continued to practice his faith at Auschwitz.
In July 1941, when a prisoner from his block escaped from the camp, the SS ordered the execution of ten inmates as retribution.
One of the selected victims, Francis Gajowniczek, pleaded for his life, sobbing over his wife and children.
The priest stepped from the numbed, terrified ranks and offered himself, saying he had no family.

"Locked naked in a dark, foul-smelling, underground cell, without food or water, he clung to life for two weeks. Impatient, the SS gave him a lethal injection of carbolic acid.

"In 1982 the Catholic Church canonized Kolbe as a saint."

Liner Tatuta Maru Sails

The $15,000,000 Japanese liner Tatuta Maru sailed for home today after hastily unloading $2,500,000 cargo of raw silk highly prized for the defense program

The Tatuta Maru at San Francisco discharged the last of her cargo about 6pm last night. Then she rounded up here 125 passengers, who had been waiting several days for sailing, rushed aboard supplies of 1,000 barrels of motor oil (all that was permitted her of a 9,000 barrel request), ballast cargo of cocoa beans and asphalt.

It would appear we did get the silk.

cocao beans are ballast cargo?

motor oil for operation of the liner or export?

A little info on the liner which was sunk by the Tarpon in 1943. Tatuta Maru the same as Tatsuta Maru per Wikpedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatsuta_Maru