Posted on 08/13/2011 5:30:53 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
Winston S. Churchill, The Grand Alliance
Vote is 203 to 202 – 2-3
House Vote on Draft Bill – 2
Hush and Tumult Mark House Vote – 3-4
The International Situation – 4
7 U.S. Pilots Die in ‘Ferry’ Crash – 4-5
Axis Raiders Deal New Blow at Suez – 5
Roosevelt ‘Lost’ on Yacht for Three Days; Rumor of Meeting with Churchill Persists – 5
Berlin Cites Gains – 6-7
Weygand Seen Defying Darlan – 7-8
A Visit to the Southern Front to See for Himself (photo) – 7
Nazis Say ‘Blitzkrieg’ is a British Invention – 8
Return to Smolensk (photo) – 8
Bader, Legless R.A.F. Ace, Reported Missing; So is Lock, Credited with Thirty Victories – 9
Darlan’s Axis ‘Victory’ – 10
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the War – 11-12
Blacklist Protest Rejected by Haiti – 12
Foes of Army Bill Get a Warning on Vichy – 12
http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1941/aug41/f13aug41.htm
Soviets free Polish POWs
Wednesday, August 13, 1941 www.onwar.com
In the Soviet Union... The government announces the release of all Polish prisoners of war captured in September 1939.
In China... After a week, the Japanese have recorded 40 air raids on Chungking.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andrew.etherington/month/thismonth/13.htm
August 13th, 1941
UNITED KINGDOM: Minesweeping trawler HMS Rysa commissioned. (DS)
FRANCE: Paris: At the porte Saint-Denis and the porte Saint-Martin, fighting breaks out between demonstrators and the French and German police. Those arrested are communists.
GERMANY: A Wellington bomber carrying prototype “Gee” navigation equipment is lost after a raid on Hamburg.
NORTH AFRICA: Beginning last night 6,000 Polish troops replace 5,000 Australians at Tobruk. These troop movements will continue through the 18th. They are being made at the request of the Australian government.
CHINA: After seven days of heavy Japanese bombing, the city of Chungking is devastated.
CANADA: Minesweepers HMCS Llewellyn and Lloyd George ordered. (Dave Shirlaw)
U.S.A.: In baseball, Larry MacPhail, General Manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, stages a fashion show before a Ladies Day crowd at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn. Such promotions, as well as the Dodgers pennant race, will push the home gate to over one million fans. (Jack McKillop)
“Soviets free Polish POWs”. Well, not all of them. The head count’s gonna be a little short. Wandered off to Manchuria, don’t ya know.
"Belgian Walloon Volunteers for the Struggle Against Bolshevism take an oath to the Führer and commander-in-chief, Adolf Hitler.
Nazi anti-Marxism was one of its most attractive features in the eyes of many Europeans, and Hitler and his henchmen used it to recruit volunteer soldiers from all of the occupied countries."
"Soldiers with a Wehrmacht propaganda unit film the anti-Jewish riot that began with the German occupation of Lvov on June 30, 1941.
The Nazis incited the Ukrainians to seek revenge against the Jews.
They then filmed the murderous four-day rampage to demonstrate how much even their own Ukrainian countrymen hated the Jews.
Some 4000 died in the pogrom."
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