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Leningrad in sights of artillery
Monday, September 1, 1941 www.onwar.com
On the Eastern Front... Advancing Germany armies are within artillery range of the city of Leningrad. To the east of the city, their attacks are nearing the shores of Lake Lagoda.
From Washington... the US Atlantic Fleet announces the formation of a Denmark Strait Patrol. Two heavy cruisers and four destroyers are allocated for to the force. The US Navy is now permitted to escort convoys in the Atlantic containing American merchant vessels.
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September 1st, 1941
FRANCE: An Air France Bloch 220, msn 12, registered F-AQNL, crashes into a lake after an engine failed on takeoff at Bollemont. Only 2 of the 17 aboard survive.
GERMANY: Berlin: All Jews over the age of six are ordered to wear, from 19 September, a yellow star of David with the word Jude [Jew] written on it.
FINLAND: Yesterday Finnish troops encircled two Soviet divisions (43rd and 115th) in Porlammi - Ylä-Somme area south of Viipuri in the Karelian Isthmus. Today the Soviet units caught in the encirclement begin to surrender, although many men are able to break out, leaving their equipment behind. Finns capture a large amount of booty (including 306 artillery pieces, 246 mortars and 55 tanks) together with some 9000 POWs, among them commander of the 43rd Division, Major-General Kirpitshnikov. More than 7000 dead Red Army soldiers are buried in the field, but some 12 000 succeeded breaking out before the surrender. (Mikko Härmeinen)
LITHUANIA: Karl Jäger, commander of an SS Eisatzgruppe operating around Vilnius reports that day they killed “1,404 Jewish children, 1,763 Jews, 1,812 Jewesses, 109 mentally sick people, one German woman who was married to a Jew, and one Russian woman.”
Jäger notes the essential help of local Lithuanians and says that 4,000 Jews were liquidated by pogroms and executions at the hands of Lithuanian partisans.
U.S.S.R.: German forces are now within artillery range of Leningrad. East of the city their advance nears the south edge of Lake Ladoga.
Marshal Timoshenko leads a counter-attack at Gomel.
Vladivostok: A Russian mine sinks a Japanese fishing boat.
Soviet submarine SC-135 commissioned.
CHINA: In Shanghai, the US Consul General, the Commander of the USN’s Yangtze Patrol and the Commanding Officer of the 4th Marine Regiment, recommend that all US naval forces in China, i.e., river gunboats and US Marines, be withdrawn.
COMMONWEALTH OF THE PHILIPPINES: First 12 Filipino infantry regiments are inducted into Federal service.
CANADA: Corvettes HMCS Kenogami and Orillia departed St. John’s with Convoy SC-42. (Dave Shirlaw)
U.S.A.: Marshall assesses Hawaii as adequately defended and wishes all additional men and materiel sent to the Philippines.
The First issue of Intelligence Bulletin is published. (Bill Howard)
First production order for 150 Northrop P-61 night fighters is placed. (Jack McKillop)
ATLANTIC OCEAN: The US Navy forms a Denmark Strait patrol with units of the ATLANTIC Fleet with 2 heavy cruisers and four destroyers. US escorts are now allowed to convoy ships of any flag provided there is at least one ship with a US flag.
The USN assumes responsibility for escorting convoys from a point off Argentia, Newfoundland to Iceland.