Winston S. Churchill, The Grand Alliance
Posted on 09/07/2011 5:35:31 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
Winston S. Churchill, The Grand Alliance
The News of the Week in Review
Twenty News Questions – 10
The Atlantic Bastions of Hemisphere Defense (map) – 11
Out Atlantic Defenses Expand Vastly in Year – 12
Answers to Twenty News Questions – 13
http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1941/sep41/f07sep41.htm
British carrier planes raid Tromso
Sunday, September 7, 1941 www.onwar.com
In Norway... The British carrier Victorious sends air attacks against German installations in and around Tromso but little damage is done.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andrew.etherington/month/thismonth/07.htm
September 7th, 1941
FRANCE: Paris: The Germans execute Pierre Roche, a member of the Resistance who sabotaged German military telephone lines.
U.S.S.R.: Two squadrons of RAF Hurricanes arrive at Archangel, in the north of Russia.
262 Inf. Div. (GL Edgar Theissen) crosses the Desna River at Oster, about 100 miles west of Konotop. 2nd Panzergruppe units move south making a breakthrough at Konotop. Specifically, 3 Pz. Div. (GL Walter Model) of XXIV A.K. (mot) (GdPzT. Leo Freiherr Geyr von Schweppenberg) crosses the Seim River north of Konotop. (Jeff Chrisman)
Mobile units General Heinz Güderian’s 2nd Panzer Group achieve a breakthrough at Konotop in the Ukraine. General Heinz Güderian’s 2nd Panzer Group driving south, behind the Soviet forces defending Kiev, reaches Lokhvista encircling nearly 600,000 Soviet troops in the Kiev area. (Jack McKillop)
EGYPT: In the Gulf of Suez, the unarmed U.S. freighter SS Steel Seafarer (carrying cargo earmarked for the British Army in Egypt) is bombed and sunk by a Luftwaffe Ju 88 off the Shadwan Islands; her 36-man crew is rescued unharmed. (Jack McKillop)
CHINA: Japanese forces attack Chinese positions near Yuezhou at the beginning of the Second Battle of Changsha.
U.S.A.: Bobby Riggs beats Frank Kovacs to regain U.S. tennis title at Forest Hills, New York. (Jack McKillop)
"British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden notes that 'if we must have preferences, let me murmur in your ear that I prefer Arabs to Jews.' "
2 new cruisers and we’re testing a new bomber too??
We are just war mongering!
/s/
NYC gets a police vehicle with a two way radio... is this the first one? Controlled from the air?? Is that why they had the big car numbers on the police cars?
building 40 aircraft engines a day. ultimately, the US wold produce over 500,000 combat aircraft, an incredible number.
going to take the quiz and see how i do. anyone else?
The first one was placed in car number 54. They still managed to lose track of that vehicle though.
Car 54, where are you??
lol
I have to start reading the news more carefully. I only got 6 1/2 correct.
you did better than me. i only got 5 of 12
Thank you for taking the time to do the work and post this. Absolutely fascinating.
The USS Atlanta received 49 major calibre hits, and one torpedo, during the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal disabling all but the aftmost 5"mount. The midship magazine was set afire and the bridge was riddled, killing most personnel in those spaces including Admiral Scott. The Japanese were using shore bombardment shells that night which had a devastating effect on an unprotected ship. A single torpedo struck her on the port side in way of the forward engine room flooding both it and the forward boiler room rapidly. The after boiler room flooded in 20 minutes through damaged bulkheads fittings, probably at ruptured piping connections. The emergency diesel generator started up but the ship was left dead in the water, slowly flooding.
I have a detailed sketch showing the position of each hit and have tried to replicate that here. In the bottom picture the white circle represents each hit in addition to the location of the torpedo hit. I might be able to scan in the actual sketch I have in the near future but I hope this helps.
I appears that all the hits to the hull forward were from 5.5 inch shells mostly from the Japanese cruiser Nagara. The 5" mount in position A was hit in the front. Turret B, where my father was stationed was hit in the ammo room beneath the mount. Everyone in the room was killed except my father, who was wounded in the back. His shirt buttons and shoes were blown off as well!! Turret C had its barrels blown clean off by a shell from the USS San Francisco.
The superstructure, both fore and aft, was hit mostly by 8" shells from the San Francisco.
Another WWII veteran offspring reporting in. We have heard from at least one participant (ex-snook) and the children of participants of several different theatres so far. Polish conscripts in the German army, German army on the eastern front, U.S. Navy in the Pacific, U.S. Army in the Pacific, Army Air Force in Iceland (pre-12/7/41), and probably a few others. And the U.S.A. isn't even offically in the war yet!
Don’t forget our good Dane who knew Neils Bohr. I’m always glad to hear in from those who have these tales about their relatives or themselves as well. If you get a chance to scan the picture of the Atlanta, I’d definitely love to see it.
My Pop [4th I.D, Utah Beach], of Portuguese descent, was on the front line at Cherbourg when he saw what he thought was two Germans coming up the road. As he was getting ready to whack them, he heard them speaking Portuguese. They’d been hired as construction workers by the Germans.
I also read somewhere that Portuguese fought on the Eastern Front in the Waffen SS.
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