Posted on 09/27/2011 5:40:01 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
Winston S. Churchill, The Grand Alliance
#1 - “Blue Champagne” – Jimmy Dorsey, with Bob Eberly
#2 - “Chattanooga Choo Choo” - Glenn Miller, with Tex Beneke and the Modernaires
#3 - “Piano Concerto in B Flat” (“Tonight we Love”) - Freddy Martin, with Jack Fina
#4 – “Green Eyes” - Jimmy Dorsey, with Bob Eberly and Helen O’Connell
#5 - ““I Don’t Want to Set the World On Fire”” - Horace Heidt, with Larry Cotton and Donna & Her Don Juans
#6 – “I Don’t Want to Set the World On Fire” – Tommy Tucker, with Amy Arnell and Voices 3
#7 - “Yes Indeed!” - Tommy Dorsey, with Jo Stafford and Sy Oliver
#8 - “You and I” – Glenn Miller, with Ray Eberly
#9 - “The Booglie Wooglie Piggy” - Glenn Miller, with Tex Beneke and the Modernaires
#10 – “Yours” – Jimmy Dorsey, with Bob Eberly
http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1941/sep41/f27sep41.htm
Besieged Italians surrender
Saturday, September 27, 1941 www.onwar.com
In East Africa... The siege at Wolchefit ends when the Italian garrison surrenders to the 25th East African Brigade.
On the Eastern Front... German forces take Perekop on their advance to the Crimea.
In the Mediterranean... The Allied convoy to Malta is found by air reconnaissance and suffers the loss of one transport. The pursuing Italian naval force does not engage the convoy and it successfully delivers 50,000 tons of food to the isolated island.
In Occupied Czechoslovakia... The German Governor of Bohemia and Moravia, Von Neurath resigns. Heydrich replaces him.
In the United States... The first 14 Liberty ships are launched (312 are on order).
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andrew.etherington/month/thismonth/27.htm
September 27th, 1941
UNITED KINGDOM: Submarine HMS Una commissioned.
Escort carrier HMS Attacker launched.
Destroyer HMS Ledbury launched. (Dave Shirlaw)
GERMANY: U-436 commissioned. (Dave Shirlaw)
CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Von Neurath, the German Governor of Bohemia and Moravia resigns and is replaced by Heydrich.
U.S.S.R.: The Germans take Perekop in the approach to the Crimea.
MEDITERRANEAN SEA: Air reconnaissance fails both the Italians and British to find the main opposing fleets. The British are attempting another reinforcement of Malta with Operation Halberd. The Italian’s are attempting to intercept them. The battleship HMS NELSON is damaged in an Italian air attack south of Sardinia.
EAST AFRICA: The British 25th East African Brigade accepts the surrender of the Italian garrison at Wolchefit. .
CANADA: Minesweeper HMCS Chedabucto commissioned. (Dave Shirlaw)
U.S.A.: The first batch of 14 Liberty cargo ships are launched from various yards. There are another 312 Liberty ships on order. The very first, SS Patrick Henry, being at Baltimore, Maryland.
Destroyers USS Guest, De Haven, Hutchings and Welles laid down.
Destroyers USS Cowie and Knight launched. (Dave Shirlaw)
The first US Army Officer Candidate School (OCS) class graduates from Fort Benning, Georgia. General Marshall is to address the class but due to observing the Louisiana Manouvres, Brigadier General Omar Bradley takes his place. The reading focuses on leadership and the concept of the citizen soldier in a democracy. (Irwin Probstein)
“Blue Champagne” by Jimmy Dorsey And His Orchestra with vocal by Bob Eberly reaches Number 1 on the Billboard Pop Singles chart in the U.S. This song, which debuted on the charts on 2 August 1941, was charted for 14 weeks, was Number 1 for 1 week and was ranked Number 9 for the year 1941. (Jack McKillop)
ATLANTIC OCEAN: Whilst escorting convoy HG.73, Auxiliary AA (and fighter catapult) ship HMS Springbank, is torpedoed and sunk by U-201, West of Ireland at 49 50N 23 40W. (Alex Gordon)(108)
U-201 also sank SS Margareta and SS Siremalm. (Dave Shirlaw)
Cute dog and cat. Awesome Lincolns! (heh)
I am sure most Americans were studying their maps trying to find the Crimea.
Parts of the UK were in firing range of NAZI artillery on the French coast?? WHy have I never heard that before?
Heydrich’s appointment as Reichs Protector gives him, for the first time, direct access to Hitler, a prospect not necessarily pleasing to his boss, the Reichsfuehrer SS.
strange, was one singing the country version? Now that would be an experiment to try these days, have several artists release versions of the same song.
Still laughing at the reports of German parachutists on the Eastern Front. While the use of paratroopers might have made sense in the Crimean operation, none were available, none were used.
I’ve been away; is this the first mention of over 500,000 POWs claimed by the Germans at Kiev?
And dutifully relayed to the readers by our man in Berne. I guess one way to enjoy military successes is to make them up out of whole cloth.
henkster: "I’ve been away; is this the first mention of over 500,000 POWs claimed by the Germans at Kiev?"
I hope your schedule allows you to make frequent appearences here during the next crucial months.
As to the mention of 574,000 Russian POWs from the Kiev pocket, this may indeed be the first mention of a number that large. I have seen similar reports in passing but I think the numbers were more modest. Maybe someone who reads these things more carefully than I do can give a better answer on this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Halberd
“”Operation Halberd was a British naval operation in September 1941 to escort a convoy from Gibraltar to Malta.
The nine merchant ships originally sailed from Liverpool (16 Sept) and the Clyde (17 Sept) as part of convoy WS (Winston Specials) 11X, arriving Gibraltar 24 September 1941, with a close escort under the command of Rear Admiral Harold Martin Burrough. It was also accompanied by Force H, under the command of Admiral James Sommerville. This consisted of the one aircraft carrier (HMS Ark Royal), three battleships (HMS Nelson, HMS Rodney and HMS Prince of Wales) to protect the convoy against Italian surface ships. The British warships also included five cruisers and 18 destroyers.
The Italian fleet attempted to intercept the convoy on 26 September but did not make contact with it as they turned away after learning that the Royal Navy force included several battleships and an aircraft carrier. HMS Prince of Wales, followed by the slower HMS Rodney, attempted in vain to intercept the Italian force. HMS Nelson was hit in the bows by a torpedo launched from an Italian torpedo bomber on 27 September south of Sardinia and seriously damaged. On the evening of 27 September Force H turned back and sailed for Gibraltar. The merchant vessel Imperial Star carrying 8,000 tons of war supplies was hit by another aerial torpedo on the 27th and damaged. Despite being taken in tow by the destroyer HMS Oribi it had to be scuttled the following day. There was no loss of life. The convoy arrived at Malta on 28 September and delivered 85,000 tons of supplies to the island. The Italian Air Force lost 21 aircraft to RN Fleet Air Arm fighters and the AA guns of the Royal Navy.””
That’s the largest number I’ve seen yet. There have been a few reports over 100k, but this is significantly bigger. What is definite is that most of the numbers of captured Russians given are understated (as incredible as that may seem). By February of next year the Germans will have captured 3.9 million Soviet soldiers. Of that number, 2.8 million of them will already be dead having been shot, gassed, or the most common cause, starved and frozen in P.O.W. camps.
In case I miss it since I have to read these articles pretty fast of late, someone ping me if they make mention of the large Gustav gun being used in the Crimea campaign. I know it was used in the siege of Sevastopol so I’m interested in how it is reported if at all.
Don't know why you haven't heard it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-Channel_guns_in_the_Second_World_War
"3,059 alerts, 216 civilian deaths, and damage to 10,056 premises in the Dover area and much damage to shipping...On 26 September 1944, the last day of shelling, 50 shells landed, killing five people, the last of whom was 63 year-old Patience Ransley, killed by a shell from the Lindemann Battery while sheltering in the 900-foot (270 m) long "Barwick's Cave" reinforced cliff tunnel"
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