[Homer_J_Simpson]

You are welcome.

And now our second daily diary is available. The Etherington site has been a little behind lately, especially when the month changes.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andrew.etherington/month/thismonth/23.htm

October 23rd, 1941

UNITED KINGDOM: London: General de Gaulle asks resistance members to stop murdering German military personnel, to avoid further retaliation against the French populace.

GERMANY:

U-216 launched.

U-593 commissioned. (Dave Shirlaw)

U.S.S.R.: Stalin reorganizes his military high command. Zhukov now commands the northern half of the front with Timoshenko commanding the south half.

COMMONWEALTH OF THE PHILIPPINES: USAT Tasker H Bliss arrives in Manila with 10 more pilots for the 24th P.G. (Marc Small)

AUSTRALIA: Minesweeper HMAS Wollongong commissioned. (Dave Shirlaw)

U.S.A.: Walt Disney’s feature-length animated musical “Dumbo” opens at the Broadway Theater in New York City. (Jack McKillop)

ATLANTIC OCEAN: Tribal class Destroyer HMS Cossack is torpedoed west of Portugal at 35 36N, 10 04W by U-563 whilst escorting convoy HG.75 from Gibraltar to the UK. She sinks three days later, despite attempts to save her. (85)(Alex Gordon)

An incredibly strange event befell U-106 on this date. When the replacement watch opened the tower hatch in rough seas they found out that the entire previous tower watch of 4 men had been washed overboard. [Oberleutnant zur See Werner Grüneberg, Fähnrich zur See Herbert Von Bruchhausen, Oberbootsmannmaat Karl Heemann, Matrose Ewald Brühl]

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Walt Disney’s feature-length animated musical “Dumbo” opens at the Broadway Theater in New York City.

How can anybody think about an animated flying elephant at a time like this, with Moscow about to fall to the Nazi hordes and the war drums getting louder in the Pacific?

(Check back tomorrow for Bosley Crowther's review.)