HITLER SAYS U. S. STARTED SHOOTING; NAVY STILL SEEKS MISSING MEN (11/2/41)

Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 11/2/41 | Bertram D. Hulen, Otto D. Tolischus, Hallett Abend, George Gallup

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[Homer_J_Simpson]

Free Republic University, Department of History presents World War II Plus 70 Years: Seminar and Discussion Forum
First session: September 1, 2009. Last date to add: September 2, 2015.
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[Homer_J_Simpson]

Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
Advance on Moscow – Operations, 26 August-5 December 1941
The Mediterranean Basin
The Far East and the Pacific, 1941 – Major Japanese War Objectives and Planned Opening Attacks

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Winston S. Churchill, The Grand Alliance

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Admits Kearny Hit – 2-3
Our Stand Clear, Officials Insist – 3-4
The Reich Reply to Roosevelt – 3
Hope Still Held for Sea Missing – 4
Says Reuben James Sank Two U-Boats – 5
The International Situation – 5
Towns’ Fall Cited – 5-6
Japanese Warn War Seems Sure – 6-7
Japan’s Warships Pry in U.S. Waters – 7
New U.S. Cruiser Slides Down Ways – 8
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the War – 9-10
Law Forbidding Defense Strikes Widely Favored in Gallup Poll – 10
(From The News of the Week in Review section)
Twenty News Questions – 11
The Russian Battlefront-Where Winter War Begins (map) – 12
Answers to Twenty News Questions – 13

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1941/nov41/f02nov41.htm

US Coast Guard now controlled by Navy
Sunday, November 2, 1941 www.onwar.com

In the United States... The American Coast Guard service is placed under the control of the Navy.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andrew.etherington/month/thismonth/02.htm

November 2nd, 1941

EUROPE: The RAF flies the last in a long series of sweeps against German shipping.

GERMANY: U-191 laid down. (Dave Shirlaw)

FINLAND: First evacuation of Soviet troops from Hanko. (Dave Shirlaw)

YUGOSLAVIA: Rival partisan forces - Drazha Mihailovich’s Chetniks and Tito’s fighters clash at Uzice.

U.S.A.: The US Coastguard is placed under control of the US Navy.
Corvette USS Might laid down.

Submarine USS Growler launched. (Dave Shirlaw)

ATLANTIC OCEAN: U-208 sank SS Larpool in Convoy ON-27. (Dave Shirlaw)

[abb]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Cleveland_%28CL-55%29

USS Cleveland (CL-55) was the lead ship and one of the 26 United States Navy Cleveland class light cruisers completed during or shortly after World War II. She was the second ship to be named for the city of Cleveland, Ohio.

Cleveland was commissioned in June 1942, and saw extensive service in the war, in both the Mediterranean and Pacific theaters. Like almost all of her sister ships, she was decommissioned shortly after the end of the war, and never saw active service again. Cleveland was scrapped in the early 1960s.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Cleveland was commissioned in June 1942

There must be a lot of work to do still between "sliding down the ways" and commissioning.

[abb]

http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq108.htm

Fitting Out and Commissioning

Christening and launching are the inseparable elements which endow a ship hull with her identity. Yet, just as many developmental milestones must be passed before one takes his place in society, so too must the newly-launched vessel pass such milestones before she is completed and considered ready to be designated a commissioned ship of the United States Navy. The engineering plant, weapon and electronic systems, galley, and multitudinous other equipment required to transform the new hull into an operating and habitable warship are installed and tested. The prospective commanding officer, ship’s officers, the petty officers, and seamen who will form the crew report for training and intensive familiarization with their new ship. Crew and ship must function in total unison if full potential and maximum effectiveness are to be realized. The most modern naval vessel embodying every advantage of advanced technology is only as good as those who man her.

Prior to commissioning, the new ship undergoes sea trials during which deficiencies needing correction are uncovered. The preparation and readiness time between christening-launching and commissioning may be as much as three years for a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to as brief as twenty days for a World War II landing ship. Monitor, of Civil War fame, was commissioned less than three weeks after launch.

[iowamark]

I think that there will be tremendous upgrades in radio, radar, and AAA gunnery between November 1941 and mid-1942.

[Rinnwald]

I think the most disturbing news in the entire post was the bottle of “Ohio” wine used to christen U.S.S. Cleveland.

[beebuster2000]

thanks.

[CougarGA7]

• "We are now operating in the West [the Western Front] - on the approaches to Moscow. The main thing is that Konev and Budenny are missing all of their armed forces. I received from them only a trace - a headquarters and 98 men from Budenny and a headquarters and two reserve regiments from Konev." - message from Zhukov to Zhdanov, Commissar of the Leningrad Front

[BroJoeK]

October 29, 1941

"Soviet troops reposition an antitank gun at the Battle of Moscow late in 1941.
The Germans' superiority in tactics and armor resulted in huge initial losses of Soviet troops and territory.
The main German objectives were Kiev, Leningrad, and Moscow, but the winter weather and desperate Russian resistance prevented the Germans from fully capturing any of the three cities."

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October 30, 1941

• "Four thousand Jews are murdered at Nesvizh, Belorussia."

• "A 12-year-old boy who escapes the Ninth Fort massacre of October 28 returns to the Kovno Ghetto and reveals what happened."

"Four members of Einsatzgruppe A execute three Jewish men in Kovno, Lithuania"