BRITISH SINK 11 SHIPS IN 2 CONVOYS, DEFYING BIGGER ITALIAN SEA FORCE (11/10/41)

Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 11/10/41 | David Anderson, Daniel T. Brigham, C.L. Sulzberger

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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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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

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John Toland, The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945

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Gordon W. Prange, At Dawn We Slept

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Winston S. Churchill, The Grand Alliance

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Victors Unharmed – 2-3
Gap in Line Closed – 3-4
The International Situation – 3
Nazis Say Yalta Has Been Seized – 4
Stalin Hopes to Arrange Meeting with Roosevelt – 4
Essen is Pounded by R.A.F. Raiders – 6
Mrs. Agnew’s Knitting is Another Victim of Her Husband’s Mediterranean Victory – 6
Southern Italians ‘Tough’ in Raids, Mussolini Says – 6
Czechs Executed for Vienna Arson – 7-8
Litvinoff’s Mission Vital War Factor – 8
Schiller’s ‘Wilhelm Tell’ is Under Ban in Germany – 8
Reich Catholic Pulpits Uphold War on Soviet – 8
Berlin Plans Sale of Russian Plants – 9
The Texts of the Day’s War Communiques – 10-11
Scuttled Nazi Ship is Brought to the Surface (photo) – 11
British Blitz Sound Cure Tried in St. Louis, but Records Terrify a Medical Audience – 11

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http://uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/4008.html

9 Nov 1941
The British Force K, made up of the British light cruisers HMS Aurora (Capt. W.G. Agnew, RN) and HMS Penelope (Capt. A.D. Nicholl, RN) and the British destroyers HMS Lance (Lt.Cdr. R.W.F. Northcott, RN) and HMS Lively (Lt.Cdr. W.F.E. Hussey, DSC, RN), intercept an Italian convoy about 130 nautical south-west off Calabria in approximate position 37º08’N, 18º09’E. The Italian convoy is bound from Naples to Tripoli.

In the resulting battle the Italian destroyer Fulmine is sunk as well as the German transports Duisburg (7389 GRT) and San Marco (3113 GRT), the Italian transports Maria (6339 GRT), Sagitta (5153 GRT) and Rina Corrado (5180 GRT), and the Italian Conte di Misurata (5014 GRT) and Minatitlan (7599 GRT). The Italian destroyers Grecale and Euro are damaged. (see map)

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http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1941/nov41/f10nov41.htm

Churchill willing to fight Japan too
Monday, November 10, 1941 www.onwar.com

British Prime Minister ChurchillIn London... British Prime Minister Winston Churchill announces that “should the United States become involved in a war with Japan, a British declaration of war will follow within the hour.”

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btw. Keens is still there, as it has been since 1885. pretty good steaks too.

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By all accounts the M3 tank was a bust. a couple thousand were fobbed off on the Brits, but as soon as the Sherman was available, it was pulled.

high silhouette and dysfunctional offset sponson main gun apparently doomed itGuy smoking the Camels looks happy, but who knew back then.

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We need to get that contest added back in to the State Fair. Wonder if Al Sharpton would be our celebrity spokesman.

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Number built 6,258

It was a lousy design, and inferior to Russian and German armor. It was better than contemporary British tanks in North Africa, and remained competitive with the Japanese armor it faced later in the war.

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That one sure took me by surprise.

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http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andrew.etherington/month/thismonth/10.htm

November 10th, 1941

UNITED KINGDOM: Churchill announces in a speech: “... should the United States become involved in a war with Japan, a British declaration of war will follow within the hour.”

Destroyer HMS Troubridge laid down. (Dave Shirlaw)

GERMANY: U-528 laid down. (Dave Shirlaw)

FINLAND: The Finnish troops of Group O (Maj. Gen. Woldemar Oinonen) cut the Murmansk railway at Perälahti. This doesn’t seriously hinder the Soviet supply flow, however; Soviets had already constructed a railway further east. (Mikko Härmeinen)

U.S.S.R.: Soviet submarine losses:

M-34 Black Sea Fleet Constanta area. (mined)

M-59 of the Black Sea Fleet in the Sulina area.

S-34 Black Sea Fleet off Emine Cape (mined in Burgas Bay) (Mike Yared)(146 and 147)

CANADA: Calgary: LAC Karl Mander Gravell (b.1922), RCAF, crashed and tried, despite terrible burns and the loss of an eye, to save his pilot. He later died. (George Cross)

A troop convoy designated WS-124 sails from Halifax, consisting mainly of U.S. transports, with a U.S. escort as far as South Africa. Among the transports are the three premier liners of the American merchant marine (America, Manhattan and Washington), now in Navy service as USS West Point, Wakefield and Mount Vernon, respectively. The convoy is initially destined for Basra. (Keith Allen)

U.S.A.: Submarine USS Tunny laid down. (Dave Shirlaw)

ATLANTIC OCEAN:
In the North Atlantic, U-109 met the Silva Plana, a German capture, and escorted it to safe French waters.

U-752 was slightly damaged when it struck bottom in the Arctic Sea. (Dave Shirlaw)