[Homer_J_Simpson]

This is my first post created and posted using a new computer. If you notice any new problems with it let me know via freepmail and I will attempt to get them fixed. Admin Moderator has suggested I reduce the size of the front page shots and the maps so they can be viewed without scrolling sideways. I will address that shortly. I am currently running one day ahead of the calendar with thread production so I can’t take a lot of time for innovations – Homer.

War Opened on Us – 2
Senate is Bitter in Hawaii Debate – 3-4
Our Declaration of War – 3
Miss Rankin Voted ‘Present’ in Weak Voice; Clerk Had to Call Her Name a Second Time – 4
Blocked in Luzon – 5-6
The International Situation – 5
‘We Shall Do Our Best’ Gen. MacArthur States - 6
Would Open Yale Gifts to Salvage Boxes Now – 6
Japanese Report Manila Air Blows – 6
Japanese Held Off in Northern Malay – 7
British Warships List 595 Missing – 7
Prince of Wales and Repulse were Sunk by Aerial Torpedoes, Survivors Declare – 8-9
City Students Urged to Be Calm in Crisis – 9
U.S. Fliers Score – 9-10
Filipinos Extend All Resources to Us – 10
Daily Display of Flags Advocated by Cashmore – 10
Japanese Ships of These Types Victims of U.S. Bombs (photos) – 11
Casualty List Delay is Upheld by Walsh – 11
Patriotism Keynotes Democrats’ Meeting – 11
Allies Strike Back with Damaging Blows in the Pacific Arena (map) – 12
Axis to Get Lesson, Churchill Warns – 13
Nazi Withdrawal in Africa Goes On – 13-14
Service Men in London Cheer News of U.S. War Against the Axis (photo) – 14
Von Bock Relieved on Moscow Front (by C. L. Sulzberger) – 15
Picture that Illustrates Lines Below (photo) – 15
Drive for Kharkov Started by Soviet – 16
Nazis Slay Eleven in France as Foes – 16
America First Acts to End Organization – 17
U.S. Envoy Confers with Petain, Darlan – 17
Japanese Begin to Pay (by Hanson W. Baldwin) – 18
Voters Wanted Strong Action Against Japan for Years, Gallup Institute Poll Finds (by George Gallup) – 18
Spectacular Display in Skies is Due Tonight – 18
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on Fighting in Various Zones – 19-20

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1941/dec41/f12dec41.htm

Japanese landing in south Luzon
Friday, December 12, 1941 www.onwar.com

Japanese soldiers coming ashoreIn the Philippines... Kimura Detachment and 2500 men of the Japanese 16th Infantry Division, land in south Luzon at Legaspi. Air attacks continue against any remaining American aircraft.

In Malaya... Jitra is abandoned by the 11th Indian Division to advancing Japanese forces.

[RJS1950]

I find it interesting that the headlines and articles indicate that the Japanese were “checked” at all points to include the Philipines and Wake Island since both fell within a short period of time after the Times published this edition. I guess it was important to the papers at the time to help keep up american spirits and not report everything as the fault of the administration.

[henkster]

You know, in all the excitement I didn’t read where Admiral Stark gave the United States Navy it’s first orders of the war:

“Execute unrestricted air and submarine warfare against Japan.”

I guess if nobody else wants to play by the rules, there’s no reason we should either.

[CougarGA7]

• "As regards the Jewish question, the Führer has decided to sweep the floor clean. He prophesied to the Jews that if they ever caused a world war again, they would suffer extermination. this was not just mere phrasemaking. The world war is upon us; the extermination of the Jews is the necessary consequence. this question should be regarded without any sentimentality. We are here not to sympathize with the Jews but to sympathize with our German people. With the German people having once more scarified 160,000 dead in the campaign in the East, the original agents of the bloody conflict must pay with their lives." - Joseph Goebbels, diary entry.

• Planes from 24 Squadron finish arriving at Vanakanau airdrome near Rabaul. This force consists of 4 Lockheed Hudsons and 10 CA-1 Wirraways which were actually copies of the North American AT-6 training aircraft.

• Prime Minister Winston Churchill embarks on the battleship Duke of York for the United States.

• The War Cabinet in Australia cables Washington that they expect that it is likely that the garrison on New Britain will be defeated and occupied by the Japanese.