1941 - THE YEAR IN REVIEW

Homer_J_Simpson | 01/01/2012 | CougarGA7

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1941 – THE YEAR IN REVIEW

"Today begins the last great decisive battle of the year. In it we will destroy the enemy and, in so doing, England, the instigator of this whole war... We are thus lifting from Germany and Europe the danger that has hovered over the continent ever since the times of the Huns and later the Mongol invasion" – Adolf Hitler, 2 October 1941₁

Often when someone thinks of 1941, they almost immediately think of the attack on Pearl Harbor and America’s entrance into the Second World War. The day that would live in “infamy” would prove to make a lasting impression on history. Yet, the attack on Pearl Harbor represents only a small and very late piece of the year that was 1941. Its tardy but large impact is reminiscent of the 1939 December introduction of Gone with the Wind which took the fan fare from the other blockbusters of that year like The Wizard of Oz and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. Like all of these movies, the events of 1941 were both profound and lasting. For 1941 was the hidden turning point of World War II. It couldn’t be seen at the time, but the series of events that unfolded that year set the stage both politically and historically for the rest of the war. For the Axis powers, it was a year of great conquest, but at the same time it was the year of the critical mistakes that would mark the inevitability of their demise. For the Allies, it was the year that forged the bonds that would create an uneasy, but effective alliance against the Axis powers that would be irresistible.

To Germany, 1941 was the year of even greater conquest than that of 1940. With the fall of France and the perceived isolation of the United Kingdom, Hitler was free to shift his focus back to the east and the hated Bolsheviks. But first he would have to deal with the pot that had been stirred by his southern ally, Italy the year before. Mussolini had initially intended to make short work of Greece when he invaded it in 1940, but inferior Italian troops combined with superior Greek use of artillery had ground the battle in the Balkans to a standstill. This problem was multiplied when on March 27^th, a British backed coup in neighboring Yugoslavia shook up the nice list of Balkan alliances that were designed to shore up his southern flank in eastern Europe.₂ In dealing with Yugoslavia and Greece, the Nazis only amplified the perception of invincibility. Once again, the opposing countries fell in very short order leaving the Soviet Union ripe to become the next apple to be picked from the European tree.

Operation BARBAROSSA, the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, was to be the crowning achievement in Hitler’s series of conquests. Hitler believed that if he could quickly dispatch the Soviets as he had all the other foes he came up against with his mighty Wehrmacht that even Britain, protected from the Germany armies by the English Channel and the R.A.F., would see the hopelessness of their situation and sue for peace.₃ Initially, this would seem to have been the likely outcome. On the surface it appeared that once again, the Nazi juggernaut was going to roll up another victim. So assured were onlookers that the U.S.S.R. was about to become Hitler’s next conquest that even Churchill lamented, “I am afraid Moscow is a gone coon.”₄

Unknown to outsiders at the time, Hitler had finally bitten off more than he could chew. The logistics of invading a country as large as the Soviet Union had escaped the former corporal and while it is true that large numbers of Soviet troops were captured and killed, even larger numbers were able to escape German encirclements slipping through the gaps that were left by the marching infantry’s inability to keep up with the advancing panzer groups.₅ These rear troops were almost immediately in danger as a rapidly developing partisan movement made up of conquered citizens and cut off Soviet troops began wreaking havoc behind the German lines. One infantry lieutenant characterized the situation in a letter he wrote from the front:

"We cannot move forward, everywhere there are small battles. Above all at night...Very close to me four officers have fallen. They will soon be buried together with other comrades in the town [Ozgmowicz]. Under no circumstances can this continue!!" - Lieutenant Georg Kreuter, 4th Army₆

This fatal misstep by Hitler would become the beginning of the end for the 1000 year Reich, and the Nazi Party. On the other side of the world, another Axis partner was also making its moves which would lead it to both its ultimate apex of power as well and its eventual doom. Japan had been attempting to exert its will in Asia ever since the Meiji Restoration of 1868 and began to annex neighboring islands like the Kuriles in 1875, and Okinawa in 1879; this would ultimately lead to its first conflict with China in 1894 as Japan wrestled Korea from China patronage to make the peninsula, Japan’s own vassal state.₇ As 1941 opened, Japan had come much further down the road to placing all of Asia under the pagoda of the rising sun. Conquests in China had progressed leaving Japan in control of Manchuria as well as all the significant ports on the Chinese coast. As the aggression in Asia increased by the Japanese, so did the diplomatic pressure brought to bear by the United States.

In July Japan commenced what would be the complete occupation of Indochina. This would lead to the most severe sanctions by the United States to date. In response to this incursion, the U.S. froze all Japanese assets as well as enacting a complete embargo on oil products to Japan. So severe were these new restrictions that Japanese vessels that were already in American ports would need to acquire special licensing just to purchase the necessary food and fuel to return to Japan.₈ For Japan, this was a watershed moment in which they would have to decide whether they acquiesce to the American demands on Asia, thus abandoning their spheres of influence, or strike out for the resources they were now denied.

Japan’s decision would set the stage for the “dastardly” attack on the U.S. Fleet and Army Air Corp on Oahu and pit more than just American industry against the Axis, but its men at arms as well. Just like Hitler had done earlier in the year, Japan has perhaps this time knowingly, bitten off more than they would be able to chew. While the year finished out with nothing but bad news for the Allies as possessions in the Pacific either fell or appeared to be destined to do so, it would only be a short time before the impossibility of Japan’s situation would become apparent. But that of course is a story for next year.

Once again, Homer_J_Simpson has captured the events of the year as they were seen by the public through the reporting of the New York Times. He has supplemented these daily events with historical accountings of the events allow us readers to capture the perspective of how these events played out in comparison to how they were presented to the common man. This is the watershed point for this project as well since we are now marking the halfway point in this most impressive endeavor. For four years now Homer has brought the events of the Second World War to life. He has brought us war news as well as updates in the cultural aspects of the time with movie reviews, opinion pieces, and sports. With four year to go, we can all look forward to more of the most comprehensive day by day account of World War II on the internet.

END NOTES

1. David Glantz, Before Stalingrad: Barbarossa – Hitler’s Invasion of Russia, 1941, (Stroud, Gloucestershire: Tempus Publishing Limited, 2003), 140.
2. Gerhard L. Weinberg, A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II, 2^nd edition, (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008), 220.
3. David Stahel, Operation Barbarossa and Germany’s Defeat in the East, (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009), 71.
4. Max Hastings, Winston’s War, Churchill 1940-1945, (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009), 145-146.
5. Stahel, 193.
6. Ibid, 164.
7. Geoffrey Wawro, Warfare and Society in Europe 1792-1914, (New York: Routledge, 2000), 149.
8. Sumner Wells, “Memorandum by the Acting Secretary of State, July 28, 1941”, Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Japan: 1931-1941, Volume II, (Washington D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1943), 537-538.

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1941

January

• Hitler Sees Victory in 1941, Disavows World Conquest – Jan 1

• Stanford Overcomes Nebraska before 90,000 in Rose Bowl; Georgetown Loses – Jan 2

• Reserve Board Asks Fiscal Reform to Avoid Inflation in Defense Effort – Jan 2

• Eire Raided Four Times, Dublin Hit; Nazi Plane Corps is Sent to Italy – Jan 3

• British Open Assault on Bardia, Capture 5,000, Fourth of Garrison – Jan 4

• British Capture 3,000 More at Bardia as Fleet Helps to Shatter Defenses – Jan 5

• Bardia Falls to British Assault; 25,000 Troops, 6 Generals Seized – Jan 6

• Roosevelt Asks All-Out Aid to Democracies; British Moving on Tobruk – Jan 7

• British Capture Airport of Tobruk; Greek Destroyers Bombard Valona – Jan 8

• Movie Reviews: Kitty Foyle, The Invisible Woman, Texas Rangers Ride Again – Jan 9

• 1942 Defense Budget $17,485,528,049; British Encircling Tobruk, Reinforcing for an Attack – Jan 9

• Congress Gets Bill Today to Give Roosevelt Power for ‘All Out’ Anti-Axis Aid – Jan 10

• Bill Gives President Unlimited Power to Lend War Equipment and Resources – Jan 11

• Congress Leaders Willing to Study Aid-Bill Changes but Want Main Objectives – Jan 12

• Willkie Endorses ‘All-Out’ Aid Bill with Time Limit on President’s Power – Jan 13

• House Gets Bill to Limit Aid to British for 2-Year Term; Administration Wins Test – Jan 14

• House Hearings on War Aid to Open with Cabinet Views; President Angered by Critic – Jan 15

• Hull Urges Fullest Aid to Britain Lest We Meet the Fate of Norway – Jan 16

• Movie Reviews: Flight Command, Convoy, She Couldn’t Say No – Jan 17

• Stimson Sees Danger of Invasion if British Navy be Beaten or Taken – Jan 17

• Churchill Calls for U.S. Weapons, Not Big Overseas Armies, in 1941 – Jan 18

• Knudsen Urges Full Aid to Britain – Jan 19

• Roosevelt has a Talk with Willkie and Gives Him Letter to Churchill – Jan 20

• Roosevelt Inaugurated for the Third Time; British Invade Eritrea; Dictators Set Course – Jan 21

• British Smash Tobruk Defenses – Jan 22

• Tobruk Captured by Australians – Jan 23

• Lindbergh Sees Stalemate, So Urges Negotiated Peace; 14,000 Captured at Tobruk – Jan 24

• Movie Review: High Sierra – Jan 25

• Roosevelt Meets Halifax in Bay as he Arrives on New Battleship – Jan 25

• Halifax Asks ‘Quick’ Help after Hour Talk with Hull; British Patrols at Derna – Jan 26

• British Break Line of Foe in Eritrea; Capture Railhead – Jan 27

• Limitations on Aid Bill are Forecast as Leaders Confer with President – Jan 28

• Britain Must Quit Unless We Aid, Morgenthau Tells Senate Group – Jan 29

• End of Lease-Lend Bill in June, 1943, Voted by House Committee Majority – Jan 30

• Hitler Tells Us Not to Interfere; Will Torpedo Aid Ships, He Says – Jan 31

February

• Knox Tells Nazi Plan to Attack Britain with New Plane and Gas – Feb 1

• Aid Bill Expected to Pass in House by 50-Vote Margin; Stiffer Senate Fight Seen – Feb 2

• British Pursue Foe Deep in Eritrea; R.A.F. Blasts Nazi Channel Bases – Feb 3

• Nazis Force Vichy to Restore Laval; British Pound 4 East African Fronts – Feb 4

• ’Top Limit’ Lease-Lend Aid is Proposed by Wadsworth – Feb 5

• R.A.F. Blasts Invasion Ports, Fights Nazis over Channel; Italians on Run, Says British – Feb 6

• Movie Reviews: Western Union, The Face behind the Mask, Arizona – Feb 7

• House Provides Way to End War Aid; Lindbergh Insists Britain Can’t Win – Feb 7

• British Take Bengazi, Trap Thousands; Crush Foe’s Effort to Break Through – Feb 8

• House Votes Lease-Lend Bill, 260-165; Defeats Moves to Limit Future Aid – Feb 9

• British Warships Attack Genoa; Churchill Confident of Victory with U.S. Materiel – Feb 10

• British End Relations with Rumania; Prepare to Block Nazi Balkan Move – Feb 11

• Send Britain Bombers, More Destroyers, Willkie Urges; R.A.F. in Wide Attack – Feb 12

• Senators Move to Clarify Aid Bill; Knox Says U.S. Needs its Destroyers – Feb 13

• Bulgaria to Accept Nazi Occupation – Feb 14

• Hitler Gives Yugoslavs His Terms; No Accord Reached, Belgrade Hears – Feb 15

• British Capture Somali Port; Admit ‘Chute’ Raid in Italy – Feb 16

• Britain is Mining Zone off Singapore; Italians Lose Last Sudan Foothold – Feb 17

• Japan Offers to Mediate to End War, Suggest We Restrict Our Activities – Feb 18

• Big Australian Force at Singapore; U.S. Urges Deeds, Not Words, on Japan – Feb 19

• House Votes to Fortify Guam Base; Japan Strongly Criticized in Debate – Feb 20

• Movie Reviews: Tobacco Road, Go West, Mr. and Mrs. Smith – Feb 21

• U.S. to Speed War Planes to Pacific; Japan is Reporting Warning Britain – Feb 21

• Bulgarian Tension Mounts as German Entry is Feared – Feb 22

• Nazi Staff Officers Move into Sofia as Bulgar Students Protest Entry – Feb 23

• Mussoini Puts Faith in Nazi Might; Admits Defeats, Gibes at U.S. Fears – Feb 24

• Hitler Threatens Fierce U-Boat War; Matsuoka Asks ‘Oceania’ for Japan – Feb 25

• Movie Review: The Lady Eve – Feb 26

• Roosevelt Bars Aid Curbs; No Peace Talks Till Victory – Feb 26

• Roosevelt Moves to Transfer Arms to Britain from Arsenals and Yards – Feb 27

• British and Turk Report Accord; 7 Dead, 9 Injured in Crash of Plane outside Atlanta – Feb 28

March

• Bulgaria to Join the Axis Today – Mar 1

• Nazi Troops Occupy Sofia and Key Bases as Bulgaria Enters Alliance with Axis – Mar 2

• Nazis in Bulgaria Reach Greek Line – Mar 3

• Soviet Reproves Bulgaria on Nazis – Mar 4

• Hitler Mission Takes Note to Turks – Mar 5

• Movie Reviews: Andy Hardy’s Private Secretary, Ellery Queen’s Penthouse Mystery – Mar 7

• U.S. Bids Italy Close Two Consulates and Curbs Movement of Aides Here – Mar 7

• Senate Defeats Lease-Lend Curbs, Moves toward Final Vote on Bill – Mar 8

• Senate Passes Aid-to-Britain Bill 60 to 31; Yugoslavia Reaches Compromise with Hitler – Mar 9

• Yugoslav-Soviet Amity Pact to Accompany Axis Tie-Up; British Sink Italian Raider – Mar 10

• Walkout Halts 1,305 Buses, No Settlement is in Sight; Throngs Jam Subways, Cabs – Mar 11

• President Signs, Starts War Aid; British Sea Losses Rise Sharply – Mar 12

• Movie Review: Meet John Doe – Mar 13

• Washington Speeding Aid to Britain; Commons Cheer ‘New Magna Carta’ – Mar 13

• R.A.F. Uses New Type of Planes in Raids; Nazis Blast Liverpool and Glasgow – Mar 14

• R.A.F. Pounds Hamburg, Bomb Ships; Nazis Again Batter Glasgow Area – Mar 15

• Roosevelt Asks ‘All Out Effort’ by Business and Labor on Arms – Mar 16

• Hitler Hold No Aid Can Save Britain; Says He Now Will Ease Italy’s Load – Mar 17

• Yugoslav-Turkish Talks Reported on Army Move if Nazis Enter Greece – Mar 18

• Army to Replace Strikers on Wright Air Field Work Unless Dispute Ends Today – Mar 19

• House Votes 7 Billion Fund, 337 to 55, Without a Change – Mar 20

• Movie Review: Rage in Heaven – Mar 21

• Yugoslav Cabinet Weights Nazi Terms; Waves of Planes Hammer Plymouth – Mar 21

• Movie Review: The Sea Wolf – Mar 22

• Army and Navy Consider Taking over Allis-Chalmers If Strike Continues – Mar 22

• Nazi Battleships Report 22 Sinkings; Yugoslav Anger Rises at Nazi Pact – Mar 23

• Anti-Nazi Rallies Sweep Yugoslavia as Regime Fails to Fill the Cabinet – Mar 24

• C.I.O. Starts Strike at Bethlehem, Fights Harvester Plant Reopening – Mar 25

• State Police Rout 1,000 Pickets in Sharp Disorders at Bethlehem – Mar 26

• Movie Reviews: I Wanted Wings, A Man Betrayed, Nice Girl – Mar 27

• Knox and Knudsen Order Reopening at Once of Allis-Chalmers Plant – Mar 27

• Army Overthrows Pro-Axis Yugoslav Regime; 1,200,000 in Arms; Nazis Ask Explanation – Mar 28

• Yugoslavs Insist on Neutrality, Will Respect All ‘Open’ Treaties – Mar 29

• British Batter an Italian Fleet, Damage a Battleship, Cruisers – Mar 30

• U.S. Seize 28 Italian, 2 Nazi, 35 Danish Ships; London Reports 5 Fascist War Vessels Sunk – Mar 31

April

• Axis Protests Seizure of Ships – Apr 1

• Rome Efforts to Curb Nazis Failing as Berlin Rages at Yugoslav ‘Terror’ – Apr 2

• Ford Plant Closed in Move for Mediation; Belgrade Sees War at Hand as Rome Efforts Collapse – Apr 3

• Movie Review: The Hamilton Woman – Apr 4

• U.S. Asks Recall of Italian Attache in Ship Sabotage; Protests Rejected – Apr 4

• Nazis Mass on All Yugoslav Borders as Belgrade Regime Plays for Time – Apr 5

• Germans Invade Yugoslavia and Greece; Hitler Orders War, Blaming the British – Apr 6

• Nazis Advance in Yugoslavia, Bomb Belgrade; Greeks Resisting Strongly in Struma Valley – Apr 7

• Yugoslavs Capture Scutari in Albania; Nazis Reach Sea on Turco-Greek Border – Apr 8

• Germans Near Salonika, Trap Greek Force; Drive Across South Yugoslavia to Skoplje – Apr 9

• Movie Review: Road to Zanzibar – Apr 10

• Salonika Falls, But Trapped Greeks Fight On – Apr 10

• U.S. to Protect Greenland, Set Up Bases There; British, Greeks Await Nazis at Mt. Olympus – Apr 11

• Movie Review: The Great Lie, Flying Wild – Apr 12

• Nazis Attack Anglo-Greek Flank at Florina, Join Italian Lines, Report Yugoslavs Routed – Apr 12

• Greeks Beat Back German Panzer Assault – Apr 13

• Russia and Japan Sign a Neutrality Treaty; Germans Capture Bardia, Push into Egypt – Apr 14

• British Retire to New Greek Line; Axis Forces Take Town in Egypt – Apr 15

• Giants’ 4 in 8th Beat Dodgers in Ebbets Field Opener; Athletics Down Yanks – Apr 16

• Allies Hold on New Greek Lines after Nazi Advance of 50 Miles; Yugoslavs Recapture Towns – Apr 16

• British Sink Eight-Ship Italian Convoy; Nazis Drive Deep into Anglo-Greek Front – Apr 17

• Germans Drive Greeks Back in Heavy Battling; Reich Announces Yugoslav Army Capitulates – Apr 18

• Allies Hold Shorter Greek Line, With Nazi Pressure Increasing – Apr 19

• Nazis Claim Olympus and Larissa; London Suffers Brief Heavy Raid – Apr 20

• U.S., Canada Join for War Output; Nazis Gain on Plains of Thessaly – Apr 21

• Nazis Report Sinking Five Ships Evacuating British from Greece – Apr 22

• Dodgers, Behind Casey, Vanquish Giants and Take Series – Apr 23

• King Leaves Athens for Crete; One Greek Army Quits Struggle; Nazis Driving on Thermopylae – Apr 23

• British and Greeks Resist North of Athens; Nazi Planes Bomb Ports to Block Evacuation – Apr 24

• Movie Review: Ziegfeld Girl – Apr 25

• Hull Declares ‘Ways Must be Found’ to get Quick, Full Aid to Britain – Apr 25

• Nazis near Athens, British Leave; Vast Equipment Reported Save – Apr 26

• Germans Troops Entering Athens; Defenders Fight Hard to the Last – Apr 27

• Churchill See Victory with U.S. Aid; Axis Gains in Egypt – Apr 28

• B.E.F. in Greece Getting Out; Axis Suez Drive Expected – Apr 29

• Dodgers Beat Reds, But Share Lead with Cards, Who Halt Giants; Yanks Lose – Apr 30

• Roosevelt Plans Patrols in War Zones or Anywhere Necessary for Our Defense – Apr 30

May

• 80% of B.E.F. out of Greece; 48,000 Get Away under Fire, 5,000 Captured, Says Berlin – May 1

• Movie Review: Citizen Kane – May 2

• Washington Shifts Fifty Oil Tankers to British Service – May 2

• Roosevelt Asks 24-Hour, 7-Day Week for Machines in Defense Production – May 3

• 26 American Ships Reported at Suez Loaded with Materiel for British – May 4

• U.S. ‘Ever Ready to Fight Again’ for Democracy, Roosevelt Says – May 5

• President Orders Huge Bomber Fleet to Give Democracies Command of Air – May 6

• Herman’s Four Hits in Dodger Debut Help Defeat the Pirates – May 7

• Stimson Calls for Use of Navy to Escort Supplies to Britain – May 7

• House Votes 266-120 to Seize Ships after Isolationist Attack Stimson – May 8

• Nazi Bombers Swarm over Britain, 50 Planes Are Downed in 30 Hours – May 9

• 300 Planes Smash at German Ports, Set Big Fires in Hamburg and Bremen – May 10

• British Shoot Down 33 Nazi Bombers as Hundreds of Them Batter London – May 11

• Bombs Wreck Commons Chamber, Unroof Abbey, Hit British Museum – May 12

• Hess, Deserting Hitler, Flies to Scotland; Berlin Reported Him Missing and Insane – May 13

• Indians Beat Yanks on Boudreau’s Homer in 10th; Cards Tops Giants – May 14

• Churchill to Face Hess for Talk – May 14

• Britain Needs Bombers, Tanks, Ships, Forrestal Reports to Roosevelt – May 15

• Movie Review: The Devil and Miss Jones – May 16

• Roosevelt Cautions Vichy, Appeals to People; German Planes Enter Syria to Assist Iraq – May 16

• Roosevelt Defies Nazi Blockade, Cites Our Two Undeclared Wars – May 17

• German Planes Bomb British in Iraq; R.A.F. Hits Back, Raids Syrian Bases – May 18

• Hull Defines Our Post-War Program, Wants Raw Materials, Trade for All – May 19

• Zamzam ‘Presumed Lost,’ London Says; 138 Americans Aboard, 35 Children – May 20

• Yankees Beat Browns in Ninth Inning of Weird Game; Pirates Defeat Giants – May 21

• Gliders Drop Germans on Crete; British Report Attack Crushed; All on Zamzam Safe in France – May 21

• Germans Pour into Crete by Air, Bomb British Warships Near By – May 22

• Movie Reviews: Penny Serenade, Blood and Sand – May 23

• Nazis Win Crete Foothold, R.A.F. Leaves; Berlin Reports British Warships Sunk – May 23

• Nazis Blasted from 2 Cretan Towns; Still Arrive by Air, 5,000 Drown in Sea – May 24

• New Nazi Battleship Bismarck Sink the Hood in North Atlantic Duel; British Give Chase – May 25

• Raeder Says Convoys Mean ‘Shooting’; British Claim Hit in Bismarck Chase – May 26

• British Fleet Engages Bismarck, Hit in Chase by Aerial Torpedo – May 27

• Giants Take Night Game; Dodgers Blank Phils; Yanks Win – May 28

• Roosevelt Proclaims Unlimited Emergency; Bismarck Sunk, Pounded by Fleet and Planes – May 28

• Roosevelt Does Not Plan Convoys or Change in the Neutrality Laws – May 29

• Nazis Get Suda Bay and Candia, Crete; Italians Land; British Plan Retreat – May 30

• Nazis Report Capture of Crete Near; British at Outskirts of Iraqi Capital – May 31

June

• Iraqis Bow to British, Sign Armistice; Nazis Mopping up Crete, Berlin Says – Jun 1

• British Evacuate 15,000 from Crete, But Admit ‘Severe’ Losses There – Jun 2

• Hitler and Mussolini Chart War Moves in 5-Hour Talk – Jun 3

• Dodgers Triumph and Regain Tie for Lead; Giants Victors – Jun 4

• Weygand Consults with Vichy Cabinet as War Moves East – Jun 4

• British Bomb Beirut, Syria is Tense – Jun 5

• Hull Warns Vichy, Hints at Break; French Planes Raid Trans-Jordan – Jun 6

• U.S. Plans to Take Over N.A. Aviation Unless California Strike Ends Soon – Jun 7

• Free French, British Entering Syria; Move Fellows Nazi Infiltration – Jun 8

• Army Moving to N.A. Aviation Plant as Strike Rally Bars Return to Jobs – Jun 9

• Army Opens Struck Aviation Plant, Orders Strikers Reviewed for Draft – Jun 10

• Dodgers Turn Black Pirates; Giants Bow; Yanks Triumph, Gain Second Place – Jun 11

• Aluminum Strike Settled by Board, Subject to Ratification by the Union – Jun 11

• Allies Spear Deep into East Syria; Nazi Pressure on Soviet is Reported – Jun 12

• Nazis ‘Undoubtedly’ Sank Robin Moor, Aware She was U.S. Ship, Consul Says – Jun 13

• Nazis, Defiant, Threaten New Sinkings – Jun 14

• Roosevelt Freezes Axis Assets; Early German-Soviet Crisis Seen – Jun 15

• Allies Take Saida, Beirut Evacuated; Key to Damascus Also Falls – Jun 16

• U.S. Orders All Nazi Consulates Closed; British Open Heavy Offensive in Libya – Jun 17

• White Sox Snap Yankees’ String at Eight Triumphs; Dodgers and Giants Win – Jun 18

• Germans to be Held Here Pending Further Decision; British Fight Ahead in Libya – Jun 18

• Turks and Nazis Sign Amity Pact; German-Soviet Showdown Near – Jun 19

• Reich and Italy Expel U.S. Consuls; German-Soviet Tension is Unabated – Jun 20

• Won’t Yield Seas, Roosevelt Says, Branding Germany as an Outlaw – Jun 21

• Hitler Begins War on Russia, With Armies on March from Arctic to the Black Sea – Jun 22

• BREAKING – WINSTON CHURCHILL SPEAKS ON THE NAZI ATTACK OF THE SOVIET UNION – Jun 22

• Smashing Air Attacks on Six Russian Cities, Clashes on Wide Front Open Nazi-Soviet War – Jun 23

• Nazis Take Brest-Litovsk, Gain in South; Soviet Claims 5,000 Prisoners, 300 Tanks – Jun 24

• Yanks Crush Browns, Cut Indians’ Lead to One Game; Dodgers and Giants Win – Jun 25

• Turks Mass on Syrian Line, Menacing French; Soviet Fliers Blast Warsaw and Constanta – Jun 25

• Russians Counter Tank Attacks; U.S. Waives Neutrality for Soviet – Jun 26

• Nazis within Fifty Miles of Minsk After Smash at Russians’ Center – Jun 27

• Russians Admit Armies Retreat to Prepared Defensive Positions – Jun 28

• 4,000 Red-Nazi Tanks Battle at Luck; Moscow Reports Minsk Drive Slowed – Jun 29

• Germans Report They Have Passed Minsk; Claim 4,107 Red Planes, 2,233 Tanks to Date – Jun 30

July

• Russians Battle Nazi Drive Behind Minsk; Berlin Claims City’s Capture; Lwow Falls – Jul 1

• DiMaggio Ties Record as Yanks Take Before 52,832 – Jul 2

• Nazis Drive Back Russians East of Minsk, Capture Riga and Advance Beyond Lwow – Jul 2

• Movie Review: Sergeant York – Jul 3

• Stalin, on Radio, Rallies the Soviet; He Insists Hitler Will Be Crushed – Jul 3

• Right to Let Trainees Serve Abroad Asked by the Army; Germans Gain in Baltic Area – Jul 4

• Roosevelt Urges Us to Pledge Lives as Well as Work to Human Freedom – Jul 5

• Russians Slow Main German Drive, Hurl Enemy Back Near Latvian Border – Jul 6

• Russians Report Counter-Attacks with Foe on Defensive in One Area – Jul 7

• U.S. Occupies Iceland to Thwart Nazi Peril, Navy to Clear Sea That Far For British Aid – Jul 8

• American League’s 4-Run Rally in Ninth Tops National in All-Star Contest – Jul 9

• Soviet Reports a German Rout in Bessarabia; Nazis Stress Heavy Fighting, Red ‘Trickery’ – Jul 9

• Nazis Pound 3 Sectors, Advance in Baltic Area; Russians Say Lines Hold – Jul 10

• Senate Asked to Keep Men in Service and to Let Army Be Sent Overseas – Jul 11

• Navy Not Attacking Nazis, Knox Says, But Depth Bomb as a Warning is Indicated – Jul 12

• Germany Claims the Stalin Line is Broken ‘At Decisive Points,’ Gains Near Leningrad – Jul 13

• Britain and Russia Sign Mutual Aid Accord; Soviet Reports Nazis Held in Great Battles – Jul 14

• Move for Service Overseas is Shelved to Avert Fight on Extension of Army Term – Jul 15

• 33,247 See Dodgers Take Two; DiMaggio Streak Reaches 55 as Yanks Triumph – Jul 16

• Germans Smash Nearer to Leningrad, But Soviet Reports Column Crushed – Jul 16

• Nazis Approach Smolensk on Road to Moscow, Move Toward Leningrad, Checked Near Kiev – Jul 17

• Germans Report Fall of Smolensk, But Russians Dent Foe’s Line There – Jul 18

• Russians Admit Forces Withdraw at Smolensk, But Counter-Attack – Jul 19

• Germans Claim Gains on Wide Front, Reported 200 Miles From Moscow – Jul 20

• Russians Report Nazi Drives Halted in Four Sectors with Heavy Losses – Jul 21

• Roosevelt Asks That Trainees Be Retained; Russians Report Lines are Holding Firmly – Jul 22

• Yanks Beat Feller; Dodgers Lose, Share Lead with Cards – Jul 23

• U.S. Plans Economic Curbs on Japan to Counter Any Indo-China Invasion – Jul 23

• Vichy Yielding to Japanese Demand for Bases in Southern Indo-China – Jul 24

• Roosevelt Hints at Oil Curb on Japan as Welles Condemns Her ‘Aggression’ – Jul 25

• Movie Review: The Bride Came C.O.D. – Jul 26

• U.S. and Britain Freeze Japanese Assets; Oil Shipments and Silk Imports Halted – Jul 26

• Roosevelt Puts Filipino Forces in U.S. Army as Japan Freezes American, British Funds – Jul 27

• Russians Inflict Heavy Casualties as Germans Attack in Two Sectors – Jul 28

• Russians Report Offensive is Breaking German Drives; Dutch to Limit Oil to Japan – Jul 29

• Dodgers Play 12-Inning Tie with Cards; Yanks, Giants Bow – Jul 30

• Germans Dislodged Near Smolensk and in the Ukraine, Russians Report – Jul 30

• Roosevelt Asks for Control over Price and Rent Rises to Avert Inflation Danger – Jul 31

August

• 7 P.M. Curfew on Gasoline Sales to be Imposed on Eastern Seaboard – Aug 1

• U.S. Aviation Fuel is Barred to Japan as Roosevelt Order Curbs Exports – Aug 2

• U.S. Denounces Vichy on Indo-China; 6 Nazi Divisions Broken, Soviet Says – Aug 3

• Nazis Blocked in New Drive for Kiev, Moscow Reports; Fires Set in Berlin by R.A.F. – Aug 4

• House Votes Huge Tax Bill, Joint Return is Rejected; Nazis Again Driving on Kiev – Aug 5

• Yankees Lose in Washington as Russo is Pounded at Start; Cubs Halt Cards – Aug 6

• Meeting of Churchill and Roosevelt on President’s Cruise is Reported – Aug 6

• U.S. and Britain Warn Japan on Thailand; Germans Report Reds’ Losses Near 4,000,000 – Aug 7

• Movie Reviews: Here Comes Mr. Jordan, Hold that Ghost, Highway West – Aug 8

• Russians Repulse German Assaults; Put Losses at 600,000, Foe’s 1,500,000 – Aug 8

• Broader Income Tax Base in ‘All-Out’ Revenue Plan is Urged by Morgenthau – Aug 9

• Germans are Forcing Russians Back in the Biggest Battles of their War – Aug 10

• Russians Report Invader Checked in Most Sectors – Aug 11

• Curb on Installment Buying is Authorized by Roosevelt; Nazis Advance in Ukraine – Aug 12

• Dodgers Drop Two to Giants, Fall 1 ½ Games Behind Cards – Aug 13

• Movie Review: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Aug 13

• House for 2 ½ Years Army Service by One Vote; Nazis Reported at Black Sea, Odessa Cut Off – Aug 13

• Roosevelt-Churchill Decisions Are Expected in Announcements to be Made This Morning – Aug 14

• BREAKING – ANNOUNCEMENT OF ROOSEVELT-CHURCHILL AGREEMENT: 8 POINT PLAN – Aug 14

• Roosevelt, Churchill Draft 8 Peace Aims, Pledging Destruction of Nazi Tyranny – Aug 15

• U.S., Britain and Soviet to Confer in Moscow on Speeding Joint Aid for ‘Complete Victory’ – Aug 16

• Roosevelt Declares U.S. is no Nearer War; Reveals Full Accord on World Conflict – Aug 17

• Nazis Take Naval Base near Odessa – Aug 18

• U.S. Planes to be Flown to British in Near East; Ferry System to Run by Way of West Africa – Aug 19

• Dodgers Beat Pirates Twice, Lead by 2 Games; Yanks Split – Aug 20

• Guard and Draftees to be Released After 14 to 18 Months of Service – Aug 20

• Dnieper Dam Reported Blown up by Russians; Citizens Arming on Appeal to Save Leningrad – Aug 21

• Movie Reviews: The Little Foxes, Dressed to Kill, Life Begins for Andy Hardy – Aug 22

• British and Russians Poised to Move into Iran; Germans Smash Ahead on 3 Fronts in East – Aug 22

• Drive on Leningrad Checked, Barricades Rise in Streets – Aug 23

• Russians Attack at Gomel; Leningrad in Terrible Peril, Soviet Marshal Declares – Aug 24

• Churchill Warns Japanese to ‘Stop’ or Face British-American Coalition – Aug 25

• British and Russians Go Into Iran at 5 Points; Leningrad Defenders Retire, Hold New Line – Aug 26

• Dodgers Retain 1 ½-Game Lead by Dividing with Cardinals – Aug 27

• Russia Warns Japan Not to Halt Ships as Tokyo Threatens to Block U.S. Aid – Aug 27

• Hull Says We Insist the Pacific Be Free; Nazis Report Crossing of Lower Dnieper – Aug 28

• Tokyo Ambassador Sees Roosevelt; Bears Konoye Note; Soviet Confirms Blasting of Big Dam – Aug 29

• Movie Reviews: Dive Bomber, Wild Geese Calling – Aug 30

• Dictators in 5-Day Parley Form Plans to Counter our Aid in East and West – Aug 30

• Roosevelt Sees Peril to U.S. Growing, Says Peace ‘Isn’t All in Our Keeping’ Aug 31

September

• Nazis Acknowledge Blows by ‘New’ Russian Armies; Leningrad Defenses Holding – Sep 1

• Roosevelt Calls for ‘More Energy’ to Defeat Hitler’s ‘Insane Violence’ – Sep 2

• Dodgers Rout Braves and Slice League Lead of Idle Cardinals to Two Points – Sep 3

• Russian Offensive Forces Foe Back on Fronts Near Smolensk and Gomel – Sep 3

• Soviet Reports 30-Mile Gain in Center; Konoye Sees Japan in ‘Gravest’ Crisis – Sep 4

• Submarine Attacks U.S. Destroyer Greer; Leningrad Ringed, Says Nazis; Soviet Denies It – Sep 5

• Fleet to ‘Eliminate’ Attacking Submarine; Greer Crew Think Their Bombs Sank U-Boat – Sep 6

• Nazis Say Greer Shot First, U.S. Navy Denies It; Russians Drive Foes Back from Leningrad – Sep 7

• Defenders West of Leningrad Yield; Foe Repelled at Other Approaches – Sep 8

• R.A.F. Blasts Berlin in Second Heavy Night Raid; Allies Raid Spitsbergen – Sep 9

• Yanks Triumph on Homer; Giants Win in 10th; Dodgers and Cards Rained Out – Sep 10

• Action Against Sea Raiders Expected to Follow Sinking of American Ship – Sep 10

• Roosevelt Likely to Announce Navy Will Protect U.S. Shipments on Seas – Sep 11

• Roosevelt Orders Navy to Shoot First if Axis Raiders Enter Our Defense Zones – Sep 12

• Another American-Owned Ship Torpedoed – Sep 13

• Football Schedules for 1941 of 190 Colleges in Many Sections of the Country – Sep 14

• Russians Still Pushing Nazis Back after Saving Bryansk in Big Battle – Sep 14

• Green Bay Crushes Detroit on Gridiron – Sep 15

• R.A.F. Unit Arrives to Aid Soviet; Russians Yield City East of Dnieper – Sep 15

• Navy Begins Protecting War-Aid Ships Today – Sep 16

• Dodgers Bow to Reds in 11th; Cards Play Tie with Giants – Sep 17

• Big Loan by RFC for Russia Planned – Sep 17

• Escort of Convoys by Navy One of Methods Being Used in Defense Areas, Knox Says – Sep 18

• Roosevelt Asks $5,985,000,000 More for Lend-Lease Aid to June 30, 1943 – Sep 19

• German Armies Enter Kiev, Take Poltava and Push toward Kharkov and Donets Basin – Sep 20

• Russians Fighting in Kiev’s Suburbs; Nazis Shoot 12 More Paris Hostages – Sep 21

• Football Dodgers Strike in Second Half to Vanquish Lions in League Opener – Sep 22

• Nazis at Sea of Azov, Cut off Crimea; Report 150,000 Captured, Claim Oesel – Sep 22

• U.S.-Owned Ship Sunk in Iceland Defense Zone; Soviet Navy Bombed in Baltic and Black Seas – Sep 23

• Cards’ Flag Hopes Dimmed as They Split with Pirates Wile Dodgers are Idle – Sep 24

• President Plans to Arm Our Merchant Ships and Supply Guns to Other American Nations – Sep 24

• Morgenthau for 100% Tax on Corporate Gains Over 6%; Nazis ‘At Gates’ of Leningrad – Sep 25

• Nazis Attack Crimea by Sea, Land, Air; Russians Strike Back at Leningrad – Sep 26

• Movie Reivew: A Yank in the R.A.F. – Sep 27

• Crimea Land Drive Blocked, Nazis Pour in Parachutists; Driven Back at Leningrad – Sep 27

• Nazis Claim 665,000 Captives With ‘End’ of Kiev Battle; Stukas Destroy Serb Town – Sep 28

• 35,677 See Football Giants Defeat Redskins in Washington Battle – Sep 29

• Czech Premier Seized to Bar ‘Treason,’ Nazis Declare Emergency in 6 Areas – Sep 29

• R.A.F. Blasts Northern Italy and Sicily; 24 Czechs Shot for Separatist Plot – Sep 30

October

• Churchill Reports Britain is Gaining, But Foe Has Initiative Except in Air – Oct 1

• Yanks down Dodgers, 3-2, in Opener of World Series – Oct 2

• Movie Review: Hold Back the Dawn – Oct 2

• Knox Predicts Action to Defeat Axis, Says We Must Help Police the World – Oct 2

• Dodgers Beat Yanks, 3-2, Tying Series at Game Each – Oct 3

• Nazi Raids on Britain Grow; Leningrad Defenders Gain; 57 More Czechs Executed – Oct 3

• Movie Review: The Maltese Falcon – Oct 4

• U.S.-Owned Tanker Torpedoed, Sunk, Off Brazil; Hitler, in Speech, Declares Russia ‘Broken’ – Oct 4

• Yankees Down Dodgers, 2-1, and Take Lead in Series – Oct 5

• Russians Attacking on All Fronts; Claim 18-Mile Advance in Ukraine – Oct 5

• Owen Shoulders Entire Blame for Blunder Which Opened Gates to Yanks (Plus NFL Action) – Oct 6

• Russians Keep Up Pressure; Put Nazi Losses at 3,000,000 and Their Own at 1,128,000 – Oct 6

• Yanks Win Series as Bonham Beats Dodgers, 3 to 1 – Oct 7

• Nazis Strike for Moscow in Twin Thrusts by 3,000,000; Gain 12 Miles at One Point – Oct 7

• Soviet Admits Heavy Blows in Center; Nazis Claim Two Ports on Sea of Azov – Oct 8

• Nazis Drive Back Moscow Defenders, Take Orel; Russians, Outnumbered, Report Fierce Battles – Oct 9

• Roosevelt Ask for Authority to Arm Ships; Nazis Claim Vast Victory; Reported Checked – Oct 10

• Russians Holding Center, Withdraw in Bryansk Area; Nazis Claim 300-Mile Break – Oct 11

• Army Victorious Over V.M.I.; Notre Dame Team Subdues Ga. Tech (College Football Results) – Oct 12

• U.S. Seizes Nazi Radio in Greenland – Oct 12

• Football Giants Beat Eagles; Dodgers Crushed by Packers – Oct 13

• Nazis Reported Closer to Moscow; Russians Announce Loss of Bryansk – Oct 13

• Roosevelt Spurs Aid to ‘Brave’ Russia; Nazis Win Vyazma, But Push is Slowed – Oct 14

• Nazis Drive on Moscow from North; Repulsed 60 Miles West of Capital – Oct 15

• Moscow Rallies for Decisive Stand; Nazis in Kalinin; U.S. Studies New Tension in Far East – Oct 16

• Konoye Out, Japan Seeks ‘Crisis’ Cabinet; Roosevelt See Military Aides on Orient – Oct 17

• U.S. Destroyer Hit by Torpedo off Iceland – Oct 18

• Navy Halts Cornell, 14-0; Army Wins – Oct 19

• Russians Hold Foe West of Moscow; Nazis Report Eight Armies Crushed – Oct 19

• Giants Beat Steelers for Fifth Straight Victory; Cardinals Topple Dodger – Oct 20

• The Kearny Reaches Port, 11 Missing; Stalin Orders Moscow Defended to the Last Man – Oct 20

• Russians Smash Tank Drives Before Moscow; Hull Denounces Attack on Destroyer Kearny – Oct 21

• Two More U.S.-Owned Freighters Sunk; Reds Hold at Moscow; Nazis Gain on Azov – Oct 22

• Russians Attack as German Drive Ebbs; U.S. Re-routes Aid from Vladivostok – Oct 23

• Movie Reviews: Dumbo, You’ll Never Get Rich, Week End for Three – Oct 24

• Russians Report Moscow Lines Hold; Soviet Shifts its Army Commanders – Oct 24

• Knox Warns of a ‘Clash’ with Japan; Moscow’s Defenders Push Foe Back – Oct 25

• Army Tops Columbia, 13-0; Harvard Ties Navy – Oct 26

• Lewis Defies the President, Allows Coal Mine Strike; Germans Capture Kharkov – Oct 26

• Dodgers’ Fourth-Period Touchdown Upsets Giants in Thriller Before 28,675 – Oct 27

• Movie Reviews: Never Give a Sucker an Even Break, One Day in Soviet Russia – Oct 27

• Roosevelt Appeals to Lewis to Stop Strike in Coal Mines; Nazis Ram Rostov Defenses – Oct 27

• Lewis Still Keeps Coal Mines Closed Despite Third Appeal by President – Oct 28

• Movie Review: How Green is My Vally – Oct 29

• Curb on Strikes Planned by President and Congress – Oct 29

• Roosevelt Gets Compromise to Pave Way to Open Mines; Union Calls off Plane Strike – Oct 30

• Roosevelt Takes over Air Associates Plant after Resentful Workers Oust Strikers – Oct 31

November

• U.S. Destroyer Sunk, 44 of 120 Crew Rescued; Germans Gain in Drive Southwest of Moscow – Nov 1

• Army and Notre Dame Tie, 0-0; Navy Stops Penn, 13-6 – Nov 2

• Hitler Says U.S. Started Shooting; Navy Still Seeks Missing Men – Nov 2

• Packers Take Western Lead by Defeating Bears in Stunning Upset – Nov 3

• Roosevelt Places the Coast Guard under Navy Orders for Emergency – Nov 3

• Mayoralty Rival Confident in Final Campaign Speeches; Reuben James Toll Put at 97 – Nov 4

• La Guardia Wins a Third Term by 133,841; Country Reform Adopted – Nov 5

• Tokyo Rushes Special Envoy to U.S. with ‘Last’ Proposals; 17 Americans Lost in Sinking – Nov 6

• U.S. Lends $1,000,000,000 to Russia; Stalin Forecasts Second Front – Nov 7

• Senate Votes to Put Arms on Ships and Permit Sailings to War Ports – Nov 8

• Notre Dame Tops Navy, 20-13; Harvard Beats Army, 20-6 – Nov 9

• Fire only if U.S. Attacks, Hitler Says; Biggest R.A.F. Raids Sweep Continent – Nov 9

• Giants Regain First Place by Beating Lions While Redskins Lose to Dodgers – Nov 10

• British Sink 11 Ships in 2 Convoys, Defying Bigger Italian Sea Force – Nov 11

• Navy Acts to Break Tie-Up Building ‘Revolt’ on Coast – Nov 11

• Nazis Fought to Standstill in Russia, Berlin Indicates – Nov 12

• Roosevelt Calls Lewis, Mine Owners, as Strikes Stir Revolts in Congress – Nov 13

• House Votes 212-194 to Amend Neutrality Law after Pledge by Roosevelt to Quell Strikes – Nov 14

• Roosevelt Bars Order for Union Shop; Lewis, Mine Owners Continue Parley – Nov 15

• Irish Topple Northwestern to Remain Unbeaten; Penn Conquers Army, 14-7 – Nov 16

• Coal Strike Order Stands, But Parleys Resume Today; Russians Gain at Leningrad – Nov 16

• Bears Subdue Redskins despite Baugh’s Effective Forward Passing – Nov 17

• Strike to Halt Coal Mines Today as Parleys End without Agreement – Nov 17

• Roosevelt Silent on Strike as Lewis Rallies Miners – Nov 18

• Roosevelt Disputes Lewis Argument but Takes No Action on Coal Strike – Nov 19

• British Attack 130-Mile Libyan Line; Nazis Reported Encircled near Rostov – Nov 20

• Movie Reviews: Suspicion, Shadow of the Thin Man, They Died with Their Boots On – Nov 21

• British 10 Miles from Tobruk Forts; Report Little Resistance to Sweep – Nov 21

• Showdown on Strike Expected Today; British Trap Nazis in Libya, Take Heavy Toll of Tanks – Nov 22

• Irish End Unbeaten Season, Halting Southern California – Nov 23

• Lewis Calls Off Coal Strike; British Take Fort Capuzzo; Tobruk Garrison Emerges – Nov 23

• 49,317 See Giants Beat Redskins with Late Rally, Clinching Eastern Title – Nov 24

• British in Bardia, Set New Traps; Russians Fall Back Near Moscow – Nov 24

• Unted States Troops Sent to Dutch Guiana; British Capture Gambut, Axis Base in Libya – Nov 25

• Nazis Strike Back in Libya; Both Sides Pour in Infantry; Russians Gain near Rostov – Nov 26

• U.S. Give Terms to the Japanese; British Columns Join in Libya – Nov 27

• Roosevelt Sees Tokyo’s Envoys as Japanese Mass in Indo-China – Nov 28

• Japan Warned We Can’t Tolerate any New Attacks in the Orient – Nov 29

• 100,000 See Navy Rally in Third Period Beat Army, 14-6 – Nov 30

• Russians Rout Nazis at Rostov; Tojo Would ‘Purge’ Orient of U.S. – Nov 30

December

• Dodgers Rout Steelers, Gain 2d Place Undisputed; Bears, Green Bay Triumph – Dec 1

• Roosevelt Hurries Back in Crisis; Hull to See Tokyo Envoys Today – Dec 1

• Japan Renews Talks, But Capital is Skeptical; British Beat Off Attack on Tobruk Corridor – Dec 2

• Roosevelt Asks Japan’s Aim in Indo-China; New British Fleet Steams into Singapore – Dec 3

• F.D.R.’S WAR PLANS! – Dec 4

• House Votes Defense Anti-Strike Bill; Russians Smash to Taganrog – Dec 4

• Tokyo Reports Hull Plan Impossible; Russians Press the Retreating Nazis – Dec 5

• Army Sent South Only to Check China, Tokyo Replies to Roosevelt Inquiry – Dec 6

• CBS Evening News – Updates on Major Stories of the Day – Dec 6

• Roosevelt Appeals to Hirohito After New Threat in Indo-China; Germans Trapped at Taganrog – Dec 7

• LIVE THREAD: THE JAPANESE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR – Dec 7

• 55,051 See Dodgers Beat Giants; Bears Win, Tie Packers for Western Title – Dec 8

• Japan Wars on U.S. and Britain; Makes Sudden Attack on Hawaii – Dec 8

• U.S. Declares War, Pacific Battle Widens; Manila Area Bombed; 1,500 Dead in Hawaii – Dec 9

• Roosevelt Sees a Long, World-Wide War; Japanese Invade Luzon, Fight in Malaya – Dec 10

• Luzon Invasion ‘In Hand’ Our Forces Say; Japanese are Halted at Hong Kong Also – Dec 11

• U.S. Now at War with Germany and Italy; Japanese Checked in All Land Fighting – Dec 12

• Japanese Pounded in Luzon, Warships Chased; Russians Rout Nazi Armies on Moscow Front – Dec 13

• Japanese Forces Wiped Out in Western Luzon; Midway, Wake Resist; 3 Italian Cruisers Sunk – Dec 14

• 43,425 See Packers Routed, 33-14, by 24-Point Second-Period Drive – Dec 15

• U.S. Fliers Sink Four Transports off Luzon; Hong Kong Scorns Ultimatum; Wake Fights On – Dec 15

• Knox Reports One Battleship Sunk at Hawaii, 5 Other Craft Lost, But Main Fleet is at Sea – Dec 16

• Japanese Ships Shell Two Hawaiian Islands; Navy Reports Successes by Our Submarines – Dec 17

• Hawaii Naval, Army, Air Commanders Ousted; Enemy Lands in Borneo, Harried at Hong Kong – Dec 18

• U.S. Submarines Blast Transport and Warship; Foe Claims Hong Kong Gain – Dec 19

• Big Japanese Force in Mindanao, Battle Rages; British Hard Pressed in Hong Kong – Dec 20

• Enemy Submarines Are Off Both Our Coasts; Hard Fighting at Davao; Foe’s Transport Sunk – Dec 21

• Bears Overpower Giants with 28 Points in Second Half to Keep Pro Title – Dec 22

• Movie Review: The Wolf Man – Dec 22

• 80 Japanese Transports Appear Off Luzon; Hitler Ousts Army Head, Takes Full Control – Dec 22

• Churchill in Unity Talk at White House; 80,000 Japanese Attack Luzon Coast – Dec 23

• Japanese Land Strong Force South of Manila; Roosevelt, Churchill Work on Pacific Action – Dec 24

• Free French Seize St. Pierre and Miquelon; Wake Lost After 14-Day Stand by Tiny Force – Dec 25

• Movie Reviews: Remember the Day, The Shanghai Gesture, You’re In the Army Now – Dec 26

• Manila Declared Open City; Capital Moved; Hong Kong Yields – Dec 26

• Tank Battle South of Manila, Losses Heavy; New Enemy Force 175 Miles above Singapore – Dec 27

• Japanese Bombs Fire Open City of Manila; Civilian Toll Heavy Invaders Gain in Luzon – Dec 28

• Roosevelt Reassures the ‘Gallant’ Filipinos; Our Fleet ‘Is Not Idle,’ The Navy Declares – Dec 29

• Japanese Bomb Manila Bay Forts 3 Hours; Foe Drives Spearhead Deep Into Malaya – Dec 30

• Japanese Driving on Manila ‘In Great Force,’ Our Lines Being Pushed Back, M’Arthur Admits – Dec 31

[CougarGA7]

Happy New Year everyone.

[CougarGA7]

Happy New Year ping.

[CougarGA7]

Happy New Year ping.

[unkus]

Happy New Year!

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

“I am afraid Moscow is a gone coon.”

I've heard something like this said in the Deep South about local White civil rights workers...

Maybe the text needs a little proof-reading after the optical scan?

[deadmenvote]

ping for later reading, lot,s of Reading.
Happy new year

[mick]

Same to you....and many thanks !!

[CougarGA7]

Apparently, that term was also used in England.

The origins of this quote if from Major-General Sir John Kennedy. At the time of his recollection he was Director of Military Operations & Plans in the War Office.

He mentions it in his own accounting of the war titled "The Business of War: The War Narrative of Major-General Sir John Kennedy"

Here's the account from the afternoon of 11 October according to Sir Kennedy:

It was now 3.45 p.m., and the Prime Minister was looking sleepy. He said he always went to bed in the afternoon, when he could, and took all his clothes off, and slept for an hour. this enabled him to continue work until 2 a.m. or 3 a.m. He considered an afternoon sleep very important unless, of course, one was young, and there were many advantages in adoption the recumbent position while working. with a mournful expression, he bade us good-bye, remrking, as he did so, 'Yes, I am afraid Moscow is a gone coon.' Then he stumped along the passage to his bedroom.

[zeestephen]

Re: Gone coon

Slang from the 19th Century.

Like “dead duck,” or a “gone goose.”

Means that someone is in a hopeless situation.

[alexander_busek]

The above quote is rife with typographical errors. Further, I'd like to ask if racoons were common in England at that time and if the practice of racoon-hunting was widespread there.

Regards,

[CougarGA7]

According to Dictionary.com, the phrase is early 1800s slang and Stephen Crane used it in “Red Badge of Courage” in 1894. I honestly don’t know where Churchill came across the phrase.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Thanks for this great round up of the year's threads, Cougar. I have now linked it to the index by authors on my profile.

Happy New Year to all.

[henkster]

Happy New Year; finally got to my computer today.