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TOBRUK FALLS, AXIS CLAIMS 25,000 PRISONERS; JAPANESE ASHORE ON KISKA IN THE ALEUTIANS (6/22/42)
Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 6/22/42 | David Anderson, Craig Thompson, C. Brooks Peters, Ralph Parker, P.J. Philip, Foster Hailey, more

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TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: milhist; realtime; worldwarii
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.
Reading assignment: New York Times articles delivered daily to students on the 70th anniversary of original publication date. (Previously posted articles can be found by searching on keyword “realtime” Or view Homer’s posting history .)
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1 posted on 06/22/2012 4:34:53 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
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Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
Southwest Russia, 1942: German Summer Offensive, Operations, 7 May-23 July 1942
North Africa, 1940: Rommel’s Second Offensive, 21 January-7 July 1942
India-Burma, 1942: Allied Lines of Communication, 1942-1943
2 posted on 06/22/2012 4:35:50 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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To: r9etb; PzLdr; dfwgator; Paisan; From many - one.; rockinqsranch; 2banana; henkster; meandog; ...
Nazis Near Egypt (Anderson) – 2-3
War News Summarized – 3
‘Disaster’ is Seen in Tobruk’s Fall (Thompson) – 4
New Landing Made (Peters) – 4-5
Red Army Retires (Parker) – 6-7
Vancouver Island Shelled; Northwest Coast Dims Out (Philip) – 7
‘Never a Dull Moment’ at Midway, Reporter Watching Battle Found (Hailey) – 8-9
Ships in U-Boat Fight (by Hanson W. Baldwin) – 11
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on Fighting in Various Zones – 12-13
3 posted on 06/22/2012 4:37:33 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1942/jun42/f22jun42.htm

Vichy PM hopes for German victory
Monday, June 22, 1942 www.onwar.com

Vichy poster: They give their blood for you, give them your hard work [photo at link]

In Vichy France... Prime Minister Laval broadcasts a speech in which he urges Frenchmen to work hard in the German war industry and expresses the desirability of an ultimate German victory.


4 posted on 06/22/2012 4:40:45 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andrew.etherington/frame.htm

June 22nd, 1942

UNITED KINGDOM: Battleship HMS Anson commissioned. (Dave Shirlaw)
VICHY FRANCE: Prime Minister Laval broadcast on the desirability of a German victory and urges Frenchmen to work hard in German Industry.

EUROPE: (Jack McKillop): VIII Bomber Command Mission Number 65: In the first large-scale daylight raid on the Ruhr, 235 B-17s are dispatched to hit the chemical works and synthetic rubber plant at Huls; 183 bomb the target and claim 46-21-35 Luftwaffe aircraft; 16 B-17s are lost and 75 others are damaged; U.S. casualties are 2 KIA, 16 WIA and 151 MIA. This plant, representing a large percentage of German production capacity, is severely damaged. Eleven YB-40s accompany the Huls raid; 1 is lost.

In a second raid, 42 B-17s are dispatched to bomb the former Ford and General Motors plants at Antwerp; 39 hit the target; they claim 1-2-9 Luftwaffe aircraft against 4 B-17s lost, one damaged beyond repair and 17 others damaged; U.S. casualties are 1 KIA, 3 WIA and 40 MIA. An additional 21 B-17s fly an uneventful diversion.

U.S.S.R.: Italian motor torpedo boat unit XII Squadriglia MAS (4 boats) arrives to Lake Ladoga. (Dave Shirlaw)

NORTH AFRICA: Rommel is promoted to Field Marshal.

TERRITORY OF ALASKA: ALEUTIAN ISLANDS: The crew of the USS S-27 (SS-132) that ran aground on the 19th spends their third full day in the abandoned buildings on Constantine Harbor, Amchitka Island, Aleutian Islands and continue to unload supplies from the destroyed submarine.

U.S.A.: German submarines sink two more unarmed U.S. merchant tankers. U-159 shells a tanker in the Caribbean about 175 miles (282 km) south of the Windward Passage. After the crew abandons ship, the ship is sunk by demolition charges set by a boarding party from the sub. The unescorted and unarmed E.J. Sadler was taken under fire by U-159 about 175 miles south of the Windward Passage, as the tanker was 36 hours out of port and proceeding on a nonevasive course at 8.4 knots. At 2035, U-159 began to shell the ship from a distance of about four miles. The lookouts on the tanker had not seen the U-boat until it opened fire, but now the vessel immediately swung the stern toward it and the radio operator began sending distress signals. Eight of the first ten rounds from the 10.5cm gun were hits and the crew of eight officers and 28 men abandoned ship in four lifeboats. U-159 then fired another 75 rounds and 175 rounds from the 37-mm AA gun into the tanker at close range, which set the ship on fire, but the ship remained afloat. After four hours a boarding party was sent aboard and placed scuttling charges, which finally sank the ship. The next morning a PBY aircraft spotted the survivors and directed destroyer USS Biddle, which picked them up 20 hours after the attack and brought them to Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. (Dave Shirlaw)

In the Gulf of Mexico, U-67 torpedoes and sinks a tanker about 40 miles (64 km) off the coast of Louisiana. (Jack McKillop)
Destroyer USS Meade commissioned.

Minesweeper USS Skill launched. (Dave Shirlaw)

ATLANTIC OCEAN: At 1234, the neutral Rio Tercero was torpedoed and sunk by U-202 off the US East Coast. Linder reported that the ship displayed no neutrality markings and was recognized as Argentinean only after the attack when questioning the survivors. (Dave Shirlaw)


5 posted on 06/22/2012 4:42:44 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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NORTH AFRICA: Rommel is promoted to Field Marshal.

So says the David Etherington daily log. The onwar.com log had the promotion happening yesterday, July 21. If the actual date was July 20 then that refutes the conventional wisdom that the promotion was a reward for capturing Tobruk.

6 posted on 06/22/2012 6:27:26 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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To: Homer_J_Simpson

Rommel was promoted to Field Marshal on June 20th, 1942, the same day Tobruk fell [and the prisoner count was around 33,000]. He was notified by radio from Berlin of the promotion that evening [notice how the German reports of the Tobruk operation refer to his correct rank that morning-Colonel General]. Allegedly he responded, “I’d rather they gave me two more divisions”.

He becomes the youngest Field Marshal in the German Army [51]. And he did it the old fashioned [historical] way. He took a fortress [Same way Manstein will get his].


7 posted on 06/22/2012 9:39:01 AM PDT by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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To: Homer_J_Simpson
I've also posted the last two weeks worth on their respective threads for those you go back and review things.

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8 posted on 06/22/2012 11:20:35 AM PDT by CougarGA7 ("History is politics projected into the past" - Michael Pokrovski)
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I've also posted the last two weeks worth on their respective threads for those you go back and review things.

Thanks. I love looking at those old ads.

9 posted on 06/22/2012 5:37:29 PM PDT by fso301
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To: CougarGA7

Any nekked pictures?


10 posted on 06/24/2012 4:02:05 AM PDT by PAR35
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