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RUSSIANS IN DESPERATE ROSTOV STAND AS GERMANS CLAIM CITY’S CAPTURE (7/25/42)
Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 7/25/42 | Robert Bellaire, Byron Darnton, Hanson W. Baldwin, Henry J. Taylor

Posted on 07/25/2012 4:37:10 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson

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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 07/25/2012 4:37:21 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
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To: Homer_J_Simpson
Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
Papua, New Guinea, 1942
Japanese Advance, 21 July-16 Sept. 1942
Southwest Russia, 1942: German Advance to Stalingrad, Operations, 24 July-18 November 1942
The Far East and the Pacific, 1941: Status of Forces and Allied Theater Boundaries, 2 July 1942
India-Burma, 1942: Allied Lines of Communication, 1942-1943
2 posted on 07/25/2012 4:38:22 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; ...
Don Battle Rages – 2-3
Capture of Rostov Claimed by Nazis – 3
British Navy Pours Shells on Matruh – 3-4
Allies Intensify Bombing in Papua – 5
War News Summarized – 5
False News Lifts Morale in Japan Amid Hardships (Bellaire) – 6
Four American Aces in Australia Describe Some of Their Air Battles (Darnton) – 6
The Navy Bureau System (Baldwin) – 9
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the War – 10-11
Neutrality Basic, Says Turkish Chief (Taylor) – 11
3 posted on 07/25/2012 4:40:09 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

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1942/jul42/f25jul42.htm

German Army Group A conquers Rostov
Saturday, July 25, 1942 www.onwar.com

Rostov after the battle [photo at link]

On the Eastern Front... German Army Group A under General List completes the capture of Rostov.


4 posted on 07/25/2012 4:42:19 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

July 25th, 1942

UNITED KINGDOM: London: The Allies agree to invade North Africa (Operation Torch) rather than open a second front in Europe.

Escort Group C3 (HMCS Saguenay, Skeena, Galt, Sackville, Wetaskiwin and Louisburg depart Londonderry to escort Convoy ON 115. (Dave Shirlaw)
U.S.S.R.: The German Army Group A completes the capture of Rostov, USSR.

German troops occupy Novocherkassk.

Moscow: Soon after the 32,000-strong Second Soviet Assault Army surrendered to the Germans east of Leningrad, a Russian peasant came to German intelligence officers with an intriguing piece of information. The commander-in-chief of the Assault Army, General Andrei Vlasov, awarded the Order of the Red Banner by Stalin as one of the saviours of Moscow, wished to join the fight against Communism.

Vlasov, quietly efficient and unassuming, has impressed his interrogators. He is, however, only the latest of thousands of Red Army men, many of them senior officers, who have given up the fight for the Red Army. The 436th Infantry Regiment, commanded by Major I. N. Kononov, a Cossack, has offered its services to the Germans.

Hitler’s orders are that no Slav Untermensch [subhuman] can be allowed to carry arms. But German generals in the field have other ideas. They have been using ex-Red Army men as auxiliaries, and many have been in action against their former comrades.

Now it is being put about that Cossacks are not, after all, Slavs, but a Germanic people. Hitler has enthusiastically accepted this fable. The mass defections are a direct consequence of Stalin’s liquidation of thousands of senior Red Army officers in the years of the great purges.

EGYPT: Aircraft of the USAAF 344th and 2 HQ aircraft arrive.

PACIFIC: Daily search and photographic reconnaissance missions by USAAF B-17 Flying Fortresses, B-26 Marauders and Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) Hudsons over the southern Solomon Islands are begun from New Caledonia Island. USMC photographers using USN cameras often fly on these missions. (Jack McKillop)

NEW GUINEA: USAAF B-25 Mitchells and P-39Airacobras pound barges and concentrations at Gona and Japanese troops on the Gona and Kokoda trails advancing towards Port Moresby; Japanese forces push to Oivi, within 6 miles (9.7 km) of Kokoda. (Jack McKillop)


5 posted on 07/25/2012 4:43:58 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

At Yalta the Cossacks were sold out by Churchill and Roosevelt. After the war they were “repatriated” to the Soviet Union to meet their fate.


6 posted on 07/25/2012 1:41:35 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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“At Yalta the Cossacks were sold out by Churchill and Roosevelt. After the war they were “repatriated” to the Soviet Union to meet their fate.

As they should have been. They fought for the Nazis. Should Stalin have given them a parade? They absolutely deserved to be turned over to the Bolsheviks by the Allies.


7 posted on 07/25/2012 4:55:26 PM PDT by HenpeckedCon (What pi$$es me off the most is that POS commie will get a State Funeral!)
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To: HenpeckedCon

A number of the repatriated Cossacks fled Russia after the civil war and did not consider themselves Soviet citizens.


8 posted on 07/25/2012 5:04:08 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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Okay, “a number” of Cossacks who fled Russia after the civil war were turned over to Stalin? They innocently sat out the war and were turned over Stalin? How many?
9 posted on 07/25/2012 5:12:19 PM PDT by HenpeckedCon (What pi$$es me off the most is that POS commie will get a State Funeral!)
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