Posted on 09/08/2012 4:45:37 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1942/sep42/f08sep42.htm
Australians forced to retreat
Tuesday, September 8, 1942 www.onwar.com
Australian soldiers in New Guinea [photo at link]
In New Guinea... Japanese advances force the Australians back over the Owen Stanley Range. Their position near Efogi is abandoned.
In Vichy France... The Vichy government fires General de St. Vincent, Military Governor of Lyons for refusing to aid in the arrest of Jewish citizens in the area.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andrew.etherington/frame.htm
September 8th, 1942
UNITED KINGDOM: In England, the “Joint British American Directive on Day Bomber Operations Involving Fighter Cooperation” is issued; worked out between Major General Carl Spaatz, Commanding General US 8th Air Force, and the RAF, it consigns night bombing to the RAF and day bombing to the Eighth Air Force; the purpose is to achieve continuity in the bombing offensive and secure RAF fighter support for US bombers; General Spaatz orders all tactical operations to give way to activity in support of Operation TORCH (plan for Allied landings in North and Northwest and Africa in November 1942); processing of units of the newly created US Twelfth Air Force destined for North Africa takes priority over combat operations for the present. (Jack McKillop)
London: In a speech described by MPs as one of “guarded optimism”, Churchill told the Commons today that in his talks with Stalin he had promised the Soviet leader that the western Allies would come to his aid “as quickly as possible in the most effective manner without regard to the losses and sacrifices involved”. That was as far as the British prime minister felt he could go in meeting Stalin’s repeated demands for a second front in western Europe. At the outset of the talks Stalin had made it plain that he did not think the British and Americans were doing enough to take the weight off the Soviet armies facing the Nazi onslaught.
Canadian-Russian wheat agreement signed in London. Canada extended a credit of $10,000,000 to the Russian Government for the purchase of Canadian wheat and flour.
Destroyer HMS Undaunted is laid down. Sloop HMS Mermaid is laid down. Trawler HMS Liscomb commissioned. (Dave Shirlaw)
FRANCE: General de St. Vincent is dismissed by the Vichy government for failure to arrest Jews in his area. He has been the military governor of Lyons.
GERMANY: RAF Bomber Command bombs Dusseldorf in the Ruhr, dropping 4,000 pound (1814 kilogram) bombs. Bomber crews call these bombs “Cookies” while the press call them “Blockbusters.” (Jack McKillop)
ARCTIC OCEAN: Soviet submarine “K-2” of the Polar fleet and White Sea Flotilla is sunk by a mine, at Tana-fjord area. (Sergey Anisimov)(69)
ROMANIA: Soviet submarine Shch-208 of the Black Sea Fleet is mined and sunk in the Constanta area. (Mike Yared)(146 and 147)
MEDITERRANEAN SEA: US Army, Middle East Air Force B-24s attack shipping and the harbor at Suda Bay, Crete.(Jack McKillop)
NEW GUINEA: The Japanese 18th Army attacks Australian positions at Efogi at dawn, hitting the 2/27th. The Japanese surround two Australian battalions which lose six Bren guns in the attack and use up 1,200 hand grenades and thousands of rounds of ammunition before managing to extricate their men. The Australians decide to make their last stand at Ioribaiwa, using the fresh 25 Infantry Brigade, in new jungle greens, on the Imita Ridge. 25 Brigade is told, “There won’t be any withdrawal from the Imita position. You’ll die there if necessary. You understand?” The Japanese are now within 40 miles (64 kilometres) of Port Moresby. (Jack McKillop)
In the air, USAAF 5th Air Force P-400 Airacobras bomb and strafe the Efogi area where Australian forces are hard pressed by the Japanese. B-17 Flying Fortresses and RAAF Hudsons attack cruisers and a destroyer north of the D’Entrecasteaux Islands which lie north of the south-east tip of New Guinea, between southeast New Guinea and the Solomons. (Jack McKillop and Tom Hickcox))
SOLOMON ISLANDS: USAAF P-400s and USMC F4F Wildcats provide close air support for USMC ground units. A number of aircraft are written off due to accidents and by the end of the day the Cactus Air Force has only 8 F4Fs and P-400s serviceable. (Jack McKillop)
Guadalcanal: In the last 24 hours, US marines have landed at Taivu and attacked the Japanese base.
U.S.A.: Aleutian Islands, a B-24 Liberator and a B-26 Marauder of the US 11th Air Force fly photo reconnaissance over Agattu, Attu, and Kiska Islands. (Jack McKillop)
Washington: Roosevelt broadcasts to the nation, warning that “this is the toughest war of all time.”
The U.S. ignores the Vichy French protest concerning bombing of French cities. (Jack McKillop)
The Third War Loan drive begins. (Jack McKillop)
Domestically, all gold mines in the U.S. are shut down and the industry’s workers are sent to war production jobs. (Jack McKillop)
"Leib Rotblatt was a member of the ZOB (Jewish Fighting Organization), which emerged in the Warsaw Ghetto during the summer of 1942.
Members of the organization collected weapons throughout the summer in preparation for a final confrontation with the Nazis.
Emanuel Ringelblum's words, written after the brutal Aktion of September 12, 1942, were prophetic for the ZOB. "Never shall the Germans move us from here with impunity," he wrote. "We will die, but the cruel invaders will pay with their blood for ours."
Something I’ve never really understood is how we are told the Luftwaffe reduced Stalingrad to rubble via 1,000 plane raids yet Soviet armaments factories within the city kept churning out product and even strong points such as the grain elevator and Pavlov’s House were not reduced.
Heaine: “War spurring discoveries 20 years ahead of pace”.
Interesting!
Note the prediction of 50 miles per gallon cars.
Wonder how long that will take?
;-)
There will be sealed cooling systems, now used in aviation; weights may be half what they are, he said; power will be up and fuels may yield fifty miles to the gallon.
I can't wait to go cruising in my light-weight, 50 mpg, '62 Caddy.
If you are a true Liberal then stories like this are subjects of your pornographic wet dreams — those were the real “happy days” they want here again!
;-)
It is interesting how times change. The reporting of the Times decades ago was actually quite conservative. They hated Truman etc. I enjoy reading the ads from that era.
I agree Libs. want nothing but control but of course that is control over YOU not THEM as they are lord and master.
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