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NAZIS HALTED WITHIN STALINGRAD; R.A.F. RAIDS RUHR, 39 PLANES LOST (9/18/42)
Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 9/18/42 | Ralph Parker, James MacDonald, F. Tillman Durdin, Robert C. Miller

Posted on 09/18/2012 4:06:23 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 .)
To add this class to or drop it from your schedule notify Admissions and Records (Attn: Homer_J_Simpson) by freepmail. Those on the Realtime +/- 70 Years ping list are automatically enrolled. Course description, prerequisites and tuition information is available at the bottom of Homer’s profile. Also visit our general discussion thread.
1 posted on 09/18/2012 4:06:32 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
The Solomons: Guadalcanal and Florida, 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 09/18/2012 4:07:32 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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For readers who have been wondering what happened to Hanson W. Baldwin since we last heard from him on September 4 in San Francisco, this excerpt solves the mystery. Baldwin’s report from Guadalcanal will appear on September 27 in a page 1 article titled “Solomons Action Develops Into Battle for South Pacific.”

Continued from September 16.

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John Toland, The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945

3 posted on 09/18/2012 4:09:10 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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Richard Tregaskis, Guadalcanal Diary

4 posted on 09/18/2012 4:11:08 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; ...
Battle in Streets (Parker) – 2-3
Wiesbaden Target (MacDonald) – 3-4
Latest Submarine Toll Gives Us Bag of 107 for War – 4
China ‘Gets Tough’ in Financing War – 4
It’s Never Dull on Guadalcanal (Durdin) – 5
Trapped Foe Fired Rifles at U.S. Tanks (Miller) – 6
Our Fliers Pound New Guinea Base – 7
War News Summarized – 7
Navy Casualties Listed for 7 Days – 9
Survivors of Aircraft Carrier Yorktown in Honolulu (photo) – 10
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on Fighting in Various Zones – 11-12
5 posted on 09/18/2012 4:12:58 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/sep42/f18sep42.htm

American reinforce Guadalcanal
Friday, September 18, 1942 www.onwar.com

US Marine reinforcements arrive on Guadalcanal [photo at link]

In the Solomon Islands... On Guadalcanal, six transports arrive bringing supplies and the US 7th Marine Regiment. The American base now has 23,000 men and adequate supplies.

In New Guinea... Japanese General Horii, in response to orders and supply difficulties begins to pull back some of his forces around Buna and Gona.

On Madagascar... The British land troops on the east coast of the French governed island at Tamatave.


6 posted on 09/18/2012 4:16:28 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

September 18th, 1942

UNITED KINGDOM: Destroyer HMS Musketeer commissioned. (Dave Shirlaw)

FRANCE: Paris: 116 people are executed in retaliation for recent attacks on German soldiers.

GERMANY: Berlin: Himmler today agreed that Germany’s “asocials” should be handed over to forced labour without proper sustenance or medical help - in effect, worked to death. In the concentration camps, “asocials” wear coloured triangular badges to identify the different categories of outcast: homosexuals (pink), pacifists (purple), political offenders (red), criminals (green), anti-socials (black) and Jews (yellow Star of David). Poles, Russians, Czechs and gypsies have been added to the list since 1939.

A policy for dealing with undesirables was introduced soon after Hitler came to power, when it was decided that, in the interests of racial purity, the mentally deficient should be sterilized. Then at a Nuremburg party rally a speaker suggested that Jews should be sterilized also. Hitler promised that, in the event of war, euthanasia not sterilization would be introduced; at such a time the church would be unable to speak against it.

In the first two years of the war, up to 80,000 Germans identified as “useless elements” were exterminated. This took place without the publication of a formal decree. When the justice ministry pressed for the text of the Fuhrers decree, all it received was a photocopy of a handwritten note from Hitler to the head of the Reich chancellery. The note ordered chancellery officials to give “duly appointed physicians” powers to “order the mercy killing of incurables”. On the basis of this note, euthanasia institutes were set up. These were later to provide the models for the extermination camps for Jews.

Though camp warders initially were ex-soldiers, ex-criminals and the generally unemployable who had joined the SS, intellectuals now serve in the camps, carrying out “scientific” experiments. Prostitutes have been sent to Dachau for tests on reviving frozen human guinea-pigs by the body heat of others.

U-985 and U-986 laid down. (Dave Shirlaw)

U.S.S.R.: Stalingrad: Soviet marines fend off ten German attacks from their positions in the city grain silo.

The Germans, fighting their way yard by bloody yard through the piles of rubble which were once Stalingrad in a war of grenades, bayonets and rifle butts, have been thrown off the Mamaev Kurgan, the raised Scythian burial ground which dominates the river crossings of this bridgeless city.

It was General Rodimitsev’s 13th Guards Division, ferried across the Volga by night, which stormed the burial ground. Everything now depends on the ferries and other small boats which cross the river at night, lit up by the glow of burning buildings and illuminating shells, with the river erupting in waterspouts as the shells and bombs whistle around them.

They bring in ammunition and reinforcements and carry out the wounded to the safety of the east bank. Many are sunk or riddled with machine-gun fire as they head into the inferno. But they keep on coming, providing the only lifeline to Stalingrad’s defenders.

The city is so shattered that the fighting is concentrated around individual buildings. The central station has changed hands four times in three days. General Vasily Chuikov, the abrasive new commander of the battered 62nd Army has set up his HQ in the Krasny Oktyabr factory.

The Germans have command of the air, and some of the bravest people in this battle are the pilots of the flimsy Polikarpov P-2 biplanes which stagger through the shell-rent night sky to bomb the Germans. One squadron is crewed exclusively by women pilots.

The 92nd Rifle Brigade (CO, Hero of the Soviet Union Colonel M.S. Batrakov; military commissar, Regimental Commissar S.N. Shapin) is transferred from the General Headquarters reserve to the 62nd Army as reinforcements. Today the 92nd Brigade enters combat in the city’s central district. (Russell Folsom)(215, Chap. 3)

White Sea: Convoy PQ-18 reached the safety of the White Sea today with 27 of its original 40 ships intact. Despite the losses, it was the biggest convoy yet to reach Russia. It sailed for Russia on 2 September, after a month in which convoys to the USSR were halted. Following the disastrous July convoy PQ-17, when only 11 out of 36 merchantmen arrived in Russia, Churchill wrote to Stalin suggesting that convoys should be suspended until the longer nights of autumn. Reluctantly, the Soviet leader agreed.

PQ-18 was the most heavily protected convoy so far, with around 50 naval vessels deployed in either the escort or covering forces, including 20 destroyers and the carrier HMS Avenger. The German navy had difficulty getting close to the convoy, and air attacks account for most of the 13 convoy ships lost.

The worst day was 13 September. Forty German torpedo-bombers sank eight ships in as many minutes in a stunning assault. The day before, U-boats sank two of the ships in the starboard column. Five torpedo-bombers were shot down and the destroyer HMS FAULKNOR sank U-88 with a blitz of depth charges. In all, the Germans lost 20 aircraft and two U-boats. The escort will return with surviving ships of earlier convoys, including PQ-17.

General Horii begins pulling his Japanese Army units back from Buna and Gona on New Guinea. He has supply difficulties. A US Fifth Air Force B-17 Flying Fortress bombs Salamaua while a B-25 Mitchell strafes pack trains on the Kokoda trail in the Andemba-Wairopi-Kokoda area. (Jack McKillop)

ATLANTIC: The Vichy French sloop Dumon D’Urville takes off 42 survivors of the sunken British passenger ship from the Italian submarine Capellini. (Jack McKillop)

U-175 sank SS Norfolk.
U-380 sank SS Olaf Fostenes. (Dave Shirlaw)

Madagascar: Tamatave, the main port of the French colony of Madagascar, has been taken by the British - a day after the island’s Vichy governor, M. Annet, rejected General Sir William Platt’s surrender terms.

The British fleet arrived off Tamatave at dawn. When the Vichy authorities refused to surrender, it bombarded the port. Three minutes later the white flag was raised. By the time that the 29 Brigade had landed most of the Vichy troops had withdrawn.

With the taking of Tamatave - a week after landing at Majunga, on the west coast - Allied forces are pressing on to the capital Tananarive from east and west, against mainly Malgache and Senegalese troops, through an inhospitable terrain where malaria knocks down more troops than bullets.

NEW GUINEA: General Horii begins pulling his Japanese Army units back from Buna and Gona. He has supply difficulties.

A US Fifth Air Force B-17 Flying Fortress bombs Salamaua while a B-25 Mitchell strafes pack trains on the Kokoda trail in the Andemba-Wairopi-Kokoda area. (Jack McKillop)

SOLOMON ISLANDS: The 7th Marines arrive at the Lunga Perimeter held by the 1st Marine Divison on Guadalcanal. These are the first new unit committed to the Guadalcanal Campaign since the 1st Marine Division (re-inforced) landed on Guadalcanal on August 7. US strength on the island now numbers about 23,000.

U.S.A: The designation of all USAAF Air Forces is changed from a number to a name, e.g., 1st Air Force to First Air Force, 2d Air Force to Second Air Force, etc.

The German submarine U-455 lays mines off Charleston, South Carolina.

Submarines USS Gurnard and Scamp commissioned.

Destroyers USS Edwards and Gillespie commissioned.
(Dave Shirlaw)

CANADA: Minesweeper HMCS Milltown commissioned. (Dave Shirlaw)


7 posted on 09/18/2012 4:20:08 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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September 18, 1942:


"Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German Protestant theologian who actively opposed the Nazi regime.
Along with Martin Niemöller and Karl Barth, Bonhoeffer founded the Christian Resistance movement known as the Confessing Church.
Bonhoeffer's attempts to smuggle Jews to Switzerland in 1942 led to his imprisonment in the Flossenbürg concentration camp, where he was executed by hanging on April 9, 1945."



8 posted on 09/18/2012 3:32:35 PM PDT by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective....)
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