*I see Gore, Dingell, Lyndon B. Johnson. Can you spot more favorites? Bulwinkle? Nah, can’t be the same one.
http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1942/sep42/f24sep42.htm
Hitler fires Army Chief of Staff
Thursday, September 24, 1942 www.onwar.com
General Franz Halder [photo at link]
From Berlin... Hitler dismisses General Halder after many disagreements about the managing of the campaign on the Eastern Front. General Zeitzler is appointed the new Chief of the General Staff at OKH .
In the Atlantic... The American Liberty ship Stephen Hopkins fights a mismatched battle with the German raider ship Stier. The Liberty ship with only one 4 inch gun manages to sink the Stier. Damage from the Stier however, causes the Stephen Hopkins to go down as well.
In the Solomon Islands... Off Guadalcanal, the routine re-supplying done at night by the Japanese is disrupted by the Americans as they sink two Japanese destroyers and a cruiser.
http://worldwar2daybyday.blogspot.com/2012/09/day-1120-september-24-1942.html
On Guadalcanal, Japanese General Kawaguchi has regrouped 4000 troops (following the failed assault on Edson’s Ridge 10 days ago) in the Matanikau Valley, 5 miles West of the US positions at Henderson Field. US Marine General Vandegrift sends out 2 battalions to ‘mop up’ what he believes are only 400 Japanese in Matanikau Valley (Colonel ‘Chesty’ Puller 1st Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment will go inland over 1200-foot high Mont Austen while 1st Raider Battalion under Colonel Samuel Griffith takes the coastal route into the Valley).
US bombers Douglas Dauntless dive bombers from Henderson Field (Marine squadron VMSB 231 and Naval squadron VS 3) attack Japanese destroyers Umikaze and Kawakaze on a “Tokyo Express” run, bringing troops and supplies to Guadalcanal from Shortland Island at the Western end of the Solomon Islands. Umikaze is damaged by a near miss (8 killed) forcing the convoy to abort landings and causing Umikaze to be repaired Truk. USAAF B-17 bombers raid the Japanese naval base on Shortland damaging Japanese seaplane carrier Sanuki Maru.
Being lousy at humor, all I can think is, this proves that Stalin was not our most gruesome ally.
{bada-bump} ;-)