BRITISH BREACH AND CIRCLE MARETH LINE; AMERICANS RACE FOR SEA PAST MAKNASSY (3/24/43)

Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 3/24/43 | Drew Middleton, Frank L. Kluckhohn, A.C. Sedgwick, Ralph Parker, Tillman Durdin, Arthur Krock

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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.
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Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
Tunisia, 1942: Situation 22 April and Operations Since 26 February 1943
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

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Allies Pressing On (Middleton) – 2-3
Americans Come with Dawn to Maknassy as British Engineers ‘Pick Rommel’s Lock’ (Kluckhohn, Sedgwick) – 4-5
Roosevelt Sends Hurley to Africa – 5
War News Summarized – 5
Casablanca Base for U.S. Warships – 6
Russians Hold Foe (Parker) – 7
Fortresses Punish Rabaul Airdromes (Durdin) – 8
Senate Post-War Plans (Krock) – 9
War Department Lists 284 Missing – 9
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the Fighting in Various War Zones – 10-11

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http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1943/mar1943/f24mar43.htm

Chindits ordered back to India
Wednesday, March 24, 1943 www.onwar.com

Chindits resting from the march [photo at link].

In Burma... The various Chindit columns join up between Baw and Pago, but Wingate is ordered to end operation and return to India. The Chindit forces are split up into small groups and most succeed in reaching their base by early April. One returns later via China. About one third of the force has been lost in its operations.

In Tunisia... Montgomery deploys the 4th Indian Division on an outflanking move toward Ksar el Hallouf and then Beni Zelten. Their progress is slowed by difficult terrain and the movement cannot affect the outcome of the battle.

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http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andrew.etherington/frame.htm

March 24th, 1943 (WEDNESDAY)

NORTH AFRICA: Montgomery sends the 4th Indian Division toward Ksas el Hollant. The difficult terrain diffuses this effort.

U.S.S.R.: Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov gives to the US government the terms of peace with Finland. They include borders of 1940, war against Germany and reparations. The US government doesn’t transmit terms to Finns, because it considers terms too harsh. (Gene Hanson)

U-655 a type VIIC is sunk in the Barents Sea, approx. 73.0N 21.0E after being rammed by minesweeper HMS Sharpshooter. All 45 of the U-Boat crew are lost. (Alex Gordon)

BURMA: Wingate is ordered to break up his Chindits and return to India.

JAPAN: The Imperial Japanese Navy issues Directive No. 209. Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is directed to capture and secure the northern Sakhalin Island and Kamchatka Peninsula if the Soviet Union declares war on Japan. Vladivostok is considered one of the invasion areas. (Jack McKillop)

SOLOMON ISLANDS: The last major IJA offensive effort ends on Bougainville.

TERRITORY OF ALASKA: ALEUTIAN ISLANDS: 25 Eleventh Air Force B-24s, B-25s and P-38s attack Kiska Island.
(Jack McKillop)

U.S.A.: The Joint Chiefs of Staff approve a plan to invade Attu Island in the Aleutian Islands.

[centurion316]

I note that Pearl Buck declared the family dead, attributing its demise to the war. Wishful thinking on her part, it took 50 years of post war liberal government policies to kill the family.