AMERICANS SWEEP INTO FONDOUK; U.S. REPELS FLOTILLA IN ALEUTIANS (3/29/43)

Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 3/29/43 | C.L. Sulzberger, Ralph Parker, John D. Morris, Robert Trumbull, George Axelsson, Raymond Daniell

[Homer_J_Simpson]

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[Homer_J_Simpson]

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.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

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

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Premier Stalin to Premier Churchill 29 Mar 43

I congratulate the British Air Force on the new big and successful bombing of Berlin.

I hope that the British armoured units will be able to use to the full the improvement in the Tunis situation and not give any respite to the enemy.

Yesterday, together with my colleagues, I have seen the film Desert Victory, which you have sent me. It makes a very strong impression. The film depicts magnificently how Britain is fighting, and stigmatises those scoundrels (there are such people also in our country) who are asserting that Britain is not fighting at all, but is merely an onlooker. Impatiently I will wait a similar film on your victory in Tunis.

The film Desert Victory will be widely shown in all our armies at the front and among the widest masses of our population.

Winston S. Churchill, The Hinge of Fate

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Homer’s father has now arrived at the current location of the 32nd Infantry Division . The return address of this V-Mail letter is H.Q. Co., 2nd Bn., 128 Infantry. The division is based at Camp Cable, about 30 miles south of Brisbane, Australia.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

The really bad microfilm is past for now. The quality will be better through May, which is as far as I have gone. The index by author on Homer’s profile is now updated through April 30, 1943 - HJS.

Big Push Started (Sulzberger) – 2-3
North African Raiders: Ours Returned, Nazis’ Did Not (photos) – 3
Red Army Poised for Next Big Push (Parker) – 4
War News Summarized – 4
Official Table of Consumer Point Values for Meat, Fats, Fish, and Cheese – 5
Japanese Go West (Morris) – 6
Major Air Stations Built in Solomons (Trumbull) – 7
Nazis Execute 3 Munich Students for Writing Anti-Hitler Pamphlets (Axelsson) – 7
Keynes Proposes World Currency (Daniell) – 8
Flags to Be Presented to Crew of Polish Destroyer (with photo) – 9
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on Fighting in Various Zones – 10-11
Rachmaninoff Dies in California at 70 * – 12-14
Eden’s Trip to U.S. Held Exploratory (by Harold Callender) – 14

* While reading the obituary you might open another browser tab and listen to the following selection to create the right atmosphere. The video/slideshow also has some interesting photos of the composer.

Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2, Van Cliburn, with Fritz Reiner and the Chicago Symphony

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1943/mar1943/f29mar43.htm

Axis troops hold Akarit line
Monday, March 29, 1943 www.onwar.com

German recon troops on the move [photo at link].

In Tunisia... The last Axis units reach Wadi Akarit as the New Zealand Corps enter Gabes. General Mess, commanding the Italian 1st Army, reports to the Italian High Command that the Akarit position has not received much preparation and may be vulnerable to a rapid attack. This position is, however, considered a naturally defensive barrier.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

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

March 29th, 1943 (MONDAY)

GERMANY: Rastenburg: Hitler orders the construction of an enormous missile-launch site on the French side of the Channel, to bombard Britain.

NORTH AFRICA: New Zealand troops of the Eighth Army enter Babes.
The last Axis troops reach Wadi Akarit.

TUNISIA: Ninth Air Force B-25s and P-40s attack an airfield and support British ground forces. (Jack McKillop)

BURMA: Tenth Air Force B-24s, B-25s and P-40s bomb shipping, railroad yards and Japanese ground troops and Fourteenth Air Force P-40s strafe trucks at Bhamo.

CHINA: Fourteenth Air Force P-40s attack a fuel drums at Chefang.

SOLOMON ISLANDS: Thirteenth Air Force B-17s and B-24s bomb Buin and Kahili Airfields on Bougainville Island while P-38s and a Marine F4U attack a seaplane anchorage.

Submarine USS Gato [Lt-Cmdr Mike Foley] arrives at Japanese occupied Bougainville to bring in a replacement coastwatcher and 12 commandos to replace 12 of Australian Coast Watcher’s Jack Read’s 25 AIF commandos (Lt. Mackie), plus 39 Chinese, European and Fijian civilians. Jack Read and Paul Mason refuse to be evacuated. (Michael Alexander)

U.S.A. Meat, butter and cheese are rationed with a rationed amount of 784 grams/week/person. GI’s were allowed 2 kilograms / week. (Michael Ballard)

Tests of forward firing rocket projectiles from naval aircraft are completed at the Naval Proving Ground, Dahlgren, Virginia, using a Brewster SB2A-4 Buccaneer. At Naval Air Station (NAS) Norfolk, Virginia, the Naval Air Transport Service (NATS) commissions Air Transport Squadrons, Atlantic, to supervise and direct operations of NATS squadrons based on the U.S. East Coast. (Jack McKillop)

[Chad N. Freud]

The collectivists have been pushing the same ideas for seventy years:
p. 7: Goebbels demonizing “the idle rich” and fomenting class warfare, which of course backfires on the society as a whole;
p. 8: the call for one world currency;
p. 9: mandatory life insurance. Don’t worry; it couldn’t happen here: the Supreme Court would say that is unconstitutional but would allow the federal government to tax anyone who doesn’t comply.

They never give up.

[MinuteGal]

Thanks for the link to the Rachmaninoff slide show and audio.

Four historical giants are on that particular YouTube....Maestro Rachmaninoff, Maestro Fritz Reiner, Maestro Van Cliburn....and the beautiful, timeless music of the piano symphony itself.

Leni

[Rebelbase]

Short Bio of Aussie Coast Watcher Paul Mason:

http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/mason-paul-edward-allen-11081

[Western Phil]

A small article caught my eye: “Flier in Two Wars Killed”

The Indianapolis airport is named after H. Weir Cook.

[colorado tanker]

[colorado tanker]

One of my uncles was posted to Australia for a time in WWII. He married a local lass who became my aunt. I love hearing her Aussie accent at family gatherings. He passed years ago, but she’s still going strong.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Wow - thanks for posting that. Where did you find it?

[Homer_J_Simpson]

My father didn’t find a wife in Australia. Lucky for me, I guess. If he had I would be somebody else. Or something.

[colorado tanker]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Cable

If you scroll down there is a link to more images. Looks like a lovely part of Australia.