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CHURCHILL PLEDGES JAPAN’S RUIN, BUT REAFFIRMS NAZIS COME FIRST (5/20/43)
Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 5/20/43 | W.H. Lawrence, Sidney Shalett, Drew Middleton, Ralph Parker, Hanson W. Baldwin

Posted on 05/20/2013 4:25:51 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 .)
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1 posted on 05/20/2013 4:25:52 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
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To: Homer_J_Simpson
Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
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 05/20/2013 4:26:17 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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To: Homer_J_Simpson
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Winston S. Churchill, Closing the Ring

3 posted on 05/20/2013 4:27:18 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; ...
Sorry about the faint print we’ve suffered with yesterday and today. It will improve tomorrow - HJS.

Cities to Be ‘Ashes’ (Lawrence) – 2-3
Foe Now in Pocket (Shalett) – 3
100 Tons of Bombs Rock Pantelleria (Middleton) – 4
War News Summarized – 4
Berlin Reports Big Soviet Attacks; Sees Threat of Red Army Offensive – 5
Foe’s War Power in Europe Scanned (Baldwin) – 7-8 Governmental Research of ‘War Names’ (photo) – 8 The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the Fighting in Various War Zones – 9-11
Davies in Moscow with Stalin Note (Parker) – 11
Entertainment for Service Men * – 12

* Dinner and dancing with Duke Ellington. If that doesn’t impress your date I say dump her (or him).

4 posted on 05/20/2013 4:29:14 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/1943/may1943/f20may43.htm

Japanese garrison on Attu battles US troops
Thursday, May 20, 1943 www.onwar.com

Aftermath of the heavy fighting on Attu Island [photo at link].

In the Aleutian Islands... On Attu, fighting continues in the Clevesy Pass. Japanese forces hold the high ground and offer determined resistance to the American attacks.

On the Eastern Front... In the Caucasus, the German 17th Army continues to counterattack. Soviet forces continue to hold the offensive.

In Washington... The Trident Conference continues.


5 posted on 05/20/2013 4:31:02 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

May 20th, 1943 (THURSDAY)

UNITED KINGDOM: Due to incorrect operation of her Otway log (speed measuring device) submarine HMS Untamed begins to flood and settles in 160 feet of water off Sanda Island on the West coast of Scotland. Due to delays in escape attempts, and incorrect flood valve assembly, none are able to escape and the entire 36 man crew are poisoned by CO2. Untamed was eventually raised and recommissioned as HMS Vitality, finally being broken up in March 1946. (Alex Gordon)(108)
Frigates HMS Gardiner, Goodall, Goodson and Gore laid down.

Destroyer HMS St James laid down.

Boom defense vessel HMS Bartizan launched.

Minesweepers HMS Florizel and Foam launched.

Escort carrier HMS Nairana launched.

Frigate HMS Tees launched. (Dave Shirlaw)

GERMANY:
U-985, U-986 launched.

U-313, U-979 commissioned.

U-1023, U-1024 laid down. (Dave Shirlaw)

MEDITERRANEAN SEA: The full weight of Allied air power is being thrown at airfields in Italy, Sicily and Sardinia in an attempt to neutralize the Luftwaffe and the Italian air force. Over the past 48 hours, at least 186 Axis aircraft have been destroyed in day and night bombing. The most spectacular raid hit Grosseto airfield, 90 miles north of Rome. Flying Fortresses saturated the field and installations with fragmentation bombs, leaving 58 Italian bombers wrecked.

Minesweeper HMS Fantome is mined during clearance operations off Cape Bon and has her stern blown off. She is towed back to Bizerta, but found to be beyond repair and paid off as a constructive loss. There is one casualty but 36 survive. (Alex Gordon)(108)

INDIAN OCEAN: The Benakat left Capetown in a coastal convoy which was formed in the Table Bay, but left after three days to continue her voyage on the prescribed route to the destination. On 14 May the Admiralty radioed a new course. At 0728 on 20 May a torpedo struck her from U-197 on the starboard side, just before the bridge. The explosion caused very heavy damage, wrecked the starboard lifeboat and destroyed the starboard machinegun-platform, injuring the first and fourth mate (not seriously). After the hit no electric power was left, so the distress signal could only be send a few times. The ship began to list to starboard, and with some difficulty the crew succeeded in boarding the three remaining lifeboats and rowed away. About 20 minutes later a second torpedo hit the Benakat on the starboard side and broke her in two. The bow section sank and the stern remained afloat. The U-boat surfaced and fired with the deck gun at the port side of the vessel until the stern sank. (Dave Shirlaw)

JAPAN: Tokyo: The Army General Staff issues orders for the withdrawal of all forces on Attu and Kiska Islands.
TERRITORY OF ALASKA: US forces fighting on Attu in the Aleutians are heavily engaged in the areas of Clevesy Pass.
Jack McKillop adds: The American troops have been fighting for ten days and suffer acutely from the cold and hunger. The GIs boots soak up water and freeze at night causing numerous cases of frostbite. This action is conducted in a cold drizzle near Prenoergast Ridge. All air-ground support missions to Attu are cancelled due to weather but 20 P-40s bomb the Main Camp and submarine area at Kiska, and strafe barges in the harbour.

CANADA: Destroyer HMCS Columbia completed refit Saint John, New Brunswick and assigned to Western Local Escort Force. (Dave Shirlaw)

U.S.A.: The US Tenth Fleet was established, headquartered in Washington, D.C., under command of Adm. Ernest J. King. The role of Tenth Fleet was to coordinate American anti-submarine operations in Atlantic. Rear Admiral Francis S. Low, King’s Assistant Chief of Staff (Anti-submarine), was appointed Chief of Staff Tenth Fleet. All anti-submarine resources from US Fleet headquarters were transferred intact to the Commander Tenth Fleet. Admiral King retained command in order to direct asset allocation between commands in the Atlantic. He also did this to take the lead in the struggle with the US Army Air Corps over control of squadrons assigned to anti-submarine duty. General George C. Marshall wished Army very long-range and long-range squadrons to be commanded by an army general officer and to create a Coastal Air Command under the command of the Army Air Corps, headed by Lieutenant General McNarney. King was adamantly opposed to this arrangement and carried on an active struggle to gain control over long-range, land-based aircraft for naval uses. Eventually, the US Army Air Corps withdrew from anti-submarine patrols and transferred its aircraft to the USN. By Nov 43, the transfer of aircraft had been completed and all anti-submarine operations were the exclusive responsibility of Tenth Fleet. Rear-Admiral A.R. McCann relieved Admiral Low as Chief of Staff in Jan 45. Admiral King retained command of Tenth Fleet until it was dissolved on 15 Jun 45.
Frigate USS Annapolis laid down.

Destroyer escorts USS Barber and Greiner launched.

Frigate USS Belfast launched.

(Dave Shirlaw)

ATLANTIC OCEAN: U-258 sunk in the North Atlantic, in position 55.18N, 27.49W, by depth charges from an RAF 120 Sqn Liberator. 49 dead (all hands lost). (Dave Shirlaw)


6 posted on 05/20/2013 4:32:20 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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To: Homer_J_Simpson
Bttt.

5.56mm

7 posted on 05/20/2013 4:47:02 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: Homer_J_Simpson

May 20, 1943:


"Bernard Geron (far right) was a Jewish boy hidden with a Dutch family, the Dufours.
The woman in the picture, the family's governess, knew that he was Jewish but kept his secret.
Geron survived the war and was reunited with his father and brother; his mother had perished."


"May 1943 marked a renewed effort on the part of the Nazis to deport Dutch Jews.
Neither age nor disability provided a reprieve.
Here, members of the Ordedienst (Jewish police), composed at its height of some 200 young Dutch and German men, carry an elderly woman to the train.
Approximately 100,000 Jews passed through Westerbork, Netherlands, to the camps of the East, mostly Auschwitz and Sobibór."



8 posted on 05/20/2013 4:54:51 AM PDT by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective....)
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To: Homer_J_Simpson
The motion picture "The Ox-Bow Incident" is released in the U.S.

That was the general U.S. release. The New York premiere was on May 8, the day before the review appeared here.

9 posted on 05/20/2013 5:01:12 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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Headline: "Foe’s War Power in Europe Scanned (Baldwin) – 7-8"

Great article by Baldwin on Germany's "current" strengths & weaknesses.

10 posted on 05/20/2013 5:12:56 AM PDT by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective....)
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To: Homer_J_Simpson

Bottom of page 6,”Japanese grow stronger”, I wonder if that was published for disinfo? To make the japs think we didn’t have an accurate count on their forces?


11 posted on 05/20/2013 9:36:59 AM PDT by Rebelbase (1929-1950's, 20+years for full recovery. How long this time?)
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I wonder if that was published for disinfo?

Who knows? It seems to me that any advantage gained by fooling the Japanese would be more than offset by damaged American morale at the thought of these long odds. Maybe Colonel Smith talked out of school to a reporter when he didn't know what he was talking about.

12 posted on 05/20/2013 9:45:05 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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