100 FORTRESSES BATTER NAPLES HARBOR; SARDINIA AND PANTELLERIA ALSO RAIDED (6/1/43)

Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 6/1/43 | Raymond Daniell, Brooks Atkinson, Sidney Shalett, Foster Hailey

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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.
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.

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The index by author on Homer’s profile is now updated through June 30, 1943.

Foggia is Attacked – 2
Allies Test Air Offensive in May Attacks on Ruhr (Daniell) – 3-4
War News Summarized – 4
Big Japanese Rout Reported by China (Atkinson) – 5-6
Burma Japanese Suffer New Raids – 6
Stilwell Arrives in London by Air – 7
Tokyo Raid Backed by the Enterprise (Shalett) – 8
164th Takes Pride in Fearless Dead (Hailey) – 9
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on Fighting in Various Zones – 10-12
U.S. Submarine Sends Japanese Destroyer to Her Doom (photo) – 12

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http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1943/jun1943/f01jun43.htm

American coal miners strike
Tuesday, June 1, 1943 www.onwar.com

In the United States... More than 500,000 coal miners go on strike after protracted wage negotiations break down. Most return to work by June 7th when talks resume.

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

June 1st, 1943 (TUESDAY)

UNITED KINGDOM: The number of illegitimate births in the United Kingdom has risen from 32,000 a year at the beginning of the war to 53,000. They now represent 6.5% of the total and, the trend is still upwards. This was one of the factors discussed at the Convocation of Canterbury which debated present morals.

The bishop of Birmingham, Dr. Barnes, said that a widespread decline in truthfulness has coincided with an increase in theft and a growth in sexual licence. Signs of “degeneration” among large sections of the population included “lower standards of personal hygiene and self-discipline”.

The war was disrupting families on a scale unparalleled in our history but, he added: “You cannot expect cleanliness, truth and honesty from people brought up in houses which are damp, verminous and without sanitary decency.” The bishop of Rochester, Dr. Chavasse, said: “Decent young women say it is unsafe to go out with 11 or 12 young men, who tend to look upon young women as potential prostitutes.”

No. 2 (Light Bomber) Group RAF is detached to the 2nd Tactical Air Force in readiness for D-Day. (22)

HMCS Huntsville (ex HMS Woolvesey Castle) laid down at Troon, Scotland. (Dave Shirlaw)

BAY OF BISCAY: Britain loses an outstanding actor-director when Leslie Howard is lost presumed dead after the plane he is travelling in disappears over the Bay of Biscay. The British airliner, a Douglas DC-3-194, msn 1590, owned by KLM (Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV) but leased to British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) as G-AGBB, left Lisbon for Eire, and its last radio message was: “Enemy aircraft attacking us.” He was shot down by a flight of Ju-88s. (Russ Folsom)

Leslie Howard had been lecturing in Portugal and Spain on his films Pimpernel Smith and The First of the Few. As a result, 900 cinemas there are to show British films. He was 50 and universally popular. After playing Ashley Wilkes in Gone with the Wind he returned to Britain, where he was the definitive Professor Higgins in the film of Pygmalion. His other films include ‘Of Human Bondage’ and ‘The Petrefied Forest’)

U.S.S.R.: Baltic Fleet and Ladoga Flotilla: (Sergey Anisimov)(69)Submarine loss. “Sch-406” - by aviation and surface ships gunfire, close to Porkallan-Kallboda lighthouse.
Baltic Fleet and Ladoga Flotilla: GB “KL-12” (ex-”Kalyaev”) - by field artillery, close to Vasilisin Is., on Onega Lake (Sergey Anisimov)(69).

NORTH AFRICA: Churchill speaks to British troops gathered in the dusty heat of the Roman ampitheatre at Carthage.

CHINA: Chinese and American airmen flying B-24s claimed a record 20 Japanese fighters yesterday in a 15-minute dogfight as they bombed Japanese forces at Ichang for the second time in 72 hours. In another raid to halt the Japanese advance in Hunan, 24 US fighters and bombers attacked a supply base at Yochow, on the north-east side of Tungting Lake, destroying a train and killing 200 people.

PACIFIC OCEAN: Submarine USS Runner determined to be missing during June between Midway and Japan-possibly lost to mines. All hands are lost. (Dave Shirlaw)

TERRITORY OF ALASKA: On Kiska Island in the Aleutian Islands, two P-40s, one B-24 Liberator, and an F-5A Lightning fly weather reconnaissance and photo runs and eight B-25 Mitchells, 18 P-38 Lightnings, and 20 P-40s, fly seven attack missions; targets include parked aircraft and installations, runway, gun positions, radar, and tents on South Head, North Head, Gertrude Cove and Main Camp.

U.S.A.: Half a million miners go on strike in support of a wage claim.

The 477th Bombardment Group (Medium) is first activated at MacDill Field, Tampa, Florida, assigned to the Third Air Force and trained with B-26 Marauders. The four squadrons assigned were the 616th, 617th, 618th and 619th Bombardment Squadrons (Medium). (Jack McKillop)

ATLANTIC OCEAN: The sloop HMS STARLING and an RAF Liberator E/120 each sink a U-boat in separate actions.

U-202 (Type VIIC) Sunk at 0030hrs southeast of Cape Farewell, Greenland, in position 56.12N, 39.52W, by depth charges and gunfire from the British sloop HMS Starling. 18 dead, 30 survivors.

U-418 (Type VIIC) Sunk in the Bay of Biscay northwest of Cape Ortegal, Spain, in postion 47.05N, 08.55W, by rockets from a British Beaufighter aircraft (Sqdn. 236/B). 48 dead (all crew lost). (Alex Gordon)

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May 31, 1943:

• "May 30: "Dr. Josef Mengele, an SS captain, arrives at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp to begin his medical duties.

• May 31: "SS General Friedrich Wilhelm Krüger tells associates at a meeting in Kraków, Poland, that, although the elimination of Jews is unpleasant, it is "necessary from the standpoint of European interests."

• "Nazi prison administrator in Minsk, Belorussia, reports that 516 German and Russian Jews have been killed in late May, their gold crowns and fillings taken from their mouths before their deaths."

"Headstonesremoved from the Jewish cemetery at Salonika served as walkways, and Nazis desecrated and destroyed the remainder of the cemetery."

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June 1, 1943:

• "June 1943: Jews of Dalmatia, Serbia, are transferred to the island of Rab, which is off the coast of Croatia.

• Early June: "In a combination of street assaults and killings at Janówska, Ukraine, 10,000 Jews from Lvov lose their lives.

• June 1-6: "During liquidation of the ghetto at Sosnowiec, Poland, a spirited resistance is led by Zvi Dunski.
  Ill-armed Jews fight back as deportations proceed.

• "The Jewish ghetto at Buczacz, Ukraine, is liquidated.
  Some Jews resist and escape."

"A glum Joseph Goebbels sits before the text of a radio broadcast to the German people.
The German defeat at Stalingrad, Russia, and Allied victories in Tunisia made Goebbels's job increasingly difficult during 1943.
Victory communiqués, which had been a staple of German national radio in the early years of the war, were now rare occurrences. "

"Following a reprisal at Pancero, Serbia, a German soldier blithely waves to the photographer as the victims twist nearby.
Mindful of the need to maintain the upper hand in conquered territories, the Nazis reacted swiftly to local revolt.
Executions --- often indiscriminate -- became commonplace."

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That quote from Goebbels is very telling. Even he seems to sense the tide is turning.