Posted on 06/03/2013 4:43:27 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
* One of the Americans being trained is Homer’s father. Durdin somehow missed that important detail – HJS.
Summons Leaders (Stark) – 2-3
War News Summarized – 3
Text of the WLB Statement on Coal Strike – 4
British Ships Shell Pantelleria Twice as Planes Pound It – 5
Nazis Raid Kursk with 500 Planes – 6
Nazis Hit Airliner; Leslie Howard Put Among 17 Missing – 6-7
Coast Guard Cutter Sinks U-Boat, Captures 40 of Crew in Epic Fight – 7-8
The Battle of the Atlantic: A Photographic Story of the Destruction of One of Hitler’s Sea Marauders – 8-10
May U-Boat ‘Kills’ Set a Record, Alexander Reveals in Commons (Daniell) – 11
Americans Trained for Jungle War with New Weapons, Garb, Tactics (Durdin) * – 12
A Jeep Turns Locomotive in North Africa (photo) – 13
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the Fighting in Various War Zones – 14-15
* One of the Americans being trained is Homer’s father. Durdin somehow missed that important detail – HJS.
http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1943/jun1943/f03jun43.htm
Free French leaders reach agreement
Thursday, June 3, 1943 www.onwar.com
Giraud meets de Gaulle [photo at link].
In Algiers... Free French leader de Gaulle and General Giraud agree on the composition of a Committee of National Liberation under their joint presidency. The members are to include Massigli, Jean Monnet and Andre Philip.
In Occupied France... The Michelin tire works at Clermont-Ferrand are badly damaged in a sabotage operation conducted by local resistance workers and British SOC agents.
In the United States... The United Nations Food Conference in Hot Springs, Virginia, is concluded. A number of resolutions are produced calling for fairer distribution of resources in the postwar world.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andrew.etherington/frame.htm
June 3rd, 1943 (THURSDAY)
UNITED KINGDOM: HMCS Tillsonburg ex HMS Pembroke Castle laid down Port Glasgow, Scotland. (Dave Shirlaw)
FRANCE: The French Resistance destroy 300 tons of tyres at the Michelin tyre factory at Clermont-Ferrand.
GERMANY: A tunnel was broken at OFLAG VIIB at Eichstätt which got 65 officers out, all of whom were recaptured within a matter of days but which caused such a diversion of resources as to cause the Gestapo to insist upon extermination on the next mass escape. (Marc James Small)
U.S.S.R.: Germany launched Operation Cottbus, aiming to destroy Soviet partisans in the area of Borisov.
ALGERIA: Algiers: French Generals DeGaulle and Giraud agree to form the Committee of National Liberation. After three days of talks, the committee issued a communiqué tonight stating that it will be the “Central French Power”. It will exercise French sovereignty in all territories outside the enemy’s power, direct the French war effort and take command of all Fighting French forces.
There will be seven members of the committee in all. Besides Giraud and de Gaulle, they are: Rene Massigli and Andre Philip (appointed by de Gaulle); Jean Monnet and General Georges (for Giraud); and General Catroux, who becomes the new governor-general here, chosen by both sides. The committee is very much a compromise between the two rival factions led by Giraud and de Gaulle. The intention is that their groups should be equal in power. For General de Gaulle, who arrived here on 30 May, this may be counted a success.
In the communiqué the committee, known as the CFLN, bound itself to the overthrow of the regime of Marshal Petain and restore French liberties. It called on all Frenchmen to rally to it “so that France should regain through battle and victory her traditional place among the Allies Great Powers” and be represented as such in the post-war peace negotiations and international settlements.
CHINA: Chinese troops recapture Nanhsien, in Hunan province.
SOLOMON ISLANDS: Admiral William Halsey gives orders for Operation Toenails, the invasion of New Georgia which aims to secure Munda as a base for a series of “hops” through the islands.
TERRITORY OF ALASKA: The USAAF’s Eleventh Air Force dispatches aircraft against Kiska Island in the Aleutian Islands. Three weather missions flown by two B-24 Liberators and two P-40s, as well as two attack missions by two B-24s and six fighters are weathered out.
CANADA: HMCS Gatineau ex HMS Express commissioned.
Castle Class corvettes transferred RN to RCN while under construction in the UK and renamed - HMCS Arnprior ex HMS Rising Castle, HMCS Petrolia ex HMS Sherborne Castle, HMCS Bowmanville ex HMS Nunney Castle, HMCS Copper Cliff ex HMS Hever Castle, HMCS Hespeler ex HMS Guildford Castle, HMCS Orangeville ex HMS Hedingham Castle, HMCS Humberstone ex HMS Norham Castle ex HMS Totnes Castle, HMCS Huntsville ex HMS Woolvesey Castle, HMCS Kincardine ex HMS Tamworth Castle, HMCS Leaside ex HMS Walmer Castle, HMCS St Thomas ex HMS Sandgate Castle, HMCS Tillsonburg ex HMS Pembroke Castle.
Minesweepers transferred RCN to RN while under construction in Canada and renamed - HMCS Arnprior/HMS Courier, HMCS Bowmanville/HMS Coquette, HMCS Copper Cliff/HMS Felicity, HMCS Forest Hill/HMS Providence, HMCS Hespeler/HMS Lysander, HMCS Humberstone/HMS Golden Fleece, HMCS Huntsville/HMS Prompt, HMCS Kincardine/HMS Mariner, HMCS Leaside/HMS Serene, HMCS Long Branch/HMS Regulus, HMCS Mimico/HMS Moon, HMCS Orangeville/HMS Marmion, HMCS Petrolia/HMS Lioness, HMCS Sole Bay/HMS Skipjack, HMCS St Thomas/HMS Seabear, HMCS Tillsonburg/HMS Flying Fish, HMCS Toronto/HMS Mary Rose.
HMCS Edmunston completed forecastle extension refit in Halifax. (Dave Shirlaw)
U.S.A.: USNAS Quonset Point RI, 1830 Sqn, Corsair a/c #JT116, Lt (P) James Ernest Gaunt RCNVR, of Toronto,, Ontario, Lost, flying accident, at North Kingston, Maine, when propeller hit the runway during takeoff. (Dave Shirlaw)
The motion picture “Bataan” is released in the U.S. This war drama, directed by Tay Garnett and starring Robert Taylor, George Murphy, Thomas Mitchell, Lloyd Nolan, Lee Bowman and Desi Arnaz, tells the story of thirteen American military personnel on Bataan Peninsula, Luzon, Philippine Islands in 1942, detailed to blow up a bridge and keep the Japanese from rebuilding it. (Jack McKillop)
ATLANTIC OCEAN: The Panamanian cargo ship HALMA is sunk by German mines laid by a U-boat off Halifax, Nova Scotia.
U-308 (Type VIIC) Sunk in the Norwegian sea northeast of the Faroes, in position 64.28N, 03.09W, by torpedoes from the British submarine HMS Truculent. 44 dead (all crew lost).
U-594 (Type VIIC) Sunk west of Gibraltar, in position 35.55N, 09.25W, by rockets from a British Hudson aircraft (48 Sqdn.). 50 dead (all crew lost). (Alex Gordon)
It is amazing to read about Roosevelt’s pushback against the forces of communism, especially in the unions, given that today’s Democrat president ebraces communism.
Note that today’s POW escape was not “The Great Escape,” which was from Stalag Luft III in 1945.
It really makes my blood boil that when men are fighting and dying abroad and those stateside are restricting basic foodstuffs and consumer goods, Lewis is taking advantage of the emergency to squeeze few more bucks for his union. I can imagine how people felt at the time, especially the soldiers and sailors.
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