ROOSEVELT ORDERS STRIKERS BACK MONDAY; CALLS WORK IN COAL MINES WAR ESSENTIAL (6/4/43)

Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 6/4/43 | Louis Stark, Drew Middleton, Hanson W. Baldwin

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WLB Kept in Power (Stark) – 2-3
Daily Coal Loss at 2,000,000 Tons – 3
Supplies of Coal Held Ample Here – 3
War News Summarized – 3
French Establish an Empire Regime; Will Drop Nogues (Middleton) – 4-5
Text of French Statement – 4
New Soviet Thrust Reported by Nazis – 5-6
Chinese Push Reaches Yangtze, Imperils Enemy Base at Ichang – 6
Pantelleria a Fortress (Baldwin) – 7
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the Fighting in Various War Zones – 8-10
Pole’s Suicide Note Pleads for Jews – 10
Stalin’s Message Given to President – 10

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1943/jun1943/f04jun43.htm

Pantelleria Island targeted by Allies
Friday, June 4, 1943 www.onwar.com

The Italian island of Pantelleria under attack [photo at link].

In the Mediterranean... The Italian island of Pantelleria is heavily bombarded by air and sea.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

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

June 4th, 1943 (FRIDAY)
MEDITERRANEAN SEA: Pantelleria, a small island, bombed for the first of 8 days, today.

During the night of 3/4 June, Northwest African Strategic Air Force (NASAF) Wellingtons bomb Syracuse, Sicily; Catanzaro, Italy; and Pantelleria Island in the Mediterranean, which is also hit on the following day by fighters, light, medium, and heavy bombers, of NASAF and the Northwest Tactical Air Force (NATAF). (Jack McKillop)

ALGERIA: Algiers: General Henri Giraud is appointed C-in-C of the Fighting French Army.

TERRITORY OF ALASKA: On Kiska Island in the Aleutian Islands, six USAAF Eleventh Air Force B-24 Liberators following a Navy PV-1 Ventura make a radar-bombing run over North Head. Fourteen P-40s and P-38 Lightnings bomb North Head, Main Camp and Little Kiska Island. (Jack McKillop)

CANADA: HMCS Lasalle is laid down at Lauzon, Province of Quebec.

HMCS Lindsay is launched from Midland, Ontario. (Dave Shirlaw)

U.S.A.: Kermit Roosevelt, the brother of Brigadier-General Theodore Roosevelt Junior, and nephew of the President Roosevelt, commits suicide He will be buried at Fort Richardson. (Marc James Small)

ARGENTINA: Military revolution in Argentina ousted President Castillo. (Dave Shirlaw)

ATLANTIC OCEAN: The British submarine HMS TRUCULENT sinks U-308 off the Faeroe Islands in position 64.28N, 03.09W by torpedoes. All U-boat crew of 44 are 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)

[BenLurkin]

Good example of why FDR was known as “The American Mussolini”

[colorado tanker]

I noticed yesterday that the Luftwaffe shot down an unarmed civilian BOAC airliner with Leslie Howard aboard. Just another one of those things that endeared the Nazis to the rest of us.

[PAR35]

"I noticed yesterday that the Luftwaffe shot down an unarmed civilian BOAC airliner with Leslie Howard aboard. Just another one of those things that endeared the Nazis to the rest of us.

Are you going to post something similar in September of next year when the RAF shoots down a civilian Luft Hansa plane on a flight to neutral Spain, killing the passengers?