WARSHIPS SHELL PANTELLERIA 5TH TIME; U.S. FLIERS BAG DESTROYER IN SOLOMONS (6/7/43)

Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 6/7/43 | Drew Middleton, Hanson W. Baldwin

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Air Attacks Go On – 2
Hitler Not an Idol to Young Soldiers (Middleton) – 3
Submarines Defy Enemy Defenses – 3
Americans Down 15 Zeros in Attack on Japanese Ships – 4
Ammunition Ship Collides with Tanker, 84 Men Killed – 4-5
R.A.F. Raids Harry Enemy Transport – 5
Factors in a Pacific Offensive (Baldwin) – 6-7
U-Boat, Caught on Surface by Navy Bomber, Shows Fight, but is Sunk by Depth Charge – 7
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on Fighting in Various Zones – 8-9

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1943/jun1943/f07jun43.htm

Allies continue to bombard Pantelleria
Monday, June 7, 1943 www.onwar.com

Aftermath of the bombardment on Pantelleria [photo at link].

In the Mediterranean... The bombardment of the Italian island of Pantelleria continues.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

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

June 7th, 1943 (MONDAY)

FRANCE

SOLOMON ISLANDS: Japanese aircraft attack Guadalcanal, destroying nine US planes but losing 23 of their own.

TERRITORY OF ALASKA: The USAAF’s Alexi Point Airfield and Naval Air Facility Attu are established on Attu Island, Aleutian Islands, just seven days after the island was declared secured. (Jack McKillop): Paris: The “Comet” escape line for PoWs, and others from occupied Europe is betrayed.

MEDITERRANEAN SEA: Following a night raid by Northwest African Strategic Air Force (NASAF) Wellingtons on Pantelleria Island in the Mediterranean, heavy, medium and light bombers, and fighters of the NASAF and Northwest Tactical Air Force (NATAF) pound the island throughout the afternoont>

CANADA: AMC HMCS Prince Robert re-commissioned as an AA cruiser. (Dave Shirlaw)

U.S.A.: Most of the 500,000 striking miners return to work.

The Commander in Chief, U.S. Fleet established a project for airborne test, by Commander Fleet Air, West Coast, of high velocity, “forward shooting” rockets. These rockets, which had nearly double the velocity of those tested earlier at Dahlgren, had been developed by a rocket section, led by Dr. C. C. Lauritsen, at the California Institute of Technology under National defence Research Committee auspices and with Navy support. This test project, which was established in part on the basis of reports of effectiveness in service of a similar British rocket, completed its first airborne firing from a TBF of a British rocket on 14 July and of the CalTech round on 20 August. The results of these tests were so favorable that operational squadrons in both the Atlantic and Pacific Fleets were equipped with forward firing rockets before the end of the year. (Gene Hanson)

[BroJoeK]

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June 7, 1943:

• 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.

• June 3: "German troops in the Warsaw Ghetto destroy a bunker on Walowa Street that conceals 150 Jews; See September 1943.

• "Near Michalowice, Poland, Germans kill two Polish farmers who have rescued and hidden three Jewish escapees in a barn.

• June 5: "1266 Jewish children under the age of 16 from Vught, Holland, are deported to the Sobibór death camp and gassed upon arrival.

• "In Minsk Mazowiecki, Poland, more than 100 Jewish workers at the Rudzki factory are shot.

• June 6: "Jacob Gens, the leader of the Jewish Council in Vilna, argues that Vilna's Jews will have an improved chance of survival if they demonstrate their usefulness as workers.

• "Germans execute all 1000 Jews still remaining in the Rohatyn (Poland) Ghetto after German authorities discover a plot of local Jewish policemen to purchase weapons.

• June 7: "Dr. Klaus Clauberg reports from Auschwitz that the apparatus to sterilize 1,000 Jewish women a day is being set in place."

"Pictured here are weapons, including knives and pistols, from the Lvov (Ukraine) Ghetto.
The Nazis discovered the weapons in June 1943 as they sought to clear the Lvov work camp of all remaining Jews.
Although vastly outnumbered by the German and Ukrainian police units that surrounded the ghetto, the remaining Jews chose resistance, killing several of their captors and wounding more than a dozen."

"Natzweiler-Struthof, located near Strasbourg, France, was one of the smallest of the concentration camps.
The inmates worked in the granite quarry and labored underground in arms production.
In 1943 a gas chamber was built at the camp, paid for by the Institute of Anatomy at Strasbourg University.
Jews and Gypsies were transferred from Auschwitz to serve as subjects for various grotesque experiments, after which they were gassed and cremated; the crematorium is seen here. "

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[PLMerite]

"Aftermath of the bombardment on Pantelleria"

No Mas Pantelleria!

[PeterPrinciple]

In 1943 a gas chamber was built at the camp, paid for by the Institute of Anatomy at Strasbourg University.
Jews and Gypsies were transferred from Auschwitz to serve as subjects for various grotesque experiments, after which they were gassed and cremated; the crematorium is seen here. “

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Institute of Anatomy?

still active and in the news.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/13/body-parts-university-cologne-celllars

[henkster]

I think Pantellaria is Italian for “get your a$$ kicked.”

[PAR35]

Wrong university, wrong country. The story posted above deals with French experimentation on Jews during World War II. Your story deals with a broken freezer from 10 or 20 years ago, and a murdered professor.