Posted on 06/08/2013 5:38:39 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
Please let me have a report setting out what is being done to protect our reservoirs from attacks like those we have made recently in Germany [on the Möhne Dam].
Winston S. Churchill, Closing the Ring
http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1943/jun1943/f08jun43.htm
Japanese battleship blows up
Tuesday, June 8, 1943 www.onwar.com
In Japan... The battleship Mitsu suffers an internal explosion and sinks in Hiroshima Bay.
In the Mediterranean... The bombardment of the Italian island of Pantelleria continues.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andrew.etherington/frame.htm
June 8th, 1943 (TUESDAY)
UNITED KINGDOM: The first flight of the de Havilland Mosquito Mk XVIII (HJ 732) is made today. It is equipped with a 57mm Molins gun (equivalent to a 6-pounder field gun). More
POLAND: Auschwitz-Birkenau: With a casual wave of his gloved hand, the new camp doctor, SS Captain Josef Mengele, has just separated 880 Greek Jews from Salonika into two groups: those who will die now, and those who will live a little longer.
He takes a special interest in new arrivals, for they provide human guinea pigs for his gruesome medical experiments. His interests include the way identical twins react when exposed to disease or torture.
His colleague, Professor Carl Clauberg, has just completed his research into sterilization methods; he reported to Himmler yesterday that, using X-Rays, he could sterilize up to a thousand half-Jews and gypsies every day.
GREECE: Some 880 Greek Jews from Salonika arrive in Auschwitz.
MEDITERRANEAN SEA: Northwest African Strategic Air Force (NASAF) Wellingtons pound the town and docks on Pantelleria Island in the Mediterranean during the night of 7/8 June. The air offensive against the island increases during the following day as fighters, light, medium and heavy bombers of the NASAF, Northwest Tactical Air Force (NATAF) and the USAAF’s Ninth Air Force continue to bomb throughout the day. Naval forces bombard the harbour and shore batteries. Surrender requests, dropped by airplane, bring no response. (Jack McKillop)
JAPAN: The Japanese Battleship Mutsu is sunk, by an internal explosion, in Hiroshima Bay.
Tokyo: The Japanese High Command orders the Aleutian island of Kiska to be abandoned.
TERRITORY OF ALASKA: ALEUTIAN ISLANDS: The Japanese submarines I-7 and I-34 reach Kiska Island with supplies and evacuate personnel.
HIJMS I-7 lands 19 tons of weapons and ammunition and 15 tons of food and evacuates 42 Navy, 18 Army and 41 civilian personnel.
HIJMS I-34 lands nine tons of weapons and ammunition and five tons of food and evacuates nine ( Navy and 71 civilian personnel. (Jack McKillop)
U.S.A.: Los Angeles declared off limits by military authorities in order to bring an end to the Zoot Suit riots. (Patrick Holscher)
Future late night TV star Johnny Carson enlists in the USN, as an apprentice seaman enrolled in the V-5 programme, which trains naval and US Marine pilots. (Military.com)
ATLANTIC OCEAN: Fairmile HMC ML 053 following the minesweeper HMS BYMS 989 observed a floating mine at 1815. A towline 90 yards long was attached to the mine and was towed to Ketch Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada. At 1930 the towline was passed to a shore party of 8 men from ML 053. The mine was then hauled to the beach. At this point Lt George Henry Olaf Rundle RCNR assisted by OS John Gordon Lancien RCNVR removed the cover plate. The wiring was cut and the detonator removed at 2052. Once the mine was declared safe, the shore party returned and removed the mine and detonator. (Dave Shirlaw)
“Harmonized socks”....I never knew....
I forgot to mention an important formatting change we have made. As of today we will be using a single line as a border at the top of each page - where you see the date stamp - instead of a double line. We calculate that the ink thus saved will be enough to finance the construction of an escort aircraft carrier if the war lasts another seventy years. In that event we hereby pledge to make a donation for that purpose and request that the vessel be christened “The Old Gray Lady.”
"This drawing, sketched by an unknown inmate of Auschwitz, depicts SS doctor Josef Mengele selecting the sick and weak for extermination.
Mengele, like the other doctors in the camp, played a vital role in the killing process by choosing who would die immediately and who would be worked to death.
Today this sketch is in the Auschwitz Museum."
I like the story about dragon boat races in China to celebrate the death of a poet who protested government corruption 2000 years ago by drowning himself. I await the 2013 races on the Potomac.
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