Posted on 06/21/2013 4:26:21 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1943/jun1943/f21jun43.htm
US Marines land at Segi Point
Monday, June 21, 1943 www.onwar.com
Marines disembark off the coast of New Georgia [photo at link]
In the Solomon Islands... On New Georgia, the 4th Marine Raider Battalion lands at Segi Point in the south. There is no Japanese garrison there.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andrew.etherington/frame.htm
June 21st, 1943 (MONDAY)
UNITED KINGDOM: The first production Hawker Tempest fighter, a MK V (JN 729) makes its maiden flight. (22)
Corvettes HMCS Arnprior (ex-HMS Rising Castle) and Petrolia (ex-HMS Sherborne Castle) laid down Harland and Wolff Ltd Belfast.
Corvette INS Assum (ex-HMS Bugloss) launched.
Submarine HMS Stratagem launched.
Corvettes HMS Hadleigh and Porchester Castle launched.
MAC ship SS Empire MacRae launched.
(Dave Shirlaw)
FRANCE: Jean Moulin of the Council of National Resistance arrested by the Germans. (Glenn Steinberg) Moulin, who escaped to England in 1941 in order to meet the Free French leader de Gaulle, agreed to be parachuted back into his native country on 1 January last year, charged with the mission of co-ordinating the many rival resistance groups operating there. Today he was to bring his task to fruition at a top-secret meeting in Lyons with Resistance leaders from across France. Instead he and several others discovered too late that they had been betrayed, when the hated German secret police raided the house and took them all into captivity.
GERMANY: There is a devastating Allied air raid on Wuppertal. (Glenn Steinberg)
Berlin: Himmler orders Jewish ghettoes in occupied Russia to be liquidated.
U-1056, U-1057, U-1274 laid down. (Dave Shirlaw)
FRENCH MOROCCO: The USAAF 480th Antisubmarine Group is activated at Port Lyautey, it is equipped with four squadrons of B-24s. (Jack McKillop)
NEW GUINEA: 10 Japanese military police are ambushed by the Australians Capt. Howlett and WO2 Ryan of ANGAU at Chivasing, west of Lae. (Michael Alexander)
SOLOMON ISLANDS: The US 4th Marine Raider Btn lands at Segi Point the undefended southern end of New Georgia.
TERRITORY OF ALASKA: A fighter strip is completed at Shemya in the Aleutian Islands. All missions are cancelled due to weather for tenth straight day. (Edward S. Miller)
U.S.A.:
Destroyer escorts USS Connolly and Halloran laid down.
Submarine USS Piranha laid down.
Submarine USS Cod commissioned.
Destroyer escort USS Engstrom commissioned.
Destroyer USS Luce commissioned.
Destroyer escorts USS Booth and Carroll launched.
(Dave Shirlaw)
ATLANTIC OCEAN: Milk-cow U-462 suffered one dead and 4 wounded during an attack from RAF 151 and 456 Sqn Mosquitoes. [Matrosengefreiter Ferdinand Brunnbaur]. (Dave Shirlaw)
Thanks Homer... Interesting to see STRIKING miners.. even during the war efforts.. and, good ol Harold Ickes Sr dithering and doing not much of anything..
Also, early reports of mass killings of Jews...
And the not-so-exciting, or well known.. early stagings in the Pacific.
Amazing, still... how LONG this all took.
“Thanks Homer... Interesting to see STRIKING miners.. even during the war efforts.. and, good ol Harold Ickes Sr dithering and doing not much of anything.”
I cannot imagine striking miners getting much sympathy from all the moms, dads and wives who have loved ones dying overseas.
“Amazing, still... how LONG this all took.”
In the context of history, the global breadth and scope of this war was unprecedented. And may never be seen again. Not so much how long it took, but rather that all of the world mobilized for it and how the battlefields ebbed and flowed across so much of the earth’s surface in four or five short years.
It was a war that began in 1939 with biplanes and cavalry charges. In 1945 it ended with jet fighters and nuclear weapons.
"The initial success of Operation Barbarossa generated huge numbers of Soviet prisoners-of-war, whom the Nazis treated as subhuman.
Many were executed or died on long death marches; all suffered extreme hunger and deprivation.
If their identities were discovered, Jewish soldiers were singled out for death or sent to stalags and extermination camps such as Sobibór.
This emaciated Jewish POW is identified by the Star of David he was forced to wear."
"A footbridge over Paneriu Street connected the large and small ghettos of Kovno, Lithuania.
In June 1943 the Kovno Ghetto was converted to a concentration camp, and the 4000 inhabitants were transferred to small camps situated outside Kovno.
At the same time, a Resistance group known as the Jewish Fighting Organization was formed to facilitate the departure of Jews from the ghetto and train them for partisan activities."
Man...I sure HOPE not. It's been obvious from reading this series of postings... THE WAR, was everything in these people's lives.. for a long, long time.
As you say, the advancements in science and technology were amazing. The business I work in today, styrene monomer (chemicals), was developed during the war.... as a way to mass produce synthetic rubber for tires.
The work those engineers did building the first plants was nothings short of amazing. They TRIPLED the capacity of the plants, WHILE they were constructing it... and, all this without the benefit of computers.
There are many POSITIVE lasting legacies from the war effort.
The Soviets returned the favor. They kept THOUSANDS of German prisoners for more than 10 years after the war. They used them for labor... building chemical plants, factories... even the subway system in Moscow.
To Stalin, the German soldiers were criminals; vandals who invaded his country and destroyed it. They were more or less under a criminal sentence in his gulag. It took his death and a special visit to Moscow by West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer in 1955 to get them released. Of the 85,000 German POW’s at Stalingrad, only 5,000 returned home. You will note that neither Wilhelm Pieck nor Walther Ulbricht of what became the DDR went to Moscow to secure the release of their fellow countrymen.
As for the Soviet POW’s, I cannot imagine a more grim fate than to be a Jewish soldier in the Red Army who fell into German capitivity.
I have always been fascinated by the “War in the East” and its aftermath. Most Americans only have a superficial understanding of this aspect of World War 2, but the bitter brutal struggle between Hitler’s Nazi Germany and Stalin’s Soviet Union was really the hub of the war; all of the other conflicts basically revolved around what happened on the “Eastern Front.”
From the p10 article about Catholics and Costa Rican communists. Archbishop Victor Sanbria needs to go live in Russia for a while.
Soviet POW camps were Boy Scout camps compared to the German POW camps on the Eastern Front. The Germans purposely let the Russian POW’s die like flies from starvation and exposure. They died by the millions.
It seems an open secret that Sicily is the next target.
Do you think Stalin would have eventually attacked Germany if Hitler had stopped with Poland and not invaded Russia?
Yes.
Should I elaborate?
Eisenhower divulged the date and location of the Sicily invasion to the press corps in May, trusting in their discretion. Since then there have been plenty of stories about Sicily in the news, but I suppose there has been no information that would enable the Germans to zero in on the invasion site or eliminate other possible sites in the region.
I find your posts very interesting, so, yes, I’d like you to elaborate.
I suppose the Germans didn’t really view this as their problem after the loss of their army in Tunisia. Italy was still in the war and should defend its homeland. Besides, Hitler and his generals wanted everything they could put on the Eastern front for their summer offensive against Russia.
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