Posted on 06/22/2013 5:15:26 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
Please make out the table about the coast defences of Tripoli, showing the contrast between the pre-war estimates and what was actually found. Naturally, as the war progressed we learnt through frequent contacts more about the defence armaments of Tripoli. We shall now however be attacking a number of new places with which we have not been in contact, and for these the inflated pre-war estimates may exercise an undue influence. This was the whole point of my inquiry.
Winston S. Churchill, Closing the Ring
WLB Warns Ickes (Stark) – 2-3
Injured Reach 600 – 3-4
Mob Rule: Twenty-three Persons Are Killed in Detroit Race Riots (photos) – 4-6
RAF Raids Friedrichshafen, Wrecking Nazi Radar Plant – 7-8
War News Summarized – 8
U.S. Fliers to Get Suits of Mail as Added Protection Over Germany – 9
Our Modern Warriors of the Air Dressed in Armor (photo) – 9
Soviet Asks Allies for 2d Front Now Lest Cause Suffer – 10
Quake Lays Turkish City in Ruins; Hundreds Killed, Ankara Reports – 11
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on Fighting in Various Zones – 12-13
http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1943/jun1943/f22jun43.htm
US reinforcements land on New Georgia
Tuesday, June 22, 1943 www.onwar.com
Reinforcements arrive in New Geotgia [photo at link]
In the Solomon Islands... On New Georgia, American reinforcements arrive without incident.
In Algiers... After several days of bargaining, the Committee of National Liberation decides the General Giraud will continue to command Free French forces in North Africa, but de Gaulle will be in command everywhere else. This is a victory of de Gualle and his supporters.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andrew.etherington/frame.htm
June 22nd, 1943 (TUESDAY)
UNITED KINGDOM: The rocket-firing version of the Bristol Beaufighter, the mark VIC is first used in strength today. (22)
GERMANY: The USAAF’s VIII Bomber Command in England flies Mission Number 65: In the first large-scale daylight raid on the Ruhr, 235 B-17 Flying Fortresses are dispatched to hit the chemical works and synthetic rubber plant at Huls in the main attack; 183 bomb the target and claim 46-21-35 Luftwaffe aircraft; this plant, representing a large percentage of the country’s producing capacity, is severely damaged. Sixteen B-17s are lost. Eleven YB-40s accompany the Huls raid; one is lost.
In a second raid, 42 B-17s are dispatched to bomb the former Ford and General Motors plants at Antwerp; 39 hit the target; they claim 1-2-9 Luftwaffe aircraft; four B-17s are lost. An additional 21 B-17s fly an uneventful diversion. (Jack McKillop)
FINLAND: Koivisto islands are evacuated and troops transported to west side of Bay of Vyborg. (Dave Shirlaw)
U.S.S.R.: Baltic Fleet and Ladoga Flotilla: GB “Kama” - by aviation, close to Lavensari Is. (later raised and went into service) (Sergey Anisimov)(69)
Moscow: On the second anniversary of the invasion, Radio Moscow claims that 6.4 million Germans have been killed or taken prisoner.
MEDITERRANEAN SEA: At 2131, U-593 fired a spread of four torpedoes at Convoy Elastic about eight miles northeast of Cape Corbelin, Algeria and hit the USS LST-333 and LST-387 with one torpedo each. The first was beached and declared a total loss, while the latter was towed to Dellys and later repaired. The torpedoing of these two ships hampers the training for the forthcoming invasion of Sicily (Operation Husky). The torpedo struck USS LST-333 on the starboard side in the stern. The explosion demolished the stern section, carried away the screws and rudder and stopped the engines. About 20 minutes after the hit, the landing crafts USS LCT-244 and LCT-19 took the landing ship in tow and proceeded slowly towards the beach. After one hour, the submarine chaser USS SC-503 came alongside and took off 32 injured crewmembers and 24 injured passengers and brought them to Algiers. After five hours of towing, the stern of the landing craft came aground near Dellys. The crew and passengers were taken off by the landing craft and brought to Dellys. The USS LST-333 later sank during a salvage attempt on 6 July. (Dave Shirlaw)
ALGERIA: Algiers: The Committee of National Liberation, a Free French group, decide that General Giraud will retain command of the French forces in North Africa and that General de Gaulle will command French forces elsewhere. This is a victory for Charles de Gaulle.
PACIFIC OCEAN: Japanese submarine I-7 is damaged by destroyer USS MONAGHAN (DD-354) near Kiska Island. (Marc James Small)(220, 221 and 222)
TERRITORY OF ALASKA: ALEUTIAN ISLANDS: The U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff approve the plan for the invasion of Kiska Island in the Aleutian Islands.
CANADA: Tug HMCS Glendevon laid down Vancouver, British Columbia. (Dave Shirlaw)
U.S.A.: Destroyer escort USS Durik laid down.
Minesweeper USS Ardent launched.
Destroyer escort USS Rich launched.
(Dave Shirlaw)
ATLANTIC OCEAN: At 2046, U-572 fired a spread of four torpedoes at Convoy UGS-10 and sank the Lot with two of them. The fleet oiler USS Merrimack and an escorting corvette picked up the survivors. (Dave Shirlaw)
And to think, they wanted to end a strike. Our current (p)resident wants to end the coal industry all together.
Interesting to note that in 1943 roughly 1.8 million of the 2.5 million lived in the city of Detroit itself.
Today, Detroit's population is around 700,000 and falling every census.
Meanwhile, the larger urban area has grown to 3.7 million or 5.2 million (depending on where you draw the lines), with about 46 million living within 300 mile radius of Detroit, and 59 million in the "Great Lakes Megalopolis".
If the truth is ever known, I suspect the wartime strikes we read about were due to communist agitators.
This was the second war time race riot in Detroit.
I certainly wouldn’t rule it out. But I imagine the reasons are more complex than just communist agitators.
Consider the marxist Hukbalahap guerillas in the Philippines. In addition to fighting the Japanese, the Huk's terrorized anti-Japanese Filipino citizens, fought against other Filipino guerilla groups and resisted cooperation with Americans.
The Huk's, the communist Chinese and other communist groups saw themselves as leaders of post-war revolutions that would seize control of their respective governments.
As for American labor unions, they had been under heavy communist influence for years. The American communists had no desire to make the world safe for democracy. Yes, other factors were undoubtedly behind wartime labor strikes. However, red agitators had to continue letting workers know they were being exploited and oppressed by the greedy proletariat.
I had never heard of this idea of bomber crews wearing chain mail suits. Apparently it did not catch on.
You are lucky to have all this wartime correspondence from your father. My Dad’s family didn’t save anything.
However, red agitators had to continue letting workers know they were being exploited and oppressed by the greedy proletariat.
Change proletariat to bourgeoise.
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