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PEACE RIOTS, STRIKE REPORTED IN NORTH ITALY (7/29/43)
Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 7/29/43 | Daniel T. Brigham, Alexander Werth, Drew Middleton, Lewis Wood, Hanson W. Baldwin

Posted on 07/29/2013 5:44:15 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson

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TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: milhist; realtime; worldwarii
Free Republic University, Department of History presents World War II Plus 70 Years: Seminar and Discussion Forum
First session: September 1, 2009. Last date to add: September 2, 2015.
Reading assignment: New York Times articles delivered daily to students on the 70th anniversary of original publication date. (Previously posted articles can be found by searching on keyword “realtime” Or view Homer’s posting history .)
To add this class to or drop it from your schedule notify Admissions and Records (Attn: Homer_J_Simpson) by freepmail. Those on the Realtime +/- 70 Years ping list are automatically enrolled. Course description, prerequisites and tuition information is available at the bottom of Homer’s profile. Also visit our general discussion thread.
1 posted on 07/29/2013 5:44:16 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
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To: Homer_J_Simpson
Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
Kursk and Vicinity 1943: Battle of Kursk, 4 July-1 August 1943
Soviet Summer and Fall Offensives: Operations, 17 July-1 December 1943
Sicily, 1943: Italo-German Counterattack, 11 July and Allied Advance, 12 July-17 August 1943
South Pacific Area Operations: Capture of New Georgia, 21 June-27 August 1943
New Guinea Force Operations: Capture of Salamaua and Lae, 29 June-16 September 1943
The Far East and the Pacific, 1941: Status of Forces and Allied Theater Boundaries, 2 July 1942
India-Burma, 1942: Allied Lines of Communication, 1942-1943
Cartwheel, the Seizure of the Gilberts and Marshalls, and Concurrent Air and Naval Operations, 30 June 1943-26 April 1944
2 posted on 07/29/2013 5:44:57 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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To: Homer_J_Simpson
Goebbels’s diary, continued from July 26.

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William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

3 posted on 07/29/2013 5:45:39 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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To: Homer_J_Simpson
Continued from Yesterday.

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Winston S. Churchill, Closing the Ring

4 posted on 07/29/2013 5:46:47 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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To: r9etb; PzLdr; dfwgator; Paisan; From many - one.; rockinqsranch; 2banana; henkster; meandog; ...
Fascists Besieged (Brigham) – 2-3
War News Summarized – 3
RAF in Peak Blow – 4
Russians Flank Foe at Orel; Germans Reported Fleeing (Werth) – 5-6
American Forces in North Sicily Battle Germans Near Etna Line (Middleton) – 6-7
This is What Happened When a 500-Plane Raid Struck Naples (photo) – 7
Value of Tank Training Proved in Sicilian Invasion, Expert Says (Wood) – 8
New Phase in Air Blitz (Baldwin) – 9
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the Fighting in Various War Zones – 10-12
Commissions Given to 1,080 as Ensigns – 12
5 posted on 07/29/2013 5:48:11 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1943/jul1943/f29jul43.htm

German armored attack fails
Thursday, July 29, 1943 www.onwar.com

German tank knocked out on the Eastern Front [photo at link]

On the Eastern Front... The 3rd Panzer Corps strikes Soviet positions on the Mius River, north of Taganrog, without success.

In London... The minister of labor, Ernie Bevin, announces that women up to age 50 must register for war work. It is an indication of the strain on labor resources in Britain resulting from mobilization for war.

In Sicily... The British 78th Division arrives at the front and attacks toward Paterno.


6 posted on 07/29/2013 5:49:02 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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http://www.etherit.co.uk/month/thismonth/29.htm

July 29th, 1943 (THURSDAY)

UNITED KINGDOM: Ernest Bevin, British Minister of Labour, announces that women up to 50 must now register for war work later in the summer. He is stopping recruitment for the women’s uniformed services in order to divert more women into aircraft production. He told the House of Commons today that there will be no further volunteers accepted for the ATS, WAAF, WRNS and the Women’s Land Army, and no further age groups will be called up.

“We propose to ask those women not required for the services to go into the aircraft factories.” He was considering the possibility of using more youths of 16 and 17 in the aircraft industry. Although it had expanded so greatly, the labour force was still insufficient, hence the call up of older women.

Aircraft carrier HMS Magnificent (later HMCS Magnificent) laid down Harland and Wolff Belfast.

Destroyer HMS Boreas had steamed over 250,000 miles since the war began. In 439 days, she travelled 183,244 miles with the same crew and never lost a ship in convoy.

In England, the US Eighth Air Force’s VIII Air Support Command and VIII Bomber Command fly missions.

- VIII Air Support Command Missions 8 and 9 target 2 airfields; 18 B-26B Marauders are dispatched against Schipol Airfield at Amsterdam, The Netherlands; the mission is aborted due to a navigational error while 19 B-26Bs attack Ft. Rouge Airfield, France at 1828 hours local.

- VIII Bomber Command Mission Number 79 targets 2 locations in Germany. 91 B-17s bomb the shipyards at Kiel at 0901 hours while 48 attack targets of opportunity; 6 B-17s are lost. 54 B-17s hit the Heinkel Works at Warnemunde at 0922-0924 hours 4 B-17s are lost.

Escort carrier HMS Pretoria Castle commissioned.

GERMANY: The press celebrates Mussolini’s 60th birthday, showing Hitler’s continued loyalty to the Duce.

U-866 launched.

U-991 commissioned.

ITALY: Sicily: The British 78th Division arrives at the front and attacks toward Paterno.

On the ground the US Seventh Army almost completes the mop up of western Sicily, approaches Santo Stefano Quisquina, advances on Mistretta, and takes three islands off Trapani. The British Eighth Army opens an assault during the night of 29/30 July along an axis of Catenanuova-Adrano.
In the air, 200+ Ninth Air Force P-40’s, the largest number of fighters operating in a day during the Sicilian campaign to date, attack Messina Riposto, shipping at Catania, Santa Teresa di Riva, Taormina, Milazzo, and in the Straits of Messina.

Northwest African Strategic Air Force B-26 Marauders hit Aquino Airfield while In Sicily, Northwest African Tactical Air Force fighters and light bombers hit Regalbuto, Milazzo, shipping off Messina, and gun positions and motor transport in northeastern Sicily.

Northwest African Strategic Air Force B-17s bomb Viterbo Airfield.

MEDITERRANEAN SEA: Italian submarine Pietro Micca was torpedoed and sunk at the entrance to Adriatic, in the Strait of Otranto by the British submarine HMS Trooper.

U.S.S.R.: The III Panzer Corps counterattacks Soviet positions on the River Mius, north of Taganrog with little effect.

INDIAN OCEAN: At 0600, the Cornish City in Convoy DN-53 was torpedoed and sunk by U-177 SE of Madagascar. The master, 31 crewmembers and five gunners were lost. Five crewmembers and one gunner were picked up by destroyer HMAS Nizam and landed at Port Louis, Mauritius.

TERRITORY OF ALASKA: ALEUTIAN ISLANDS: A US Eleventh Air Force B-17 scouts Kiska Island and bombs the Main Camp area.

CANADA: Armed yacht HMCS Beaver arrived Digby, Nova Scotia, for training DEMS gunners.

Light cruiser HMCS Ontario (ex-HMS Minotaur) launched.

Minesweeper HMCS Winnipeg commissioned.

U.S.A.:

Destroyer escorts USS Deede and Douglas L Howard commissioned.

Destroyer USS Hoel commissioned.

Submarine USS Blueback laid down.

Destroyer escorts USS O’Reilly, Riddle, Wesson laid down.

ATLANTIC OCEAN: U-614 (Type VIIC) is sunk northwest of Cape Finisterre, at position 46.42N, 11.03W, by depth charges from a British Wellington aircraft (Sqdn. 172/G) . 49 dead (all crew lost). (Alex Gordon)


7 posted on 07/29/2013 5:50:13 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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To: Homer_J_Simpson

Many thanks for this ongoing “superpost” on WW2.
As if you’re not busy enough, have you given any thought to covering WW1? Next year starts the hundredth anniversary.


8 posted on 07/29/2013 9:11:50 AM PDT by HomeAtLast
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I was encouraged by the p3 article quoting Stars and Stripes that the boys may be home from Europe in time for Christmas.
9 posted on 07/29/2013 9:41:34 AM PDT by fso301
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To: HomeAtLast

I’ve long thought it would be fun to do the Civil War this way. As for me, though, September 3, 1945 - I’m done.


10 posted on 07/29/2013 10:02:53 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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To: Homer_J_Simpson

I thought about emulating you for the 150th of the War of Northern Aggression, but I was too busy and knew I wouldn’t be able to deliver on a regular basis.

We do have the centennial of the Erste Weltkrieg coming up next year, however.


11 posted on 07/29/2013 5:41:43 PM PDT by PAR35
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I have read some articles with modern assessments of German production that to down play the effect of strategic bombing. Diary posts like this put the lie in all that. Just because Germany was able to mitigate some of the long term effects of the damage does not mean they were not extremely disruptive.


12 posted on 07/30/2013 8:26:57 AM PDT by TalonDJ
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