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ALLIES WARN ITALY BOMBINGS WILL RESUME; ARMIES PUSH AHEAD ON ALL SICILIAN FRONTS (8/1/43)
Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 8/1/43 | Frederick Graham, Brooks Atkinson, Hanson W. Baldwin, C.L. Sulzberger, Raymond Daniell, more

Posted on 08/01/2013 6:34:29 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson

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THE NEWS OF THE WEEK IN REVIEW

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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 08/01/2013 6:34:30 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 08/01/2013 6:35:02 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
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Winston S. Churchill, Closing the Ring

3 posted on 08/01/2013 6:37:58 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; ...
Rome is Denounced – 2-3
Allied Warning to Italy – 2
French Hear Italy Withdraws Troops – 3
War News Summarized – 3
New British Gain – 4
Allies Rake Nazis in France after RAF Blow Near Ruhr (Graham) – 5
A Flying Fortress Attack on Nazi Installations in Norway (photo) – 6
Russians Slowed as Nazis Stiffen – 7
Heat in Chungking is Likened to Hell (Atkinson) – 8
The Admiral Gets a First-Hand Report from a Marine (photo) – 8
Air Front in Europe (Baldwin) – 9
Army Air Forces 36 Years Old Today – 9
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the War – 10-12
Palestine Faces Clash After War (Sulzberger) – 12
Rationing at a Glance – 12

The News of the Week in Review
Twenty News Questions – 13
Hitler’s ‘Fortress Europe’ – And His Smaller ‘European Redoubt’ (map) – 14
‘The Fortress Europe’ Assailed On All Sides (Daniell) – 15
Heightened Air War Has a Fourfold Aim (by James MacDonald) – 17
Answers to Twenty News Questions – 18
The Best Selling Books, Here and Elsewhere (from Book Review) – 18

4 posted on 08/01/2013 6:39:00 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/aug1943/f01aug43.htm

American bombers attack Ploesti oil fields
Sunday, August 1, 1943 www.onwar.com

Liberator bombers with the burning oil fields behind them [photo at link]

Over Romania... The USAAF conducts a daytime bombing raid on the Ploesti oil fields. Of the 177 B-24 Liberator bombers, 50 are lost.

Over Germany... Bomber Command carries out a small raid on Hamburg.

In Algiers... The Free French leadership is reorganized. General Giraud will only chair the National Liberation Committee when military issues are discussed. General de Gaulle will chair the committe at all other times.

In Tokyo... The Japanese announce recognition of an independent Burma which has declared war on the United States and Britain. The leader of the Burmese government, Ba Maw, signs a secret treaty with the Japanese.

In Sicily... Heavy fighting is reported around Troina, Regalbuto and Cenuripe. The rugged terrain in the northeast of the island assists the defending Axis forces.


5 posted on 08/01/2013 6:40:34 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/01.htm

August 1st, 1943 (SUNDAY)

UNITED KINGDOM: Escort carrier HMS Atheling commissioned.

GERMANY: Berlin: Berliners at Sunday breakfast were shocked today to hear a radio broadcast by Josef Goebbels calling on all citizens not vital to the war industry to evacuate the city. Up to now propaganda sources have insisted that a major raid in Berlin is very unlikely, and this sudden announcement has fuelled rumours that the capital has been surrendered and this is the beginning of the end. Free travel permits are being issued to women, children, pensioners and the sick, together with ration cards and blankets.

Birthday of King Georgios II of the Hellenes. (Glenn Steinberg)

U-922 commissioned.

ROMANIA: The First Allied air raid is made on the Ploesti oil complex in Romania. (Glenn Steinberg)
177 B-24s, of the US IX Bomber Command, including B-24’s on loan from the Eighth Air Force in England, are dispatched in a low-level attack on the oil refineries at Ploesti and nearby Campina. The operation (TIDALWAVE) is costly; 41 aircraft are shot down, 13 are lost in operational accidents and 532 airmen are lost, but damage to the targets is severe. 5 airmen are awarded the Medal of Honor for this mission. They include Lt-Col. Addison E. Baker.

U.S.S.R.: Soviet submarine S-12 of the Baltic Fleet is sunk in the Gulf of Finland by German and Finnish craft off Keri. (Mike Yared)(146 and 147)

U-255 set up a radio station near Spoyj Navolok on Novaya Zemlya.

ITALY: Sicily The fighting is heavy around Troina.

On the ground in Sicily, U.S. ground forces advance east along the coast, approach Troina further inland, and begin a movement to flank defences. The British, to the south, penetrate into Regalbuto.
In the air, 230+ P-40s, the largest Ninth Air Force total to date, attack Adrano, the area near Randazzo, Messina, Milazzo, Taormina, and shipping in the Straits of Messina. During the night of 31 July/1 August, Northwest African Strategic Air Force Wellingtons bomb Randazzo and Adrano and the next day, B-25 Mitchells hit Milazzo. Northwest African Tactical Air Force light and medium bombers hit Paterno, Randazzo, Adrano, Bronte, Santa Maria di Licondia, and motor transport in the Orlando area
Northwest African Coastal Air Force Beaufighters score hits on shipping between Sardinia and Italy.

During the night of 31 July/1 August, Northwest African Strategic Air Force Wellingtons drop leaflets on Rome and Naples. During the following day, B-17 Flying Fortresses bomb Capodichino Airfield.

ALGERIA: Algiers: De Gaulle is made president of the National Defence Committee, ceding leadership of the Fighting French to General Giraud only for purely military matters.

CHINA: Chungking:
The National Government breaks off diplomatic relations with Vichy France.
Nationalist president Lin Sen dies.

BURMA: Rangoon: The Japanese government today announced that the British colony of Burma is to be independent. The Japanese military administration now occupying the country under Lt-Gen Mazikazu Kawabe has handed over its powers to the Burmese nationalist leader Dr Ba Maw, who has been premier under Japan for the last year.
The Burmese people heard of their new status this morning in a broadcast by Radio Tokyo: “Burma has now become the fifth independent country in the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, after Japan, China, Thailand and Manchukuo (Manchuria).”
The first act of the new independent state has been to declare war on Britain and the USA. The declaration was read in the Burmese State Assembly by Dr Ba Maw, who on a recent visit to Tokyo spoke of the “sharing of life and death with Japan in the war.”
The Japanese move has been expected for some time. Burmese nationalists supporting the Japanese during their 1942 invasion, and now formed into a Burmese National Army, rendered great propaganda benefits to Japan, as has the creation of the Indian National Army, led by Subhas Chandra Bose and recruited from Indian Army prisoners of war. Japan hopes that the granting of Burmese independence will strengthen its claim to be fighting a war against colonialism.

SOLOMON ISLANDS: US Thirteenth Air Force P-40s and 18 SBD Dauntlesses and 18 TBF Avengers of the US Marine Corps, again hit Munda on New Georgia Island bombing AA positions, ammunition dumps, and other targets. The USAAF sends 21 B-24s, 16 P-38 Lightnings, and P-40s, plus Marine aircraft, to attack Kahili Airfield on Bougainville Island; other P-40s and 80+ Marine aircraft hit shipping in nearby waters.

A Japanese destroyer rams and sinks Motor Torpedo Boat 109 (PT-109). Two crewmen are killed but 11 survive including the captain, Lieutenant John F. Kennedy, USNR. The 11 men are finally rescued by a PT boat on the evening of 7 August.

TERRITORY OF ALASKA: ALEUTIAN ISLANDS: 7 US Eleventh Air Force B-24s bomb the Main Camp area on Kiska Island through the overcast. The 5,183 Japanese troops that were on Kiska arrive at Paramushiru Island, Kurile Islands aboard Japanese ships.

U.S.A.: Ground is broken for the construction of the first uranium enriching plant at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The facility is built at a cost of US$280 million (US$2.745 billion in year 2000 dollars) and is completed in the summer of 1944.

In New York City, race-related rioting erupts in Harlem, resulting in several deaths.

Light fleet carrier USS Bataan launched.

Destroyers USS Wedderburn, Lewis Hancock, Hunt, Callaghan launched.

Submarine USS Golet launched.

Destroyer escorts USS Gendreau, Vammen laid down.

Destroyer USS Lowry laid down.

Destroyer escort USS Laning commissioned.

Destroyer escorts USS Brackett, Donaldson, Foreman, Lamons, Mitchell, Reynolds launched.

ATLANTIC OCEAN: The German Navy loses two submarines:

- U-383 is sunk west of Brest, France, in position 47.24N, 12.10W, by depth charges from a Sunderland of RAF No. 228 Squadron based at Pembroke Dock, Wales. All hands, 52 men, are killed.

The boat reported to BdU late on 1 Aug reported its inability to dive after an aircraft attack. It was apparently lost due to the extensive damages resulting from the attack. (Alex Gordon)

- U-454 is sunk in the Bay of Biscay north-west of Cape Ortegal, Spain, in position 45.36N, 10.23W, by depth charges from a Sunderland of the Royal Australian Air Force’s No. 10 Squadron based at Mount Batten, Devonshire. 14 of the crew of 46 men survive.

SS Bage sunk by U-185 at 11.29S, 36.49W.

At 1851, U-198 fired its last torpedo at Convoy BC-2 and hit the Mangkalihat after 4 minutes 10 seconds. An earlier attack with two bow torpedoes had been unsuccessful. The crew abandoned ship because the engine room, boiler room and #3 hold were flooded. Ten crewmembers and eight passengers were lost. HMS Freesia took the ship in tow the next morning in 25°11S/34°06E, while a skeleton crew re-boarded the vessel. On 3 August, HMS Prudent came to assist and used her pumps to keep the ship afloat. In the early morning of 4 August, the tug took over the tow, but the Mangkalihat foundered during the day in 25°44S/33°32E.


6 posted on 08/01/2013 6:44:01 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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The interesting buried article here is “Palestine Faces Clash After the War” which discusses the preparations already in motion to build up arms and operations by Jews and Arabs. They knew then that there would be problems with the muslim turds, almost two years before the war ended and almost five years before the actual war for “Palestine”.


7 posted on 08/01/2013 7:20:28 AM PDT by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: RJS1950

Wasn’t isn’t too surprising when you think about it. Clashes between the Jewish settlements and Arabs predate the Second World War. The first Arab “organization”, the Arab Executive Committee was formed in 1920, only a year after the Balfour Declaration. This was a festering issue that was always a problem, and was only made more noticeable when the Western forces moved out of the area after the war.


8 posted on 08/01/2013 5:16:57 PM PDT by CougarGA7 ("War is an outcome based activity" - Dr. Robert Citino)
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To: RJS1950

Later, the British were pushed to allow the Jewish Brigade to be raised in Palestine. They would see service in Italy and later become the nucleus of the IDF.


9 posted on 08/02/2013 3:05:42 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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