RUSSIANS FACE DNIEPROPETROVSK, CAPTURE LAST KUBAN FORTRESS (9/28/43)

Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 9/28/43 | Milton Bracker, Drew Middleton

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[Homer_J_Simpson]

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.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
Soviet Summer and Fall Offensives: Operations, 17 July-1 December 1943
Allied Advance to Volturno River, Reorganization, and Attack on Gustav Line (17 January-11 May 1944)
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
New Guinea and Alamo Force Operations: Clearing the Huon Peninsula and Securing the Straits, 19 September 1943-26 April 1944
Cartwheel, the Seizure of the Gilberts and Marshalls, and Concurrent Air and Naval Operations, 30 June 1943-26 April 1944

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Continued from September 25.

Winston S. Churchill, Closing the Ring

[Homer_J_Simpson]

The index by author is back on Homer’s profile and it is updated through October 28, 1943.

Red Army at Gate – 2-3
War News Summarized – 3
5th Army Slowed (Bracker) – 4
P-47’s Fly 600 Miles to Aid Fortresses in Emden Attack – 5
Allies in another New Guinea Drive Strike Toward Madang Ship Base – 6
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques Fighting in Various Zones [sic-oops, my bad-HJS] – 8-10
Merchant Seamen Held as Prisoners – 10
Hull Moscow Trip Indicated by Berle – 10

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1943/sep1943/f28sep43.htm

Germans retreat as Allies advance
Tuesday, September 28, 1943 www.onwar.com

In Italy... The British 10th Corps (part of the US 5th Army) breaks into the plain of Naples at Nocera and advances. The US 6th Corps (also part of 5th Army) advances toward Avellino and has captured Teora.

In Occupied Italy... The uprising in Naples continues.

In New Guinea... There are Allied air attack on Japanese airfields around Wewak.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.etherit.co.uk/frame.htm

September 28th, 1943 (MONDAY)

UNITED KINGDOM: Corvette HMS Candytuft launched.

Corvette HMCS Long Branch (ex HMS Candytuft) launched Glasgow, Scotland. Log: Built by A. and J. Inglis, Glasgow, Scotland. Revised Flower Class (Increased Endurance) 970 tons, 208.3x33x11ft 16kts, crew 6/79, 1-4in, 1-2pdr, 2-20mm, hedgehog, renamed Sep 43. Long Branch named for a village absorbed by Toronto. Post WW.II, sold 1947, renamed SS Rexton Kent II, later renamed SS Rexton Kent. scuttled 1966 east coast. 28.09.43 Monnow’s Log: Built by Charles Hill and Sons Ltd. 1,445 tons, 301.5x36.7x9ft, 19kts, crew 8/133, 2-4in(1xII) 4-20mm, hedgehog. Post WW II returned to RN; to Denmark renamed Holger Dansk C/S “OUGH” broken up Odense, Denmark 1959.

Submarines HMS Vox and Totem launched.
Frigates HMS Gardiner and Goodson commissioned.

Frigate HMCS (ex-HMS) Monnow laid down Bristol.

GERMANY: A prototype high-speed U-boat, U-792, is launched; this is the first of four experimental submarines of this type. These boats are powered by a Walter gas turbine using hydrogen peroxide in a stabilized form called Perhydrol. The boats are used for training and reach a speed of 25 knots submerged. The Walter boats are extremely complex to build and maintain; also, they rely on an uncertain supply of Perhydrol, a fuel that was highly flammable.

Perhydrol is stabilized [they hope] 95% hydrogen peroxide. It broke down into steam, which ran the turbine, and oxygen, which was used with additional fuel. I believe the problem was the Walther turbine used a hell of a lot of it making its use impractical. (Tom Hickcox)

U.S.S.R.: A Soviet army spearhead reaches the Dnepr River at Dnepropetrovsk, 240 miles southeast of Kiev. (Jeff Chrisman)

ITALY: The people of Naples rise against the Germans. This fight will last 3 days and will end only with the advance of the Allied Armies.
The British X Corps arrive on the plain of Naples at Nocera and continue their advance. The US VI Corps advances near Avellino and captures Teora, Italy.

The US Fifth Army is ready for an assault on Naples and Avellino while Caistellamare di Stabia, Nocera, and Sala Consilina are taken.

Weather prevents completion of US Twelfth Air Force B-17 missions against the Bologna marshalling yard and the Bolzano railroad bridge, except for a B-17 which bombs Bolzano. Tactical aircraft operations are also severely curtailed by weather but fighter-bombers bomb and strafe motor transport in the Benevento-Caserta area.

AUSTRALIA: The Allied Air Forces, Southwest Pacific Area was activated 18 April 1942 at Brisbane, Queensland, assigned to Southwest Pacific Area, U.S. Army.

This unit retained operational control over the Fifth Air Force, the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) Command, attached Netherlands East Indies units and Aircraft, Seventh Fleet. Effective 15 June 1944, this unit also gained operational control of the Far East Air Forces (FEAF) and all U.S. Navy and Marine Corps aviation units located west of 159E longitude

PACIFIC

NEW GUINEA: The Wewak area is again hit by the US Fifth Air Force; 40 B-24s, escorted by 29 P-38 Lightnings, claim 8 fighters shot down; A-20 Havocs and RAAF Vengeances attack the Finschhafen and Lae area; and B-24s and P-39s hit a road near Bogadjim.

SOLOMON ISLANDS: 5 US Thirteenth Air Force B-24 snoopers attack a convoy in northern Solomon waters and claim several damaging hits causing the convoy to reverse its course.

During the night, the IJA garrison on Kolombangara Island begins withdrawing.

SULU SEA: The USN submarine USS Cisco (SS-290) is sunk in the Sulu Sea off Panay Island, the Philippines by the gunboat HIJMS Karatsu [ex-river gunboat USS Panay (PR-7)] and a Mitsubishi F1M, Navy Type 0 Observation Seaplane, Allied Code Name “Pete” at position 9.47N 121.44E. She was spotted after being located through her leaking oil tanks. (Jack McKillop and Dave Shirlaw)

U.S.A.: Glen Boren notes in his journal:
Loaded up on the USS BUNKER HILL and we left San Diego, underway for Pearl Harbor.

I was looking forward to a couple months in Pearl for the Squadron to finish the training program. We were less than half way thru it.

That feeling lasted just two days. Our lead chief came up to us on the hanger deck and said that he wanted to move four fighters to the flight deck and to set Fox-1 up on the catapult. We asked him what was going on and he said we were the new fighter squadron for the Bunker Hill. He said that VF-17 with the F4U’s were being pulled off at Pearl and going to be land based somewhere and we were “ IT” from then on. When we were near Pearl, all our fighters were flown off and we did get two weeks for training but that was it.

Oh well, the best layed plans, and so forth.

Regards,

Glen

Submarine USS Robalo commissioned.

[fso301]

An interesting assessment by the French on their postwar experience operating the Panther tank. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3072238/posts

[MN.Gruber06]

Wow. Totem Lodge & Country Club is still running in Averill Park under the name of "Burden Lake". Wasn't aware it was that old.
I am astonished how few advertisements appear in these papers as opposed to today.

[BroJoeK]

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September 28, 1943:

• September 25: "The Red Army captures Smolensk, Russia.

• "Only about 2,000 Jews, scattered among four labor camps, remain in Vilna, Lithuania.

• "Eliahu Barzilai, the chief rabbi of Athens, Greece, disguises himself as a peasant and escapes from the city.

• September 26: "At the Novogrudok, Belorussia, labor camp, Jews complete secret work on a tunnel dug under the wire.
  Of the 220 Jews who use the tunnel to attempt escape, 120 are killed or captured.

• September 28-29: "Five thousand Jews from Amsterdam are deported to the Westerbork, Holland, transit camp.

• "The Jewish community from Split, Yugoslavia, is killed at the Sajmiste, Yugoslavia, concentration camp.

• "Roman Jews deliver 50 kilograms* of gold to the Gestapo in Rome, as ordered.
  Pope Pius XII had offered to lend the Italian Jews 15 kilograms of gold if they could not collect the full amount themselves."

"Even music was subverted by the Nazis.
To calm arrivals and delude them into thinking that they were in a safe haven, the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp orchestra played cheerful and familiar melodies as people descended from the trains.
Music also provided a macabre accompaniment to death, as shown in this photo from Mauthausen.
Prisoners are marched to the gallows while accompanied by the violins and accordion of the camp orchestra.
The inmates referred to this as the Symphonia Diabolica, the Devil's Symphony."

"While some 4000 Belgian-Jewish children were kept safe in hiding throughout the war, others were not so fortunate.
An estimated 65,000 Jews were living in Belgium at the time of the Nazi invasion.
The first deportation of Jews began in July 1942; they were sent via Malines to Auschwitz.
Eventually, some 25,000 Jews were deported to their deaths, including all of these children."

*in today's values, 50 kg gold = circa $2 million.

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[Homer_J_Simpson]

I am astonished how few advertisements appear in these papers as opposed to today.

I only post a small portion of the ads. I occasionally print one that is especially interesting to me but most of them are here because they were adjacent to an article I saved. Hundreds of ads and articles fail to make the cut on any given day. Time is my main limiting factor. I have developed a real appreciation of how much work is involved in getting out a print paper every day. And I only copy what they already did.

[MN.Gruber06]

Wow. I did some quick stat researching and the population of NYC in 1943 was roughly 7,500,000 people. Average newspaper circulation rate in the United States in 1940 was about 33% - or 1 paper for every 3 people regardless of age. That means on any given day, the NYT printed nearly 2,500,000 (TWO MILLION!) papers A DAY. That is unbelievable.