Posted on 09/28/2013 5:46:57 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
Red Army at Gate 2-3
War News Summarized 3
5th Army Slowed (Bracker) 4
P-47s 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 Days 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
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.
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.
"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."
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