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INVADERS DRIVE EIGHT MILES INLAND ON RIVIERA, CAPTURE ST. TROPEZ, RESISTANCE STILL SLIGHT (8/17/44)
Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 8/17/44 | A.C. Sedgwick, Herbert L. Matthews, E.C. Daniel, Hal Boyle, Richard D. McMillan, David Anderson

Posted on 08/17/2014 6:42:06 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson

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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 and the occasional radio broadcast 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 08/17/2014 6:42:06 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
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Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
Northwestern France, 1944 – The Exploitation: Operations, 14-25 August 1944
Southern France, 1944 – Operations in the South, 15-28 August, 1944
Eastern Europe, 1941: Operation Bagration – Operations, 22 June-19 August, 1944
The Western Pacific, New Guinea, and the Philippine Islands: Allied Advances to the Palaus and Morotai, 30 July-17 September 1944 and Air Attacks on the Philippines, 7-22 September 1944
Northern Italy 1944: Allied Advance to Gothic Line, 5 June-25 August and Gains 29 August-31 December
China, 1941: Operation Ichigo, April-December 1944 and Situation 31 December
China-Burma, 1941: Third Burma Campaign – Slim’s Offensive, June 1944-March 1945
2 posted on 08/17/2014 6:42:39 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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The Nimitz Graybook

3 posted on 08/17/2014 6:43:17 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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The second of the following excerpts is continued from yesterday.

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Winston S. Churchill, Triumph and Tragedy

4 posted on 08/17/2014 6:44:06 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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V-Mail from New Guinea-Aitape.

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5 posted on 08/17/2014 6:45:22 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; ...
Late, late edition today. Paper boy slept in.

Invasion Gaining (Sedgwick) – 2-3
American Parachutists Take St. Tropez by Lucky Error (Matthews) – 3-4
Patton Lashes Out (Daniel) – 4-5
German 7th Army Slashed to Bits (Boyle) – 5
The Beachhead on the Coast of Southern France is Made Secure and the Allies Rule the Air (photos) – 6-8
Patton Bets $1,000 He’ll Enter Paris – 7-8
Canadians Battle in Falaise Streets (McMillan) – 8-9
From North to South France Resounds to Battle (map) – 9
Welcome Hands for Our Men in Northern France (photo) – 10
War News Summarized – 10
Red Army Gives Up Warsaw Suburb – 11-12
British Drop Arms to Warsaw Poles – 12
8th’s Bombers Rip More Reich Plants (Anderson) – 12
Separate Commands (by Hanson W. Baldwin) – 15
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the Fighting in Various War Zones – 16-18
Berlin Peace Plea Warns of New War – 18

6 posted on 08/17/2014 6:47:31 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/1944/aug44/17aug44.htm#

Canadians capture Falaise
Thursday, August 17, 1944 www.onwar.com

Canadian infantry and armor enter Falaise [photo at link]

On the Western Front... Elements of Canadian 1st Army complete the capture of Falaise. The town has been severely damaged in recent fighting. There is a few miles gap between the Canadian line and the American line to the south, held by US 1st Army with US 5th Corps forward. To the south and west, other American forces capture Dreux, Chateaudun and Orleans. In Brittany, the German defenders of the citadel at St. Malo surrender.

From Berlin... Hitler dismisses Field Marshal Kluge as commander of Army Group B. Field Marshal Model is appointed in his place.

On the Eastern Front... In Lithuania, forces German Army Group North launches counterattacks along the entire line. Effort is concentrated on Siauliai with the objective of preventing Soviet forces from cutting off German-held Riga in Latvia.

In Southern France... There is little German resistance to the Allied advance of US 7th Army. St. Raphael, St. Tropez, Frejus, Le Luq and St. Maxime are captured during the day.

In New Guinea... Near Aitape, American forces extend their line in a general advance against light Japanese resistance. On Numfoor, the last significant Japanese force is brought to battle by American forces and destroyed.


7 posted on 08/17/2014 6:49:16 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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Paper boy slept in.

Me, too. I didn't have the Morning Kitteh up until after 7:00. Usually it's before 5:30.

8 posted on 08/17/2014 6:49:29 AM PDT by Tax-chick (No power in the 'verse can stop me.)
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http://www.etherit.co.uk/month/thismonth/17.htm

August 17th, 1944 (THURSDAY)

UNITED KINGDOM:

The US Eighth Air Force in England flies 3 missions.

- Mission 558: 10 B-24s are dispatched to drop Azon missiles on the Les Foulous, France rail bridge but the mission is abandoned due to deteriorating weather.

- Mission 559: 1 B-17 drop a BATTY TV bomb on the port area at La Pallice, France.

- Mission 560: 7 B-17s drop leaflets in France during the night.

- 33 B-24s fly CARPETBAGGER missions during the night.

Fighter-bomber missions flown by the VIII Fighter Command:

- 397 P-38 Lightnings and P-47 Thunderbolts hit the Paris/Brussels area; they claim 3-0-3 aircraft.

- 318 P-51 Mustangs are dispatched to hit communications targets; 7 P-51s are lost.

FRANCE: Three thousand men detained by the SD are released. Those at Compiègne are still put on a train but will be released during transit by the Wehrmacht.

The Americans are in Chartres. The members of the Fascist PPF begin preparations to flee Paris on a convoy of Wehrmacht trucks, temporary passports are issued at the embassy for those wanting to go to Germany. In total between 10 and 20,000 Miliciens, PPF members and other ultras retreat eastwards to the Reich under constant exposure to Allied air forces.

The mayor of Paris, Pierre Charles Tattinger, meets with the German commander Dietrich von Choltitz to protest the explosives being deployed throughout the city. Adolf Hitler had decreed that Paris should be left a smoking ruin, but Dietrich von Choltitz thought better of his Fuehrer’s order.

Falaise, France is completely captured by the Canadian 2nd Division. There remain only a few miles between The Canadians to the north and the US V Corps to the south. Dreux, Chateaudun and Orleans are captured by US forces. The citadel at St. Malo, France surrenders.

La Lande: Staff Sergeant Stanley Bender, US Army, Company E, 7th Infantry, 3d Infantry Division, climbed on top of a knocked-out tank in the face of withering machine-gun fire to locate and destroy the source of fire which was holding up his company. He located the guns and led a squad of men to knock them out. MOH

In an agreement between Abetz and von Cholitz “Paris was to be neither defended not destroyed, not delivered to looting and arson.”

German Field Marshal Walther Model takes over command of German forces in the West from Field Marshall Gunther von Kluge who committed suicide because of his involvement in the July 20 plot against Hitler.
Chief of State Marshal Henri Pétain and his staff are interned at Belfort by order of the Führer. The Vichy French government under Premier Pierre Laval resigns.

In southern France, St. Raphael, St. Tropex, Frejus, Le Luq and St. Maxime fall to the Allies. There is little German resistance.

- The US Ninth Air Force dispatches 400+ A-20 Havocs and B-26s to bomb road bridges at Montfort-sur-Risle, Pont-Audemer, Nassandres, Beaumont-le-Roger, Le Bourg, Brionne, and Beaumontel, and a rail bridge at La Ferriere-sur-Risle; fighters fly ground force cover over Saint-Malo and Dreux and armed reconnaissance in northwest France; IX Tactical Air Command fighters attack and severely damage Gestapo HQ near Chateauroux.

- The US Twelfth Air Force, despite bad weather, sends medium bombers to attack railroad bridges leading to the beachhead area of the south coast and hit coastal guns southwest of Toulon; A-20s hit motor transport during the night and drop ammunition to invasion forces; fighter-bombers and fighters on armed reconnaissance and patrol score excellent results against motor transport and rail cars and destroy several airplanes on airfields in the south.

GERMANY: A Soviet patrol crosses the old East Prussian border near Stallupoenen (now Nestrov). (Henry Sirotin)

FINLAND: President Mannerheim meets Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Keitel who has come for a sudden visit to Finland. The formal reason for Keitel’s visit is to bring Mannerheim the Oak Leaves to his Knight’s Cross and a Knight’s Cross for General of Infantry Erik Heinrichs, the Chief of Finnish General Staff.

Mannerheim informs Keitel that the promise given by the ex-President Risto Ryti, that Finland won’t make peace unless in agreement with Germany, is in force no more. It was made by President Ryti personally and was not ratified by the Parliament. Finnish people doesn’t approve of the promise and thus Ryti had to resign. Finland shall stay in the war only as long as is in her interest to do so. Keitel assures that Germany won’t submit but keep fighting for ten more years if necessary.
Mannerheim comments that unfortunately we Finns can’t do that. Keitel is visibly agitated when he leaves.

LITHUANIA: Soviet Army Group North attacks toward Siauliai to prevent Riga from being cutoff.

U.S.S.R.: Baltic Fleet, Ladoga Lake and Chudskoe Lake Flotillas: SKA “I-27” and SKA “I-28” - by aviation, in Teploe Lake (part of Chudskoe Lake) . (Sergey Anisimov)(69)

ITALY: The Germans pull out of Florence, releasing Italy’s most beautiful city from a vise in which it long has been clutched. Neither army shelled Florence and it is believed that the historic city is intact except for five bridges blown up by the Germans.

The US Fifteenth Air Force in sends 53 B-17s, with fighter cover, to bomb Nish Airfield in Yugoslavia and 250 B-24s, escorted by P-51s, to bomb 3 oil refineries and targets of opportunity in the Ploesti, Romania area.

BULGARIA: One B-24 Liberator of the USAAF’s Fifteenth Air Force in Italy visually bombs a target of opportunity.

ROMANIA: Two hundred forty five B-24 Liberator of the USAAF’s Fifteenth Air Force in Italy bomb three oil refineries at Ploesti with the loss of 19 aircraft: Using H2X radar, the Romano Americano Refinery if bombed by 70 aircraft while 54 bomb visually; 124 aircraft bomb the Romano Americano Refinery, 70 using H2X radar; and 34 bomb the Standard Oil Refinery visually. Other targets hit by individual aircraft are a highway at Bailesti, a marshalling yard at Dragonesti, and another unnamed highway.

YUGOSLAVIA: B-17 Flying Fortresses of the USAAF’s Fifteenth Air Force in Italy bomb two targets: 51 aircraft bomb the airfield at Nis with the loss of one aircraft while one bombs the railroad at Pirot.

INDIA: Viceroy Viscount Wavell rejects Gandhi’s request to discuss war support in return for Indian independence.

NEW GUINEA: The last significant Japanese force on Numfoor is destroyed by US paratroopers.

VOLCANO ISLANDS: US Seventh Air Force B-24s from Saipan Island bomb Iwo Jima Island.

PALAU ISLANDS: US Thirteenth Air Force radar-equipped B-24s attack Japanese airfields and defenses during the night.

CANADA: Minesweeper HMCS Kapuskasing commissioned.

U.S.A.: Baseball, New York Yankees’ center fielder Johnny Lindell ties a major league baseball record by hitting four consecutive doubles in a game against the Cleveland Indians. The Yankees win the game 10-3.

Destroyer USS Dyess laid down.


9 posted on 08/17/2014 6:51:04 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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Today's Lage West gneral estimate of the situation in Normandy:

17 AUG 44 Lage West photo 17AUG44LageWestcrop_zps77186f86.jpg

10 posted on 08/17/2014 7:22:54 AM PDT by henkster (Do I really need a sarcasm tag?)
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That doesn’t look good, even though we know that big yellow blob pretty much all makes it out of the Falaise pocket.

I like the way the General colored in the Seine and other rivers so he could see them better.


11 posted on 08/17/2014 7:37:52 AM PDT by Tax-chick (No power in the 'verse can stop me.)
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Detailed map of the operational situation in the Falaise Pocket is not available in the usual format today. There is a situation map but it’s not readily legible. The German units in the pocket aren’t keeping very good records, and most of the history comes from the recollections of exhausted surviving commanders.


12 posted on 08/17/2014 7:41:59 AM PDT by henkster (Do I really need a sarcasm tag?)
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The German units in the pocket aren’t keeping very good records ...

For Germans not to keep records, things have to be bad!

13 posted on 08/17/2014 7:44:48 AM PDT by Tax-chick (No power in the 'verse can stop me.)
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To: Homer_J_Simpson

I note the AP report from Chungking:

August 16, 1944 “Gen Ho Ying-Chin “according to our calculations Japan will surrender unconditionally within one year.”

Those are some impressive calculations!


14 posted on 08/17/2014 8:55:50 AM PDT by Seizethecarp (Defend aircraft from "runway kill zone" mini-drone helicopter swarm attacks: www.runwaykillzone.com)
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August 16, 1944 “Gen Ho Ying-Chin “according to our calculations Japan will surrender unconditionally within one year.”

Those are some impressive calculations!

Good catch! (Small item on page 13.) They must have used a different algorithm to calculate Germany's defeat. That one is a little off.

15 posted on 08/17/2014 9:15:21 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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“The mayor of Paris, Pierre Charles Tattinger, meets with the German commander Dietrich von Choltitz to protest the explosives being deployed throughout the city. Adolf Hitler had decreed that Paris should be left a smoking ruin, but Dietrich von Choltitz thought better of his Fuehrer’s order.”

Hmmm...It seems some high ranking French generals attended Gen. Choltitz’s funeral in 1966, so gratitude for his decision to defy Hitler and save Paris appears to have been genuine!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietrich_von_Choltitz

“Dietrich von Choltitz died in November 1966 from a longstanding war illness in the city hospital of Baden-Baden. He was buried at the city cemetery of Baden-Baden in the presence of high-ranking French officers, amongst which colonels Wagner (Military Commander of Baden-Baden), de Ravinel and Omézon.[6] Baden-Baden was the post-World War II French headquarters in Germany.”


16 posted on 08/17/2014 9:31:07 AM PDT by Seizethecarp (Defend aircraft from "runway kill zone" mini-drone helicopter swarm attacks: www.runwaykillzone.com)
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17 posted on 08/17/2014 9:50:09 AM PDT by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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Before the remnants of 7th Army have escaped the Pocket, Patton already has their next position outflanked!

Hanson Baldwin takes the Monty controversy public. Looks like Monty is overstaying his welcome as ground commander. Soon, there will be three U.S. Armies in Northern France. Monty needs to step aside. Ike will take over direct command of the Army Groups.

18 posted on 08/17/2014 3:40:28 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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Soon, there will be three U.S. Armies in Northern France. Monty needs to step aside. Ike will take over direct command of the Army Groups.

Ike doesn't put Monty in his place until March 1945. Monty continues to bad mouth Ike to his 'friends', but for the most part keeps it out of the press.

19 posted on 08/17/2014 4:21:06 PM PDT by occamrzr06
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Yes. IIRC, Monty tried to pull off a coup to fire Ike and for guess who to replace him? He so p.o.’d the Americans Ike darn near relieved him.


20 posted on 08/17/2014 5:02:28 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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