Posted on 07/06/2015 6:03:37 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers
Winston S. Churchill, Triumph and Tragedy
http://www.etherit.co.uk/month/6/06.htm
July 6th, 1945 (FRIDAY)
GERMANY: Berlin: The Allied occupation forces hold a victory parade.
CHINA: Major-General Claire L. Chennault resigns his command of the Sino-US Fourteenth Army Air Force in protest at plans to disband it. He is soon granted permission to retire.
JAPAN: Taking off from bases in the Marianas during the late evening hours of 6 July, 517 Twentieth Air Force B-29s make four incendiary and 1 high explosive attacks between 0700 and 0800 hours local on 7 July; 1 B-29 is lost:
Mission 251: 124 B-29s attack the Chiba urban area destroying 0.86 sq miles (2.23 sq km), 43.4% of the city; 1 other B-29 hits an alternate target.
Mission 252: 123 B-29s hit the Akashi urban area destroying 0.81 sq miles (1.7 sq km), 57.0% of the city; 1 other B-29 hits an alternate target.
Mission 253: 133 B-29s attack the Shimizu urban area destroying 0.71 sq miles (1.49 sq km), 50% of the city; 1 B-29 is lost.
Mission 254: 131 B-29s hit the Kofu urban area destroying 1.3 sq miles (2.7 sq km), 65% of the city; 1 other B-29 hits an alternate target.
Mission 255: 59 B-29s drop 500-pound (227 kg) bombs on the Maruzen Oil Refinery at Wakayama; 1 other hits an alternate target.
110 Iwo Jima-based P-51s attack airfields in the Tokyo area (Kumagaya, Yamagata, and Chiba); they claim 1-0-0 aircraft in the air and 6-25 on the ground; 1 P-51 is lost.
U.S.A.: Washington: The US chiefs of staff have today authorized a special operation known as Overcast. Its purpose is to exploit “chosen, rare minds whose continuing intellectual productivity we wish to use” from among German scientists. The Allies have recognized that the Germans are ahead of them in many fields of science. One example is rocketry, and the V-weapon expert Wernher von Braun and his fellow researchers have already been gathered together to prevent them falling into Soviet hands. This concern applies to other scientists as well.
CANADA: Corvettes HMCS Algoma, Summerside and Ville de Quebec paid off Sorel, Province of Quebec.
Destroyer HMCS Hamilton departs Sydney, Nova Scotia, under tow for scrapping Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Managua: Nicaragua is the first nation to ratify the United Nations Charter.
As bad as he is, couldn't he have waited until Cruz got elected?
Oh, wait a minute...
Submarine Trigger
http://www.subsowespac.org/world_war_ii_submarines/uss_trigger_ss_237.shtml
Loss Cause
On March 28, 1945, southwest of Shikoku, the Trigger was detected by Magnetic Anomaly Detector-equipped reconnaissance seaplanes from the Saki Naval Air Group. The aircraft directed antisubmarine surface vessels from the ComKure Guard Unit’s 3rd Sweeping Unit to the area in the Nansei Islands (Nansei Shoto) area. Beginning at about 1300 hours, at the geographic position 32° 16’ N, 132° 05’ E, the 3rd Sweeping Unit escort vessels Mikura, CD-33, and CD-59 conducted several attacks on the submerged submarine with Type 3 streamlined depth charges. After about two hours, a large amount of oil and submarine debris was sighted on the surface. The Trigger was the only submarine known to be operating in the immediate vicinity of the reported attack. 3
In 1945 a 25-year-old Karol Józef Wojtyla was studying for the priesthood. (It is reported that he also helped numerous Jews escape the Nazis).
Lech Walesa was not quite two years old.
I.G. FARBEN
War crimes trial, manufactured zyklon B. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IG_Farben_Trial
History of Company: http://www.reformed-theology.org/html/books/wall_street/chapter_02.htm
More info. http://igfarben.com/
I misread the sub-headline regarding the destroyer Newcomb and wondered why I never read about a battle off of “Io,” a wondered how they even got to Jupiter.
Apparently, the headline reads “wins battle off Ie,” headline writer-ese for Ie Shima.
That's essentially off the east cost of central Kyushu, about 30 miles from Miyazaki. That would have been a dangerous mission for no apparent reason, since the shipping lanes were on the west side of the island, between Japan and Korea (or Formosa). The sub was evidently not where it was supposed to be.
Since FDR did want to see his "signature policy" get shot down as unconstitutional, threatened to "pack the Court" by expanding the number of Justices. The Constitution does not state how many justices shall comprise the Supreme Court. Given another two or four appointments, he could overturn United States v. Butler and create a Court that was little more than a rubber-stamp for his socialist policies. Instead, in 1937, Justice Roberts switched sides in West Coast Hotel v. Parrish, in upholding a minimum wage law.
By switching sides, Roberts accomplished the following:
1. The "Freedom of Contract" line of cases from Lochner v. New York to United States v. Butler, while not explicitly overturned, were now dead letters, narrowly restricted to their facts, and those cases have not since been cited as controlling legal authority;
2. Congress was given carte blanche to do whatever they wanted simply by citing the Commerce Clause as authority for regulatory or resdistributive legislation.
3. And by so doing, FDR had in effect obtained his rubber-stamp Supreme Court.
Among the many liberal dogmas that float around (usually involving the supposed innocence of liberal "martyrs" like the Saccho & Vanzetti, the Rosenbergs and Alger Hiss), the dogma regarding Roberts is that he didn't switch under pressure. Instead, he was ready to change his mind based upon reading various "hints" he'd left in his opinions. But the reality is that after West Coast Hotel, Roberts never again sided with the "Four Horsemen, he never again cited Lochner as controlling authority. Roberts switch in West Coast Hotel was the most significant philosophical/political switch by an individual justice in the history of the Supreme Court.
It was probably academic anyway. With retirement/deaths of Justices Van Deventer, Butler, McReynolds and Sutherland, and their replacement by liberals like Frankfurter, Black, Murphy and Jackson, FDR created the rubber stamp socialist Court he wanted. Nothing was going keep that from happening eventually. With three full terms and a bunch of old men, he could simply have waited for nature to take its course.
In fact, Roberts switch was a double boon to FDR. By appearing to have changed his mind of his own volition, Roberts saved the image of an independent judiciary, and save FDR the need to engage in an obviously heavy-handed tactic of packing the Court. But as stated, Roberts switch in effect surrendered the reality of a judiciary that was an independent check and balance on Congress and the Executive.
Since then, the Court has exercised its "independence" by creating a labrynth of "individual rights," found nowhere in the Constitution, and inherently in conflict with each other. The Court then set itself up as the arbiter of those competing rights. In so doing, it has transformed itself into another organ of Statism, to diminish those liberties actually recognized in the Constitution and the Amendments thereto. They are not "rights," but rather "licenses" granted (and revoked) by the State acting through its judiciary.
The parallels to what Chief Justice Roberts has done 70-80 years later are unavoidable.
Thanks for posting a great piece of history!
V/R
Bill
I see what you did there. LOL
I have long suspected our current Justice Roberts voted to uphold Obamacare to avoid adverse political consequences to the Court, just as the former Justice Roberts did.
The local girls even wore armbands to declare themselves available. A soldier’s dream indeed!
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