Posted on 07/29/2015 4:13:33 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers
The News of the Week in Review
The Momentous Changes of Five Months (photos) – 24
Fifteen News Questions – 25
“Make Way”: Mr. Low’s Comment on Britain’s Election (cartoon) – 26
British Vote Reflects Deep-Seated Forces(by Clifton Daniel) – 27-28
“Proof of the Victory” (cartoon) – 28
Strategic Islands the Rule the Pacific (map) – 29
Divided Command Seen as a Pacific Problem (by Hanson W. Baldwin) – 30
“Dilemma in Tokyo” (cartoon) – 31
Answers to Fifteen News Questions – 31
Vital Issues Face the Big Three (by Raymond Daniell) – 32
Shows what I know ... I had never heard of this bomber crash into the World Trade Center.
http://www.etherit.co.uk/month/6/29.htm
July 29th, 1945 (SUNDAY)
EUROPE: The British Eighth Army is disbanded.
JAPAN: US Far East Air Force (FEAF)]:
P-47s from Ie Shima and B-24s, B-25s, and A-26 Invaders from Okinawa pound targets in the Japanese Home Islands;
70+ B-24s pound shipping at Kure, 41 B-24s hit a factory and storage area northwest of Aburatsu, shipping and engine works in Nagasaki and vicinity, and the towns of Nobeoka, Kyushu and Oita;
B-25s hit Kagoshima, Kyushu, Kibana, a bridge, barracks and other buildings at Miyazaki, warehouses, a lighthouse, and navigation light at Tozaki-hana, and bomb Tokuno Shima;
A-26s pound the naval base and engine works at Nagasaki;
numerous P-47s hit the harbor at Kure, shipping and seaplane station at Ibusuki, railroad station, docks, and town area of Makurazaki, Chiran and Izumi Airfields, and shipping at Kagoshima Bay.
P-51s hit numerous targets of opportunity on the southern coast of Korea and on the southern part of Kyushu, where shipping, railroads, and Omura, Kyushu and Sashiki factories are also attacked.
- Also during the day, American and British carrier-based aircraft attack airfields and naval targets in the Inland Sea sinking a destroyer and 12 merchant vessels. USN Task Group 34.8.1 consisting of 3 battleships (SOUTH DAKOTA, INDIANA and MASSACHUSETTS), 4 heavy cruisers (CHICAGO, QUINCY, BOSTON and SAINT PAUL) and 10 destroyers bombards facilities on Honshu. The British battleship HMS King George V and 3 destroyers join in the bombardment.
- During the night of 29/30 July, the US Twentieth Air Force flies Mission 304; 24 B-29s mine Shimonoseki Strait and the waters at Fukuoka, Karatsu, and Najin; 2 others mine alternate targets.
509BG aircraft carry out ‘Pumpkin Missions’ to practice bomb runs. [See chart at linked site - HJS.]
Ops. Miss. Date Aircraft Cdr. Crew Bombing Target Lat Long Result
30 11 29/07/45 44-27297 Bock C-13 Secondary Visual Nakajima A/c Engines, Tokyo Poor
30 10 29/07/45 44-27298 Taylor A-1 Primary Visual Nitrogen Fertilzer Plant, Ube Poor
30 12 29/07/45 44-27301 Eatherly C-11 Secondary Visual Naval Base at Maizuru Excellent
30 10 29/07/45 44-27302 McKnight B-8 Primary Visual Industrial Soda Co., Ube Excellent
30 10 29/07/45 44-27303 Wilson B-6 Primary Visual Nippon Oil, Ube Poor
30 12 29/07/45 44-27304 Smith A-5 Secondary Visual Oil Refinery, Wakayama Unobserved
30 11 29/07/45 44-27353 Lewis B-9 Primary Visual Koriyama Marshalling Yards Excellent
30 11 29/07/45 44-86291 Ray C-14 Primary Visual Light Industry, Koriyama Poor
(David Hebditch)
CANADA: Minesweeper HMCS Nanoonse (ex HMCS Nootka) paid off.
U.S.A.: Destroyer USS William W Wood launched.
Empire State Building, not World Trade Center.
Right. I didn’t have any coffee this morning.
The legal aftermath to the Empire State Building Crash gave rise to the enactment of the Federal Tort Claims Act.
No big surprise. The new york times is crowing for socialism in England.
I understand. Interesting story, though. I had heard about the crash long ago, but never read the original newspaper account.
And meanwhile the USS Indianapolis is cruising along right up until 12:14 a.m. July 30th.
The A-26 was the plane of the 319th Bombing Group, who had been in Europe until early 1945, when it returned to the states to eventually become part of the Okinawa campaign. The plane itself doesn't seem to have made many friends during its short time in the air, and in any case Nagasaki was about to receive a more effective bomb, 11 days from now.
So on to two other short topics. First, I studied the weather map fairly closely, and discovered, not to my surprise, that the weather wasn't that different from any other late July between then and now, and neither were the temperatures different. Global warming advocates would not be pleased.
Second, a Google search of "United Negro News Service" brought up no hits. I have to assume the idea didn't go anywhere, presumably because of the integration that occurred in many business sectors in the late 1940s and 50s.
Didn’t the USS Indianapolis deliver the A-Bomb to Tinian and then was torpedoed and sunk and lost for a number of days before someone realized what had happened??
here is a 70 years later report on the crash, better pictures.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/b-25-bomber-crashed-empire-state-building-1945-article-1.2300615
Yep.
So Goering has developed a great fear of thunderstorms.
I can see why he would be afraid of God giving him the ZOT.
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