Posted on 07/23/2015 4:48:52 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
John Toland, The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945
Winston S. Churchill, Triumph and Tragedy
Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers
http://www.etherit.co.uk/month/6/23.htm
July 23rd, 1945 (MONDAY)
UNITED KINGDOM: Destroyer HMS Trafalgar commissioned.
FRANCE: Paris: The trial of Philippe Petain was twice suspended today in disorder. Paul Reynaud, the former president of the council of ministers, accused Petain of plotting to betray France in 1940, Petain, who is 89, was the hero of France in 1914-18, but collaborated with the Nazis as head of state from 1940-45. He denied the court’s competence to try him and declared: “A marshal of France asks mercy of none.”
General Jacob L. Devers assumes command of the US Army Ground Forces. (Marc James Small)
JAPAN: In the Kurile Islands, 2 Eleventh Air Force B-24s radar-bomb Kurabu Cape Airfield on Paramushiru Island.
Far East Air Forces B-24s bomb Miho and Saeki.
Karafuto: USS Barb sinks a train. More...
CANADA: Corvettes HMCS Collingwood, Lethbridge and Lunenburg paid off Sorel, Province of Quebec.
Minesweeper HMCS Gaspe and HMC ML 113 paid off.
U.S.A.: The first passenger train observation car is placed in service by the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad.
The assistant G-2, Island Command, Peleliu, LT. W.C. Phelan, USNR produced the document titled “Japanese Military Caves on Peleliu: “KNOW YOUR ENEMY”, CinCPac-CinCPOA BULLETIN 173-45. It consists of 45 pages and is an extensive study and analysis of the cave system found on Peleliu. (William L. Howard)
Life Magazine reports, complete with diagrams and artist’s renderings on the terrifying Sun Gun that the Nazis had been planning. The Nazis were working on building a space station before the war, and the big obstacle had been creating a rocket powerful enough to reach space. The Sun Gun was going to be a huge mile-wide mirror, built a piece at a time like a puzzle, orbiting the earth to focus the rays of the sun to incinerate cities and boil oceans. (W Rinaman)
Sirs:
Re letter from Army Sergeant’s Name Withheld in TIME [July 23] in which Sgt.
Withheld intimates that the Catholic Church is responsible for the disunity between the Americans and the Russians:
Catholics have been brought up to fear and dislike Communism because of its avowed ungodliness. As Catholics we are indeed convinced that Christianity and Communism are irreconcilable in the same way that as Americans we believe that totalitarianism and democracy are incompatible.
And too, it is high time that a distinction be made between hating Communism and hating Russians, hating Naziism and hating Germans. We hate no individual; we only hate his ideals.
Nevertheless, insofar as such an action does not interfere with our own way of life, we heartily ratify the action of our Government in joining hands with a state no matter what color its banner, if such a union will further our aim of beating Japan. Few Quixotes still proclaim that this war is being fought for ideals, and I believe there is no American — Protestant, Catholic, etc. — who is unwilling to welcome any type of government into an alliance which will cooperate in preventing future wars.
William F. Buckley Jr.
Lieutenant, U.S.A.
Camp Gordon, Ga.
(William Rinaman)
Minesweeper USS Gavia commissioned.
“Karafuto: USS Barb sinks a train. More...”
Assuming the Barb is a sub and a train is a train, I’m looking forward to “More . . .”
Ube (pronounced OO-bay) is very near the southern tip of Honshu. In today's article on the Ube bombing the description is quite specific, more so than usual: they bombed a synthetic fuels plant on reclaimed land near the Kuto river in NW Ube. If you look on Google Maps there are a few strips of land near the river that jut out from the main beach. The one that looks like an X-acto knife is covered with oil storage tanks, along with the mini-peninsula right to its east. However, the largest tanks are on the other side of the river, at the Nichias oil plant.
Superforts flying over this river entrance would think they were at a turkey shoot, with all the storage tanks and facilities available; the hard part would be co-ordinating which planes dropped bombs on which portions of the industrialized section of the town.
“Assuming the Barb is a sub and a train is a train, I’m looking forward to “More . . .””
There is a live link at the source.
http://www.etherit.co.uk/month/6/23.htm
I would interpret the article from domini as a no to unconditional surrender.
“Animal blood powder” will make it debut.
more wooden airplanes on the way
no more rice so you get acorn.
Pine tar to fuel the planes.
RE: Bard and the Train see here...
http://www.eugeneleeslover.com/USNAVY/USS_Barb.html
Regards
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German Bund leader commits suicide.
Just arrested last week?
Detailed info on bund here. sounds like they were current day democrats, approved of some of the fascism ideas.
http://www.wvfoundations.org/id22.html
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005684
According to this they were mis aligned
http://www.germanamericanbund.org/
Page 5, paraphrased: Irish protest beer price increase by threatening to quit drinking.
Is that a hollow threat or what?
Page 14, the Rhineland Maiden is looking a bit of a ho.
Re: Newsweek writer Harold Isaacs barred from China by Chiang’s government.
Isaacs was a Communist/Trotsky-ist, which made him popular at Newsweek and later a professor at MIT.
You have to read between the lines in the Japanese articles. While the article exhorts the Japanese to do their utmost and say the Japanese people realize what is at stake, there is also the short blurb that the officials have encountered a certain amount of “laziness” among the population. In reality, Japanese domestic morale is plummeting. Homeless, starving and unemployed, they are ready to quit the war. Some of the more rational leaders like Prince Konoye know it. The blurb about laziness might be construed to mean the leadership has to keep pushing their people, but it also means the people need to be pushed because they are ready to quit.
This skill of “reading between the lines” was well honed by citizens of the USSR. They knew that a very careful, critical reading of Pravda was necessary to get some element of truth in a story. It’s about time the American people developed this skill, too.
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