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Good morning folks!

Glad to see we are at page 1,000!

World War II Today: October 12

1939
Hans Frank appointed Nazi Gauleiter (governor) of Poland.

Jews evacuate Vienna.

British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain rejects Hitler’s “peace offer.”

1940
President Roosevelt in a fireside chat suggests the drafting of 18 and 19 year old men.

Night raids on London continue.

Hitler postpones invasion of Britain until the spring 1941.

U-101 torpedoes and sinks the merchant ship Saint-Malo south of Iceland. The ship was a former French vessel requisitioned by the Canadian government, 28 are killed.

A German military mission is set up in Bucharest, Romania, for the purpose of aiding in the training of the Romanian Army.

1941
Army Group Centre captures Kaluga and Bryansk. Women and children evacuated from Moscow.

1942
Attorney General Francis Biddle announced that Italian nationals in the United States would no longer be considered enemy aliens.

1943
The Heaviest RAF attack so far on northern Italy, with more than 1,000 tons dropped on Milan in under 30 minutes.

350 allied bombers hit the Japanese base at Rabaul in New Britain. The damage reported includes 120 planes destroyed and three destroyers sunk.

The U.S. Fifth Army begins an offensive along the Volturno river in Italy.

1944
The Germans fall back across the Lower Rhine, west of Arnhem.

The Germans evacuate Athens.

The Germans manage to hold line of the Niemen to cover East Prussia.

First B-29 Superfortress arrives in the Marianas, Joltin’ Josie, flown by 21st Bomber Command CO, General Haywood Hansell.

In Italy, Buffalo Soldiers of US 92nd Infantry Division breach Gothic Line, the only black unit to see combat in Europe.

Greek Resistance and British glider troops/paratroopers enter Athens, Greece.

Lt. Chuck Yeager (US 363rd Fighter Group) shoots down 5 German Me 109s in a single engagement over Holland.
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Apollo11 wrote: Sat Oct 12, 2024 8:48 am 1000
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Zovs wrote: Sat Oct 12, 2024 9:42 am Good morning folks!

Glad to see we are at page 1,000!

World War II Today: October 12

1944
The Germans fall back across the Lower Rhine, west of Arnhem.
Audrey Hepburn grew up in that area, she was a member of the resistance.
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/world- ... pburn.html


In Italy, Buffalo Soldiers of US 92nd Infantry Division breach Gothic Line, the only black unit to see combat in Europe.
That was the only black division to see combat in Europe. There were black tank and tank destroyer units in combat elsewhere. Later the 92nd Infantry Division included the 442nd RGT (Regimental Combat Team) along with a "white" regiment composed of former AA soldiers. Then the 92nd referred to itself as a "Rainbow Division!"
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/a ... rmany-1945

There were a few independent tank battalions as well as tank destroyer battalions with black enlisted men, lower ranking officers, with white senior officers including company commanders. Maybe you have heard of one of the young officers who was a very good football player who also played basketball. His name? Jackie Robinson!
Here are some articles about those units:
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/a ... -battalion
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/a ... rmany-1945
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/a ... mbach-1944
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/a ... rmany-1945

Then there were the black soldiers who volunteered to be infantrymen, which may have included senior NCOs taking a reduction in rank. The understrength units during the Battle of the Bulge (No, not a diet!) welcomed them and were glad to fight alongside them.
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/a ... rld-war-ii
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Platoonist wrote: Sat Oct 12, 2024 12:46 pm
Apollo11 wrote: Sat Oct 12, 2024 8:48 am 1000
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Good morning folks!

World War II Today: October 13

1939
In skirmishes along Maginot Line, French destroy 3 bridges over Rhine.

1940
14-year old Princess Elizabeth made her first public speech, a radio address to the children of the British Commonwealth. Her ten-year-old sister Princess Margaret joined in at the end.

1941
German forces of Army Group Centre capture Kalinin, just 100 miles to the West of Moscow.

1942
In the first of four attacks, two Japanese battleships sail down the slot and shell Henderson field on Guadalcanal, in an unsuccessful effort to destroy the American Cactus Air Force.

First US Army troops land on Guadalcanal, the 164th Infantry Regiment, joining the US Marines.

Japanese submarine I-30 struck a mine near Singapore and sank.

The Russians regain some ground in Stalingrad, but at heavy cost.

First flight of the North American Mustang X with a Rolls-Royce Merlin engine, in Hucknall, England; the engine transforms the Mustang into a high-altitude, long-distance fighter.

1943
The new Italian government of Marshal Badoglio declares war on Germany, with little effect. Nearly half a million Italian troops have been taken prisoner by the Germans, who predict the Italians will switch sides after their surrender.

The U.S. Fifth Army crosses the Volturno River.

The Russians reach Melitopol in southern Ukraine.

The whole of the New Georgia group of islands in the Solomon’s are reported in allied hands.

The American destroyer Bristol was torpedoed and sunk in the Mediterranean Sea off Algiers by German submarine U-371.

The German submarine U-402 was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean by an American Grumman TBF Avenger from the escort carrier USS Card.

https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/sh ... cve11.html

1944
Russian troops capture Riga, the capital of Latvia as Army Group North withdraws in to the Kurland pocket.

The US secures Palau Islands in the Pacific.

The Australian Liberal Party is formed.

Allied forces liberated Athens from German occupation.

The Germans launched V-1 and V-2 flying bombs at Antwerp in an attempt to deny use of its crucial port to the Allies.

The Battle of Rovaniemi in Finland ended in German retreat.
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btd64 wrote: Sun Oct 13, 2024 12:17 pm Good morning my little friends....GP

Just a quick morning warning. Has pumpkin spice not ruined enough foods yet, that it now has to sully breakfast? :? Gag.

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Platoonist wrote: Sun Oct 13, 2024 12:50 pm
btd64 wrote: Sun Oct 13, 2024 12:17 pm Good morning my little friends....GP

Just a quick morning warning. Has pumpkin spice not ruined enough foods yet, that it now has to sully breakfast? :? Gag.


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RangerJoe wrote: Sun Oct 13, 2024 1:29 pm I can think of worse things . . .
Me too. And it almost always turns out that somebody has already beaten me to it.

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Platoonist wrote: Sun Oct 13, 2024 2:05 pm
RangerJoe wrote: Sun Oct 13, 2024 1:29 pm I can think of worse things . . .
Me too. And it almost always turns out that somebody has already beaten me to it.


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Good morning folks!

World War II Today: October 14

1939
U47 (Kapitanleutnant Prien) sinks HMS Royal Oak at anchor in Scapa Flow, killing 883. U47 then escapes undetected and returns home to Germany.

The press in Germany declare Prien a hero.

Polish submarine Orzel arrives in Britain having escaped internment in Estonia.

1940
Luftwaffe bomb falls on Balham Tube station in London, killing 66.

1941
Army Group Centre wipes out the Russian pocket at Bryansk, but only capture about 50,000 prisoners. The rain and mud begins to impede the German advance, but German troops manage to capture Rzhev. Hitler orders that Moscow is to be enveloped, rather that assaulted directly.

Russian troops fall back in the southern Ukraine as the Germans make for the port of Rostov.

1942
Japanese bombard Henderson Field at night from warships then send troops ashore onto Guadalcanal in the morning as U.S. planes attack.

In the northern part of Stalingrad, units of the 6th Army advance in bitter fighting and surround the heavily defended Tractor Factory, following a series of devastating attacks (over 3,000 sorties) by bombers of Luftflotte 4.

Hitler orders halt in east except in Stalingrad and the Caucasus to prepare for winter defense.

Australians and Japanese battle for Templeton’s Crossing on Kokoda Trail, New Guinea.

Off Newfoundland, German sub U-69 sinks British railway ferry SS Caribou; 136 killed, mostly civilians, including Naval Nursing Sister Agnes Wilkie, the only Canadian nurse killed in action in WWII.

1943
The US 8th Air Force delivers a heavy attack against the ball bearing plants at Schweinfurt. However, of the original force of 291 B-17’s, 198 are either shot down or damaged beyond repair, while the Luftwaffe has lost only about 40 fighter planes.

1943
German forces evacuate the Zaporozhe bridgehead on the eastern bank of the Dnieper river.

Massive escape from Sobibor as Jews and Soviet POWs break out, with 300 making it safely into nearby woods. Of those 300, fifty will survive.

Exterminations then cease at Sobibor, after over 250,000 deaths. All traces of the death camp are then removed and trees are planted.

Jose P. Laurel, a distinguished pre-war Filipino statesman, takes office as “president” of the Philippines after being elected by a Japanese puppet “National Assembly” on Sept. 25. Surviving two assassination attempts by Filipino guerrillas, Laurel’s government enjoyed little popularity. A general amnesty after the war spared him a treason trial.

1944
The British liberate Athens and Piraeus and also land on Corfu.

Russian troops and Yugoslav Partisans force their way in to Belgrade.

German Field Marshal Rommel, suspected of complicity in the July 20th plot against Hitler, is visited at home by two of Hitler’s staff and given the choice of public trial or suicide by poison. He chooses suicide and it is announced that he died of wounds suffered earlier from a strafing attack.

Ann Baumgartner becomes first Wasp to fly an experimental jet aircraft.

1945
Indonesian People’s Army declares war on the Netherlands.
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Good morning folks!

World War II Today: October 15

1940
Bomb holes roof of Balham tube station: 64 killed.

Italian submarine Toti sinks British submarine Rainbow.

16 million Americans already registered for National Service.

Heavy Luftwaffe raid on London, Birmingham, and Bristol starts 900 fires.

Italy demobilizes 300,000 soldiers for the harvest, leaving only 100,000 for upcoming invasion of Greece.

1941
Odessa, a Russian port on the Black Sea which has been surrounded by German troops for several weeks, is evacuated by Russian troops.

1942
Japanese bombard Henderson Field at night again from warships.

4,500 Japanese troops land as reinforcement for Guadalcanal as battle continues.

Japanese execute three American airmen captured after Doolittle raid.

US 92nd Infantry Division (“Buffalo Soldiers”) reactivated at Fort Huachuca AZ, composed of African-American troops.

US begins rationing of fuel oil for heating in the East and Midwest.

1943
General de Lattre de Tassigny escapes from Vichy France.

1944
The largest number of sorties on single night is made by the RAF, with 1,576 in all.

British forces liberate Greece,which then erupts in a civil war between monarchists and communists.

Russians secure Petsamo region of northern Finland. Germans troops fall back towards northern Norway in the face of strong Russian attacks.

The Hungarian chief of state, Admiral Horthy, shortly after announcing Hungary’s withdrawal from the war against the Russia, is taken prisoner by a commando unit led by SS major Otto Skorzeny. A new government under Ferenc Szalasi vows to continue the alliance with Germany.

Deportation of Jews from Hungary resumes after a temporarily halt due to international political pressure to stop Jewish persecutions.

The British and Chinese begin an offensive from Myitkyina to Bhamo in northern Burma.

1945
Vichy French Premier Pierre Laval is executed by a firing squad for his wartime collaboration with the Germans.

1946
Nazi war criminal Hermann Goering poisoned himself hours before he was to have been executed.
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Zovs wrote: Tue Oct 15, 2024 1:31 pm Good morning folks!

World War II Today: October 15

1944

Russians secure Petsamo region of southern Finland. Germans troops fall back towards northern Norway in the face of strong Russian attacks.
Petsamo is in the north! CDATS need to learn how to read a map . . .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Petsamo
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Thanks RJ, korrekted.
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