THE THREAD!!!

[btd64]

INP....GP

[Orm]

Hey.

[Zovs]

Zovs: Queen Elizabeth broadcasts a message to the women of the Empire, calling them to join the war effort.

This Queen Elizabeth was the spouse of King George VI, later known as 'the Queen Mother' when Princess Elizabeth ascended to the throne and became the Monarch.

BTW, Ormoc Bay is on Leyte, a little north of Bay-Bay.

My bad. Bad research on my part.

[BBfanboy]

Zovs: Queen Elizabeth broadcasts a message to the women of the Empire, calling them to join the war effort.

This Queen Elizabeth was the spouse of King George VI, later known as 'the Queen Mother' when Princess Elizabeth ascended to the throne and became the Monarch.

BTW, Ormoc Bay is on Leyte, a little north of Bay-Bay.

My bad. Bad research on my part.

The part about QE was accurate, but I thought it should be explained a bit so people did not say "Hey! Princess Elizabeth was not queen until 1953!"

[RangerJoe]

This Queen Elizabeth was the spouse of King George VI, later known as 'the Queen Mother' when Princess Elizabeth ascended to the throne and became the Monarch.

BTW, Ormoc Bay is on Leyte, a little north of Bay-Bay.

My bad. Bad research on my part.

The part about QE was accurate, but I thought it should be explained a bit so people did not say "Hey! Princess Elizabeth was not queen until 1953!"

Princess Elizabeth (Tudor) became Queen Elizabeth on 17 November 1558 and was queen until 24 March 1603 . . .

Princess Elizabeth (Windsor) became Queen Elizabeth II* on 6 February 1952 and was queen until 8 September 2022. Her mother was known as Queen Elizabeth from 11 December 1936 to 6 February 1952 when she became the Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother.
*In Scotland, she was the first Queen Elizabeth but was still referred to Queen Elizabeth the Second.

Needless to say, it can be confusing especially when there are also ships named Queen Elizabeth and Queen Elizabeth II!

No, I am not trying to be an Equus Asinus!

[RangerJoe]

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I hope that everyone had a good day, a better night, and a fantastic tomorrow. Unless that would disturb you but if you complain, please use the appropriate thread! So believe this or not . . .

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For all of the Veterans out there . . .

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[Orm]

Morning Gentlemen. Ladies.

[Zovs]

Good morning folks!

World War II Today: November 12

1939
The Soviet government announces that it is not satisfied with the progress of the negotiations with Finland and negotiations between Russia and Finland reach a deadlock.

The King and the French President respond to the Dutch-Belgian peace appeal.

1940
Germany prepares to enter war in Greece.

Colonel Burns again proposes a Canadian parachute force to the Chief of General Staff. The idea is shelved, and no action is taken.

Royal Navy attacks an Italian convoy in the Mediterranean, as part of the same naval maneuver that led to the attack on Taranto

Molotov visits Berlin.

1941
The Italian garrison of Gondar, East Africa, 10,000 strong, is encircled by Allied troops.

1942
The British 8th Army retakes Sollum and Bardia, while Panzer Army Afrika continues its withdrawal toward Tripoli.

First Naval Battle of Guadalcanal - US Navy loses two cruisers and four destroyers.

US Ninth AF formed in Egypt under Lt. Gen. Lewis Brereton.

Morocco and Algeria are in Allied hands (770 Americans and 240 British were killed in Torch landings).

Kaiser Shipyards in Richmond, CA launches Liberty Ship Robert E. Peary four days after the keel is laid, a wartime record.

Defeat of last German attempt to reach Soviet oilfields in the Caucasus.

German submarine U-272 sunk after a collision with U-634.

German submarine U-660 sunk off Oran.

1943
US President Roosevelt embarks on USS Iowa to go to the Allied conferences at Teheran and Cairo.

German troops invade British held Leros by sea and drop 500 paratroops.

The Russians take Zhitomir in Ukraine. The Kiev bridgehead is now 95 miles deep and 150 miles wide.

Japanese bomb Parap, Adelaide River, and Batchelor Airfield in last air attack on Australia.

French proclaim martial law in Lebanon after Lebanese amend constitution to end French mandate (on Nov. 8).

German submarine U-508 sunk with all hands off Cape Ortegal.

The Japanese pull their carrier aircraft out of Rabaul, which is coming under heavy Allied air attack.

Fighting ends on the Treasury Islands (Operation Goodtime), a preliminary attack before the invasion of Bougainville.

1944
Operation Catechism is concluded near Tromsø Fjord, Occupied Norway, heavy bombers (Lancasters) of the British Royal Air Force (RAF), dropped 3 “Tallboy” 13,000lb/5,897kg bombs to capsize the German battleship Tirpitz, the Kriegsmarine’s ill-starred wannabe surface raider. Ever since September 22, 1943, when a pair of Royal Navy midget submarines engineered a hair-raising daylight attack on this Bismarck-class battleship, the largest, once most powerful warship in the world lay impotent at anchor awaiting her end. Over 1,000 men of her crew trapped in her capsized hull are lost.

Over 10,000 Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Uzbeks, Tatars, and some White Russians rally in Ghulja and declare independence as the Second East Turkistan Republic.

80,000 leftists demonstrated in Rome in celebration of the anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution and denounced the monarchy.

Royal Navy sinks ten ships in a German convoy.

Himmler reads out Hitler's speech at the "beer-hall putsch" celebrations in Munich.

1945
The institute of France awards Churchill a gold medal.

[Zovs]

Addem (or another way to look at it).

30 Lancasters of 9 and 617 Squadrons and a 463 Squadron Lancaster with cameramen on board flew from Lossiemouth to attack the Tirpitz, which was still moored near Tromsö. The weather was clear. Tirpitz was hit by at least 2 Tallboys and then suffered a violent internal explosion. She capsized to remain bottom upwards – a total loss. Approximately 1,000 of the 1,900 men on board were killed or injured. German fighters which were stationed near by to protect the Tirpitz failed to take off in time and only 1 Lancaster, of 9 Squadron, was severely damaged, by Flak; it landed safely in Sweden with its crew unhurt.

[BBfanboy]

Ranger Joe: Needless to say, it can be confusing especially when there are also ships named Queen Elizabeth and Queen Elizabeth II!

It appears you are referring to the two Cunard Liners. But you left out the BB Queen Elizabeth, nameship of her class (Warspite being the most famous).

[BBfanboy]

Zovs: Colonel Burns again proposes a Canadian parachute force to the Chief of General Staff. The idea is shelved, and no action is taken.

I was not aware of this idea previously - thanks for including that in your posting! I do think that Canada in 1940 could not possibly have raised and trained a parachute regiment. All of the trained troops were already over in England waiting for a German invasion and IIRC conscription was still not a thing (mostly because of Quebec's opposition to sending their sons to defend the British). Furthermore, Canada had only the rudiments of an aircraft industry so it could not produce transport aircraft for the paratroops. And finally, since paratroops are an offensive force and Britain was very much on the defence, it would have been hard to imagine how such a force would be used at that time.

[RangerJoe]

Ranger Joe: Needless to say, it can be confusing especially when there are also ships named Queen Elizabeth and Queen Elizabeth II!

It appears you are referring to the two Cunard Liners. But you left out the BB Queen Elizabeth, nameship of her class (Warspite being the most famous).

You are correct, my friend from Big Canada Land!

That could be confusing with the BB and the xAP in the same convoy with the xAP both larger and faster than the BB!

Then there is the situation with the HMS Enterprise and the USS Enterprise . . .

[RangerJoe]

Zovs: Colonel Burns again proposes a Canadian parachute force to the Chief of General Staff. The idea is shelved, and no action is taken.

I was not aware of this idea previously - thanks for including that in your posting! I do think that Canada in 1940 could not possibly have raised and trained a parachute regiment. All of the trained troops were already over in England waiting for a German invasion and IIRC conscription was still not a thing (mostly because of Quebec's opposition to sending their sons to defend the British). Furthermore, Canada had only the rudiments of an aircraft industry so it could not produce transport aircraft for the paratroops. And finally, since paratroops are an offensive force and Britain was very much on the defence, it would have been hard to imagine how such a force would be used at that time.

My understanding is that in Canada there was a draft, in WITP:AE these squads would be represented by the militia squads while those who volunteered for overseas duty in what I presume would be considered the Regular Army and thus the updated squads.

But also a problem with the Canadian paratrooper units was a lot of the manpower was also required for their small navy which ended up being the 3rd largest in the world by the end of the war. I do believe that maybe your paternal parent informed you of some of the things that happened with those ships.

[Zovs]

Zovs: Colonel Burns again proposes a Canadian parachute force to the Chief of General Staff. The idea is shelved, and no action is taken.

I was not aware of this idea previously - thanks for including that in your posting! I do think that Canada in 1940 could not possibly have raised and trained a parachute regiment. All of the trained troops were already over in England waiting for a German invasion and IIRC conscription was still not a thing (mostly because of Quebec's opposition to sending their sons to defend the British). Furthermore, Canada had only the rudiments of an aircraft industry so it could not produce transport aircraft for the paratroops. And finally, since paratroops are an offensive force and Britain was very much on the defence, it would have been hard to imagine how such a force would be used at that time.

Good points and that is prob why it got sent to the dustbin.

[Apollo11]

Hi all,

Good morning!


Leo "Apollo11"

[RangerJoe]

Hello, these are from a different source for the history, I will include the link to the source since there are links to some of the items mentioned as well as pictures and maps. But first, a quote:

"With Germany arming at breakneck speed, England lost in a pacifist dream, France corrupt and torn by dissension, America remote and indifferent... do you not tremble for your children?"

Winston Churchill, 1935

13 Nov 1921

Light carrier Hosho was launched. ww2dbase [Hosho | CPC]

13 Nov 1938

China

Failures in communications in the city of Changsha, Hunan Province, China led to the commencement of a scorched earth operation which was only suppose to take effect when the city was about to fall into Japanese hands. Fires were started at pre-arranged locations around the city, starting the Wenxi Fire that would burn for five days, killing 3,000 people and destroying a large number of buildings. ww2dbase [Changsha, Hunan | CPC]

13 Nov 1939

German destroyers Z20, Z18, Z19, and Z21 mined the mouth of the River Thames in southern England, United Kingdom before dawn. At 0526 hours, British cruiser HMS Adventure hit one of the mines and was damaged, killing 23. At 0820 hours, British destroyer Blanche also hit one of the mines and was badly damaged, killing 1 and wounding 12; as Blanche sank while under tow by tugboat Fabia, she became the first British destroyer lost to enemy action in WW2. ww2dbase [CPC]

Finnish diplomats Paasikivi and Tanner departed Moscow, Russia after all negotiation attempts failed. ww2dbase [The Winter War | CPC]

Adolf Hitler again postponed the invasion of France; the next date for decision was to be 22 Nov 1939. ww2dbase [Invasion of France and the Low Countries | CPC]

Germany

U-56 arrived at Kiel, Germany, ended her third patrol. ww2dbase [U-56 | Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein | CPC]

Japan

Prince Nagahisa's daughter Princess Hatsuko was born. ww2dbase [Nagahisa | CPC]

Romania

King Carol II of Romania offered to mediate peace between Germany and the western powers. ww2dbase [Carol II | CPC]

United Kingdom

German bombers struck the Shetland Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom but did little damage. ww2dbase [Battle of Britain | Shetland Islands, Scotland | TH]

13 Nov 1940

Hitler, Ribbentrop, and Molotov continued their meeting in Berlin, Germany. Hitler attempted to divert Soviet aggression out of the Balkan Peninsula and Finland, and instead focus, together with Germany, to defeat the United Kingdom, with the ultimate prize being the partition of the British Empire among Germany, the Soviet Union, Italy, and Japan. Molotov, who was not moved, asked Hitler whether Germany would feel comfortable with a Soviet guarantee of Bulgarian borders much like how Germany had recently guaranteed Romanian borders; unable to answer that question, Hitler again broke off the discussion on the excuse of potential British bombings as the hours were getting late. Indeed, having known that Molotov was visiting Berlin, the British RAF launched bombers to attack Berlin as a show of force to convince Molotov that Britain was still in the fight. Ribbentrop and Molotov continued the meeting in a underground bunker amidst the bombing where Ribbentrop failed to entice Molotov with a four-power (Germany, Italy, Japan, and Soviet Union) military alliance proposal. ww2dbase [Vyacheslav Molotov | CPC] Think of that 4 power alliance!

By the end of the day, Greek troops had pushed most Italian troops in northern Greece back to the Albanian border. ww2dbase [Balkans Campaign | CPC]

German submarine U-137 torpedoed and sank British ship Cape St. Andrew, which was under tow by tug HMS Salvonia, 100 miles northwest of Ireland at 2108 hours. 14 crew and 1 gunner were killed. 53 survivors were picked up by Salvonia. ww2dbase [CPC]

British submarine HMS Tigris sank French trawler Charles Edmonde 100 miles west of Bordeaux, France. ww2dbase [CPC]

Italian bombers damaged British destroyer HMS Decoy at Alexandria, Egypt, killing 8 and wounding 3. ww2dbase [CPC]

Air Chief-Marshal Sir Robert Brooke-Popham was appointed Commander-in Chief, Far East, with his headquarters in Singapore. This post was a new creation. ww2dbase [AC]

British convoy M. E. 3 arrived at Suda Bay, Crete, Greece. ww2dbase [Malta Campaign | HM]

Atlantic Ocean

Garland was seriously damaged by a storm while escorting battleship HMS Revenge in the Atlantic Ocean. Two men were killed. ww2dbase [Garland | CPC]

United States

Tatsuta Maru arrived at San Francisco, California, United States. ww2dbase [Tatsuta Maru | San Francisco, California | CPC]

13 Nov 1941

German troops fighting near Moscow, Russia were fighting temperatures as low as -8° F (-22° C). As the mud freezes, however, the Germans prepared for a new offensive amidst increasing casualties due to weather. ww2dbase [Battle of Moscow | TH]

Japanese Admiral Yamamoto gathered his commanders at Iwakuni air base at Yamaguchi, Japan to discuss Pearl Harbor tactics. ww2dbase [Attack on Pearl Harbor | Detailed Timetable | CPC]

Adolf Hitler ordered the German Navy to restraint from attacking American ships, but should German warships be fired upon by the Americans, they were to fire back in defense. ww2dbase [Adolf Hitler | CPC]

After sundown, Soviet destroyers Gordy and Surovy departed Gogland, Russia for Hanko, Finland, escorted by minelayer Ural, four T-class minesweepers, and four MO-class submarine chasers. En route, Surovy, T-206, and MO-301 struck Finnish naval mines and (were) sunk. ww2dbase [CPC]

General Kirill Meretskov attacked German troops at Tikhvin, Russia with Soviet 4th, 52nd, and 54th Armies. ww2dbase [Siege of Leningrad | Kirill Meretskov | CPC]

German submarine U-81 sank British aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal in the Mediterranean Sea 150 miles east of Gibraltar at 0437 hours; 1 was killed, 1,487 survived. Destroyer escorts counterattacked with 130 depth charges, but U-81 would escape. HMS Ark Royal was taken in tow. ww2dbase [Ark Royal | CPC]

German submarine U-126 sank British merchant vessel Peru at 0042 hours, all 50 aboard survived and were rescued by South African whale factory ship Uniwaleco. ww2dbase [CPC]

France

Comandante Cappellini departed Le Verdon-sur-Mer, Aquitaine, France at 0800 hours and arrived at La Pallice, La Rochelle, France at 1700 hours. ww2dbase [Comandante Cappellini | Le Verdon-sur-Mer, Aquitaine | CPC]

The youth group Compagnons de France began supporting the work of the Secours National d'Hiver in collecting money, blankets, clothing, etc. to help those who needed support in the winter season. ww2dbase [CPC]

Malaya

Allied troops established a new defensive line from the mouth of the Muar River to Gemas in British Malaya. ww2dbase [Invasion of Malaya and Singapore | CPC]

Russia

Soviet cruiser Chervona Ukraina, damaged by German aircraft on the previous day, sank at Sevastopol, Russia. Her guns would be salvaged to be used on shore. ww2dbase [Battle of Sevastopol | Sevastopol | CPC]

United Kingdom

The British Air Ministry instructed Sir Richard Pierse, the Commander-in-Chief Bomber Command, to curtail drastically the scale of sorties against Germany, especially in bad weather. The War Cabinet stated the instruction "having stressed the necessity to conserve our resources in order to built a strong force to be available by the spring of next year". ww2dbase [Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | AC]

13 Nov 1942

USS S-28 began an overhaul, during which she would receive a fathometer, a Kleinschmidt distilling unit, and SJ radar. ww2dbase [S-28 | CPC]

Norman Scott passed away. ww2dbase [Norman Scott | CPC]

Daniel Callahan passed away. ww2dbase [Daniel Callahan | CPC]

Allied troops captured Tobruk, Libya. ww2dbase [Second Battle of El Alamein | CPC]

In Algeria, men of British No. 6 Commando captured the harbor of Bone, while other troops captured Djedjelli. ww2dbase [Advance into Tunisia | CPC]

US Navy pilot Lieutenant H. S. Blake flying a PBY-5A Catalina with Patrol Bombing Squadron VPB-92 detected Vichy French submarine Le Conquerant 700 miles off Casablanca, French Morocco, which refused to answer recognition signals when challenged. Blake attacked, blowing off the conning tower, and sank the submarine with all aboard lost. ww2dbase [PBY Catalina | Operation Torch | CPC]

Adolf Hitler promised France that Germany would leave the French fleet at Toulon, France alone. ww2dbase [Scuttling of the French Fleet | CPC]

Hauptmann Wilhelm Antrup and Oberleutnant Albert Koller of the German Kampfgeschwader 55 wing were awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. ww2dbase [CPC]

Frederick Aikman shot down a German Ju 88 aircraft in North Africa. ww2dbase [Frederick Aikman | CPC]

USS Nicholas arrived off Nouméa harbor, New Caledonia. Nicholas made rendezvous with oiler USS Sabine that Nicholas escorted to Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides. ww2dbase [Nicholas | DS]

Atlantic Ocean

USS Ranger began her withdrawal from the Moroccan coast and began steaming westward bound for Bermuda. ww2dbase [Operation Torch | Ranger | DS]

Australian New Guinea

Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Rabaul, New Britain. ww2dbase [Hikawa Maru | Rabaul, New Britain | CPC]

Gato-class submarine USS Silversides departed her patrol area bound for Brisbane, Australia. ww2dbase [Silversides | DS]

British Western Pacific Territories

Damaged in the naval battle before dawn, Hiei struggled to return to base. After persistent attacks by aircraft attacks, it was decided that she was to be scuttled. After all men were taken off, she was scuttled by torpedoes north of Savo Island in the Solomon Islands. She became the first Japanese battleship to be lost in combat. ww2dbase [Hiei | Savo | CPC]

The First Naval Battle of Guadalcanal ended before dawn with the US Navy task force under Rear Admiral Daniel Callahan driving off a Japanese naval bombardment group. ww2dbase [Guadalcanal Campaign | Savo Sound | CPC]

Japanese troops arrived at Munda Point, New Georgia, to construct an airfield. Detecting this movement, three squadrons of US B-24 bombers flew to Iron Range airfield in northern Queensland, Australia to stage an attack on the future airfield. ww2dbase [Solomon Islands Campaign | Munda Point, New Georgia | CPC]

Tenryu departed Shortland Island, Solomon Islands. ww2dbase [Tenryu | Shortland Island | CPC]

USS Helena detected Japanese warships with her radar off Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands at 0124 hours, but poor communications and general confusion caused a lack of proper action from the task force. The First Naval Battle of Guadalcanal was joined after the two sides sighted each other. USS Helena assisted in the sinking of destroyer Akatsuki and seriously damaged destroyer Amatsukaze. Captain Gilbert Hoover, commanding officer of USS Helena and the senior surviving US officer, gave the order for all Americans to disengage from battle after 40 minutes of fighting. ww2dbase [Guadalcanal Campaign | Helena (St. Louis-class) | CPC]

USS Jueanu, while sailing for Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides for repairs sustained during the previous night, was intercepted by I-26, which fired two Type 95 torpedoes. One struck on the port side, sinking the light cruiser very quickly. 687 lives would eventually be lost; only 10 survived. ww2dbase [Juneau | Type 95 | Solomon Islands | CPC]The five Sullivan brothers were on her.

After dark, Japanese cruisers challenged the US naval forces again by coming close to shore and bombarding Henderson Field, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. ww2dbase [Guadalcanal Campaign | Henderson Field | Lunga Point, Guadalcanal | CPC]

Portland was struck with a torpedo in her starboard quarter during the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal (Third Battle of Savo Island). The torpedo explosion took off Portland's two inboard propellers, jammed the rudder at five degrees to starboard, and froze the No 3 main turret. Portland could only steam in circles but still managed to fire her forward main batteries effectively, starting fires on the Japanese battleship Hiei and sinking the abandoned destroyer Yudachi. ww2dbase [Guadalcanal Campaign | Portland | Ironbottom Sound, Solomon Islands | DS]

Cruiser USS Atlanta was sunk by Type 93 torpedoes launched from Japanese destroyer Akatsuki; destroyer USS Barton was sunk by Type 93 torpedoes launched from Japanese destroyer Amatsukaze; and destroyer USS Laffey was sunk by Type 93 torpedoes launched from unidentified Japanese destroyers. ww2dbase [Guadalcanal Campaign | Atlanta | Laffey (Benson-class) | Type 93 | Iron Bottom Sound | DS]

Japan

Kamikaze arrived at Ominato, Aomori Prefecture, Japan for patrols in the Tsugaru Strait area. ww2dbase [Kamikaze | Ominato, Aomori | CPC]

Mediterranean Sea

German submarine U-431 (Wilhelm Dommes) sank Dutch destroyer Isaac Sweers in the Mediterranean Sea with two torpedo hits; 108 of the crew of 194 were lost. ww2dbase [Isaac Sweers | CPC]

Pacific Ocean

USS Haddock fired 6 torpedoes at convoy in the Yellow Sea 50 miles west of the Korean coast, damaging an oiler with 1 hit. She was given chase by escort craft. ww2dbase [Haddock | Yellow Sea | CPC]

United Kingdom

A Sunderland Mk II flying boat (W 6054) crashed on landing in Plymouth Sound in southern England, United Kingdom in thick fog at approximately 2100 hours. The aircraft from No. 10 squadron Royal Australian Air Force was on a flight from Gibraltar to Plymouth piloted by Flight Lieutenant Wynton Thorpe with a crew of 11 and five passengers. With only 15 minutes of fuel left the pilot attempted a blind landing, but with the altimeter still reading 600 feet the Sunderland ploughed into the sea. The aircraft flipped on its back, split in half and the pilot was thrown into the sea. The eleven crew were left in the sea for 90 minutes before rescue, but none of the passengers survived. The remains of this Sunderland were found spread over a wide area on the north side of the breakwater between the Fort and the lighthouse. The propeller and reduction gear was recovered in 1985 and shipped to the RAAF Museum near Perth, Australia. ww2dbase [Plymouth, England | HM]

King George VI of the United Kingdom visited the 306th Bomb Group at RAF Thurleigh. ww2dbase [RAF Thurleigh | George VI | Thurleigh, England | DS]

United States

Carrier Crown Point, still under construction at Camden, New Jersey, United States, was renamed Langley. ww2dbase [Langley (Independence-class) | Camden, New Jersey | CPC]

Carrier Oriskany was renamed Wasp while still under construction at Bethlehem Steel Company's Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts, United States. ww2dbase [Wasp (Essex-class) | Quincy, Massachusetts | CPC]

13 Nov 1943

Omar Bradley was promoted to the permanent rank of colonel. ww2dbase [Omar Bradley | CPC]

USS Scorpion attacked a Japanese convoy in the Mariana Islands with four torpedoes, damaging oiler Shiretoko with one hit. ww2dbase [Scorpion | CPC]

Adolf Hitler officially upheld Kaiser Wilhelm II's previous decree and bestowed upon Alfried von Bohlen und Halbach the name Krupp, making him the official head of the Krupp family conglomerate Friedrich Krupp AG. ww2dbase [Alfried Krupp | CPC]

USS Bailey departed Efate, New Hebrides bound for Tarawa, Gilbert Islands. ww2dbase [Bailey | DS]

Australian Papua

USS Ray departed Milne Bay, British Territory of Papua for her first war patrol. ww2dbase [Ray | CPC]

Caroline Islands

Shokaku returned to Truk, Caroline Islands. ww2dbase [Shokaku | Truk | CPC]

Germany

The USAAF 306th Bomb Group flying from RAF Thurleigh launched a bombing raid against the port facilities at Bremen, Germany but only one out of 21 bombers launched actually dropped bombs due to weather. ww2dbase [Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | RAF Thurleigh | Bremen | DS]

New Hebrides

USS St. Louis arrived at Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides. ww2dbase [Walden Ainsworth | St. Louis | Segond Channel, Espiritu Santo | DS]

13 Nov 1944

The Japanese Army Fugaki Squadron, based in the Philippine Islands, conducted its first tokko mission with five converted Ki-67-I Kai To-Go aircraft, without success. ww2dbase [Philippines Campaign, Phase 1, the Leyte Campaign | CPC]

Colonel George E. Price received the go-ahead for Project Extraversion, which called for four YP-80A jet aircraft to move to the front lines of the European Theater of Operations for combat testing. ww2dbase [P-80 Shooting Star | CPC]

Bermuda

Escort carrier USS Bogue and her task group departed Bermuda for three days of anti-submarine exercises against friendly Italian submarine Onice. ww2dbase [Bogue | Onice | Port Royal Bay | DS]

Dutch East Indies

Attun Palalin, also known as Private Teruo Nakamura of the Japanese Army 4th Takasago Volunteer Unit, was declared dead on Morotai, Dutch East Indies. ww2dbase [Attun Palalin | Morotai, Maluku Islands | CPC]Hint: He wasn't dead! Check the link . . .

France

General Philippe LeClerc's Free French troops attacked to the Upper Rhine out of Alsace, France. ww2dbase [Advance to the Rhine | Philippe Leclerc | Alsace | TH]

Hawaii

USS Caiman departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her first war patrol. ww2dbase [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Caiman | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]

Japan

Landing ship No. 115 was completed and was transferred to the Japanese Army. ww2dbase [No. 101/103-class | CPC]

Pacific Ocean

Shortly after midnight, USS Nicholas made sonar contact with a submarine detected by radar the previous evening. Nicholas made a depth charge attack that sank Japanese Type-B1 submarine I-38. Later, cruiser USS St. Louis and destroyers USS Nicholas and USS Taylor arrived at Kossol Roads, Palau. ww2dbase [Nicholas | DS]

Philippines

USS Ticonderoga launched Air Group 80 aircraft for strikes on Manila and surrounding targets on Luzon, Philippine Islands; 2 men and 4 aircraft were lost. ww2dbase [Ticonderoga | DS]

Taiwan

Patrol Boat No. 102 (Zombie Stewart) departed Saei District of Takao (Chinese: Zuoying District of Kaohsiung), Taiwan at 0129 hours, arriving at Haikou, Hainan, China at 2326 hours. ww2dbase [Stewart | Takao | CPC]

United Kingdom

Civil air service was restored to London, England, United Kingdom for the first time since Sep 1939 when Railway Air Services began flight operations on a Croydon-Liverpool-Belfast route. ww2dbase [London, England | AC]

Yugoslavia

German forces withdraw from Skopje, Yugoslavia. ww2dbase [Belgrade Strategic Offensive Operation | Skopje, Macedonia | TH]

13 Nov 1945

General Charles de Gaulle became the first post-war head of French government. ww2dbase [Charles de Gaulle | TH]

Norman Jackson was presented with a Victoria Cross medal by King George VI of the United Kingdom for his brave attempt to put out the fire on his Lancaster bomber's starboard wing during the night of 26-27 Apr 1944. ww2dbase [George VI | CPC]

https://ww2db.com/event/today*
*This goes to the current date.

This link is for the 13th of November . . .
https://ww2db.com/event/today/11/13/

[Apollo11]

Hi all,

Good morning!


Leo "Apollo11"

[Zovs]

Good Morning Folks!

Thanks for filling in for me yesterday RJ.

World War II Today: November 14

1939
German rejects the Dutch-Belgian peace offer of 7 November.

1940
Night of 14-15 November, Coventry bombed. The Luftwaffe launches 449 bombers in a heavy night attack against the major manufacturing city of Coventry, dropping around 400 tons of bombs causing severe damage to industrial and civilian installations. The city centre is badly damaged, with 21 factories being destroyed and the cathedral wrecked but for its spire. The raid kills or injures 1,419 people and makes thousands homeless. A new word is created in both the English and German languages, ‘Coventrate’ and ‘Coventrieren’, meaning the physical and psychological destruction of a city.

Greek army repels the Italians whom are forced back across the border into Albania.

The Petain government protests against mass deportations going on in Lorraine, which has been taken back into the Reich.

1941
US orders withdrawal of American gunboats and Marines from China to the Philippines.

HMS Ark Royal is finally sunk off Gibraltar. Only one man is killed.

Soviet counterattack begins around Moscow.

1942
British and Americans launch offensive from Algeria toward Tunisia.

The second Naval Battle of Guadalcanal ended in strategic American victory. On the battle’s final day the Japanese battlecruiser Kirishima and destroyer Ayanami were sunk by the American battleship USS Washington, while the Americans lost the destroyers Benham and Walke.

Japan bombard the American beachhead but part of their transport fleet is sunk.

Church bells were rung throughout England in celebration of the Allied victory at El Alamein. It was the first time that church bells had sounded since 1940 when they were silenced during the threat of German invasion.

German submarine U-98 was depth charged and sunk southwest of Cape St. Vincent, Portugal by the British destroyer Wrestler.

German submarine U-259 was depth charged and sunk in the Mediterranean by a Lockheed Hudson of No. 500 Squadron RAF.

German submarine U-605 sunk with all hands off Algiers.

Eighth Air Force Heavy Bomber Mission No. 19: 34 aircraft dispatched to attack U-boat base at St. Nazaire. No aircraft lost.

British 8th Army captured Tmimi.

Allied reinforcements land at Bone.

Australian troops capture Wairopi (Papua).

1943
German submarine U-595 scuttled off Oran.

1944
French 1st Army under De Lattre begins an offensive in the snow near the Swiss border towards the Belfort Gap. The U.S. 95th infantry Division begins to capture the Metz forts. The British begins their attack on Maas in central Holland.

Premiere of documentary Combat America, produced by Clark Gable from footage he took on his five missions with the 351st Bomb Group.

Nine German vessels were destroyed by Great Britain. A tenth ship was driven to the shore. The ships destroyed were moving north along the coast.

German-occupied Czechoslovakia Lt. Gen. Andrei (Andrey) Andreievich Vlasov read aloud the Prague Manifesto to members of the newly created Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia. Among its 14 principles, the Prague Manifesto guaranteed freedom of speech, press, religion, and assembly, as well as a right to self-determination of any ethnic group living in territories belonging to the Soviet Union. Known by its 4‑letter Russian abbreviation KOHP (English, KONR), the committee was chaired by Vlasov (1901–1946), a former Soviet general who commanded the Russian Liberation Army, itself abbreviated as ROA (POA in Russian). KONR tended to be viewed as the political arm of Vlasov’s ROA. KONR was populated by military and civilian Nazi collaborators who had joined with German invaders to free their homeland from Soviet tyranny.

Albanian partisans liberated Durrës.

USS Queenfish torpedoed Japanese aircraft carrier Akitsu Maru; 2,246 drown.

Nazi resistance members Walter Cramer, Bernhard Letterhaus and Ferdinand von Lüninck were hanged at Plötzensee Prison in Berlin.

Trafford Leigh-Mallory, 52, British RAF commander dies in a plane crash in the French Alps.

[RangerJoe]

Zov, you are welcome.

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While referred to as an aircraft carrier, the Akitsu Maru was one of the predecessors to the US Navy's assault ships for their US Naval Infantry. It did not have a well deck but it could carry 27 Daihatsu-class landing craft. (Think of the LB type barge.) The ship could operate 8 aircraft or carry 30 aircraft. In July of 1944 an arresting system was installed but I don't know if the ship got an enlarged brig for all of the arrests that were to be made. She actually carried IJ Army aircraft! Both the Kayaba Ka-1 autogyro and the Kokusai Ki-76 which was based on the Fieseler FI 156 Storch and also carried two 60 kg (132 lb) depth charges. The Ki-76 did not even need a hook to land on the ship. I don't think that the Ki-76 is in the game as a carrier aircraft . . .

[RangerJoe]

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I hope that everyone has a nice day!

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Why we know of no contacts yet!

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I guess that aerial torpedoes do hit PT Boats!