CHURCHILL CALLS FOR U.S. WEAPONS, NOT BIG OVERSEAS ARMIES, IN 1941 (1/18/41)

Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 1/18/41 | Raymond Daniell, Harold Hinton, Percival Knauth, James MacDonald

[Homer_J_Simpson]

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[Homer_J_Simpson]

Free Republic University, Department of History presents World War II Plus 70 Years: Seminar and Discussion Forum
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[Homer_J_Simpson]

Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
North Africa, 1940: Graziani’s Advance and Wavell’s Offensive, 13 September 1940-7 February 1941 (Map 34a)
Marcks’ Plan, August 5, 1940
Operation Barbarossa (Dir. 21), December 18, 1940
The Mediterranean Basin (Map 33)
The Far East and the Pacific, 1941 – The Imperial Powers, 1 September 1939

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Winston S. Churchill, The Grand Alliance

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Our Help Stressed – 2-3
Discontent in Italy Reported Growing – 3
The International Situation – 3
Nine Irish Vessels Sunk Since Start of the War – 3
British Fleet Key – 4-5
The Day in Washington – 5
Air Blows Traded in Mediterranean – 6
Wheeler Demands Omission of Photo in Film; Condemns Portrayal of Reply to Roosevelt – 7
Goering’s Latest Long-Range Bomber (photo) – 7
Nazis Bomb Town in South of Wales – 8
Day’s War Communiques * – 9

* I missed the bottom lines of this two-column report. I don’t know how much is missing but I don’t think it is a lot. Anyway, the British and Italian communiqués are cut off.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1941/jan41/f18jan41.htm

More air raids on Malta

Saturday, January 18, 1941 www.onwar.com

In the Mediterranean... The aerial attacks are repeated but Malta’s airfields are the principal target.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andrew.etherington/month/thismonth/18.htm

January 18th, 1941

UNITED KINGDOM: The Ministry of Economic Warfare charges that “Some United States producers are helping Germany indirectly by selling Russia commodities in which Germany is deficient. Of these cotton is the most important.”
Fair Isle, Orkney: An RAF rescue launch, sent to collect the German airmen who crashed yesterday, runs aground at the south end of the island. A second boat is despatched to collect both men and boat. It too runs aground and has to be refloated with the help of the islanders.

Corvette FS Mimosa (ex-HMS Mimose) launched.

Corvette HMS Pentstemon launched.

Destroyer HMS Eskdale laid down. (Dave Shirlaw)

GERMANY: U-77 commissioned. (Dave Shirlaw)

MALTA: Luftwaffe planes attack the island’s airfields.

CHINA: The Communist Party describes the New Fourth Army incident as “planned by pro-Japanese conspirators and anti-Communist die-hards.”

U.S.A.: The German Consul General in San Francisco, California, displays the prescribed German Reich flag from the consular office in recognition of a German national holiday. At noon the flag is taken down in the presence of what is described as “a large shouting throng of people” and torn to pieces. The German Chargé d’Affaires Hans Thomsen makes “most emphatic protest” to the U.S. Government over the incident. (Jack McKillop)

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://worldwar2daybyday.blogspot.com/

Day 506 January 18, 1941

1000 miles off the coast of Angola, German cruiser Admiral Scheer captures Norwegian tanker Sandefjord (carrying 11,000 tons of crude oil) which is taken as prize. Sandefjord is sent to occupied France, arriving on February 27 and renamed Monsun under the German flag.

700 miles West of the Canary Islands, German armed merchant cruiser Kormoran sinks British tanker British Union (10 killed, 28 crew and a pet monkey rescued from 2 lifeboats and taken prisoner, 7 crew in another lifeboat rescued next day by British auxiliary cruiser HMS Arawa).

Destroyer HMS Castleton is damaged by German bombing while under repair at Portsmouth (repairs finally completed February 22).

Luftwaffe Stukas again bomb Malta, destroying 6 RAF aircraft and damaging many more at the Luqa and Hal Far airfields.

[Elwood P. Doud]

I would so love one of those $1.50 Sunday dinners at the Brass Rail “with all the trimmings.”

[Tank-FL]

I see that LBJ was getting his name in the Times - way back then. (page 4, col3)

"Representive Johnson of Texas"

[Larry381]

For anyone interested in a bit more information on the Admiral Scheer See below:

The Raiding Cruise of the Admiral Scheer

[Homer_J_Simpson]

"Representive Johnson of Texas"

I missed that one. A few months ago, when Selective Service legislation was going into effect, LBJ made a list of reps who were of draftable age and were required to register. I believe Gore the Elder was also among that group.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

By the way - Isn’t the Times being helpful by printing the photo and description of the German long-range bomber (pg. 7)? This is the day after Secretary of War Stimson’s testimony to the House Foreign Affairs committee warning of possible invasion by air of the United States if Lend-Lease (or Lease-Lend, depending) isn’t passed promptly.

[Tank-FL]

I have noticed a hawk-ish tone to many of the articles.

[CougarGA7]

That was rather timely wasn’t it. I wonder if the Chicago Tribune carried a similar story. I’m betting not.