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To: Homer_J_Simpson

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andrew.etherington/month/thismonth/29.htm

December 29th, 1941

GERMANY:
U-602 commissioned.

U-647, U-714 laid down. (Dave Shirlaw)

U.S.S.R.: The seaport town of Feodosia on the eastern Crimea is the scene of new Soviet landings with troops of the 51st and 44th Armies. They are opposed by Romanian units, which all but disappear at first contact.

These forces along with those of the 26th at Kerch will pose a serious threat to the German 11th Army. The Germans will halt their advance on Sevastopol to eliminate this threat, as Sponeck moves his 46th Infanterie Division back to a narrow line on the peninsula (the Parpach Line) to hold the Soviets. (Pat McTaggart)

Feodosia was captured by the German 46th and 170th Infantry Divisions on 3 November. As the attack on Sevastopol was about to take place, most of the German forces were withdrawn to concentrate on the forthcoming battle.

Left behind in the city were a small detachment of troops and all the wounded soldiers convalescing in the city’s hospitals. On 18 January 1942, after their failure to capture Sevastopol, the Germans are able to return and recapture Feodosia. They find that most of the German military personnel had been murdered. Wounded soldiers had been thrown out of the windows of the hospital to make room for Russian wounded.

Water was then poured on the near dead bodies and then left to freeze.

On the beach, piles of bodies are found where they were thrown from a wall several meters high after being beaten and mutilated, their bodies left in the surf so that the sea water froze and covered them with a sheet of ice. There are about 12 survivors who had hidden in cellars when the Russian troops arrived. Their testimony before a German court of inquiry confirmed that some 160 wounded soldiers are liquidated this way. (Jack McKillop)

FINLAND: Major Max von Hellens, Intelligence Officer of the Finnish 11th Division meets with US Military Attaché Colonel Georges Huthsteiner. Von Hellens informs the American that the German 163rd Infantry Division is on the eastern shore of Lake Ladoga, that the German division had suffered losses and is demoralised and asking for help from the Finnish 11th Division. (Mikko Härmeinen)

CANADA: Fishing vessel Fifer requisitioned as patrol vessel HMCS Fifer. (Dave Shirlaw)

U.S.A.: USAAF 77th Bombardment Squadron (Medium) reaches Elmendorf Field, Territory of Alaska. (Jack McKillop)

Light fleet carrier USS Monterey laid down. (Dave Shirlaw)


5 posted on 12/29/2011 5:06:59 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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To: Homer_J_Simpson

Feodosiya’s events were written about by Nina Markovna in her book “Nina’s Journey”. She was living there as a teenager at the time, and the invading Russian naval troops were predictably barbarous to Germans and Soviet citizens alike.


6 posted on 12/29/2011 7:25:02 AM PST by M1903A1 ("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy... and call it progress")
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To: Homer_J_Simpson

“Reassures the gallant Filipinos”...and right around this time was when SecWar Henry Stimson made his infamous note “There comes a time when men must die”.


8 posted on 12/29/2011 7:42:41 AM PST by M1903A1 ("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy... and call it progress")
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