Posted on 11/04/2010 5:32:14 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
Winston S. Churchill, Their Finest Hour
http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1940/nov40/f04nov40.htm
Greeks counterattack Italians
Monday, November 4, 1940 www.onwar.com
In the Balkans... The first Greek counterattacks begin in the northern sector of the front. The Italian offensive, despite its numerical strength, is already in difficulties.
The Italian invasion of Greece unraveling and Molotov going to Berlin to get clarification of the Soviet Union’s sphere of influence against Germany’s.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andrew.etherington/month/thismonth/04.htm
November 4th, 1940
UNITED KINGDOM:
Telegram from the Chiefs of Staff to the C-in-C Med., Middle East and AOC-in-C MIDDLE EAST:
It has been decided that it is necessary to give Greece the greatest possible material and moral support at the earliest possible moment. Impossible for anything from UK to arrive in time. Consequently only course is to draw upon resources in Egypt and to replace them from UK as soon as possible.
Plan is thus:
Aerodromes must be made ready for three Blenheim and two Gladiator Squadrons with AA protection. One battery HAA guns and one battery LAA guns should be dispatched to supplement Greek AAA.
To replace aircraft 34 Hurricanes will be staged through Takoradi from HMS Furious, 32 Wellingtons will be staged through Malta.
It is intended to increase the weight of attack from Malta by bringing the number of operational Wellingtons to 24.
It is appreciated that this will leave Egypt very thin for a period...
Destroyer HMS Lookout launched.
Destroyer HMS Nerissa commissioned. (Dave Shirlaw)
GERMANY: U-189, U-190, U-191, U-192, U-193, U-194, U-195, U-196, U-197, U-198, U-199, U-200 ordered. (Dave Shirlaw)
ALBANIA: The Greek counter-attack starts, and reaches the Korce-Peratia road.
U.S.A.: Submarine USS Silversides laid down. (Dave Shirlaw)
ATLANTIC OCEAN: Kapitanleutnant Otto Kretschmer’s U-99 attacks and sinks Armed Merchant Cruiser Patroclus. There are 230 survivors.
http://worldwar2daybyday.blogspot.com/
Day 431 November 4, 1940
150 miles West of Ireland, U-99’s battle with British convoy escorts continues through the night. While HMS Patroclus is picking up crew from HMS Laurentic, U-99 torpedoes Patroclus at 00.22, 00.44 and 1.18 AM and then dives to avoid return fire from the Patroclus’ deck gun and a Sunderland flying boat. U-99 surfaces and sinks HMS Laurentic at 4.35 AM, with a torpedo that explodes her store of depth charges, and HMS Patroclus at 5.25 AM (56 killed). British destroyer HMS Hesperus arrives and unsuccessfully depth charges U-99 until giving up the chase to pick up survivors from HMS Patroclus and HMS Laurentic.
Greece. In the Pindus Mountains, Italian Julia Division is trapped in the Vovousa valley, under attack by Greek 2nd Army Corps which has been brought in to reinforce the sector. Julia calls for help but they are too far away from reinforcements which are dispatched from Albania. Further West on the Ionian coast, Italian troops cross the Kalamas River and secure a bridgehead but are unable to breakout and outflank the Greek defenses further inland.
British cruiser HMS Ajax continues shuttling reinforce between Alexandria, Egypt, and Crete, to reinforce the garrison at Suda Bay. Ajax departs Alexandria with Australian cruiser HMAS Sydney with 14th Armoured Brigade HQ, anti-aircraft guns and troops.
I’ve thinking about Roosevelt more often these days in light of our current political plight.
Especially when I hear people say that Obama is certainly a one term president.
It seems fools are not a recent phenomonenon.
Nor are “hoodlums”, apparently.
Mussolini gets his butt kicked by Greece — Hitler will eventually get involved to save Axis/fascist ‘face’ and secure Germany’s southern front
Without a doofus Musso to muck things up, Hitler would have had a much better chance of success
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I bet those hoodlums on page 5 are new black panthers
Nah. If they were negroes it would have been mentioned in the article. They weren't SEIU thugs either, seeing as they delivered their threats in complete, grammatically correct sentences. Maybe they were Ayers family members.
The USS Silversides still exists as a museum ship in Muskegon MI. We visited her and the attendant museum on a quick trip this summer. She had a successful career under several good skippers. Silversides was a top five tonnage sinker.
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