WEYGAND CONSULTS WITH VICHY CABINET AS WAR MOVES EAST (6/4/41)

Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 6/4/41 | G.H. Archambault, Robert P. Post, Raymond Daniell, Hanson W. Baldwin

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Free Republic University, Department of History presents World War II Plus 70 Years: Seminar and Discussion Forum
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Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
North Africa – Rommel’s First Offensive, 24 March-15 June 1941
Marcks’ Plan, August 5, 1940
Operation Barbarossa (Dir. 21), December 18, 1940
The Mediterranean Basin
The Far East and the Pacific, 1941 – The Imperial Powers, 1 September 1939

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Winston S. Churchill, The Grand Alliance

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Weygand Consults with Vichy Cabinet as War Moves East – 2
Unrest in Britain over Crete Rises; Action Demanded – 3
U.S. Aviation Gasoline in Haiphong Seizures – 3
Men Who Saw Bombings Abroad Visit Big Air Plant in Hartford – 4
Reich Ready to Aid Vichy if Requested – 4
Syria – Key to the East – 5
French Starving, Relief Aide Says – 5-6
The International Situation – 6
British Squadron that has Downed 102 Nazi Planes (photo) * – 7
Texts of the Day’s War Communiques – 8

* Note German Shepherd on wing.

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http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1941/jun41/f04jun41.htm

Kaiser Wilhelm dies in exile

Wednesday, June 4, 1941 www.onwar.com

In Occupied Holland... The former Kaiser of imperial Germany, Wilhelm II, dies at home in Doorn, aged 82.

In Iraq... A new Iraqi Cabinet is formed under British auspices. British forces are now moving through the country establishing control of key points. Some of the British troops will be ready to move into Syria later in the month.

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http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andrew.etherington/month/thismonth/04.htm

June 4th, 1941

UNITED KINGDOM: RAF Bomber Command: 2 Group: Nos. 18, 107 and 139 Sqns. make low-level attacks on Dutch airfields.
NETHERLANDS: Wilhelm II, Germany’s exiled Kaiser, who was born in 1859 and abdicated in 1918, died today.

IRAQ: A new pro-British cabinet is formed.

U.S.A.: The US Naval Aircraft Factory in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania reported that development of airborne television had progressed to the point that signals transmitted by this means could be used to alter the course of the transmitting aircraft. (Jack McKillop)

ATLANTIC OCEAN: British vessels sink four of the BISMARK’s support vessels.

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http://worldwar2daybyday.blogspot.com/

Day 643 June 4, 1941

Royal Navy continues rounding up German supply ships all over the Atlantic. 750 miles Southwest of Cape Verde islands, cruiser HMS London and destroyer HMS Brilliant intercept tanker Esso Hamburg which is then scuttled by her crew (all 87 hands rescued). 380 miles Northeast of the Azores, supply ship Gonzenheim is located by armed merchant cruiser HMS Esperance Bay and aircraft from carrier HMS Victorious. Battleship HMS Nelson and cruiser HMS Neptune intercept and attempt to board but then Gonzenheim is scuttled (63 crew rescued by HMS Neptune). In the same area, tanker Gedania (carrying 48 torpedoes) is captured by ocean boarding vessel HMS Marsdale. Gedania will be renamed Empire Garden and used by the British.

At 5.03 AM 1200 miles West of Brest, France, U-101 stops British SS Trecarrell with torpedoes (4 crew lost). 39 crew and 4 gunners abandon ship in 3 lifeboats and a raft (later picked up by British steam merchant Cornerbrook and landed at Halifax). U-101 tries to finish her off with the deck gun but Matrosenobergefreiter Horst Jackl is thrown overboard by the recoil and lost. At 6.40 AM, U-101 rams the wreck, bending her bow, and then gives up and allows SS Trecarrell to sink on her own.

British dredger Robert Hughes hits a mine (laid by U-69 on May 27) and sinks in Lagos Harbour, Nigeria (14 killed, 17 crew members rescued).

Dutch minelayer HNLMS Van Meerlant hits a mine and sinks in the Thames Estuary (3 killed).

[beebuster2000]

bump

hadnt realized france became such a pro german beligerant post vichy.

i guess that explains all the reprisals post war

[HenpeckedCon]

It’s amazing, why isn’t anyone asking, where is the German Army?