Posted on 07/28/2011 4:58:33 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
Winston S. Churchill, The Grand Alliance
http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1941/jul41/f28jul41.htm
Japanese troops arrive in Indochina
Monday, July 28, 1941 www.onwar.com
In French Indochina... Japanese forces begin to occupy bases in southern Indochina. It is clear that the main use for such bases would be in an invasion of Malyasia, the East Indies or the Philippines.
In Japan... American and British assets in Japan are frozen in retaliation for similar measures in the USA and UK on July 26th. Japanese assets in the Dutch East Indies are frozen and the oil deals cancelled.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andrew.etherington/month/thismonth/28.htm
July 28th, 1941
UNITED KINGDOM:
Destroyer HMS Wensleydale laid down.
Minesweeping trawler HMS FOULA is laid down.
Corevette HMS TAMARISK is launched. (Dave Shirlaw)
GERMANY: U-625 and U-626 are laid down. (Dave Shirlaw)
FINLAND: Finnish Foreign Minister Witting informs the British Ambassador Sir
Gordon Vereker that Finland has to ‘interrupt’ her diplomatic
relations with United Kingdom. (Mikko Härmeinen)
Submarine Vesikko sinks 4100-ton ship Vyborg east from Suursaari. (Dave Shirlaw)
U.S.S.R.: German forces start to liquidate Soviet troops trapped near the town of Smolensk.
FRENCH INDOCHINA: Saigon:
The crisis in the Far East worsened today when 30,000 Japanese troops entered French Indochina. The build-up includes elements of the Japanese navy, which have sailed into Camranh Bay, and aircraft which are flying into Saigon. Japanese troops have also begun disembarking in Cambodia where 8,000 men will be within striking range of Siam.
The Japanese thrust has come soon after a conference in Tokyo on 2 July decided on a southward advance rather than the attack on Russia which the Germans wanted.
Malaya is now seriously threatened from Indochina, which is providing the Japanese with a naval base within 750-miles of Singapore and airfields within 300 miles of northern Malaya. The Japanese move has isolated the Philippines and menaces the oil-rich Dutch East Indies.
The Vichy regime has given the Japanese a free hand in Indochina on the pretext that it was threatened by British and Gaullist plots.
The US and Britain have reacted quickly. All Japanese assets in the United States have been frozen, with an embargo on the supply of oil, steel and other strategic materials to Japan. Britain and the Dutch East Indies followed suit and Japan, faced with economic strangulation, has either to yield to western demands or go to war.
JAPAN: The Japanese government freezes all U.S. assets in Japan. (Jack McKillop)
CANADA: Corvette HMCS Buctouche arrived St. John’s and joined NEF. (Dave Shirlaw)
U.S.A.: The aircraft carrier USS Wasp (CV-7) gets underway from Norfolk, Virginia, carrying the air echelon of the USAAF’s 33d Pursuit Squadron (Interceptor). USS Wasp, escorted by the heavy cruiser USS Vincennes (CA-44) and two destroyers, is carrying 30 P-40Cs and three PT-17 trainers. She will join Task Force 16 enroute to Iceland where the USAAF aircraft will be flown off. (Jack McKillop)
Destroyer USS Corry launched. (Dave Shirlaw)
ATLANTIC OCEAN:
Between 2127 and 2128, U-203 fired four torpedoes at Convoy OG-69 NW of Cape Finisterre and had to dive after the attack. U-203 interpreted the heard detonations and sinking noises and reported three ships sunk and a destroyer probably damaged. In fact, only the Norita and Lapland were hit and sunk. The master, 22 crewmembers and three gunners from the Lapland were picked up by HMS Rhododendron and landed at Gibraltar.
SS Wrotham sunk by U-561 at 43N, 17W. (Dave Shirlaw)
Thank you for your continued posting of these articles. They make for fascinating reading.
Thanks for posting this stuff. I really like the ads when they are included as well. It is kind of neat to compare prices and see if those businesses are still around.
"...at the time of the Nazi-Soviet Pact, the Communists suddenly transformed the 'Anti-Nazi League' into the "Hollywood Peace Forum," calling for American neutrality and using the slogan 'Let's Skip the Next War.'..."
--Ronald Radosh, from his book, Red Star Over Hollywood: The Film Colony's Long Romance With the Left
http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=4251
It sure didn’t take long for Japan to present a hostile stance against the next country down the SE Asia corridor. It doesn’t seem like even the full embargo has slowed the Japanese aggressive stance.
There is an article on the front page of the Times regarding a major water main break in the city on that day. FWIW, and oddly enough, yesterday there was also a major water main break in the Bronx that flooded several streets and shut down a few subway stations.
How long before they had that in a stick form?
Chungking Believes Demands of Tokyo Rose When French Weakness Was Seen.
Note the use of Tokyo Rose, thought it was the person.
Never thought much about French Indo China and how they rolled over for the Japanese in WWII. They folded again and left Vietnam a second time after WWII.
Chungking Believes Demands of Tokyo Rose When French Weakness Was Seen.
Note the use of Tokyo Rose, thought it was the person.
Never thought much about French Indo China and how they rolled over for the Japanese in WWII. They folded again and left Vietnam a second time after WWII.
Peiping buying Plane for Japan.
PEIPING, July 27. Every time they attend a movie or eat in a restaurant this month the Chinese of this Japanese-occupied metropolis are helping to buy a plane for the Japanese Army. A 10per cent tax has been placed on those business, the press reports, and the police are collecting “donations” to pay for the plane in observance of the beginning of the firth year of the Chinese-Japanese war.
I wasn't aware that DeGaull was this active early in the war (reference to Gaullist).
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