Posted on 08/02/2011 5:04:34 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
Winston S. Churchill, The Grand Alliance
Billboard Top Ten for the Week of August 2, 1941
#1 - “Daddy” - Sammy Kaye, with the Kaye Choir
#2 - “Maria Elena” - Jimmy Dorsey, with Bob Eberly
#3 – “Green Eyes” - Jimmy Dorsey, with Bob Eberly and Helen O’Connell
#4 - “Yours” – Jimmy Dorsey, with Bob Eberly
#5 - “Yes Indeed!” - Tommy Dorsey, with Jo Stafford and Sy Oliver
#6 - “Blue Champagne” – Jimmy Dorsey, with Bob Eberly
#7 – “The Hut-Sut Song” – Freddy Martin, With Eddie Stone
#8 - “The Booglie Wooglie Piggy” - Kay Kyser, with Harry, Ginny, Jack, & Max
#9 - “Just a Little Bit South of North Carolina” - Gene Krupa, with Anita O’Day
#10 - “Intermezzo” – Charlie Spivak
http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1941/aug41/f02aug41.htm
Germans attacking Staraya Russa
Saturday, August 2, 1941 www.onwar.com
On the Eastern Front... The German forces in the north being to attack Staraya Russa just south of Lake Ilmen on the right of their drive toward Leningrad.
In the United States... Lend-Lease aid begins to be sent to the Soviet Union.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andrew.etherington/month/thismonth/02.htm
August 2nd, 1941
UNITED KINGDOM: Submarine HMS P-48 laid down.
Minesweeper HMS Tadoussac, Wedgeport launched. (Dave Shirlaw)
GERMANY: U-154 commissioned. (Dave Shirlaw)
U.S.S.R.: German forces attack Staraya Russa, south of Lake Ilmen, in their drive toward Leningrad.
US Lend-Lease aid begins for the Soviet Union.
Soviet submarine S-11 of the Baltic Fleet is mined off Soelavain Bay and sunk in the Soela Vain Channel. (Mike Yared)(146 and 147)
MEDITERRANEAN SEA: Italian submarine Tembien rammed and sunk off Tunis by light
cruiser HMS Hermione. (Dave Shirlaw)
CANADA: AMC HMCS Prince Henry departed Halifax for Esquimalt.
Minesweeper HMCS Courtenay launched Prince Rupert, British Columbia.
Minesweeper HMCS Minas commissioned. (Dave Shirlaw)
U.S.A.: The first Packard built Rolls Royce Merlin V-1650 aircraft engine is completed. (Jack McKillop)
Light cruiser USS Miami laid down.
Franklin D. Roosevelt and his cabinet have a long discussion in a cabinet meeting concerning “ways and means to sell directly or indirectly” 50 to 60 overage destroyers to the British. Everyone agrees “that the survival of the British Isles under German attack might very possibly depend on their (the British) getting these destroyers.” Everyone also agrees that legislation to permit the sale of these ships is necessary. (Dave Shirlaw)
London opens a mosque for soldiers serving in their armed forces....
So it begins....
FDR embargos all aviation fuel, and severely limits Japan’s access to most other petroleum products. The fuse is lit. FDR’s long sought after for war is on its way.
“Switzerland is Gay on 650th Birthday”
It was a different time.
August 2:"Four thousand Jews are killed by about 80 drunken Germans at Ponary, Lithuania.
"An American Jewish woman is among the approximately 200 Jews killed at Kovno, Lithuania."
Question: how well do these photos and accompanying descriptions show up?
War was going to come sooner or later, good that the US didn’t wait until the enemy was on their border.
In Navy Commander Arthur McCollum's "Eight Action Proposal" of October 7, 1940, the complete embargo of all US trade with Japan is the eighth and final item.
The other seven have already been executed.
Quoting McCollum:
"If by these means Japan could be led to commit an overt act of war, so much the better.
At all events we must be fully prepared to accept the threat of war."
This is one aspect that really surprised me. I thought that all aviation fuel had been embargoed last year in July when the Japanese moved into north Indo-China. But apparently only the highest octane fuel was stopped. As it says in the article, the lower octane fuel was still being shipped and could be used or processed into higher octanes. This really does put the screws to the Japanese now since pretty much any petroleum products will no longer be sent.
Is that really a quote from McCollum though? I really would like to see the original memo from October 7th, 1940. It would be interesting to study.
All too clearly (given the subject matter).
Considering that in 1939 we were ranked behind Rumania in military strength, I think later would have been better than sooner. Hitler would not have been in a position to take Britain for years [and make no mistake, Roosevelt wanted waer with Hitler. He’d had a hatred for the Germans that went back to WW I].
And the Japanese could have been dealt with more adroitly. Demanding they withdraw not only from Indochina but China was never gonna get done. But Roosevelt wasn’t interested in that as more than a ruse. Remember, this is the clown who promised in the 1940 campaign that he would nevder send U.S troops overseas, while the General behind him had the plans for their deployment to Iceland in his briefcase.
The other point I make is, why would the Nazis go through all the trouble of massacring every Jew in Europe, if they didn’t intend to ultimately take over the US, and bring the “Final Solution” here?
Just imagine if they had been more dedicated to the campaign in North Africa. A concerted effort there would have swept the British out of Africa and allowed them to roll right up into the Palestine Mandate. It would have been much harder to establish Israel had the “Final Solution” eliminated the Jews in Palestine and I’d bet starting pogroms in that area would have been easier than it was in the Baltics.
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