ROOSEVELT ORDERS NAVY TO SHOOT FIRST IF AXIS RAIDERS ENTER OUR DEFENSE ZONES (9/12/41)

Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 9/12/41 | Frank L. Kluckhohn, Cyrus L. Sulzberger, Daniel T. Brigham, C. Brooks Peters, Otto D. Tolischus

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Free Republic University, Department of History presents World War II Plus 70 Years: Seminar and Discussion Forum
First session: September 1, 2009. Last date to add: September 2, 2015.
Reading assignment: New York Times articles delivered daily to students on the 70th anniversary of original publication date. (Previously posted articles can be found by searching on keyword “realtime” Or view Homer’s posting history .)
To add this class to or drop it from your schedule notify Admissions and Records (Attn: Homer_J_Simpson) by freepmail. Those on the Realtime +/- 70 Years ping list are automatically enrolled. Course description, prerequisites and tuition information is available at the bottom of Homer’s profile. Also visit our general discussion thread

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Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
Advance on Moscow – Operations, 26 August-5 December 1941
The Mediterranean Basin
The Far East and the Pacific, 1941 – Major Japanese War Objectives and Planned Opening Attacks

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Gordon W. Prange, At Dawn We Slept

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Winston S. Churchill, The Grand Alliance

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War Up to Hitler – 2
The President’s Speech – 3-4
The International Situation – 5
Russians Drive On – 5-6
Berlin Concedes Losses in Center – 7
Russian Attacks Held Paramount – 7
Hirohito Directs New Army Set-Up – 8-9
Roosevelt is Urged to Seek War on Nazis – 9
Big R.A.F. Bombers Pound Turin; Italy Raided in North and South – 9-10
Japanese See Stress Shifted to Atlantic – 10
Libyan Airdromes Bombed by British – 10
Soviet Air Mission Asks for Quick Aid (by Pertinax) – 10
Roosevelt Order Hailed in London – 11
Nazi Predicts Invasion of England at Odd Time – 11
Moderate to Control Mexico’s Schools – 11
‘Fluid’ Russian Front (by Hanson W. Baldwin) – 12-13
Brant to Command Newfoundland Base – 13
Churchill Denies Aide is Soviet Foe (by David Anderson) – 13
Italian Press Sees U.S. Step toward War; Gayda Asserts Roosevelt has Set the Stage – 13
300 Warships in Atlantic Get Roosevelt’s Order – 13
The Texts of the Day’s War Communiques – 14
To ‘Filter’ Facts for Col. Donovan - 14

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http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1941/sep41/f12sep41.htm

Soviets abandon Chernigov

Friday, September 12, 1941 www.onwar.com

On the Eastern Front... North of Kiev, the city of Chernigov, on the Desna River is evacuated in the face of the advancing German 2nd Army. The first snowfall of the year is reported on the Eastern Front.

In Norway... the Norwegian Government under the pro-German leadership of Quisling bans the Boys Scouts and other youth clubs. Boys are required to join youth sections of the Nasjonal Samling Party.

In North Africa... the relief operations begin for Tobruk. Approximately 6300 soldiers, from Scobie’s 70th British Division, and supplies for them are transported into the city. 6000 of the Australian garrison are taken out.

[BroJoeK]

September 12, 1941

• "Hitler proclaims, “Leningrad will be starved into submission.”

• "German General Wilhelm Keitel exhorts his commanders in the East to be “ruthless” in their treatment of Jews.

• "3,434 Jews are taken from Vilna, Lithuania, to nearby Ponary and executed."

"The German conquest of Yugoslavia unleashed new brutality against the country's Jews.
With foot raised to deliver yet another blow, a soldier of the German mountain troops kicks a man to death during the campaign to rid the Macva region of all Jews."

[BroJoeK]

Headline: "WAR UP TO HITLER"

"...the United States is adopting an attitude of defense and not of war, the President asserted.
But he left no doubt, the United States will enter a shooting war if the campaign of aggression is not stopped at once."

Roosevelt is taunting Hitler, and Hitler will respond to Roosevelt's taunts exactly three months later, after both have seen a demonstration to Americans of just what war will mean.

[CougarGA7]

Freep was down when I tried to post this so I'll have to do it now.

• "Germany and Russia are fighting for world domination, which ever wins will be a long way on the road to domination; England cannot win, the best its empire can gain is a respite; Japan fights for domination in order to keep from being destroyed later; the United States does not look out for its own interests, is not united internally, has no objective except the restoration of the status quo, is shot through with elements of weakness and therefore stands to lose regarless of the victor in the present war; finally, if any one power dominates Asia, Europe, and Africa, our country will ultimately become a second class power even if we gain South America and the whole of North America." - Colonel Paul Robinett of the General Staff

• The 1st Panzer Division captures Krasnoe Selo but are halted at Pulkovo in Leningrad's southwestern suburbs.

[CougarGA7]

You can certainly see with all the ivy leaguers flooding into Donovan’s new service why the OSS was said to stand for “Oh So Social”.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andrew.etherington/month/thismonth/12.htm

September 12th, 1941
UNITED KINGDOM: The prototype Airspeed A.S. 51 Horsa troop-carrying glider (DG 597) is flown. It has a crew of two pilots and can carry 20-25 troops.
FRANCE: Paris: The Germans shoot 12 of the Jewish hostages taken on 8 September.
GERMANY: Rastenburg: Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, the chief of the German army’s High Command, today issued an explicit directive to his troops on how they should treat Jews in the USSR. headed “Jews in the newly occupied eastern territories”, Keitel’s directive says: “The struggle against Bolshevism demands ruthless and energetic measures, above all against the Jews, the main carriers of Bolshevism.”
NORWAY: Boy Scouts and other youth organizations are banned by Quisling in Norway. In their place the youth sections of the Nasjonal Samling Party exist and boys are required to join.
U.S.S.R.: As the first snows of winter begin to fall, the 2nd and 3rd Panzer Armies under von Kleist and Guderian join up at Lokhvitsa, near Rovno, completing the encirclement of Kiev and a pocket of 600,000 Soviet soldiers to the east of the city Chernigov on the Desna is evacuated under German attacks.
LITHUANIA: A SS Einsatzkommando [action squad] murders 3,434 Jews at Ponary, outside Vilna.
ITALY: Flying from bases in Britain and North Africa, British bombers struck at Italy’s industrial north and at targets in Sicily, in the south, tonight. The British based Stirlings took advantage of the longer nights to fly 1,200 miles across France and the Alps and bomb the royal arsenal at Turin, where at least nine large fires were started.
More fires were started at Messina and Palermo - both major supply ports for the Italian army in Libya - with crews reporting hits on merchant ships, oil tanks and a power station.
GREENLAND: The USCG gunboats USCGC Northland (WPG-49) and USCGC North Star (WPG-59) seize the Norwegian trawler Buskoe in MacKenzie Bay. The crew of the Buskoe is attempting to establish and service German weather stations in Greenland. This the first capture of a belligerent ship by the U.S. in WWII. (Jack McKillop)
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from http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/n6/northland.htm
Northland sighted the German-controlled Norwegian sealer Buskoe 12 September and sent a boarding party to investigate. Buskoe was taken to Mackenzie Bay, on the Greenland coast, where she became the first American naval capture of the period of emergency that preceded U.S. entry into the war. It was believed that she had been sending weather reports and information on Allied shipping to the Germans. Her capture also led to the discovery of a German radio station about five hundred miles up the Greenland coast from Mackenzie Bay. A night raiding party from Northland captured three Nazis at Peter Bregt, with equipment and code, as well as German plans for other radio stations in the far north.

U.S.A.: Stimson protests to cabinet Roosevelt’s gift to the USSR of 5 B-17’s as these were needed for the Philippines. Roosevelt apologizes but the gift stands. (Marc Small)
The Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) authorises the creation of the USNs first photo interpretation (PI) school. (William L. Howard)

[PzLdr]

Keitel is not Chief of the German Army’s High Command. Brauchitsch is the Commander of the German Army. Halder is the Chief of staff of the German Army High Command [OKH].

What Keitel IS is Chief of Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, the Armed Forces High Command [OKW], Hitler’s staff for overseeing all the Armed Forces, and coordinating operations. Jodl is the 1A [our J-3] of that organization. OKW is responsible for every front except the U.S.S.R, which is an OKH responsibility.