Posted on 01/30/2012 4:39:22 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
Bataan Line Holds (Hurd) – 2
The War Summarized – 2
Japanese Ashore – 3-4
Red Army Drive in Ukraine Menaces Dnieper River Bend (Brigham, Parker) – 4-5
M’Arthur Officer Honored by Nation – 5-6
‘Sighted Sub; Sank Same,’ Radios a Modern Perry in Naval Plane * – 7
Bengazi Retaken, the Axis Declares (Levy) – 8
Hitler Promotes Rommel to Marshal for Bengazi – 8
Japanese Warning Given Free French (Forman) – 9
Toll of Capital Ships (Baldwin) – 10
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the Fighting in Various War Zones – 11-13
Labor Continues Big Nazi Problem (by G.H. Archambault) – 13
* Never mind the modern Perry. How about the captain who took his crew 2,000 miles in a lifeboat? He sounds like a modern Captain Bligh.
http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1942/jan42/f30jan42.htm
Bataan under attack by Japanese
Friday, January 30, 1942 www.onwar.com
Japanese advance through the defensive lines on BataanIn the Philippines... Japanese pressure on the American defensive positions in Bataan increase. As well the Japanese make successful amphibious landings along the coast of the peninsula.
In the Dutch East Indies... At Amboina, the Japanese attack the second largest naval base in the area.
In Burma... The Japanese 55th Division begins attacks on Moulmein.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andrew.etherington/month/thismonth/30.htm
January 30th, 1942
UNITED KINGDOM: Hatfield, Herts: The prototype de Havilland Mosquito T.3 two-seat dual control trainer makes its maiden flight. (22)
Minesweeper HMS Larne laid down.
Destroyer HMS Lookout commissioned.
Minesweeping trawler HMS Loch Arlish sunk by German aircraft off the Humber. (Dave Shirlaw)
GERMANY: Berlin: Hitler turned up at Berlin’s Sports Palace today to celebrate the ninth anniversary of his coming to power. There was little to celebrate. He admitted that the offensive on the eastern front was stalled, and blamed the extreme cold, with temperatures of minus 42 Fahrenheit. He confessed: “I do not know if the war will end this year.”
He also warns: “The result of this war will be the complete annihilation of the Jews ... the most evil universal enemy of all time will be finished.”
U-231, U-310 laid down
U-461 commissioned. (Dave Shirlaw)
BURMA: The Japanese open a strong attack on Moulmein and seize the airdrome. (Jack McKillop)
MALAYA: The British withdrawal to Singapore Island reaches its final stage. East Force is the first unit to cross the causeway and is followed by the Indian 11th Division and West Force. West Force delays withdrawal as long as possible in a futile effort to recover the 22d Brigade of the Indian 9th Division. Remnants of this brigade are eventually ferried across the Strait of Singapore. It is decided to withdraw the Malaya Air Force to the Netherlands East Indies except for a single squadron. (Jack McKillop)
At 1100 hours local, 27 Japanese naval land attack planes bomb Allied shipping at Keppel Harbor; the transport USS Wakefield (AP-21, ex-SS Manhattan), waiting to embark 400 British women and children being evacuated to Ceylon, is damaged by a bomb which kills 5 crewmen; three British transports are also hit. The transport USS West Point (AP-23, ex-SS America) is straddled and showered with fragments, but suffers no damage and provides medical assistance to the crew of USS Wakefield. Both U.S. transports subsequently embark passengers that include dockyard workers from Singapore and their families, in addition to Royal Navy officers and enlisted men and a small RAF contingent. The ships will then proceed to Batavia, Java, Netherlands East Indies for additional evacuees, and thence on to Colombo, Ceylon, arriving there on 6 February. (Jack McKillop)
SINGAPORE: USS Wakefield (USCG-manned), having disembarked 20,000 British troops, was bombed by the Japanese in Singapore. Five were killed. The ship later evacuates 500 women and children to Bombay before the port falls to the Japanese. (Dave Shirlaw)
NETHERLANDS EAST INDIES: The Japanese invade 314 square mile (813 square kilometres) Ambon Island which has the second largest naval base in the East Indies. The defenders include Dutch troop and the Australian 2/21 Battalion plus supporting troops. During the night of 30 January two Japanese landings are launched; the 1st Kure Special Landing Force lands at Hitu-Iama and the 228th Infantry lands on the southern coast of Laitimor. The defenders are at a disadvantage to contest the landings, only a few Dutch detachments were in the area. At Hitu-Iama on the north coast the defending infantry and machine-gun crews are quickly overwhelmed and bridges on the road leading to the town of Paso are left intact allowing the Japanese to speedily advance south across the Hitu Peninsula. Other landings occurred around Hutumori; the Japanese split westward to the town, and northward to Paso using captured Ambonese compelled to act as guides. (Jack McKillop)
PHILIPPINE ISLANDS: In Sector C of II Corps on Bataan, efforts to dislodge the enemy from the Pilar River bridgehead fail and indecisive fighting continues along the main line of resistance (MLR). The I Corps makes slow progress against enemy pockets behind the MLR. While the 1st Division, Philippine Army (PA), attempts to reduce Little Pocket, elements of the 11th Infantry, PA, and 45th Infantry, Philippine Scouts (PS), attack Big Pocket from the north and south, respectively. In the South Sector, the 3d Battalion of the 45th Infantry, PS, reinforced, continues to attack the Quinauan Point beachhead. The 2d Battalion of the same regiment, reinforced, supported by the 88th Field Artillery battery, PS, pushes slowly toward the mouth of the Silaiim River. (Jack McKillop)
General Douglas MacArthur, Commander in Chief US Army Forces Far East (USAFFE), takes control of all naval forces in the Philippines. (Jack McKillop)
AUSTRALIA: Minesweeper HMAS Gympie launched. (Dave Shirlaw)
PACIFIC OCEAN: Japanese submarine HIJMS I-73 is torpedoed and sunk the U.S. submarine USS Gudgeon (SS-21) about 274 miles west of Midway Island. I-73, with many of her crewmen on deck is running a straight course and not zigzagging. (Jack McKillop)
TERRITORY OF HAWAII: USAAF Hawaiian Air Force B-17 Flying Fortresses of Task Group 8.9 return to Hawaii, having completed a mission (began on 16 January 42) which afforded a pioneer look at the problem of air operations over vast Pacific areas, especially the problems of navigation and the servicing of aircraft. (Jack McKillop)
CANADA: Motor minesweepers ordered in Canadian yards - HMS MMS 243, 244, 245, 246, 247, 248, 250, 251, 252, 254, 256, 257, 254, 255. (Dave Shirlaw)
U.S.A.: The last pre-war automobiles produced by General Motors’ Chevrolet Division and Chrysler’s DeSoto Division roll off the assembly lines today. (Jack McKillop)
The Secretary of the Navy authorizes a glider program for the Marine Corps consisting of small and large type gliders in sufficient numbers for the training and transportation of two battalions of 900 men each. (Jack McKillop)
California Governor Culbert Olson revokes the professional and business licenses of 5,000 Japanese, German and Italian aliens in California. The revocations mostly affect Japanese-Americans. (Jack McKillop)
The Congress passes the Emergency Price Control Act which allows the Office of Price Administration (OPA) to place ceilings on prices and rents. (Jack McKillop)
Submarine USS Trigger commissioned. (Dave Shirlaw)
ECUADOR: Quito breaks off diplomatic relations with Berlin. (Mike Yared)
ICELAND: The hulk of the US Coast Guard gunboat USCGC Alexander Hamilton (WPG-34), torpedoed by U-132 yesterday, is again taken in tow by a tug. The tow progresses 18 miles (29 kilometres) but the cutter’s list increases rapidly to starboard and she suddenly capsizes at 1728 hours. (Jack McKillop)
ATLANTIC OCEAN: At 1805, the unescorted and unarmed tanker SS Rochester was hit by one torpedo from U-106. As the engine room was flooded, the crew abandoned ship in two lifeboats, while the U-boat surfaced and waited until the boats cleared the ship. The tanker was then shelled with 8 rounds, but then the deck gun jammed and U-106 was forced to fire a second torpedo at 1845, which hit amidships and caused the ship to sink at 1920. After three hours 32 survivors (later one crewmember died of burns) were picked up by destroyer USS Roe and landed at Norfolk the next morning. (Jack McKillop and Dave Shirlaw)
Interseting that Baldwin, in his analysis of capital ship losses omits aircraft carriers, of which the Brits have lost at least two, and I believe, more.
Page 13 writer makes an understatememt about use of forced labor being underproductive.
Especially since Baldwin has been beating the drum for air power for a long time now. He must be using some conventional definition of capital ship that predates aircraft carriers. Like displacement or gun caliber. If that is so he must realize that he is working with obsolete terms.
"In a speech to the German public, Hitler commemorates the ninth anniversary of his taking power, declaring that the end result of the war will not be the destruction of the Aryans but will be the complete annihilation of the Jews.
The speech is monitored in Washington, D.C., and London."
"Extreme shortages of food encouraged the development of active black markets in the ghettos.
The Nazis, who hoped that all of the ghettos' inhabitants would die of disease or starvation, naturally frowned on these activities.
Those caught engaging in black-market commerce were summarily executed, including these four men who were publicly hanged in the Zdunska Wola (Poland) Ghetto."
This goes back to some of my prior posts. What U.S. media reported this speech?
Oops!. The speech was Jan 30 which is today. It won’t be until Jan 31 which is tomorrow that the U.S. government and media have an opportunity to report on the speech.
I don't have access to my hard copy of tomorrow's post but I think one of our guys in Berne is listening on the radio and will file a report.
HMS, Courageous, HMS Glorious, HMS Ark Royal by this date in 1942. Also escort carrier Audacity.
http://www.naval-history.net/WW2aBritishLosses02CV.htm
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