Posted on 06/05/2012 4:22:52 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
John Toland, The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945
http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1942/jun42/f05jun42.htm
British strike Axis defenses
Friday, June 5, 1942 www.onwar.com
British artillery shells Axis positions [photo at link]
In North Africa... British forces begin attacks on Rommel’s forces at the “Cauldron” (Rommel’s defensive position backed by a minefield). The British 32nd Army Brigade is caught in the minefield and loses 60 of its 70 tanks. The British 22nd Armored Brigade loses communications with the infantry and artillery it is supporting, rendering them extremely vulnerable. The Axis forces will defeat these units in the course of the next two days.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andrew.etherington/frame.htm
June 5th, 1942
UNITED KINGDOM: Bletchley Park: A new type of Bombe deciphering machine nicknamed the “Robinson” is installed to process data using paper-tape loops.
Operation HARPOON commences as convoy WS 19Z (Force “X”) sails from the River Clyde enroute to Malta. (Jack McKillop)
Submarine USS S-29 loaned to RN as HMS P-556.
Corvettes HMCS Galt and Wetaskiwin arrived Londonderry with Convoy HX-191. (Dave Shirlaw)
FRANCE: Pierre Laval issues an eloquent radio broadcast on his vision for a new Europe. (Glenn Steinburg)
U.S.S.R.: German troops start a major operation to flush out partisans.
LIBYA: The British attack Rommel’s defensive position at the “Cauldron”.
Alam Hamza: Sgt. Quentin George Murray Smythe (b.1916), South African Forces, was wounded but led his men to take an anti-tank position. (Victoria Cross)
INDIA: The largest military convoy ever to leave Britain has reached India safely. It has reinforced the country’s defences with thousands of soldiers, airmen, scientists and medical staff as well as vast quantities of military equipment.
Many big liners with famous names sailed in the giant convoy which was escorted by a battleship and a strong force of destroyers. It was dispersed to different ports in the sub-continent when it arrived about a month ago. For security reasons news about it was delayed until today.
MIDWAY: Off Midway Island, the Japanese 1st Mobile Fleet is retiring westward while being pursued by carrier aircraft of Task Force 16 and Midway-based USAAF and USMC aircraft. USAAF B-17s make two attacks on three ships but do not hit the ships.
The aircraft carriers HIJMS Akagi and HIJMS Hiryu, which were damaged yesterday and left drifting, are scuttled by Japanese destroyers. While turning to avoid the submarine USS Tambor (SS-198), the heavy cruisers HIJMS Mogami and HIJMS Mikuma collide and are damaged. Later in the day, six SBD-2 Dauntlesses and six SB2U-3 Vindicators of Marine Scout Bombing Squadron Two Hundred Forty One (VMSB-241) attack HIJMS Mikuma but do not score any hits.
A salvage party of 29 officers and 141 enlisted men return to the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (CV-5) in an attempt to save her. Five destroyers form an antisubmarine screen while the salvage party boards the listing carrier. (Jack McKillop)
TERRITORY OF HAWAII: Pearl Harbor: Admiral Chester Nimitz, USN announces the defeat of the Imperial Japanese Naval fleet at the Battle of Midway. (Denis Peck)
TERRITORY OF ALASKA: ALEUTIAN ISLANDS: At 0920 hours local, Japanese Combined Fleet Operational Order Number 155 is issued, directing the 2nd Mobile Force, i.e., the light aircraft carriers HIJMS Junyo and HIJMS Ryujo which have been attacking Dutch Harbor in the Aleutian Islands for the past two days, to join the 1st Mobile Force off of Midway Island and this temporarily postpones the invasion of the Aleutian Islands. At 2355 hours, the Midway attack is abandoned.
The US Army Air Forces 11th Air Force searches for the two aircraft carriers of the Japanese 2nd Mobile Force using ten Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses, 18 Martin B-26 Marauders and two Consolidated LB-30 Liberators without success. One radar equipped B-17E locates the “targets” on radar and bombs; the “targets” were actually the Pribilof Islands.
Vice Admiral Boshiro Hosogaya, the Naval Commander of Operation AL (the invasion of the Aleutian Islands), orders the 1,200 Japanese troops of the Adak-Attu Occupation Force to head for Attu Island. (Jack McKillop)
CANADA: HM MTB 315, 15th MTB Flotilla is commissioned, and Minesweepers HMCS Digby and Truro are launched. (Dave Shirlaw)
U.S.A.: Washington: The US declares war on Romania, Hungary and Bulgaria.
1,432 members of the Hawaii Provisional Infantry Battalion depart Honolulu for San Francisco. (Gene Hanson)
CARIBBEAN SEA: U-68 sinks an armed U.S. tanker. All hands are lost.
ATLANTIC OCEAN: U-172 sinks an unarmed U.S. freighter. (Jack McKillop)
"A long line of Jews winds its way through the streets of Pabianice, Poland, on the way to deportation.
In mid-May 1942 some 4,500 Jews from the town were rounded up and deported to Chelmno, where they were executed.
While the Jews of the town were sent to their deaths, the goods that they took with them to the death camp were sent back to warehouses in Pabianice."
"Bending over their shovels and spades, Hungarian Jews till the muddy Ukrainian soil.
Beginning in 1939, Hungarian Jews not serving in the military had been required to join labor battalions.
This cruel and backbreaking work took on new danger when Jewish units were ordered to the Eastern Front.
There they were mistreated by Axis military personnel and treated as the enemy when captured by the Soviets."
Poles fighting in the Red Army? That’s an awkward situation.
SORYU and HIRYU were not ‘light carriers’. They were fleet carriers.
UN was officially formed in 1945.
regarding the article about Budd manufacturing building cargo planes for the navy:
Aviation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budd_Company
Budd BB-1 Pioneer in front of the Franklin Institute
In 1930, the company made its first foray into the aviation industry by signing contracts to manufacture aircraft wheels and stainless steel wing ribs. Enea Bossi joined the company as the head of stainless steel research to supervise the design and construction of the 4-seat biplane amphibian aircraft Budd BB-1 Pioneer. It was the first aircraft with a structure built out of stainless steel.[6] This was the first aircraft for the Budd Company, and it made its first flight in 1931.[7] Built under Restricted License NR749,[8] its design utilized concepts developed for the Savoia-Marchetti S-31 and was powered by a single 210 horsepower (160 kW) Kinner C-5 five-cylinder radial engine.[9]
The stainless steel construction process for the BB-1 was patented in 1942.[10] At the time, stainless steel was not considered practical; and only one BB-1 was built. It logged about 1,000 flying hours while touring the United States and Europe. In 1934, this plane was stripped of its fabric covering and its lower wing, and was mounted outside the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, where it remains to this day as the longest continuous display of any airplane.[8] The plane has been memorialized in the children’s book Spirited Philadelphia Adventure by Deirdre Cimino.[11][12]
During World War II, Budd designed and built the RB-1 transport airplane for the U.S. Navy using much stainless steel in place of aluminum. Only 25 were built but, after the war, 14 aircraft found their way to the fledgling Flying Tiger Line and provided a good start for that company.
Here is info on RB1 Conestoga, another airplain I never heard of before:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RB_Conestoga
A little off topic but the Budd company was involved with wind turbines in 1939.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith-Putnam_wind_turbine
I read a book a few months back called Hitler's Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State. Every time the Nazis conquered a nation, among their primary tasks was to use whatever tools they could - making locals turn in personal property like furniture and toys, forcing them to exchange gold and local currency for newly issued German currency at terrible exchange rates, and many more - to strip the conquered lands of wealth and use it to provide welfare-state benefits to the German population. This was done too to Jews before they were sent to extermination. It was completely consonant with Nazi ideology, and not as widely known as it should be.
I absolutely love these newspaper articles.
Especially since The(so called)History Channel has converted to “Reality TV” all the time.
I get to read history through the eyes of my grandparents...
Thank you very much, Homer
Red.
Amazing that an Admiral would go down with the ship - I don’t think I ever knew that. I suppose that happened elsewhere as well. Why I can understand the reasoning, it seems as though it would have been better for the Japs for top guys like this to live to fight another day. Unless of course he WAS a really bad Admiral. But I don’t think that was the case.
I wonder how many of them did this, and if they had lived would the Japs have had more success later on?
Seeing these headlines and reading these stories brings it home in a very real way.
From the Japanese point of view, losing Yamaguchi via his going down with the ship, was a MAJOR mistake.He was their best carrier Admiral, bar none. He had the third strike revving up on the decks of SORYU and HIRYU on Dec. 7th. He had his bombers and torpedo planes/bombers proportionally armed at Midway to go either for the island or our fleet. His loss was possibly greater than Yamamoto’s. He certainly would have been a better choice to command KIDO BUTAI than Nagumo -before or after Midway.
The essence of socialism: whether National Socialism, or International Socialism, "Democratic" Socialism, Progressive Socialism -- it's always the same, and it always works, as Lady Thatcher said, until they run out of other peoples' wealth to redistribute.
For the end results of such a process, we might consider the examples of North versus South Korea.
“Especially since The(so called)History Channel has converted to “Reality TV” all the time.”
You don’t think “Nazi UFO Conspiracy” is real history? I’m shocked.
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