Posted on 06/11/2012 5:14:12 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
* Isn’t this title a touch flippant, considering that the headline nine days ago was “Cologne Death Toll Put as High as 20,000”?
http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1942/jun42/f11jun42.htm
Axis forces assaulting ridges
Thursday, June 11, 1942 www.onwar.com
In North Africa... Rommel’s forces break out of “The Cauldron” and begin attacks against the ridges between Knightsbridge and El Adem. British General Ritchie must engage Rommel’s forces there as the bulk of the British infantry is still on the Gazala Line and the British bases outside Tobruk is now threatened.
In Washington... Soviet Ambassador Litvinov and US Secretary of State Hull sign an additional Lend-Lease agreement between the US and the USSR.
In the Mediterranean... Two major supply convoys to relieve Malta leave port. Admiral Curteis leads Operation Harpoon from Gibraltar; Admiral Vian, Operation Vigorous from Egypt. The Harpoon convoy consists of six merchant ships escorted by the British battleship Malaya, the carriers Eagle and Argus, four cruisers and 17 destroyers. The Vigorous convoy leaves Egypt with an escort forces of 8 cruisers and 11 destroyers to accompany the 11 merchant ships. Admiral Vian has received reinforcements from the British Eastern Fleet withdrawn from Ceylon.
June 11th, 1942
UNITED KINGDOM: USAAF 31st Fighter Group HQ and the HQ of 307th and 308th Fighter Squadrons is established at Atcham, Shropshire, the 309th Fighter Squadron goes to High Ercall, Shropshire. The pilots had been scheduled to fly Bell P-39Airacoba's across the Atlantic but this was cancelled and they arrived at Acham in late June and began flying training with Spitfire Mk V's at Atcham on 26 Jun. (Jack McKillop)
GERMANY: Berlin: Himmler demands the deportation of 100,000 Jews from Vichy and occupied France to the Reich.
MEDITERRANEAN SEA: Two convoys head for Malta: Operation Harpoon passes Gibraltar and Operation Vigorous sails west from Alexandria.
NORTH AFRICA: Free French forces are holding at Bir Hacheim.
CHINA: Japanese forces attack the Taihang mountain area.
PACIFIC OCEAN: The USN aircraft carrier USS Saratoga (CV-3), in Task Force 11, rendezvoused with Task Force 16, consisting of the aircraft carriers USS Enterprise (CV-6) and USS Hornet (CV-8), yesterday to transfer aircraft to replace the planes lost in the Battle of Midway. However, the weather was poor and the transfer could not take place until today. The losses suffered by the Torpedo Squadrons (VTs) were especially heavy so the Saratoga Air Group transfers TBD Devastators of VT-5 to the Enterprise Air Group, TBF Avengers of VT-8 to the Hornet Air Group and SBD Dauntlesses to both air groups. (Jack McKillop)
TERRITORY OF ALASKA: An intense 48-hour bombing campaign against Kiska Island in the Aleutian Islands is begun by the US Army Air Forces' 11th Air Force and the U.S. Navy's Patrol Wing Four (PatWing 4). The 11th Air Force dispatches five Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses and five Consolidated B-24 Liberators from bases on Umnak and Cold Bay to bomb landing beaches where the Japanese are unloading supplies for the garrison; one B-24 is shot down. Japanese fighters attack the bombers and chase them as far as Umnak Island where US fighters rise and chase the Japanese fighters away. The Consolidated PBY Catalinas of PatWing 4 are operating from Atka Island serviced by the Seaplane Tender, Destroyer USS Gillis (AVD-12, ex DD-260); the PBYs also bomb the landing beaches. The bow of the Japanese destroyer HIJMS Hibiki is nearly destroyed by the bombs of the American aircraft. (Jack McKillop)
CANADA: RPO Julien Duschesne RCN, S/Lt Maurice Samuel Hartleuy RCNVR and LCdr James Sutherland Wilson RCNVR awarded Mention in Dispatches. (Dave Shirlaw)
U.S.A.: Washington: The White House announced today that Maxim Litvinov, the Soviet ambassador to the United States, has signed a new US-Soviet lend-lease deal. The agreement was worked out by the Soviet foreign minister, Vyacheslav Molotov, who, travelling under the alias of "Mr. Brown", secretly visited Washington between 29 May and 4 June.
The deal promises continued US lend-lease aid and provides for post-war economic co-operation. In the talks Molotov stressed, and the USA accepted, the need for a second front in Europe.
Today's "Christian Science Monitor" has an article:
"U.S. Flying Fortresses routed Japan's raid on Midway Island, Army report says," Jun 11, 1942, pp. 1 and 10:
Getting in the first blow, United States Army bombers made first contact with the enemy far west of Midway on the afternoon of June 3. This was apparently the Japanese transport column. In medium altitude attacks against a barrage of antiaircraft fire the Army planes hit and set fire to a Japanese cruiser or battleship and also left a transport and a destroyer in flames.
Col. Walter C. Sweeney, Jr., of San Francisco, who led a squadron of Flying Fortresses in attacks on June 3 and 4, gave this graphic description:
"There was a big battle line, with destroyers outside, then cruisers, battleships and away back the carriers, which we picked for our target.
"We picked the biggest carrier and headed for it.
"The minute our bomb bays opened the ack-ack started coming up. It was fine shooting, and the Japs must have good range finders because the first shots were right at our altitude.
"The Jap ships started their frantic escape maneuvers, but our pattern of bombs blanketed a carrier. We got at least one definite hit on the port bow of the carrier and saw flame and smoke of the explosion.
"A few Zeros (Japanese Navy fighters) came up at us ... but we lost them quickly due to our speed and their faintheartedness."
Mr. Ito declared that the Midway and Aleutian attacks of the Japanese were a "coup de grace" for the United States aircraft carrier force while, he said, the Japanese fleet remained only slightly affected. ...
"Even if Japanese Army forces had not occupied key points— which they did, and the operations reportedly are still progressing in the Aleutian group—the naval operation in this area would have been particularly significant in that it destroyed important military objectives which otherwise could have been made a foothold for air-raiding Japan," Domei quoted Mr. Ito.
The United States Navy has denied that there was any Japanese landing in the Aleutians, so this claim by the Japanese would seem essentially to reflect concern over raids on the Japanese home islands. ...
"... What is most significant in these operations (Aleutians and Midway) is
the fact that the Japanese Navy succeeded in sinking a United States aircraft carrier force consisting of the Enterprise and Hornet," Mr. Ito said.
The United States has listed only hits on one aircraft carrier and loss of a destroyer as its price of victory last week in the Pacific operations. ...
Domei quoted Admiral Sato as boasting that "as a result of its defeat, the United States must abandon its plan to aid Australia aggressively and must devote itself to the simple defending of its own shores.
"He said Australia has been 'orphaned' while the Panama Canal has become exposed to attack."
(Will O'Neil)
PANAMA: USS Wasp, with battleship North Carolina and escorting destroyers pass through the Panama Canal on their way to the Pacific.
ATLANTIC OCEAN: German U-boats are busy mining the waters off the East Coast of the U.S. U-87 lays mines off Boston, Massachusetts while U-373 mines waters off the Delaware Bay between Delaware and New Jersey.
HMS Lulworth picks up 20 survivors of the sunken tanker SS GEORGE H. JONES.
Good American Food
Steaks and shops
Prime ribs of beef
Chicken fricassee
A1 kosher calf's liver
Corned beef and cabbage
All our meats are city dressed
I do not sell corned beef or irish stew in cans - one place only
216-20 west 46th st, w. Of duffy sq.
Here are some old advertisements:
http://betterinbulk.net/2010/03/first-names-dinty-second-names-moore.html
Here is a Dinty Moore’s in Tennessee: http://www.flickr.com/photos/brent_nashville/1458578667/
Found a reference to one in Nebraska also. http://www.ncnewspress.com/newsnow/x2115302961/Today-in-History-Ad-for-the-New-Dinty-Moore-s
Ultimately, the name Dinty Moore originated in the long-running comic strip Bringing Up Father, known more commonly as Maggie and Jiggs. Creator George McManus included in the strip a a tavern-owner character named Dinty Moore in honor of his real-life friend Peter Moore, who then apparently latched onto McManus’s coattails by legally changing his first name to “Dinty” and establishing a chain of restaurants called Dinty Moore’s sometime in the 1920s. (This real-life restaurateur Dinty Moore, however, did not become into the essayist Dinty Moore, however.) Later, in the 30s, Minneapolis meat retailer C.F. Witt and Sons registered the Dinty Moore name for a canned, cured meat product. (No clue how they pulled this off, seeing as how at least the main Dinty Moore restaurant in midtown Manhattan stayed operational until the 1970s and one would imagine that two different brands of Dinty Moore edibles would constitute some sort of trademark violation.) In 1935, Hormel Foods — current-day king of prefabricated meat-like substances and purveyor of Spam — bought the Dinty Moore name from Witt and slapped it on their own beef stew, a product which a 2001 New York Times article on the subject notes as having a reputation for an abnormally long shelf life. (The blog Memoirs of a Gouda describes it as “vile hatred in food form.”) Hormel continues to market the product today and even invented a cartoon lumberjack character — named, of course, Dinty Moore — to help in this effort, though he was eventually abandoned.
Interesting influence of comics on business and society Was the Dinty Moore beef stew sent to the troups as much as the Spam? Has anyone here ever known anyone named Dinty?
Ultimately, the name Dinty Moore originated in the long-running comic strip Bringing Up Father, known more commonly as Maggie and Jiggs. Creator George McManus included in the strip a a tavern-owner character named Dinty Moore in honor of his real-life friend Peter Moore, who then apparently latched onto McManus’s coattails by legally changing his first name to “Dinty” and establishing a chain of restaurants called Dinty Moore’s sometime in the 1920s. (This real-life restaurateur Dinty Moore, however, did not become into the essayist Dinty Moore, however.) Later, in the 30s, Minneapolis meat retailer C.F. Witt and Sons registered the Dinty Moore name for a canned, cured meat product. (No clue how they pulled this off, seeing as how at least the main Dinty Moore restaurant in midtown Manhattan stayed operational until the 1970s and one would imagine that two different brands of Dinty Moore edibles would constitute some sort of trademark violation.) In 1935, Hormel Foods — current-day king of prefabricated meat-like substances and purveyor of Spam — bought the Dinty Moore name from Witt and slapped it on their own beef stew, a product which a 2001 New York Times article on the subject notes as having a reputation for an abnormally long shelf life. (The blog Memoirs of a Gouda describes it as “vile hatred in food form.”) Hormel continues to market the product today and even invented a cartoon lumberjack character — named, of course, Dinty Moore — to help in this effort, though he was eventually abandoned.
Interesting influence of comics on business and society Was the Dinty Moore beef stew sent to the troups as much as the Spam? Has anyone here ever known anyone named Dinty?
NAVY EASES ITS TESTS
Eye and Teeth Requirements for Reserve Are Lowered
Eye and teeth requirements for service in the Naval Reserve have been changed to make it possible for more applicants to enlist for active duty. It was announced here yesterday by Lieutenant William G Morrison, in charge of Navy recruiting at 67 Broad Street.
Naval Reserve applicants, who must be between 17 and 50 years old, will now be enlisted if they have “just sufficient teeth or suitable replacements to perform satisfactory biting and chewing functions.”
Under old methods of testing for vision the Navy required every applicant to read at fifteen feet what normal vision would read at twenty feet. Under the new system the applicant will be enlisted if with one eye he can read at six feet what normal vision would see at twenty, providing that with both eyes together the applicant can see at fifteen feet what normal vision sees at twenty.
I wonder if my father would have passed the revised dental standards. He failed the navy exam a few months earlier and wound up in the army.
Interesting clash in the post-Midway press releases. I didn’t think the Japanese admitted any losses, but here they are ‘fessing to one aircraft carrier sunk. Also, their claims of American ships sunk match what they actually believed. They thought each of their strikes sank a carrier, but it was just the Yorktown absorbing more damage. Yorkie didn’t actually sink until finally put down by the submarine I-168, along with destroyer Hammann. Wonder if they thought they got a third carrier once I-168 reported in.
The Americans, on the other hand, started their Midway claims low, then went a little nuts. It seems they added every claim of every unit as fact, without cross indexing. They also lied about the Japanese landings on the Aleutians, claiming they didn’t happen.
lol...that’s funny what the British Ambassador said about the war now that Texas is part of the USA....
It took me a few minutes, but I finally found what you are referring to on the page 1 shot.
"When do you think the war will end?" the Mayor asked the British ambassador.
"Well, Winston Churchill says it's possible in 1942, probable in 1943 and certain in 1944."
"And the winner?" Mr. Maloy asked.
"England's lost only one war and that was to America. And then you didn't have Texas on your side. We're all together now."
It’s long been said that Texas oil won the war.
"In late May 1942, the London-based Polish government-in-exile got news from the Warsaw Jewish Bund.
The communication emphasized several points: the Germans had murdered 700,000 Polish Jews; it identified the sites of the death camps and contained a list of the places in which Aktionen were carried out; and the Nazis planned to destroy all of Polish Jewry.
On June 2 the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) reported the murder figure.
The Bund's calculation, however, was too low.
As the BBC aired the news that day, Poland's Jewish death toll actually approached two million.
"A second BBC broadcast on June 26 gave more details about the Bund report.
Three days later a World Jewish Congress press conference in London provided corroborating testimony.
Public reports in June 1942 about the destruction of Polish Jewry became what scholar Deborah Lipstadt calls 'a watershed in the dissemination of information regarding the Final Solution.'
"During the summer of 1942, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill vowed to hold the Nazis responsible for anti-Jewish atrocities.
Meanwhile, downplaying special efforts to rescue Europe's Jews, the Allies' wartime policy contended that winning the war was the best, if not the only, way to save them.
This attitude continued until the end of the war, despite late-1942 visits to Churchill and FDR by Jan Karski, a Polish gentile who had witnessed the horrors of the Warsaw Ghetto."
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