NAZIS TAKE ROSSOSH, CUT RAILWAY; FIERCE FIGHTING RAGES IN EGYPT (7/11/42)

Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 7/11/42 | Ralph Parker, Henry J. Taylor

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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 .)
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Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
Southwest Russia, 1942: German Summer Offensive, Operations, 7 May-23 July 1942
The Far East and the Pacific, 1941: Status of Forces and Allied Theater Boundaries, 2 July 1942
India-Burma, 1942: Allied Lines of Communication, 1942-1943

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Germans Slash On (Parker) – 2-3
War News Summarized – 3
Battle is Resumed – 4
Egypt Battle Led from Trailers; Fliers Report to Chief in Desert (Taylor) – 5
Russians Pound Air Bases Menacing Arctic Sea Lanes – 5-6
Nimitz Escapes in a Plane Crash – 6-7
American Vessel Torpedoed in Costa Rican Harbor by Axis Submarine (photo) – 7
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the War – 8-9

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http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1942/jul42/f11jul42.htm

Chinese occupy Futou Island
Saturday, July 11, 1942 www.onwar.com

In China... The Chinese occupy Futou Island near Fuchow.

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http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andrew.etherington/frame.htm

July 11th, 1942

UNITED KINGDOM: After Bremen, the RAF offensive against the U-boat menace has continued with an attack against Danzig. Flying 1,500 miles in bad weather without fighter cover, a force of 44 Lancasters took the enemy by surprise tonight with a hazardous run-in over the Baltic. Some dropped time-bombs from rooftop height during a thunderstorm. One machine scraped a roof and brought enemy house bricks home in the cockpit. Others his submarine pens with high explosive and incendiaries. Remarkably, only two aircraft were lost. Some Coastal Command experts argue, however, that submarines are easier targets at sea rather than when locked in concrete pens.

NORTH AFRICA: US Army, Middle East Air Force (USAMEAF) B-24s attack harbor and shipping at Benghazi, Libya during the night of 11/12 July. (Jack McKillop)

U.S.S.R.: The Germans take Lisichansk on the river Donets.

Moscow: Partisans, supported by paratroops, are continuing to make life behind the lines extremely dangerous for the Germans, despite anti-partisan sweeps involving thousands of front-line troops which Hitler needs elsewhere. Five days ago Operation Swamp Flower, against the large partisan units around Dorogobuzh, was launched.

Two major offensives were carried out in June. The first, Operation Kottbus, involved more than 16,000 German troops who attacked the partisans’ “Republic of Palik” in a large area around Borisov.

The second, Operation Birdsong, sent 5,000 troops into action against 2,500 partisans based in the area between Roslavl and Bryansk.

The Germans claim to have killed 1,193 partisans for the loss of 58 soldiers, but it is likely that most of the partisan dead were in fact peasants, shot out of hand.

The partisans are adept at slipping away into the forests when major operations are mounted against them. Then, when the danger has passed, they return to terrorize German units.

They have become folk heroes to the Russians and, after an initial hesitancy, the government is using their exploits to bolster low morale. They are seen to be carrying the torch of resistance. Their effectiveness may be judged by the savagery with which they are treated by the Germans who festoon the countryside with loaded gallows.

CHINA: Japanese troops occupy Futou Island.
U.S.A.: ALEUTIAN ISLANDS: Four 11th Air Force B-24 Liberators are attacked by Japanese float fighters as they take off from Ft. Glenn Airfield on Umnak Island without loss. The bombers continue on weather, bombing and photo missions to Kiska Island. A Japanese cruiser is bombed with unobserved results. (Jack McKillop)

New York: The FBI has today announced the arrest of 158 German nationals resident in the US on charges of endangering state security. Among those arrested are 30 women. This is the largest group of a single nationality arrested since the US entered the war, and is the latest step in a determined drive against spies and enemy aliens. Those arrested are all members of the German American Vocational League, based on East 86th Street. Five are members of the Nazi Party.

CANADA: HMC ML 098, 099 and 100 commissioned.
Fairmile depot ship HMCS Preserver commissioned. (Dave Shirlaw)

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July 11, 1942:

• "Nine thousand Jewish males from Salonika, Greece, are assigned to the Organisation Todt labor battalions."

"Mordecai Gebirtig (second from left) sits with three of his colleagues from the Hebrew Gymnasium (secondary school) in Kraków, Poland.
Gebirtig was a Yiddish folk poet who reflected the sentiments of Jews in Eastern Europe.
During the Holocaust his poems expressed fear, hope, and anger, such as the poem "A Tog fun Nekome," ("A Day of Revenge").
He died on June 4, 1942."

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