SUPREME COURT IS CALLED IN UNPRECEDENTED SESSION TO HEAR PLEA OF NAZI SPIES (7/28/42)

Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 7/28/42 | Lewis Wood, Byron Darnton

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Free Republic University, Department of History presents World War II Plus 70 Years: Seminar and Discussion Forum
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[Homer_J_Simpson]

Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
Papua, New Guinea, 1942
Japanese Advance, 21 July-16 Sept. 1942
Southwest Russia, 1942: German Advance to Stalingrad, Operations, 24 July-18 November 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

[Homer_J_Simpson]

TUESDAY, JULY 28

I was ready to leave this morning, but got word that I will not be able to transfer to another ship until tomorrow. Then the colonel and his staff will go to the flagship to confer with the ruling voices of this operation, and I will go along to make arrangements.

Richard Tregaskis, Guadalcanal Diary

[Homer_J_Simpson]

To Sit Tomorrow (Wood) – 2
War News Summarized – 3
Soviet Cities Fall – 4
Patrols Meet Foe in New Guinea Push – 4-5
Fortress Fights 15 Zeros at Lae, Downs 3, Reaches Base Riddled (Darnton) – 5-6
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the Fighting in Various War Zones – 7-8

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1942/jul42/f28jul42.htm

Stalin orders “not one step back”
Tuesday, July 28, 1942 www.onwar.com

From Moscow... In response to the continued defeats suffered by the Red Army on the Eastern Front, Stalin issues an order of the day (No. 227) in which he commands: “not one step back.” Stalin also announces measures to strengthen the morale and performance of the Red Army. Discipline is tightened, punishments are increased and officers are given greater authority and status. The fall of Rostov is officially announced by the Soviets.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

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

July 28th, 1942

UNITED KINGDOM:

Submarines HMS Unsparing and Unruly launched.

Corvette HMS Comfrey launched.

Sloop HMS Cygnet launched.

Frigate HMS Lagan launched.

Destroyer HMS Mahratta launched. (Dave Shirlaw)

GERMANY: U-360, U-530 launched. (Dave Shirlaw)

U.S.S.R.: Stalin begins the implementation of measures to bolster the resistance of the Red Army. He grants higher status and authority to officers and strengthens disciplinary measures. This is order No. 227 (aka the “not one step back” order)

Black Sea Fleet and Azov Flotilla: Shipping loss: MS “TSch-405 “Vzrivatel”” - by field artillery, close to Eupatoria (later raised) (Sergey Anisimov)(69)

MEDITERRANEAN SEA: Beaufort Ops.

NORTH AFRICA: US Army, Middle East Air Force (USAMEAF) B-17 Flying Fortresses hit Tobruk, Libya, during the night of 27/28 July, while B-24 Liberators attack a convoy in the Mediterranean, claiming hits on 2 merchant ships. (Jack McKillop)

JAPAN: Imperial General Headquarters orders the IJA and IJN to mount an all-out offensive to conquer the remaining Allied bases in New Guinea. (Jack McKillop)

NEW GUINEA: A USAAF B-26 Marauder bombs installations at Gona in support of Australian ground troops. In Tokyo, the Japanese Army and Navy are ordered to seize all remaining Allied bases in New Guinea. (Jack McKillop)

SOUTH PACIFIC: The USN invasion fleet rendezvous in the Fiji Islands and holds amphibious landing rehearsals for the upcoming invasion of Guadalcanal. (Jack McKillop)

AUSTRALIA: Major General George C Kenney, commander-designate of Allied Air Forces,
Southwest Pacific Area, arrives in Australia from the U.S. (Jack McKillop)

TERRITORY OF ALASKA: ALEUTIAN ISLANDS: The USAAF 11th Air Force flies an air coverage survey for Army ground operations to Adak and Tanaga Islands is flown. Weather cancels a bombing mission to Kiska Island. (Jack McKillop)

U.S.A.: Four million Americans are now doing military service.

Heavy cruiser USS Baltimore launched.

Corvette USS Action launched. (Dave Shirlaw)

ATLANTIC OCEAN: At 0715, U-155 torpedoed and sank the Barbacena, because she was armed with one 12-cm gun.

At 2230, the unescorted Piave was hit by one torpedo from U-155 about 100 miles off Barbados and sunk by gunfire. The master was the only casualty.

MS Weirbank sunk by U-66 at 11.29N, 58.51W.

At 0800, U-754 began shelling the unescorted and unarmed MFV Ebb about 45 miles SE of Cape Sable, Nova Scotia from about 50 yards off the starboard quarter steering parallel to the trawler. The U-boat sank her with fifty 88-mm rounds and 20-mm gunfire, as the crew of four officers and 13 men abandoned ship in one lifeboat. The master and four men died and seven others were wounded. The surviving three officers and nine men were picked up by destroyer HMS Witherington 14 hours later and were taken to Boston.

(Dave Shirlaw)

[BroJoeK]

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July 28, 1942:

• "SS chief Heinrich Himmler writes to a senior SS official that the Occupied Eastern Territories 'are to become free of Jews.'

• "Jewish parents in Tarnów, Poland, are forced to watch as their children are shot by Gestapo agents.
  The parents and other adults are subsequently deported to the camp at Belzec for extermination.

• "In the Lódz (Poland) Ghetto, two male Jews, one just 16 years old, are hanged after escaping a work gang.

• "Young members of the Warsaw Ghetto establish Zydowska Organizacja Bojowa (ZOB; Jewish Fighting Organization).
  At this time, the only weapon in the ghetto is a single pistol.

• July 28-31, 1942: "About 30,000 Jews are killed in Minsk, Belorussia."

"Joseph Goebbels began publication of Der Angriff (The Attack) on July 4, 1927, as a propaganda sheet for the Nazi Party in Berlin.
Goebbels relinquished editing duties after 1933 but remained publisher, and the newspaper became the official organ of the Deutsche Arbeitsfront (Labor Front).
The paper continued to be an important propaganda tool in the hands of its new editors.
The headline for July 4, 1942, reads, in part, "'Angriff' Interview with Dr. Goebbels.""

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[Diogenesis]

Thank you. Nice post. hard to believe
that SCOTUS actually followed the US Constitution once
and took their sworn allegiance to it SERIOUSLY.

[Mikey_1962]

Captain Maurice Horgan won the Silver Star for the battle with the fifteen Japanese Zeros.

[GeronL]

bump

[oh8eleven]

SUPREME COURT IS CALLED IN UNPRECEDENTED SESSION TO HEAR PLEA OF NAZI SPIES (7/28/42)
Good story - George John Dasch and the Nazi Saboteurs - for those who want to know what eventually happened to the Nazis.

[GeronL]

HMS Unruly

I am sure that name struck terror into the hearts of the enemy

[henkster]

The Supreme Court will summarily dismiss the spies’ claims in a Per Curiam opinion. They are enemy combatants, and are not entitled to the full panoply of individual criminal rights guatanteed to United States citizens under the Constitution.

It is, and should be, a controlling opinion regarding Guantanamo.