Posted on 07/30/2012 4:26:21 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
Richard Tregaskis, Guadalcanal Diary
http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1942/jul42/f30jul42.htm
German Army Group A south of the Don
Thursday, July 30, 1942 www.onwar.com
German infantry near Rostov [photo at link]
On the Eastern Front... Elements of Germany Army Group A advancing from Rostov take Bataisk on the south side of the Don River.
In the East Indies... The Japanese occupy small islands between Timor and New Guinea, to provide support for their planned attack against Port Moresby.
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July 30th, 1942
UNITED KINGDOM: Flight-Lieutenant Don Kingaby scores the first victory over a Focke-Wulf 190 while flying the new Supermarine Spitfire Mk V. (22)
Minesweeper HMS Acute commissioned.
Minesweeping trawler HMS Ulva launched.
Frigates HMS Jed and Ness launched.
Light cruiser HMS Ceylon launched. (Dave Shirlaw)
GERMANY:
U-525, U-633 commissioned.
U-192, U-228 launched. (Dave Shirlaw)
U.S.S.R.: German forces capture Bataisk and Proletarska south of the Don River.
MEDITERRANEAN SEA: During the night of 30/31 July, the US Army, Middle East Air Force (USAMEAF) dispatches B-24s to bomb a convoy in Pylos Bay, Greece, claiming hits on 2 merchant ships, and B-17s to hit the harbor at Tobruk, Libya.
U-375 sank two sailing vessels 80 nautical miles south of Cyprus. At 1245, Amina with gunfire and at 1328 the Ekbal by gunfire and ramming. (Dave Shirlaw)
EGYPT: Having prevented Rommel’s advance, Auchinleck pauses to await reinforcements, thus ending the First Battle of Alamein.
SOUTH-WEST PACIFIC: The Japanese occupy small islands between Timor and New Guinea in an effort to support their campaign against Port Moresby, New Guinea.
SOLOMON ISLANDS: B-17s of the USAAF’s 11th Bombardment Group (Heavy) begin arriving at Espiritu Santo Island from Hawaii where they are to constitute a reconnaissance and strike force over the Guadalcanal-Tulagi-Gavutu area in preparation for the amphibious assault by US Marines on 7 August.
TERRITORY OF ALASKA: ALEUTIAN ISLANDS: The US 11th Air Force dispatches 1 LB-30 and 3 B-24 Liberators and 9 B-17 Flying Fortresses to fly photo reconnaissance and bombing missions to Tanaga and Kiska Islands; the missions are unsuccessful due to weather.
The US submarine Grunion (SS-216), commanded by Mannert L. Abele, is lost to unknown causes, off Kiska. All hands are lost. (Joe Sauder)
CANADA: Minesweeper HMCS Port Hope commissioned. (Dave Shirlaw)
U.S.A.: The US Navy establishes the Women’s Naval Reserve or Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES).
After laying mines off New Orleans, Louisiana, on 27 July, the German submarine U-166 attacks convoy TAW 7 about 25 miles (40 km) southeast of the mouth of the Mississippi River and sinks the US ship SS Robert E Lee. All of the crew are rescued.
The man who built the Grand Coulee and Hoover dams has been “drafted” to mass-produce weapons for the American war machine as the country strives to become the “arsenal of democracy”. The industrialist Henry J. Kaiser has promised Senate committees that he will adopt the same techniques for building cargo planes as he has for manufacturing “Liberty” ships - a ship can be built in 80 hours using assembly line methods.
A week ago, the House of Representatives’ naval committee was told of a 360% increase in naval ship production. The time required to build and aircraft carrier has been reduced from 45 to 17.3 months. And yesterday a combined British and United States production and resources board was created in London to control the allocation of war materials to industry in both countries. Averell Harriman, the Lend-Lease representative in Britain, and Oliver Lyttleton, the British minister of production, are to be its senior members.
US labour leaders have assured President Roosevelt that “any sacrifice” will be made to meet his quotas of 60,000 planes, 45,000 tanks, 500,000 machine-guns, 20,000 anti-aircraft guns and eight million tons of merchant shipping by the end of the year.
Frank Sinatra records the last of 90 recordings with Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra on Victor Records. His last recording is “There are Such Things”, which becomes number one in January 1943. Sinatra moves on to Columbia Records as a solo singing sensation.
The radio program, “Stage Door Canteen,” makes its debut on CBS Radio.
This 30-minute show is broadcast live from New York City where 500 servicemen are entertained each week by celebrities who freely donate their time for the war effort. The host, Bert Lytell, opened each show with the phrase “Curtain going up — for victory!” and the show ended with the celebrities singing the National Anthem. The show remained on the air until 20 April 1945. (Jack McKillop)
Army Ground Forces orders the activation of two airborne divisions to be effective August 15. This is General Order 86, Headquarters Third Army. Thus the 82nd and 101st Airborne were activated. (W. Jay Stone)
Destroyer USS Frazier commissioned.
Submarine USS Runner commissioned. (Dave Shirlaw)
CARIBBEAN SEA: At 1958, the unescorted Cranford was hit by one torpedo from U-155 about 250 miles ESE of Barbados, as she was proceeding on a nonevasive course at 8.6 knots because of a lack of fuel and daylight conditions. The torpedo struck on the starboard side between #2 and #3 holds. Her cargo caused the ship to sink bow first within three minutes. The complement of nine officers, 27 men and 11 armed guards (the ship was armed with one 3-in, four .50cal and two .30cal guns) left the ship in one lifeboat and two rafts, but the most men had to jump overboard. Six officers (among them the master), three crewmen and two armed guards died. U-155 surfaced, questioned the survivors and asked them if they could do anything for them. Two injured survivors were treated on board the U-boat and water, supplies and directions to land were given before U-155 left. Several hours after the sinking the survivors were picked up by the Spanish steam tanker Castillo Alemenara and landed at Curaçao on 3 August. (Dave Shirlaw)
ATLANTIC OCEAN:
At 2048, the unescorted Danmark was torpedoed and sunk by gunfire by U-130 south of the Cape Verde Islands. The master, 37 crewmembers and eight gunners were picked up by the Norwegian tanker Mosli and landed at Freetown.
At 0110, the Pacific Pioneer in Convoy ON-113 was torpedoed and sunk by U-132 SW of Sable Island. The master, 58 crewmembers, eight gunners and four passengers were picked up by HMCS Calgary and landed at Halifax.
At 1216, U-77 fired torpedoes at a small destroyer and heard three hits, but no detonations, after 61 seconds. However, seven minutes later there was a dull (presumed internal) explosion. U-77 may have hit the Fany, which was not spotted as she was sailing beyond the escort vessel that was targeted. (Dave Shirlaw)
"Complex challenges faced the Judenrat (Jewish Council) of a huge ghetto like Lódz.
To support the needs of the ghetto, the Judenrat set up hospitals, schools, and soup kitchens.
All required funding, which the council raised by taxing everything they could, beginning with wages. Here, Nazi Walter Genewein, financial director of the Lódz Ghetto administration, counts money into piles delegated to the ghetto's various needs and to special German demands."
The execution of Kiev Jews in Ivangorod, the Ukraine, 1942.
This photo was posted from the Eastern Front back to Germany and intercepted by the Polish Resistance.
The Britons from Tobruk story was interesting
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