Posted on 09/24/2012 4:16:31 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
Richard Tregaskis, Guadalcanal Diary
*I see Gore, Dingell, Lyndon B. Johnson. Can you spot more favorites? Bulwinkle? Nah, can’t be the same one.
http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1942/sep42/f24sep42.htm
Hitler fires Army Chief of Staff
Thursday, September 24, 1942 www.onwar.com
General Franz Halder [photo at link]
From Berlin... Hitler dismisses General Halder after many disagreements about the managing of the campaign on the Eastern Front. General Zeitzler is appointed the new Chief of the General Staff at OKH .
In the Atlantic... The American Liberty ship Stephen Hopkins fights a mismatched battle with the German raider ship Stier. The Liberty ship with only one 4 inch gun manages to sink the Stier. Damage from the Stier however, causes the Stephen Hopkins to go down as well.
In the Solomon Islands... Off Guadalcanal, the routine re-supplying done at night by the Japanese is disrupted by the Americans as they sink two Japanese destroyers and a cruiser.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andrew.etherington/frame.htm
September 24th, 1942
GERMANY: Berlin: Hitler today sacked his army chief of staff, General Franz Halder, who had dared to point out to the Fuhrer that Stalin had a million and a half fresh troops, which were about to be thrown into battle on the eastern front. Germany, said Halder, did not possess the strength to hold the Russians at Stalingrad and also pursue an offensive against the Caucasus oil fields.
Hitler was furious. “We need National Socialist ardour,” he told Halder, “not professional ability. I cannot expect it of an officer of the old school like you.” Halder told friends later. “So spoke, not a responsible war lord, but a political fanatic.” General Zietzler is appointed in his place with responsibility for the Russian front.
U-190 commissioned.
U-641 commissioned.
U-421 and U-713 launched. (Dave Shirlaw)
UNITED KINGDOM: Submarine HMS P-36 commissioned.
Submarine HMS Usurper launched.
Sloop HMS Chanticleer launched.
Frigate HMS Mourne launched.
Destroyer HMS Savage launched.
Submarine HMS Sea Dog commissioned. (Dave Shirlaw)
U.S.S.R.: Black Sea Fleet and Azov Flotilla: Submarine “M-60” - mined and sunk in Odessa Gulf, close to Bolshoi Fontan. (Sergey Anisimov)(69)
Stalingrad: Olga Yamschchikova becomes the first women fighter pilot to “kill” an enemy aircraft when she shoots down a German Junkers Ju88 dive-bomber.
600 Soviet partisans, some dressed in German uniforms and using heavy artillery, destroy the German supply station at Ryabchichi and burn down the town, between Bryansk and Smolensk on the Smolensk-Bryansk highway.
Units of Heeresgruppe A (List) launch an attack against the Black Sea port of Tuapse. (Jack McKillop)
ATLANTIC OCEAN: U-175 sank SS West Chetac in Convoy TRIN-14.
U-432 sank SS Penmar in Convoy SC-100.
U-512 sank SS Antinous.
U-561 sank SS Sphinx.
U-617 sank SS Roumanie in Convoy SC-100.
U-619 sank SS John Winthrop in Convoy ON-131.
This was indeed a black day for U-755. At 0549 hrs she was attacked by a convoy escort with gunfire; two hours later the boat unsuccessfully attacked convoy SC-100 with four torpedoes. She was attacked again at 1615 by an aircraft. Finally the boat was attacked by an escort at 1700, during which the boat was so heavily damaged that she had to return to base. (Dave Shirlaw)
GILBERT ISLANDS: Japanese troops land on Maiana Island, 26 nautical miles (30 miles or 48 kilometres) south of Tarawa Atoll. (Jack McKillop)
BISMARCK ARCHIPELAGO: USAAF Fifth Air Force B-17s bomb shipping at Rabaul on New Britain Island. (Jack McKillop)
Portugese Timor: A Japanese Zero fighter on reconnaissance appears over the grounded HMAS Voyager. The plane is shot down by the ship’s gunners but not before reporting the sighting. (William L. Howard)(188, 189, 190, 191)
NEW GUINEA: The Japanese receive an order from headquarters on Rabaul to withdraw the troops on the Kokoda Track to the Buna-Gona area. This order results from a Japanese High Command decision to give Guadalcanal priority at the expense of the campaign in New Guinea. The Japanese 144th Regiment is chosen to perform a rearguard action at Ioribaiwa with two battalions while its other battalion and the 41st Regiment withdraws. (Jack McKillop)
Fifth Air Force P-40s and A-20s hit Mubo while B-17s bomb wrecked vessel at Gona; P-40s hit the airfield at Kokoda and targets along the Kokoda-Wairopi trail, including a bridge at Wairopi. (Jack McKillop)
BRITISH SOLOMON ISLANDS: On Guadalcanal, 1st Battalion, 7th Marines is searching the west bank of the Matanikau River, for straggling remnants of the Bloody Ridge Battle. The have found several small groups of Japanese as they move from the foothills of Mt. Austen towards the sea. The battalion suffers 7 dead and 25 WIA of which 18 are stretcher cases. The 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines begins preparations to join them. (John Nicholas and Jack McKillop)
Four USAAF B-17s staging through Henderson Field on Guadalcanal attack Japanese cargo vessels near the Shortland Islands. One B-17 is shot down over Buin. (Jack McKillop)
U.S.A.: The motion picture “Tales of Manhattan” is released. Directed by Julien Duvivier, this comedy drama stars Charles Boyer, Rita Hayworth, Henry Fonda, Ginger Rogers, Charles Laughton, Edward G. Robinson, Ethel Waters, Paul Robeson, Eddie “Rochester” Anderson, Thomas Mitchell, Cesar Romero and George Sanders.
Band leader Glenn Miller makes his last radio broadcast on the 15-minute “Chesterfield Time” which is heard on CBS Radio three times a week. He has appeared on this show since 27 December 1939. Miller has volunteered for service in the U.S. Army and is replaced by Harry James.
Destroyer USS Brownson launched.
Escort carrier USS Suwanee commissioned.
Destroyer USS Charles J Badger laid down. (Dave Shirlaw)
ALEUTIAN ISLANDS: The USAAF Eleventh Air Force B-24s bomb the Main Camp, storage dumps, and dock areas on Kiska Island, starting several fires. (Jack McKillop)
CANADA: Minesweeper HMCS Fort William arrived Halifax from builder Port Arthur, Ontario
Corvette HMCS North Bay laid down Collingwood, Ontario. (Dave Shirlaw)
http://worldwar2daybyday.blogspot.com/2012/09/day-1120-september-24-1942.html
On Guadalcanal, Japanese General Kawaguchi has regrouped 4000 troops (following the failed assault on Edson’s Ridge 10 days ago) in the Matanikau Valley, 5 miles West of the US positions at Henderson Field. US Marine General Vandegrift sends out 2 battalions to ‘mop up’ what he believes are only 400 Japanese in Matanikau Valley (Colonel ‘Chesty’ Puller 1st Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment will go inland over 1200-foot high Mont Austen while 1st Raider Battalion under Colonel Samuel Griffith takes the coastal route into the Valley).
US bombers Douglas Dauntless dive bombers from Henderson Field (Marine squadron VMSB 231 and Naval squadron VS 3) attack Japanese destroyers Umikaze and Kawakaze on a “Tokyo Express” run, bringing troops and supplies to Guadalcanal from Shortland Island at the Western end of the Solomon Islands. Umikaze is damaged by a near miss (8 killed) forcing the convoy to abort landings and causing Umikaze to be repaired Truk. USAAF B-17 bombers raid the Japanese naval base on Shortland damaging Japanese seaplane carrier Sanuki Maru.
"In November 1942 more than 2000 of the Jews in Grodno, Belorussia, were removed from the ghetto and deported to Auschwitz.
This was prompted, in part, by German impatience with the underground activity that flourished in and around Grodno.
This photograph was snapped at the ghetto entrance, where German troops supervise Jews who have assembled with carts, bedrolls, furniture, and other items--all of which would be stolen from them upon arrival at Auschwitz."
This is when the Germans had a chance to pull back to a better line.
Being lousy at humor, all I can think is, this proves that Stalin was not our most gruesome ally.
{bada-bump} ;-)
“When they finished the meal the sergeant dickered with them....”
Not the phrase I would turn in this instance.
Well, as Henny Youngman said, take my wife . . .
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