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ALLIES DRIVE BACK FOE NEAR TEBOURBA; AIR STRUGGLE CRUCIAL, ARNOLD ASSERTS (12/9/42)
Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library
| 12/9/42
| James MacDonald, Charles Hurd, F. Tillman Durdin, Foster Hailey, Arthur Krock, Hanson W. Baldwin
Posted on 12/09/2012 5:17:39 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
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TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: milhist; realtime; worldwarii
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To: Homer_J_Simpson
Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War Papua, New Guinea, 1942
The Solomons: Guadalcanal and Florida, 1942
Southwest Russia, 1942: Soviet Winter Offensive, Operations, 19 November-12 December 1942
North Africa, 1941: Pursuit to Tunisia, November 1942-February 1943
Tunisia 1942: The Race for Tunisia-Situation 1 January 1943, and Operations Since 17 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
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posted on
12/09/2012 5:18:26 AM PST
by
Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: Homer_J_Simpson
Winston S. Churchill, The Hinge of Fate
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posted on
12/09/2012 5:19:23 AM PST
by
Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: r9etb; PzLdr; dfwgator; Paisan; From many - one.; rockinqsranch; 2banana; henkster; meandog; ...
Enemy is Hit Hard (MacDonald) 2
Key to European Air Control Seen in Battles Over Tunisia (Hurd) 3
New Zealanders with the British Eighth Army in Egypt (photos) 4
Russians Advance in Harder Battles 5
U.S. Bombers Rout Flotilla Off Buna (Durdin) 6-7
U.S. Troops Drop In on the Natives of New Guinea (photo) 6
War News Summarized 7
Guadalcanal Gain is Along Beaches (Hailey) 8
President Renews Pledges to Jews 9-10
Hull Reassures Fighting French (Krock) 12
Allies Have Net Gain (Baldwin) 13
The Texts of the Days Communiques on Fighting in Various Zones 14-15
Mrs. Roosevelt is Both Praised and Blamed for Her Activities (by George Gallup) 15
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posted on
12/09/2012 5:21:45 AM PST
by
Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: r9etb; PzLdr; dfwgator; Paisan; From many - one.; rockinqsranch; 2banana; henkster; meandog; ...
Enemy is Hit Hard (MacDonald) 2
Key to European Air Control Seen in Battles Over Tunisia (Hurd) 3
New Zealanders with the British Eighth Army in Egypt (photos) 4
Russians Advance in Harder Battles 5
U.S. Bombers Rout Flotilla Off Buna (Durdin) 6-7
U.S. Troops Drop In on the Natives of New Guinea (photo) 6
War News Summarized 7
Guadalcanal Gain is Along Beaches (Hailey) 8
President Renews Pledges to Jews 9-10
Hull Reassures Fighting French (Krock) 12
Allies Have Net Gain (Baldwin) 13
The Texts of the Days Communiques on Fighting in Various Zones 14-15
Mrs. Roosevelt is Both Praised and Blamed for Her Activities (by George Gallup) 15
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posted on
12/09/2012 5:22:50 AM PST
by
Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: Homer_J_Simpson
http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1942/dec42/f09dec42.htm
US Marines relieved on Guadalcanal
Wednesday, December 9, 1942 www.onwar.com
Battle weary Marines finally relieved [photo at link]
In the Solomon Islands... On Guadalcanal, General Patch’s 14th Corps relieves the exhausted Marines. The Marines leave for Australia
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posted on
12/09/2012 5:24:59 AM PST
by
Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: Homer_J_Simpson
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andrew.etherington/frame.htm
December 9th, 1942
UNITED KINGDOM: Minesweeper HMS Rattler launched.
Frigate HMCS (ex-HMS) Nene launched South Bank-on-Tees.
Destroyer HMS Bideford rammed the anchored HMCS Louisburg in Londonderry. Louisburg required five weeks of repair in Belfast.
Oiler HMCS Mastodon commissioned. Built Renfrew, Scotland, 1,233/10, 6 kts, 210x36.5x13.75ft, crew 5/37, 1-12pdr, 2-20mm. Formerly Dept of Public Works, Dredger No.306, #129529, converted Burrard Dry Dock Co, Ltd, Vancouver. Delivered oil to naval storage tanks West Coast, occasionally assisted in distribution of commercial oil products. MASTODON was one of a very few auxiliaries that, despite their generally small size and decrepit condition, did absolutely indispensable work. Post WW.II, sold, Imperial Oil South America, Peruvian flag in 1950’s. (Dave Shirlaw)
GERMANY: U-276 commissioned. (Dave Shirlaw)
MEDITERRANEAN SEA: Whilst escorting convoy MKS.3, Flower class corvette HMS Marigold is sunk by an aircraft torpedo off Algiers at 36 50N 03 00E. There are 40 casualties but 6 officers and 37 ratings survive.
Whilst escorting submarine depot ship HMS Maidstone from Algiers to Gibraltar, destroyer HMS Porcupine is torpedoed by U-602 (Kapitanleutenant Philipp Schuler) 70 miles NE of Oran at 36 40N 00 04E. She is towed back to port at Arzeu, separated into two parts and sent to the UK in two halves referred to as Porc and Pine, but is not repaired. (Alex Gordon)(108)
SOLOMON ISLANDS: General Alexander Patch of the US Army XIV Corps, assumes command of Guadalcanal from General Vandegrift. The 1st Marine Division is relieved. Vandegrift marks the occasion with a letter that paid tribute to the sailors, airmen, soldiers “and small band of devoted allies” that fought side by side with his Marines. The reference quoted is to the Coastwatchers and is so worded for security reasons. The Marines that were expected to make the landing and then hand off the fighting to the Army have been relieved, 124 days after landing. The 5th Marines begin embarking. The 2nd Marines, attached to the 1st MarDiv in place of the 7th Marines, remain on Guadalcanal with the 2nd MarDiv.
NEW GUINEA: Australian forces capture Gona after a fierce hand-to-hand battle.
U.S.A.:
Submarine USS Apogon laid down.
Destroyer USS Clarence K Bronson laid down.
Escort carrier USS Liscombe Bay laid down. (Dave Shirlaw)
ATLANTIC OCEAN:
U-161 transferred an ill crewmember to the milk cow U-461.
U-508 captured four crewmembers from SS Nigerian; a ship she had just sunk.
U-553 sank SS Charles L.D. in Convoy HX-217. (Dave Shirlaw)
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posted on
12/09/2012 5:27:34 AM PST
by
Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: Homer_J_Simpson
December 1942:
- "Members of the Siemiatycze (Poland) Group of Jewish resisters kill a Polish peasant and his entire family as retribution for the peasant's capture and betrayal to the Nazis of three Jews.
- "Nazis lock 1,000 Gypsies in a Lithuanian synagogue until the prisoners starve to death.
- "Ghetto resistance is organized at Czestochowa and Kielce, Poland.
- "At Brody, Ukraine, Jewish resistance is led by Solomon Halberszstadt, Jakub Linder, and Samuel Weiler.
- "Concurrent Jewish resistance at Chortkov, Ukraine, is led by Heniek Nusbaum, Mundek Nusbaum, Reuven Rosenberg, and Meir Wasserman.
- "Jewish Resistance leader Dr. Yeheskel Atlas, a young Polish physician, is mortally wounded by Nazi troops in a battle at Wielka Wola, Poland.
- "The Jewish ghetto at Lvov, Ukraine, is liquidated.
- "The SS shuts down extermination activities at Belzec.
- "A forced-labor camp is established at Plaszów, Poland.
- "A Sonderkommando plan to escape from Auschwitz is discovered, and the inmates are gassed.
- "Partisan leader Hirsch Kaplinski, survivor of an August 1942 massacre of Jews at Diatlovo, Belorussia, is killed in combat during a German attack on the Lipiczany Forest."
- December 2: "Jews in 30 countries hold a day of prayer and fasting for European Jews.
- December 3: "Three young Jewish women who had escaped from a labor camp in Poznan, Poland, are forcibly taken to the Lódz (Poland) Ghetto and shot.
- December 3: "One thousand Jews from Plonsk, Poland, are killed at Auschwitz.
- December 3: "Salomon Malkes, an official of the Lódz Ghetto, commits suicide after becoming despondent over the deportation of his mother.
- December 4: "Zofia Kossak-Szczucka and Wanda Filipowicz establish Zegota, a secret name of the Rada Pomocy Zydom (Council for Aid to the Jews), a non-Jewish group based in Warsaw. Zegota is run jointly by Jews and non-Jews.
- December 4: "Three hundred citizens of Slonim, Belorussia, are killed. Another 500 escape to join local partisan groups.
- December 6: "SS men lock 23 Christian Poles in a barn at Stary Ciepielow, Poland, and burn them alive on suspicion of aiding fugitive Jews.
- December 6-10: "Nazis marshal troops, armored vehicles, and artillery to undertake a massive manhunt for more than 1000 fugitive Jews in the Parczew Forest in Poland; See December 7, 1942.
- December 7: "German troops enter the Polish village of Bialka and murder 96 villagers suspected of shielding Jews fleeing the anti-Jewish Aktion in the nearby Parczew Forest.
- December 7: "United States State Department official G. Robert Borden Reams, an "expert" on the Jews in the Division of European Affairs, advises that the United States government remain silent concerning details of the Holocaust.
- December 7: "British official John Cecil Sterndale Bennett is upset because Bulgarian Jewish children may be allowed into Palestine based on Jewish Agency appeals.
- December 8: "Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, president of the World Jewish Congress, meets with other Jewish leaders and U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt to discuss the recently revealed plight of European Jews.
- December 9: "German troops in Tunis, Tunisia, seize 128 Jews and march them to a labor camp.
One young Jew who drops from exhaustion is shot and killed. - December 9: "Christian Century, an American Protestant journal, attacks Rabbi Stephen Wise, claiming he has lied about the Holocaust in his recent press conference.
Christian Century further argues that even if what Wise has to say is true, to make the facts of the Holocaust public serves no purpose."
"Mordechai Tenenbaum was active in the Vilna, Warsaw, and Bialystok underground movements.
Tenenbaum was convinced of the Nazis' genocidal intentions at a very early stage.
He arrived in Bialystok, Poland, in November 1942, and eventually unified the various underground movements and acquired additional weapons.
Tenenbaum's call to arms was preserved in the archive that he established to chronicle the demise of Bialystok Jewry: 'Let us fall as heroes, and though we die, yet we shall live.' "
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posted on
12/09/2012 5:58:28 AM PST
by
BroJoeK
(a little historical perspective....)
To: Homer_J_Simpson
Headline:
"President Renews Pledges to Jews 9-10" Yes, it is not a page one Holocaust story, but anyone interested would have a pretty fair idea of what was happening to Jews in Nazi Europe, and President Roosevelt's response.
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posted on
12/09/2012 6:28:00 AM PST
by
BroJoeK
(a little historical perspective....)
To: BroJoeK
Interesting to me that at least there was some idea of the extermination was taking place. However not nearly the full extent of the devastation.
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posted on
12/09/2012 6:45:15 AM PST
by
vicar7
("Polls are for strippers and cross-country skiers" Sarah Palin)
To: Homer_J_Simpson
Mrs Roosevelt both praised and blamed for her activities
-———————Greatest shock came for one field reporter when an old man scratched his head and said, “never heard of her.”
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posted on
12/09/2012 6:52:47 AM PST
by
PeterPrinciple
( (Lord, save me from some conservatives, they don't understand history any better than liberals.))
To: Homer_J_Simpson
The small article about Capt Arthur Wermuth “the one man army of Bataan” led me to a google search. Captured by the Japanese, pow for the war, future sheriff who goes on to arrest L. Ron Hubbard is an amazing story.
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posted on
12/09/2012 7:55:39 AM PST
by
freefdny
To: BroJoeK
For some reason I had always assumed (always a mistake) that the murder of millions of European Jews had come as a complete shock to the U.S. Government and was basically unknown until near the end of the war in Europe.
One thing now seems crystal clear: there were enough hints and enough information and news available by the end of 1943 for Roosevelt and many of the major players in his administration, especially in the State Dept, to have to have been aware of what was going on
Whether it was because this news was too shocking to believe or whether our government just didn't care what happened and chose to ignore it is almost unbelievable.
I can't shake the feeling that we knew exactly what was going on but chose for reasons unknown, to ignore it.
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posted on
12/09/2012 9:06:01 AM PST
by
Larry381
("Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.")
To: Larry381; BroJoeK
I can't shake the feeling that we knew exactly what was going on but chose for reasons unknown, to ignore it. May also have something to do with the different impact film media has versus print. Stories of mass slaughter existed about the Communists but because the reports were confined to print, a large segment of the population was similarly unmoved.
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posted on
12/09/2012 10:39:36 AM PST
by
fso301
To: Homer_J_Simpson
- Australian troops fight their way into Gona taking control of the town.
- General Vandegriff turns over command of the forces on Guadalcanal and Tulagi to Lieutenant General Alexander M. Patch.
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posted on
12/09/2012 1:50:55 PM PST
by
CougarGA7
("War is an outcome based activity" - Dr. Robert Citino)
To: Larry381; fso301
Larry381:
"I can't shake the feeling that we knew exactly what was going on but chose for reasons unknown, to ignore it." The article above gives a pretty good idea of what was happening in 1942, the scale of murders by country, and various methods including "mass executions on a large scale," slave labor "worked to death" and deportations to "extermination centers in eastern Europe".
It even mentions, in these centers "Jews have been asphixiated behind locked doors by the exhaust of army trucks."
The report imagines more deaths (100 per hour) than happened from lethal injections, and knows nothing about Zyklon B gas chambers: so not all of Hitler's secrets had yet escaped to the west.
As for somehow "ignoring" the Holocaust, the article clearly reports President Roosevelt promising American Jewish leaders there will be war crimes trials after Nazis are defeated.
What more could FDR do at this point?
Finally, we ourselves need to remember the context here.
Tragic as it was, Holocaust deaths of six million Jews represent fewer than 15% of all civilian deaths due to the war.
Yes, the Holocaust stands out to us as uniquely cruel, systematic and inhuman, but circa 45 million non-Jewish civilians also died, and those deaths cannot have been any less tragic to their own families, friends and countries.
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posted on
12/10/2012 5:03:27 AM PST
by
BroJoeK
(a little historical perspective....)
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