AMERICANS PACE TUNISIAN GAINS; SOVIET BREAKS TIES WITH POLAND (4/27/43)

Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 4/27/43 | Drew Middleton, Ralph Parker, Raymond Daniell, Harold Callender

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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 .)
To add this class to or drop it from your schedule notify Admissions and Records (Attn: Homer_J_Simpson) by freepmail. Those on the Realtime +/- 70 Years ping list are automatically enrolled. Course description, prerequisites and tuition information is available at the bottom of Homer’s profile. Also visit our general discussion thread.

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Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
Tunisia, 1942: Final Allied Offensive – 22 April Attack, 3 May Attack, and Exploitation
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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Mateur Menaced (Middleton) – 2-3
66,000 Men, 1,700 Planes Lost by Axis in Tunisia Since January – 3
Mules in Tunisia Take Jeeps’ Jobs – 4
War News Summarized – 4
Soviet Hurls Back Lake Ilmen Drive – 4-5
Navy Denies Ranger was Sunk by U-Boat – 5
Poles Denounced (Parker) – 5-6
Polish-Soviet Rift Seen as Nazi Work (Daniell) – 6
Washington Voices ‘Regret’ at Break (Callender) – 7
4. U.S. Planes Rout 30 Japanese Craft – 8
They Foiled the Japanese in Burma (photo) * – 8
What You Help Buy When You Buy War Bonds (photo) – 10
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the Fighting in Various War Zones – 11-12

* Note the Patton-related item on this page – HJS.

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http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1943/apr1943/f27apr43.htm

British attackers push out Axis defenders
Tuesday, April 27, 1943 www.onwar.com

In Tunisia... British forces occupy Djebel Bou Aoukaz after an intensive battle.

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

April 27th, 1943 (TUESDAY)
UNITED KINGDOM: The “Ground Grocer” device, based in East Anglia, starts jamming the German early-warning system.

Submarine HMS Utica laid down. (Dave Shirlaw)

GERMANY: U-806 laid down. (Dave Shirlaw)

MEDITERRANEAN SEA: At 1426, U-371 attacked a small convoy consisting of Merope and the French SS Cevennes, escorted by ASW trawler HMS Rothesay about 10 miles ENE of Cape Bengut. The Merope was hit by a torpedo fired from a distance of 3000 meters, settled with a heavy list to port and sank in a short time. The master and nine men from the crew of 28 crewmembers and six British gunners were lost. The survivors were picked up by the other two ships of the convoy and landed at Algiers. (Dave Shirlaw)

TUNISIA: Djebel Bou Aoukaz falls to British forces.

Capt. Lord Charles Anthony Napier Lyell (b.1913), Scots Guards, led a group which silenced two heavy guns before he was killed. (Victoria Cross)

INDIAN OCEAN: U-180 met the Japanese submarine I-29. Two Indian Nationalists transferred to the Japanese submarine, which continued on its way to Japan. (Dave Shirlaw)

AUSTRALIA: Minesweeper HMAS Benalla commissioned. (Dave Shirlaw)

CANADA:
Tug HMCS Glenada laid down Owen Sound, Ontario.

Corvette HMCS North Bay launched Collingwood, Ontario.

Corvette HMCS Shediac arrived Liverpool , Nova Scotia for refit. (Dave Shirlaw)

U.S.A.: Destroyer escort USS Barber laid down.

Destroyer escort USS Neunzer launched.

Submarine USS Puffer commissioned. (Dave Shirlaw)

ATLANTIC OCEAN: U-174 sunk south of Newfoundland, in position 43.35N, 56.18W, by depth charges from a USN VP-125 Ventura. 53 dead (all hands lost). (Dave Shirlaw)

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“INDIAN OCEAN: U-180 met the Japanese submarine I-29. Two Indian Nationalists transferred to the Japanese submarine, which continued on its way to Japan.”

Of those two Indian nationals, one was Subhas Chandra Bose:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subhas_Chandra_Bose

“Subhas Chandra Bose, 23 January 1897 – unknown) also known as Netaji (Bengali/Oriya/Hindi): “Respected Leader”), was one of the most prominent Indian nationalist leaders who attempted to gain India’s independence from British rule by force during the waning years of World War II with the help of the Axis powers.”

“In 1943, After being disillusioned that Germany could be of any help in liberating India, he left for Japan. He travelled by the German submarine U-180 around the Cape of Good Hope to southeast of Madagascar, where he was transferred to the Japanese submarine I-29 for the rest of the journey to Imperial Japan. This was the only civilian transfer between two submarines of two different navies in World War II.”

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Note the Patton-related item on this page

Son-in-law captured. Interesting story that unfolds later in the war - looks like a rare situation where Patton might have taken his eye off the ball and tried to rescue him - apparently turned into a disaster.

If interested, amazing documentary on Patton in WWII, well done by the History Channel . Nine multi-part episodes - link below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXcZx6ZmS1g&list=PL395E8360E94B9E24