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RAF FLEETS SMASH AT REICH FOR EIGHTH STRAIGHT NIGHT; 3D MESSINA RAID IN 36 HOURS (6/28/43)
Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 6/28/43 | Henry Shapiro, Hanson W. Baldwin

Posted on 06/28/2013 4:13:26 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson

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TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: milhist; realtime; worldwarii
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1 posted on 06/28/2013 4:13:26 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
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Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
South Pacific Area Operations: Capture of New Georgia, 21 June-27 August 1943
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
2 posted on 06/28/2013 4:13:57 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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Continued from June 11.

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Winston S. Churchill, Closing the Ring

3 posted on 06/28/2013 4:14:42 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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To: r9etb; PzLdr; dfwgator; Paisan; From many - one.; rockinqsranch; 2banana; henkster; meandog; ...
Bombers Keep On – 2
Sicily Port Raided from Middle East – 2-3
The Crew of a Liberator in Action on a Raid over Italy (photos) – 3
Italian Fleet is Reported at Sea to Attack or to Seek New Hideout – 4
Leningrad Lives and Fights amid Wreckage and Shelling (Shapiro) * – 4-5
Nazi Chief Killed on Tour of France – 5
Six Bomb Raids Hit Kiska in Few Hours – 6
This Training Might Come in Handy (photo) – 6
Millions Flee Heat of 94.3°, Record for Date in City – 7-8
War News Summarized – 7
Pantelleria-I (Baldwin) – 9
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the War – 10-11

* The present population total is a military secret . . .

They wouldn’t want to provoke any embarrassing questions, like, “Didn’t there used to be a million or so more people? Where did they all go?”

4 posted on 06/28/2013 4:16:07 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1943/jun1943/f28jun43.htm

More US airbases in New Guinea
Monday, June 28, 1943 www.onwar.com

American troops marching in the New Guinea jungle [photo at link]

In New Guinea... More American forces occupy Kiriwina and Woodlark islands. Construction of airfields begins.


5 posted on 06/28/2013 4:17:01 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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http://www.etherit.co.uk/month/thismonth/28.htm

June 28th, 1943 (MONDAY)

UNITED KINGDOM: The VIII Bomber Command flies Mission Number 69. 185 B-17s and six YB-40s are dispatched against the locks and submarine pens at Saint-Nazaire, France; 158 hit the target between 1655 and 1713 hours local; they claim 28-6-8 Luftwaffe aircraft; eight B-17s are lost and 57 others are damaged. This mission was escort partway to the target by 130 P-47s. Fifty other B-17s are dispatched against Beaumont-le-Roger Airfield; 43 bomb the target between 1736 and 1740 hours local; six B-17s are damaged.

A change in the design of the US National Star Insignia applied to US aircraft added white rectangles on the left and right sides of the blue circular field to form a horizontal bar, and a red border stripe around the entire design. This replaces the white star in blue circle insignia. (Jack McKillop)

The prototype Hawker Tempest MK II (LA 602) flies today. With a 2,526-h.p. Bristol Centaurus engine it will be the RAF’s most powerful piston-engined fighter. With extra fuel tanks it has a range of 1,640 miles. (22)

WESTERN EUROPE: Cologne, Leghorn, and Messina each receive a Heavy Allied air raid. (Glenn Steinberg)

During the night of 27/28 June, Northwest African Strategic Air Force (NASAF) Wellingtons bomb the Messina, Sicily marshalling yards and Villa San Giovanni. The following day, 97 B-17s hit Leghorn with 261 tons of bombs severely damaging industrial and railway installations; B-25 Mitchells hit airfields near Olbia, Sardinia and Alghero, Sicily, B-26 Marauders attack the landing ground at Milis, Sardinia, and fighters hit the airfield at Decimomannu, Sardinia. (Jack McKillop)

GERMANY: RAF bombers raid Cologne in what Berlin describes as a “terror raid”.

MEDITERRANEAN SEA: USAAF bombers attack Livorno, in Italy, and Messina in Sicily.

ALEUTIAN ISLANDS: Six Eleventh Air Force B-25s bomb Kiska Island hitting Gertrude Cove, the southern Main Camp area and Little Kiska Island through holes in the overcast. The mission is partly ineffective because of faulty bomb-release mechanisms. (Jack McKillop)

U.S.A.:
Destroyer escorts USS Tisdale and Frament launched.

Destroyer USS Ingersoll launched.

Light cruiser USS Portsmouth laid down.

Heavy cruiser USS Columbus laid down.

Destroyer escort USS Kretchmer laid down.

Destroyer USS Laffey laid down. (Dave Shirlaw)

ATLANTIC OCEAN: SS City of Vernon sunk by U-172 at 04.30S, 27.30W. (Dave Shirlaw)


6 posted on 06/28/2013 4:18:11 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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That cliff might be 26 feet, but it certainly isn’t 46 feet.


7 posted on 06/28/2013 6:53:42 AM PDT by PAR35
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I don't buy the Air Force propaganda that air power alone won Pantelleria. By the accounts I read the Italian troops were mostly unharmed.

I attribute more importance to:

1. Imminent invasion and the fact that the Italian Army had been defeated in North Africa and a few hundred thousand Allied troops were only a few miles away.

2. Terrible morale and troops tired of fighting Germany's war.

8 posted on 06/28/2013 11:47:48 AM PDT by colorado tanker
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When it gets hot in NYC:


9 posted on 06/28/2013 11:50:54 AM PDT by colorado tanker
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I don't buy the Air Force propaganda that air power alone won Pantelleria. By the accounts I read the Italian troops were mostly unharmed.

Baldwin dropped a few yeah-buts on the big bomber theory in part 1 of his three-parter. We shall see if he is a believer over the next two days.

10 posted on 06/28/2013 2:33:24 PM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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