RED ARMY CAPTURES KHERSON; MOSCOW RECOGNIZES BADOGLIO (3/14/44)

Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 3/14/44 | W.H. Lawrence, George Axelsson, Bertram D. Hulen, M.K. Whiteleather

[Homer_J_Simpson]

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[Homer_J_Simpson]

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 and the occasional radio broadcast 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.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
Eastern Europe, 1941: Russian Leningrad and Ukraine Offensives – Operations, 2 December 1943-30 April 1944
Allied Advance to Volturno River, Reorganization, and Attack on Gustav Line (17 January-11 May 1944)
Anzio-Cassino Area, 1943: Attempts to Cross Rapido and Garigliano Rivers, 17-20 January 1944. Anzio Landing, 22 January 1944. German Counterattack at Anzio, 16-19 February 1944
New Guinea and Alamo Force Operations: Clearing the Huon Peninsula and Securing the Straits, 19 September 1943-26 April 1944
Cartwheel, the Seizure of the Gilberts and Marshalls, and Concurrent Air and Naval Operations, 30 June 1943-26 April 1944
The Far East and the Pacific, 1941: Original Allied Strategic Concept, May 1943; Situation in Pacific, 1 November 1943

[Homer_J_Simpson]

The Nimitz Graybook

[Homer_J_Simpson]

The first of the following excerpts is continued from yesterday. The second from March 1.

Winston S. Churchill, Closing the Ring

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Dnieper City Falls (Lawrence) – 2-3
Envoys Will Be Exchanged between Russia and Italy – 3
Hull Blames Nazis for Rome’s Danger – 4
Russia Said to Bar Finns’ Peace Offer (Axelsson) – 4-5
War News Summarized – 4
Allies’ Big Guns Shell Foe in Italy – 5
Washington is Silent on Russian Move; Some See Drive for Influence in Balkans (Hulen) – 5
U.S. Troops Kill 1,000 Japanese in Bougainville Battle with 3,000 – 6
West Faces Gasoline Ration Cut to 2 Gallons a Week as in East – 6
The Medical Corps Goes into Action in the Pacific (photo) – 7
Casualties Reported by Army, Navy – 8-9
German Massacre of 10,000 Reported – 9
For Killing Forty Nazis at Salerno (photo) – 9
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the Fighting in Various War Zones – 10-12
Oil Experts Score Arabian Pipe Plan (by M.K. Whiteleather, first-time contributor) – 12
He Still Has One Eye on the Enemy (photo) – 12

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1944/mar44/f14mar44.htm

Soviets trap 14,000 Germans
Tuesday, March 14, 1944 www.onwar.com

On the Eastern Front... Small German forces are cut off by Soviet forces to the north of Kherson. Eventually, about 4000 Germans are taken prisoner and an estimated 10,000 are killed..

In the United States... Both Willkie (Republican) and Roosevelt (Democrat) top the polls in the New Hampshire primaries of the respective parties.

In Burma... The British 17th Indian Division (Cowan) begins to withdraw about 24 hours after having received permission. Japanese forces have prepared four roadblocks on the route it must take to pull back to Imphal. To the north, the 20th Indian Division (Gracey) is already retreating.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.etherit.co.uk/month/thismonth/14.htm

March 14th, 1944 (TUESDAY)

UNITED KINGDOM: Frigate HMCS Valleyfield departed Horta escorting damaged HMCS Mulgrave under tow of HMS Dundee to Clyde.

GERMANY: Peenemunde: Wernher von Braun and two assistants are arrested, accused of diverting resources from military rocket projects to peaceful ones, such as the movement of mail by rocket.

U-1014 commissioned.

BURMA: Air Commando Combat Mission N0.28-2:40 Flight Time Hailakandi, Assam to Meza, Burma. Bombed Meza railroad bridges with excellent results. Two direct hits on the bridge and one on tracks just short of the bridge. The fighter dive bombed a truck pontoon bridge a few hundred yards away. Both bridges destroyed.

Note: On a number of these missions we had a combat photographer on the flight who took color 16 mm movie film. Several years ago these films were located and a video of many of these actions were put together. I was lucky enough to have received a tape and got quite a few goose bumps looking at things we did so many years ago. (Chuck Baisden)

CHINA: The Communist Eighth Route Army captures Chinhsien, in Hupeh province.

AUSTRALIA:
Minesweeper HMAS Strahan commissioned.

U.S.A.: Presidential Election begins with the primary election in New Hampshire. Wendell Wilkie and Franklin D. Roosevelt win for their respective parties.
Minesweeper USS Clamour commissioned.

Destroyer USS Meredith commissioned.

Submarine USS Lizardfish laid down.

Corvette HMCS Kamsack completed forecastle extension refit Baltimore.

ATLANTIC OCEAN: U-852 torpedoed the Greek SS Peleus. In a unique case among U-boats, they machine-gunned wreckage in the waters in an attempt to remove traces of their victim and to cover their tracks.

[Berosus]

And today the Russians are back in Kherson. Some things haven’t changed much in 70 years.

[InABunkerUnderSF]

Page 1: "EIRE NORTH BORDER MAY BE CLOSED". Preparations for D-Day. This was an attempt to keep information from leaking to Nazi spies operating in neutral Ireland.

Page 6: "MISSION STARTS FOR U. S. / South African Scientists Leave on War Business". One wonders if the mission would be touring Eastern TN, Southeast WA or maybe New Mexico? A lot of interesting things going on with "non-ferrous metals" in each of those locations at the time.

[Tax-chick]

And today the Russians are back in Kherson. Some things haven’t changed much in 70 years.

I've been thinking the same thing while reading about the NYC schools in the recent (1944) news.

[InABunkerUnderSF]

Submarine USS Lizardfish laid down.

USS Lizardfish??? Seriously??? We were obviously running out of fish to name submarines after at that point in the war.

[Tax-chick]

I noticed that, too. Who comes up with these names?

[Western Phil]

The OPA, in typical bureaucratic fashion, attempts to solve the problem of black market gasoline in the East by reducing the ration in the West where travel distances are much greater.

[PeterPrinciple]

The did build a lot of submarines, maybe Goldfish might have been more scary.

http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/l7/lizardfish.htm

A slender marine fish having a scaly lizardlike head and large mouth.

[Tax-chick]

She [Lizardfish] was transferred to the Government of Italy 9 January 1960 and serves the Italian Navy under the name Evangelista Tarricelli (8-512).

[henkster]

Wernher von Braun and two assistants are arrested, accused of diverting resources from military rocket projects to peaceful ones, such as the movement of mail by rocket.

The Nazis are starting to eat their own. It's going to get a lot worse.

[Deo volente]

More on the life of Sgt. Charles Kelly, pictured above receiving the Medal of Honor:

http://old.post-gazette.com/regionstate/19990531command2.asp

Not an altogether happy story. Following some deep personal and business setbacks, he lived the life of a vagabond and died alone in a hospital room at the age of 64. The doctors had no idea of his heroic past. The city of Pittsburgh had forgotten him.

[henkster]

How much of that was untreated PTSD?

[Seizethecarp]

Over 60,000 dead Germans in 10 days? Russians sure know how to maneuver across the Ukraine slaughtering the retreating opposition!

[Seizethecarp]

“Peenemunde: Wernher von Braun and two assistants are arrested, accused of diverting resources from military rocket projects to peaceful ones, such as the movement of mail by rocket.”

I did not know that!