GERMAN TROOPS OCCUPY HUNGARY; WIDE RESISTANCE IS REPORTED; RED ARMY TAKES 2 KEY CENTERS (3/21/44)

Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 3/21/44 | George Axelsson, Raymond Daniell, Joseph M. Levy, W.H. Lawrence, Jack Fleischer, C.L. Sulzberger

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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]

Continued from yesterday.

Winston S. Churchill, Closing the Ring

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Nazis Stage Coup (Axelsson, Daniell) – 2-3
Search for Refuge Laid to Antonescu (Levy) – 3
Raise First Quotas in Red Cross Drive – 3
Russians Capture Vinnitsa and Key Point on Dniester (Lawrence) – 4-5
Finland Rejecting Soviet Conditions (by Jack Fleischer, first-time contributor) – 5
War News Summarized – 5
Cassino Push Lags (Sulzberger) – 6
U.S. Bombers Add to Frankfurt Ruin (by Drew Middleton) – 7
Japanese Convoy of 5 Ships is Sunk (by Frank L. Kluckhohn) – 7-8
Hukawng Valley Won by Stilwell (by Tillman Durdin) – 8
Warships Batter Foe in Marshalls (by Robert Trumbull) – 8
Britain Closes Coast as Invasion Prelude; 700-Mile Stretch is Forbidden to Visitors – 9
‘Merrill’s Marauders’ Are Supplied from the Air for Their Push into Burma (photos) – 9-11
Latest Casualties in Army and Navy – 13
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on Fighting in Various Zones * – 14-15

* In a measure to reduce the amount of paper consumed for the daily newspaper, Times management has decided that, beginning today, the font size used for the communiques shall be reduced to the point where individual letters are invisible to the naked eye. To prevent dangerous eye strain from afflicting twenty-first century readers I will reduce the size of the communique pages I scan. This will result in enlarged images uploaded to photobucket and subsequently posted for your reading pleasure – HJS.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1944/mar44/f21mar44.htm

British make fighting withdrawal
Tuesday, March 21, 1944 www.onwar.com

In Burma... The British 20th Indian Division completes its withdrawal. The division now holds a line on the Shenan Hills and between Palel and Wangjing. The 17th Indian Division continues fighting through the roadblocks, held by the Japanese 33rd Division, in its effort to pull back.

In New Guinea... US forces moving west from Yalau Plantation link up with Australian forces advancing north, from inland, on the Huon Peninsula.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.etherit.co.uk/month/thismonth/21.htm

March 21st, 1944 (TUESDAY)

UNITED KINGDOM: Sloop HMS Lapwing commissioned.

GERMANY: U-3501 laid down.

BURMA: Air Commando Combat Mission N0. 34 2:50 Flight time. Hailakandi, Assam to Meza, Burma. Bombed Meza bridge. It was successful. (Chuck Baisden)

NEW GUINEA: Over 140 Fifth Air Force A-20s, B-24s, B-25s, P-38s and P-40s attack targets in the Hansa Bay-Tadji-Wewak-Schouten Islands area.

CANADA: Frigate HMCS Springhill commissioned.

U.S.A.: Destroyer escort USS Whitehurst laid down.
Minesweeper USS Towhee laid down.

Destroyer escort USS Walton laid down.

Escort carrier USS Shipley Bay commissioned.

Destroyer escort USS Eversole commissioned.

Destroyer escort USS Lloyd E Acree launched.

[BroJoeK]

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March 21, 1944:

• Spring 1944: "The camp system near Stutthof, Germany, is enlarged to include 74 satellite camps."

"By March 1943 almost all of the Jews living in the Generalgouvernement had been killed.
Thus, Heinrich Himmler decided to wind down Operation Reinhard (the extermination of Jews in the area), which officially ended on October 19, 1943.
In August the last 25,000 Jews living in the Bialystok Ghetto were transported to Treblinka, where they were murdered.
The Nazis closed the camp in the fall, then razed it in order to cover up their crimes.
When the Soviets arrived in the region in July 1944, they discovered that a Ukrainian peasant family had moved into a house (pictured) that had been built on the camp's grounds by the SS.
The Red Army forced the Ukrainians to move and then burned the house."

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[Tax-chick]

Early reports of the capture of Cassino town seem to have been exaggerated.

I’ll have to read the Lonergan trial news later, when various Offspring are done using the computer.

In the future-past, note that General Wingate will die in a plane crash in Burma shortly. His sister had predicted his death and written a poem about it in advance; whole family was rather strange, similar to the Pattons in some ways.

[colorado tanker]

Yes, best to read about the Lonergan trial without kiddos around. :-))