MARINES ON ISLE 600 MILES FROM TRUK; RUSSIANS 28 MILES FROM THE PRUT RIVER (3/22/44)

Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 3/22/44 | Frank L. Kluckhohn, W.H. Lawrence, C.L. Sulzberger, Milton Bracker, Hanson W. Baldwin, Arthur Krock

[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 .)
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[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]

William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

[Homer_J_Simpson]

By-Pass Kavieng (Kluckhohn) – 2-3
War News Summarized – 3
Nazi Rail Link Cut (Lawrence) – 3-4
Allies’ Big Attack in Cassino Bogged (Sulzberger) – 5
Vesuvius Forces Many More to Flee (Bracker) – 5-6
His ‘Home’ Will Be a Show Place when Finished (photo) – 6
Patton Shifted to New Command as Patch Heads the Seventh Army – 6-7
Enemy Presses On near India Border – 7-8
Arrival and Departure: Supplies Reach and Rains Leave in the Pacific (photos) – 8-9
Battle of the Balkans (Baldwin) – 11
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on Fighting in Various Zones – 12-14
‘Hedge’ on France (Krock) – 14

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1944/mar44/f22mar44.htm

Allies dig in around Cassino
Wednesday, March 22, 1944 www.onwar.com

In Italy... The forces of the New Zealand Corps (part of US 5th Army) makes a final attack on German-held Cassino. It fails. General Freyberg, commanding the corps, then calls off the attack. Allied troops are withdrawn from the most advance positions and the remainder consolidate recent agains.

On the Eastern Front... The forces of 2nd Ukrainian Front (Konev) secure Pervomaysk, southeast of Uman.

From Berlin... The formation of a new Hungarian government is announced. It will be led by Field Marshal Szotjay.

In the Atlantic... Admiral Doenitz orders all U-boats to disperse from groups and work singly. This decision represents the final victory of the Allied escort forces over the German U-boats. The Germans have decided to give up on convoy attacks until new U-boat designs become available.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.etherit.co.uk/month/thismonth/22.htm

March 22nd, 1944 (WEDNESDAY)

GERMANY: Berlin announces the appointment of a new government for Hungary, led by Dome Sjotay.

Frankfurt: An RAF raid tonight kills 948 people and make 120,000 homeless.

ITALY: New Zealand Corps attacks Cassino for the last time. Freyburg finally calls off the attack.

EUROPE: Over 800 USAAF bombers hit targets in Germany and Italy. About 650 Eighth Air Force B-17s and B-24s bomb the Berlin area while about 200 Fifteenth Air Force B-17s and B-24s bomb marshalling yards at Verona, Bologna and Rimini.

Ottawa: CANADA and China sign a mutual aid pact.

BURMA: Over 160 A-31s, A-36s, B-24s, B-25s, P-40s and P-51s attack supply dumps at Prome near Rangoon, support Allied ground forces near Katha and Mawlu, attack Japanese ground troops along the Chindwin River and in the Mogaung Valley and damage a bridge near Pyinmana.

Air Commando Combat Mission NO. 35 3:10 Flight time Hailakandi, Assam to Malu, Burma. Bombed Jap troops at roadblock. (Chuck Baisden)

INDIA: Japanese ground troops invade India from Burma and advance to Manipur within 30 miles (48 km) of Imphal.

NEW GUINEA: Over 150 A-20s, B-24s, B-25s, P-40s and P-47s attack the (1) Wewak, Boram and Yeschan areas; (2) the Aitape-Tadji area; (3) barges at Alexishafen and (4) other targets.

PACIFIC OCEAN: The Fifth Fleet, including Task Force 58, sorties from Majuro Atoll in the Marshall Islands to bombard the Palau Islands.

U.S.A.: USN aircraft paint scheme is changed. Glossy paint will be used instead of flat paint. Fighter aircraft are to be painted glossy sea blue overall. Aircraft not operating in a combat zone need not be painted at all.

[BroJoeK]

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March 22, 1944:

• "Led by Shlomo Kushnir, nearly 100 Jews escape the labor camp at Koldichevo, Belorussia.
  Rebels leave behind an explosive charge, which kills ten SS guards.
  Most escapees avoid capture and join the Bielski resistance group in the Naliboki Forest.
  Kushnir commits suicide after being captured."

"From its headquarters in an imposing building on the corner of a Paris street, the Milice (French militia) was a pro-Nazi paramilitary unit founded in January 1943 at the initiative of Joseph Darnand.
It functioned partly as a counterpart to the SS.
Charged with internal security in Nazi-occupied France, the militia concentrated on ferreting out Jews and members of the French Resistance."

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[BroJoeK]

Headline: "Patton Shifted to New Command as Patch Heads the Seventh Army – 6-7"

"In Washington the War Department announced that General Patton had been put in command of 'another army'.
...the whereabouts of the Seventh Army has not been disclosed.
It has been the subject of considerable guesswork by the Germans..."

Hmmmmmmm...

Shhhhhhhhhhhh...it's a secret...
Don't tell the Germans... Patton's FUSAG will leave them FUBARed...

[3Fingas]

Lest we forget.

[fso301]

Your page from Shirer mentioned Gen. Dostler carrying out Hitler's orders to execute all captured allied commandos. Dostler got his just rewards after the war.

[Tax-chick]

I’d been watching for this.

[PapaNew]

Interesting - it seems like after Messina, the non-eastern European battle was in a kind of abeyance. Maybe the Allies (other than Russia) didn’t have anywhere to go until the invasion on the western front. Did the Alps in Italy present too big a problem to advance in large enough force? I wonder why the effort to take Sicily if things were to stall in Italy.