RUSSIANS WIN PORT OF NIKOLAYEV; U.S. FLIERS AGAIN BOMB AIRFIELDS (3/29/44)

Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 3/29/44 | C.L Sulzberger, John H. Crider, Arthur Krock, Alexander P. de Seversky, Hanson W. Baldwin

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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 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

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Winston S. Churchill, Closing the Ring

[Homer_J_Simpson]

V-Mail from Saidor area of New Guinea. The job in Pondosa (Oregon) that Homer’s father asks about is most probably at the saw mill in that long-gone town. So Homer’s father is working in lumber in New Guinea and Homer’s grandfather is doing the same in eastern Oregon.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Naval Base Taken – 2-3
Nazis Avoid Fight – 3-4
Smash into India Increased by Foe – 4
Doubts Peace Use of Most War Gear – 4
Routine at Front Proves No Routine (Sulzberger) – 5
The Army Puts Its Ear to the Ground (photo) – 6
War News Summarized – 6
Roosevelt was Ill of Bronchitis, but Says that He is Feeling Fine (Crider) – 7
2 Lwow Jews Tell of ‘Death Forest’ – 8
Latest War Casualties – 8
President on Palestine (Krock) – 9
Air Power and the War (de Seversky) – 9
The Infantry’s Role (Baldwin) – 10
Roads Say Planes Get Bigger Subsidy – 10
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on Fighting in Various Zones – 11-12

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1944/mar44/29mar44.htm#

Japanese surround Imphal
Wednesday, March 29, 1944 www.onwar.com

Allied transport loaded by elephant in India [photo at link]

In Burma... The Japanese 31st Division (Sato) cuts the road between Imphal and Kohima. General Slim, commanding British 14th Army, decides to supply the garrison of Imphal by air.

On the Eastern Front... Soviet troops of the 1st Ukrainian Front (Vatutin) capture Kolomya, west of the Prut River, in Moldava (formerly Romanian territory).

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http://www.etherit.co.uk/frame.htm

March 29th, 1944

UNITED KINGDOM: Westminster: Churchill forced MPs to eat humble pie today. Against government advice they had voted 117 to 116 last night for equal pay for women schoolteachers.

The prime minister immediately demanded and got a vote of confidence in his conduct of the war and, with it, the reversal of the equal pay decision. “We had to show the government is in control. The German wireless was scoffing at us,” he explained.

FRANCE: 30 Eighth Air Force B-24s, escorted by 37 P-47s, bomb V-1 sites at Watten.

GERMANY: 233 Eighth Air Force B-17s, escorted by 428 P-38s, P-47s and P-51s, industrial targets at Brunswick, Unterluss and Stedorf.

ITALY: Twelfth Air Force A-36s, B-25s, B-26s, P-40s and P-47s attack airfields, harbours and port facilities, supply dumps, tank repair shops and railway lines in addition to supporting the Anzio beachhead while 405 Fifteenth Air Force B-17s and B-24s attack marshalling yards and factories at Bolzano, Milan and Turin.

INDIA: Over 70 Tenth Air Force A-31s attack Japanese ground troops near Imphal. The 1st Air Commando Group is formally activated at Hailakandi, India. Commanded by Colonel Philip G. Cochran, the group consists of Bomber, Fighter, Transport, Glider, Light Transport and Liaison Sections rather than squadrons.

CHINA: Fourteenth Air Force P-40s and P-51s attack rail facilities and strafe the airfield and bridges at Nanchang.

BURMA: IJA 31st Division cuts the road between Imphal and Kohima at Maran.

Chinese troops capture Shaduzup, at the entrance to the Mogaung valley.

Over 200 Tenth Air Force B-24s, B-25s, P-38s and P-51s attack railroads, warehouses, airfields and troop concentrations throughout the country.

CAROLINE ISLANDS: 24 Thirteenth Air Force B-24s fly the first daylight mission against Truk where they bomb an airfield while Seventh Air Force B-25s bomb Ponape.

MARSHALL ISLANDS: Seventh Air Force B-25s bomb Jaluit and Rongelap.

NEW GUINEA: Fifth Air Force A-20s, B-24s, B-25s, P-40s and P-47s attack Hollandia, Wewak and various other targets on the north coast.

PACIFIC OCEAN: US naval aircraft bomb Japanese ships anchored off Palau Island.

U.S.A.: Washington: Congress authorises $1,350 million to found the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Agency, to help the growing refugee problem in Europe.

ATLANTIC OCEAN: U-961 (type VIIC) is sunk east of Iceland, in position 64.31N, 03.19W, by depth charges from the British frigate HMS Starling. 49 dead (all hands lost). (Alex Gordon)

[iowamark]

I can’t read the page one story “Leftists win A L P control in state vote” What is that about?

[Homer_J_Simpson]

I didn't print the rest of the article. Here is what I copied from the beginning.

Sidney Hillman and the left wing groups allied with him won control of the American Labor party in yesterday’s primary elections and immediately held out an olive branch to the defeated right wing groups that had sought to retain the party’s helm in a bitterly fought campaign.

As of midnight the left wing forces claimed more than 600 of the 750 places on the State committee, governing body of the party.

Alex Rose and Dr. George S. Counts, the right-wing leaders, conceded defeat shortly after 11:30 o’clock last night, just an hour and a half after the polls had closed. Their concession was made on the basis of incomplete returns that showed the left-wing forces carrying every one of the eight Assembly districts in the Bronx which in prior years had been a right-wing stronghold.

In a joint statement the right-wing leaders said:

“The Browder-Tillman coalition won the primaries. The Communists who controlled Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens have now extended their control to the whole party. From now on the American Labor party will be controlled by Earl Browder [American Communist leader] no matter who will be put up as its fronts.”

[iowamark]

The “left wing” Communists defeated the “right wing” Communists. How democratic!

[Vendome]

Maybe they should take over Balaklava and build a submarine base at Sevastopol.... . You know, under ground and all: . . http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cndweExnTfA

[colorado tanker]

You can, or could, take a tour of the old Sov sub pens at Balaklava, even driving around in them. Top Gear drove in there at the end of the last season in their Ukraine special.