RUSSIANS TIGHTEN ARC AT ODESSA, HAMMER FOE IN 2 OTHER POCKETS (4/7/44)

Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 4/7/44 | Drew Middleton, Alexander P. de Seversky, Hanson W. Baldwin

[Homer_J_Simpson]

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[colorado tanker]

But keep the communiques coming!

During the Sochi Olympics I became curious just how close the Germans came to Sochi and I was able to figure it out through the communiques.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Just kidding about reading the communiques. I read just enough of them myself to be sure I am reassembling them properly for scanning after I cut them up. I keep getting them for every day because I figure somewhere up the line somebody may find it valuable to have the complete collection. Not sure why, exactly, but you never know.

[PAR35]

And let's not forget there were Americans who lacked Nimitz' imagination and disliked his plan to take the Marianas and turn them into B-52 bases.

He was really thinking ahead, wasn't he. Most folks probably couldn't have contemplated an 8 engined jet bomber in 1944. /grin

[BroJoeK]

"Finally, the long slow slog across New Guinea is about to speed up."

My Dad's 33rd Infantry Division is "now" guarding and training in Hawaii (yes, it was tough duty, but somebody had to do it. ;-) )

They will arrive in New Guinea on May 11, 1944.

[colorado tanker]

The 33rd Division was slated for Operation Olympic and the invasion of Kyushu. I bet your Dad was pretty darn happy about the dropping of the A-Bombs.

[BroJoeK]

A-bomb, what's that? ;-)

But yes, I expect the 33rd will land on the coast of Japan to face its last reserves of suicidal fanatics determined to make Americans pay with blood for every foot they advance.
It could be an unbelievably bloody end to an already bloody war...

[colorado tanker]

If you take the civilian and military casualty numbers for Okinawa and extrapolate them to the populations of Honshu and Kyushu you come up with an unbelievable butchers bill.