TROOPS SEIZE MONTGOMERY WARD AS IT REJECTS ROOSEVELT ORDER; 2 HOLLANDIA FIELDS FALL (4/27/44)

Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 4/27/44 | Louther S. Horne, Paul Crowell, Frank L. Kluckhohn, Brooks Atkinson, Drew Middleton, George Axelsson

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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
The Western Pacific, New Guinea and the Philippine Islands: Allied Advances to the Marianas, Biak and Noemfoor, 22 April-24 July 1944, and Japanese Kon and “A” Go Operations 30 May-19 June 1944
The Far East and the Pacific, 1941: Original Allied Strategic Concept, May 1943; Situation in Pacific, 1 November 1943
China, 1941: Operation Ichigo, April-December 1944 and Situation 31 December

[Homer_J_Simpson]

The Nimitz Graybook

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Conferences Fail (Horne) – 2
Mayor Protests Japanese in East (by Paul Crowell, first-time contributor) – 2-3
War News Summarized – 3
Foe Gets Surprise (Kluckhohn) – 4-5
China to Fight On, Official Promises (Atkinson) – 5
Admits Fairness of Miss Perkins – 5
Reich Plane Center Bombed by Our ‘Heavies’ Unopposed (Middleton) – 6-7
Planes of 2 Allies Hit Ships in North – 7
Stimson Denies Tie to Patton Speech – 7
Nazis Rush Troops, Cut Off Denmark (Axelsson) – 8
Reich Destroyer Sunk in Channel – 8
Observing His Eighty-Eighth Birthday (w/photo) – 9
New American Radio in Britain will Broadcast to Europe Daily (by David Anderson) – 10
Send Europe Food, Plea to President – 10
U.S. Awards for Valor – 10
Latest War Casualties – 11
He and President Agree, Says Curtin – 11
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the Fighting in Various War Zones – 12-14
Good News from the Bronx while Awaiting the Invasion (photo) – 14

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1944/apr44/27apr44.htm#

E-boats disrupt invasion exercise
Thursday, April 27, 1944 www.onwar.com

In Britain... During the night (April 27-28), 3 American LST landing craft, conducting an invasion exercise (Exercise “Tiger”), are torpedoed by German E-boats in Lyme Bay. A total of 638 troops are killed. This incident is kept secret for fear of damaging Anglo-American relations.

In New Guinea... US troops occupy the main airstrip at Hollandia.

Over Occupied Poland... Soviet aircraft conduct a nighttime raid on Lvov.

[Tupelo]

See.
Most thought that Obama was breaking new ground when he seized General Motors and Chrysler.
Instead he was just following in Roosevelt's footsteps.

[Tax-chick]

TROOPS SEIZE MONTGOMERY WARD

Not a headline one expects to see.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.etherit.co.uk/month/thismonth/27.htm

April 27th, 1944 (THURSDAY)

UNITED KINGDOM: From midnight tonight all travel abroad from Britain will be banned. Exit permits granted to would-be travellers are no longer valid, unless they have been issued during the past week. Some visits to Ireland will be allowed after strict scrutiny.

Similar pre-invasion moves are being made by the enemy. Civilians are being removed from coastal areas, and German families evacuated from the Ruhr when the heavy bombing began are being sent back. Vichy France has cut communications with neutral countries in an effort to prevent military and political intelligence from reaching the Allies. In a hunt for Allied sympathisers, diplomatic bags for French military attaches in Madrid, Lisbon and Berne have been seized.

Frigate HMCS Valleyfield departed Londonderry with Convoy ONM-234. (Dave Shirlaw)

BALTIC SEA: U-803 sunk near Swinemünde, in position 53.55N, 14.17E, by a mine. 9 dead and 35 survivors. (Dave Shirlaw)

FINLAND: The Finnish Chief of General Staff jalkaväenkenraali Erik Heinrichs starts his three-day visit in Germany. At Berchtesgaden he meets with the highest German military leadership, and there’s some tension because of the recent Finnish peace-feelers. Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Keitel states bluntly, that in Germany there’s no mercy for traitors and complainers. Generaloberst Alfred Jodl is more friendly, but demands that Finland give a proclamation ensuring that the weapons Germany has delivered to Finland would not end in Soviet hands. (Mikko Härmeinen)

BURMA: Air Commando We did not fly again until the 5th of May. No one tells us much but think it is weather problems in Burma. Will pick up our combat flights on that date. Our food is a constant diet of powdered eggs, dehydrated potatoes with Spam or Vienna sausages. No bread but crackers and chlorinated water from canvas lister bags. We managed to appropriate a 10-in-1 ration on occasion and cook it up at our aircraft.

From 1946 until very recently no Spam was ever permitted in my house. A month or so ago I saw a travel TV on Hawaii and learned that Spam was the one biggest imports from the mainland. I broke down and purchased a new version that is called hot and spicy. Hate to admit it but it was great as my wife and I both like spicy foods. Still lack the nerve to try the W.W.II style. (Chuck Baisden)

CANADA:
Frigate HMCS Kirkland Lake (ex-St Jerome) launched Quebec City, Province of Quebec.

Corvette HMCS Stellarton launched Midland, Ontario. (Dave Shirlaw)

U.S.A.: The motion picture “Going My Way” is released in the U.S. Directed by Leo McCarey, this sentimental musical film stars Bing Crosby, Barry Fitzgerald, Rise Stevens and Frank McHugh. Crosby is a young Catholic priest assigned to assist aging pastor Fitzgerald at a New York church. The songs include “Going My Way,” “Swinging on a Star,” “Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral,” “Silent Night” and “Ave Maria.” The film was nominated for ten Academy Awards and won seven including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (Crosby) and Best Supporting Actor (Fitzgerald, who was also nominated for Best Actor). (Jack McKillop)
Submarine USS Corporal laid down.

Destroyer escort USS Heyliger laid down.

Escort carrier USS Makassar Strait commissioned. (Dave Shirlaw)

ATLANTIC OCEAN: Submarine HMS Untiring (Lt. Boyd) sinks the German UJ 6075/Clairvoyant. (Dave Shirlaw)

[Homer_J_Simpson]

U.S.A.: The motion picture “Going My Way” is released in the U.S.

Actually, the premiere (and the Bosley Crowther review) will be on May 3.

[Tax-chick]

Interesting coverage of Patton’s “rule the world” remarks.

[M Kehoe]

Good morning.

ATLANTIC OCEAN: Submarine HMS Untiring (Lt. Boyd) sinks the German UJ 6075/Clairvoyant. (Dave Shirlaw)

Apparently, the German ship wasn't very clairvoyant at all.

5.56mm

[fso301]

Interesting coverage of Patton’s “rule the world” remarks.

Sounds as if DeGaulle got upset and threatened to withdraw Free French forces from the war... all 14,372 of them plus two motor patrol boats and three MB.151s.

[BroJoeK]

headline: "Foe Gets Surprise (Kluckhohn) – 4-5" I've been boning up on the battles in New Guinea.
It seems that your Dad's unit, 32nd ID, was all over that fight, while mine's, the 33rd was very much Johnny Come Lately.

The result, by the time of the Philippines, the 32nd was beat up pretty bad, the 33rd just getting ready to fight.

[Ray76]

They’re both communist swine.

[libertybell]

The government seized Montgomery Wards during WWII? I didn’t realize that. Nice free country we had back then.

[rabidralph]

Not at all.

[rabidralph]

They could update that headline and say “Troops seize Hobby Lobby.”

[Tax-chick]

I thought it might have been a drill for European city fighting.

[rabidralph]

I downloaded the image of the article and apparently, the chairman of Montgomery Ward (Avery) defied an order from Roosevelt's National War Labor Board to extend the expired union contract of Mail Order Warehouse and Union employees. So Army soldiers were called in to give the union people their jobs back.

So, let that scenario roll around in your head for a while.

[Tax-chick]

LOL! All the Allied leaders seem to find DeGaulle and his troops far more trouble than they’re worth.