BRITISH CAPTURE CAEN, AMERICANS WIN LA HAYE; U.S. TROOPS COMPLETE THE CONQUEST OF SAIPAN (7/10/44)

Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 7/10/44 | E.C. Daniel, James MacDonald, Harold Denny, Raymond Daniell, George F. Horne, Brooks Atkinson, more

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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
Normandy, 1944: Expanding the Beachhead, Operations, 1-24 July 1944
The Marianas Islands: Saipan 1944 – Assault on Saipan, 15 June-10 July 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
Eastern Europe, 1941: Operation Bagration – Operations, 22 June-19 August, 1944
Northern Italy 1944: Allied Advance to Gothic Line, 5 June-25 August and Gains 29 August-31 December
China, 1941: Operation Ichigo, April-December 1944 and Situation 31 December
China-Burma, 1941: Third Burma Campaign – Slim’s Offensive, June 1944-March 1945

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The Nimitz Graybook

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Part of the following excerpt reads: “On the left of the line, the 2d Battalion of the 128th had taken over the sector vacated by the 1st Battalion, and was now responsible for a frontage of almost three and a half miles.” My father was part of that line, indicated on the map below by the designation F/128. According to the text F Company had an easier time of it than E and G Companies, but I’ll bet it was a long night all along the Driniumor - HJS.

Major General H.W. Blakeley, USA, Ret., 32d Infantry Division in World War II

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Winston S. Churchill, Triumph and Tragedy

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Inland Port Falls (Daniel) – 2
French Refugees Trickle into Caen (MacDonald) – 3-4
German Snipers Fight to End as Americans Capture La Haye (Denny) – 4
London Guards Chapel Wrecked by Robot Bomb (page 1 photo) – 5
War News Summarized – 5
Red Army Opens Baltic Push, Wins the Vital Lida Rail Hub – 6-7
Blitz over London Hit 3 Landmarks (Daniell) – 7
Fifth Army Takes Leghorn Outpost – 8
Allies to Untomb 320 Slain Italians – 8
Rome Hears Orlemansky Will Visit Vatican to Report on Moscow Trip; Priest is Silent – 8
Free French Court in Cherbourg Sentences Two Young Spies to Life Imprisonment – 8
1,000 U.S. ‘Heavies’ Pace Day Bombers – 9
Japanese Crushed (Horne) – 10-11
A Pause in the Battle for Saipan (photo) – 11
Foe’s Losses High on Salween Front (Atkinson) – 12
Foe Loses a Fort outside Tengyueh – 12
Japanese Continue Hengyang Battle – 12
Hitler’s Strategy Fails (by Hanson W. Baldwin) – 14
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the Fighting in Various War Zones – 15-17
Zionists Appeal for Jews in Europe – 17

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1944/jul44/10jul44.htm#

Soviet offensive in the Baltics
Monday, July 10, 1944 www.onwar.com

On the Eastern Front... The Soviet 2nd Baltic Front (Yeremenko) launches an offensive along a 90-mile frontage, east of Idritsa. Soviet forces capture Slonim from German forces of Army Group Center.

From Berlin... Hitler refuses a request by Field Marshal Model, commanding the shattered Army Group Center, to allow Army Group North to withdraw behind the Dvina. The intent is to bolster the defenses of Army Group Center and prevent Army Group North being cut off by the Soviet drive into the Baltics.

On the Western Front... British 8th Corps (part of 2nd Army) begins new attacks toward Evrecy. Eterville is captured.

In New Guinea... Around Aitape, Japanese forces begin new attacks along the line of the Driniumor River.

In Washington... Free French President de Gaulle continues talks with American representatives.

In the United States... The Bretton Woods conference continues.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.etherit.co.uk/month/thismonth/10.htm

July 10th, 1944 (SATURDAY)

UNITED KINGDOM: The USAAF’s Eighth Air Force in England flies Mission 465: Six B-17s drop leaflets in France and the Netherlands during the night while 12 B-24s fly CARPETBAGGER missions during the night.

Repair ships HMS Moray Firth and Mullion Cove launched.

FRANCE: British VIII Corps begins an attack toward Evrecy.

Normandy: Montgomery orders the British Second Army to attack east of Caen (Operation Goodwood) and the US First Army to secure St. Lo.

The 2nd Battalion of the US 358th Regiment of the 90th Infantry Division are cut off at the summit of Hill 122 and surrounded by German paratroopers. Their commander Colonel Jacob Bealke, calls for urgent tank support. A platoon of four tanks from the 712th broke through to his position and a plan was hatched for the four tanks to lead Company K down off the hill, with the rest of the battalion to follow. Company K suffered 80 percent casualties, and the four tanks ran into well-concealed anti-tank guns and were all knocked out, but not before breaking the resistance and providing what some historians of the 90th consider to be the turning point of the seesaw battle for the Foret de Mont Castre, which had raged for seven days. (Aaron Elson)(154)

USAAF Ninth Air Force fighters bomb and strafe gun positions, bridges, a rail overpass, infantry concentrations, and highway junctions, and cover the battle area.

ITALY: Naik Yeshwant Ghadge (b.1921), 5th Mahratta Light Infantry, rushed and wiped out a machine-gun nest before falling to a German sniper. (Victoria Cross)

U.S.S.R.: Hitler refuses Model’s (Army Group North) request to position Army Group Center behind the Dvina river.

MARIANAS ISLANDS: In the Mariana Islands, Seventh Air Force P-47 Thunderbolts based on Saipan hit troops and gun positions on Tinian Island. B-24s, staging through Eniwetok Atoll, pound Truk Atoll during the night of 9/10 July and again during the day attempting to stop Japanese aircraft from using the Atoll to attack shipping off Guam.

COMMONWEALTH OF THE PHILIPPINES: Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) Corsairs attack Japanese shipping in Keravia Bay, Rabaul. sinking an auxiliary submarine chaser.

NEW GUINEA: Japanese troops attack US forces across the Wewak river.

U.S.A.: “The Man Called X”, starring Herbert Marshall, debuts on CBS radio. This 30-minute show broadcast on Mondays at 9:30 PM Eastern Time, is sponsored by Lockheed Aircraft. Herbert Marshall plays Ken Thurston, “the man called X,” an international troubleshooter sent wherever intrigue lurks and danger was the byword. One of the supporting actors on the show was William Conrad while the announcer was John McIntire. The show switched to the NBC Blue Network (which became ABC in late 1944) on Saturday 9 September at 10:30 PM Eastern. During the summer of 1945, the show was broadcast by NBC on Tuesdays at 10:00 PM Eastern. The last broadcast was on 20 May 1952.

Destroyer USS Benner laid down.

Aircraft carrier USS Coral Sea laid down.

Submarines USS Cutlass and Runner laid down.

Minesweeper USS Method commissioned.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

I forgot to say, the excerpt in reply #4 is continued from June 30.

[Tax-chick]

London Guards Chapel Wrecked by Robot Bomb (page 1 photo) – 5

Oh, this was in the Atkinson book. Dreadful.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

From Nimitz diary: "McCall (DD400) rescued from GUAM Chief Radioman G.R. Tweed who had been on the island since 1939."

He had been hiding out since Dec. 1941? Sounds like a good story.

[henkster]

Today's Panzer Group West sector. Heavy fighting around Caen.

[henkster]

Panzer Group West Order of Battle. Despite the constant British hammering, Panzer Group West is maintaining it's cohesion.

[henkster]

Today's 7th Army sector.

[Rebelbase]

More on G.R. Tweed: http://www.guampedia.com/george-tweed/

[henkster]

7th Army Order of Battle. Looking at the OOB and the map, it looks like the cohesion of 7th Army is breaking down and various units are being scraped up here and there and sent to plug holes. Looking at the 7th Army map, there doesn't appear to be any actual divisional sectors drawn for a large section of LXXXIV Corps front.

[henkster]

Now we're going to have an intelligence map quiz. The Lage West series actually had two intelligence summary maps dated today in the archives. The first one looks a lot like yesterday's. It may actually be yesterday's:

[henkster]

Ooops! That actually WAS yesterday's (too many maps in my photobucket). Here is the first one for today:

[henkster]

Here is today's second intelligence summary map. The game is; how many differences can you spot, and what do they mean?

[henkster]

Situation map from 1st US Army HQ: