RUSSIANS REACH THE ODER ON 37-MILE FRONT, FLANK SILESIAN MINES, SQUEEZE EAST PRUSSIA (1/24/45)

Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 1/24/45 | W.H. Lawrence, Clifton Daniel, Richard J.H. Johnston, George E. Jones, Robert Trumbull, 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 .)
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
Luzon, P.I., 1941: Invasion of Luzon and the Advance to Manila, 9 January-4 February 1945
The Philippine Islands: Leyte Island and the Visayas, 1944 – Sixth Army Operations Mindoro and Marinduque Islands, 13 December 1944-24 January 1945
The Ardennes Area, 1944: Operations, 17 January-7 February 1945
Eastern France and the Low Countries, 1944: Territorial Changes along the Front, 16 December 1944-7 February 1945 and Allied Plan for Rhineland Campaign
Southeastern France 1944: German Offensive, 1-30 January 1945 and Allied Reduction of Colmar Pocket, 20 January-9 February 1945
Poland, 1945: Russian Offensive to the Oder – Operations 12 January-30 March 1945
China, 1941: Operation Ichigo, 1945 and Final Operations in the War
China-Burma, 1941: Third Burma Campaign – Slim’s Offensive, June 1944-March 1945

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Continued from January 9.

John Toland, The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Nazi ‘Line’ in Peril (Lawrence) – 2-3
War News Summarized – 3
German Refugees Swarm Westward – 4
1st Wins Junction (Daniel) – 4-5
145 U.S. Men Lost after 5-Day Stand (Johnston) – 6
Our Men Cleaning Up in the Ardennes Bulge Sector (photo) – 6
Camp for Bataan’s Victims Captured by U.S. Troops (Jones) – 7
Japanese-Held Clark Field Under Attack by Our Airmen (page 1 photo) – 8
Twin Air Blows Rip Okinawa, Nagoya (Trumbull) – 9
Vast Powers of RFC (Krock) – 10
Canadian Election is Now Held Likely (by P.J. Philip) – 10
Allentown to Test War Work Order – 11
German Defense Near a Crisis (by Hanson W. Baldwin) – 11
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the Fighting in Various War Zones – 12-14
Mead Holds Navy Admits Charges (by C.P. Trussell) – 14

[Yo-Yo]

I’m telling ya, at this rate we’ll have this thing wrapped up in Europe by May, you mark my words...

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.etherit.co.uk/month/0/24.htm

January 24th, 1945 (WEDNESDAY)

FRANCE: General Joseph “Uncle Joe” Stilwell takes over command of US Army Ground Forces. (Marc James Small)

GERMANY: Berlin: Guderian meets von Ribbentrop, the foreign minister, and tells him bluntly “the war is lost.”

U-3035 is launched.

Silesia: The Red Army captures Gleiwitz.

HUNGARY: Around noon the first Soviet tanks reach Buda coming from Budakeszi in the north.

ARCTIC SEA: U-295 hit a mine and was damaged so badly that she had to return to base.

COMMONWEALTH OF THE PHILIPPINES: Calapan is taken by US forces. Organized Japanese resistance on Mindoro Island, Philippines ends.

PACIFIC: In the Volcano Islands, USN Task Group 94.9 (Rear Admiral Oscar C. Badger, consisting of the battleship USS Indiana (BB-58), three heavy cruisers, seven destroyers and a light minelayer and preceded by a barrier patrol of PB4Y Liberators, bombards Iwo Jima, together with USAAF B-24 Liberators escorted by P-38 Lightnings. Northeast of Iwo Jima, destroyers USS Dunlap (DD-384) and USS Fanning (DD-385) sink transport I-Go Yoneyama Maru and auxiliary minesweepers Keinan Maru and No.7 Showa Maru, a small Japanese three-ship convoy that had just arrived that morning. (83)

NETHERLANDS EAST INDIES: Sumatra: The Fleet Air Arm delivered a major air strike against the vital Japanese oil refineries at Palembang in Sumatra, launched from four fleet aircraft carriers.

CANADA: The following AP report was released to the newswires - Shallow Lake, Ontario. defence minister general A.G.L. McNaughton said tonight that “today the North Atlantic is, as it hasn’t been for months past, alive with German submarines.” “We are having ships sunk day by day,” said General McNaughton in telling a political rally here why he had not been able to campaign last week as government candidate in the North Grey by-election of February 5. The following AP report was released to the newswires - The probable sinking of a U-boat in the Atlantic, four hundred miles from Britain, was reported by RAF Coastal Command tonight - another sign that submarine packs might be on the prowl. Norwegian reports said the Germans recently stationed one hundred new U-boats at Norwegian ports as far north as Narvik.

[iowamark]

Berlin: Guderian meets von Ribbentrop, the foreign minister, and tells him bluntly “the war is lost.”

Really? What was your first clue, Heinz?

[fso301]

Concerning the p6 article about 145 U.S. soldiers lost in an encirclement, mention is made of Lt. Col Felix Sparks leading the very tip of relief attempts at breaking the encirclement.

Concerned for the future of such a brave man, I asked my gypsy astrologer about him.

She said he will personally lead the liberation of some place in Germany named Dachau, be promoted to General, live a long life, die in 2007 and even have something called a Wiki written about him.

[fso301]

The p14 article about the U.S. soldier and British stripper sentenced to hang is about two complete strangers meeting and suddenly deciding to go on a crime spree. The most serious of their crimes is known as the "Cleft chin murder" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleft_chin_murder

[fella]

Chicago Joe and the Showgirl; trailer

Starts slow.

[Western Phil]

More: http://kidnappingmurderandmayhem.blogspot.com/2013/03/american-paratrooper-hanged-by-great.html

[Tax-chick]

Thanks for finding that out for us, make sure to tip your gyspy!

[Steven Scharf]

A small article notes that there is only one bridge across the Rhine between Colonge and Coblenz Germany. But the article does not say where the bridge atually is.

Could this have been the The Ludendorff Bridge at Remagen that the Allies found ungarded in March?

[colorado tanker]

Felix Sparks was from Colorado, not Arizona. He came into the Army via the Colorado National Guard. After the War, he will be appointed to the Colorado Supreme Court and become Commanding General of the Colorado National Guard.

I heard Gen. Sparks give his talk on the liberation of Dachau and it was riveting.

[Tax-chick]

“Briton Pays $4,000 Fines to Keep Greyhound Alive”

SHEFFIELD, ENGLAND, Jan. 23: Charles Parsons, who believes a dog’s best friend should be his master, said tonight that he would never comply with an order to kill his greyhound Bobby, even though his defiance has cost him $4,000 and threatens to cost him at least that much more.

“They’ll never get me to kill that dog,” he said. “He’s a good dog, and he’s going to be with me the rest of his life.” Bobby, who is now 14-1/2 years old, has been the center of a legal controversy since he killed a neighbor’s cat in September, 1941. The magistrate ordered Parsons to kill the dog. When Parsons refused, he was fined.

Since then the fines have grown stiffer. Yesterday, Parsons was fined nearly $700.

[colorado tanker]

Actually, Guderian had been pleading with Hitler for months for reinforcements and to quit taking units from the Eastern Front. He had been outlining the German intelligence estimate of the Russian order of battle, which was frightful. Just before the offensive began he took his intel chief to make one last run at Hitler, who went into a rage and refused to listen.

[Tax-chick]

I heard Gen. Sparks give his talk on the liberation of Dachau and it was riveting.

Lucky you! We had a man in Tulsa, head of the Veterans' Historical Society, who had been at the liberation of one of the camps; I don't recall which one. He spoke to the homeschool association.

[Monkey Face]

I hope there was a happy ending...

[Tax-chick]

I hope there was a happy ending ...

We have to hope Homer finds any follow-up pieces. It sounds like Mr. Parsons has plenty of money, so the "happy" ending is probably that Bobby dies of natural causes pretty soon. 14-1/2 is a very old greyhound.

[Monkey Face]

Dachau was a sad place, even 23 years after the war. I could hardly make my way through it.