U.S. CARRIER FLIERS SMASH 284 PLANES IN 3-DAY STRIKES AT SOUTHERN JAPAN (5/16/45)

Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 5/16/45 | Warren Moscow, George E. Jones, W.H. Lawrence, Sydney Gruson, William S. White, William M. Blair

[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. Also visit our general discussion thread.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
Southern Okinawa: Naha-Shuri-Yonabaru, 1945 – Tenth Army Operations, 10 May-30 June 1945
Okinawa, Ryukyus Islands, 1945: Japanese Thirty Second Army Defensive Dispositions, 1 April 1945
Luzon, P.I., 1941: Final Operations on Luzon, 3 February-20 July 1945
Southeast Asia, 1941: Final Allied Offensives in the Southwest Pacific Area 19 February-1 July 1945
China, 1941: Operation Ichigo, 1945 and Final Operations in the War
Southern Asia, 1941: Third Burma Campaign-Allied Victory, April-May 1945

[Homer_J_Simpson]

The Nimitz Graybook

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Prime Minister to Minister of Agriculture 16 May 45

If all the Germans are put to work to grow food on the land what are the crops that can be started if they begin to dig on June 1?

Have you any reports on the state of their tilth?

Winston S. Churchill, Triumph and Tragedy

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Kyushu is Target (Moscow) – 2
Ten of B-29’s Crew Rescued from Sea (Jones) – 3
Grim Fight Marks Okinawa Advance – 3-4
Two Proud Fighters on Okinawa (photo) – 3
Officer Shortage Acute on Okinawa (Lawrence) – 4
Burmese ‘Traitors’ Misled Japanese – 4
90% of Mindanao in American Hands – 5
Both Sides Suffer in Foochow Fight – 5-6
Truman Lifts News Curb on Reich; Backs Eisenhower Against Davis – 6
War News Summarized – 6
Eisenhower is Cheered in London As He Returns for Tardy V-E Day (Gruson) – 8
War Crime Report Horrifies Capital (White) – 8-9
Americans Seize Mass Gas Killer – 9
General Bradley and Marshal Koneff Exchange Gifts (photos) – 9
Army Denies Coddling Goering, Bans Unauthorized Interviews – 10
Reich Marshal Goering Interviewed after Capture (photos) – 10
U-Boat Yielded Off New England (Blair) – 11
Another German Submarine Surrenders to Our Navy (photo) – 11
Midget U-Boat Packs Failed as Weapon; At Least 81 Sunk in Defeating Blockade – 12
Policy for Naval Personnel (by Hanson W. Baldwin) – 13
Nominated by Truman For Rank of Full Admiral – 13
Texts of Day’s War Communiques – 14

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.etherit.co.uk/month/4/16.htm

May 16th, 1945 (WEDNESDAY)

UNITED KINGDOM: Frigates HMCS Loch Alvie and Nene detached from Convoy JW-67 to escort 14 surrendered U-boats from Trondheim to Loch Eribol.

GERMANY: U-287 mined and sunk in the Elbe Estuary.

DENMARK: The German garrison on Bornholm Island, surrenders.
INDIAN OCEAN: The Japanese cruiser Haguro while conducting evacuations in the Nicobar Islands, with destroyer Kamakaze, is caught in the Malacca Straits. The British force, commanded by Captain M.L. Power, DesFlot.26, HMS VERULAM, HMS VIRAGO, HMS VIGILANT, HMS VENUS and HMS SAUMAREZ sink Haguro in what will become the last surface action involving major warships.

The IJN ships left Singapore on May 10. The British Destroyer Flotilla is part of the British Force 61 of the British East Indies Fleet under Vice-Admiral Walker. This larger force is composed of 2 battleships, 3 cruisers, 4 escort carriers, 8 destroyers and a submarine. The destroyer flotilla was detached due to the slow speed of the BBs and CVEs. (Tim Lanzendorfer)

JAPAN: During the night of 16/17 May, the USAAF’s Twentieth Air Force flies Mission 175: 25 B-29 Superfortresses mine Shimonsoeki Strait, Japan while two others hit targets of opportunity.

CANADA: Patrol vessel HMCS Wolf paid off Esquimalt, British Columbia.

U.S.A.: U-234 surrendered at Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

Destroyer USS Rich laid down.

[BroJoeK]

page 12 headline: "M-26 Tank has Power in Guns and Speed"

310 Pershings were sent to Europe before VE day, but only 20 saw combat.
All told, 2,200 were produced, upgraded as the M-46 Patton another 1,150 built & served until 1957.
Pershing crossing the Rhine, March 12, 1945:

In Korea, note both 50 cal and radio antennas.

[Larry Lucido]

The Mexican police had a $21,000,000 slush fund? I’m shocked. Shocked!

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Here is a clean version of the page 3 photo. Thanks to Paul James at Facebook World War II 70th Anniversary Group

[Steven Scharf]

Glad you posted the clean version. The NYTs version looked like some deformed man. Could not tell it was a dog.

[colorado tanker]

I thought the Captain’s claim not to have sunk any allied ships might have been a tall tale, but I looked it up and it’s correct. The boat was used as a training boat until mid-April, when it was dispatched on its first and only war patrol.

[fso301]

Note that he is holding a souvenir Arisaka... taken from a soldier who no longer had any use for it.