Posted on 03/22/2015 4:31:12 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
Major General H.W. Blakeley, USA, Ret., 32d Infantry Division World War II
Winston S. Churchill, Triumph and Tragedy
http://www.etherit.co.uk/month/2/22.htm
March 22nd, 1945 (THURSDAY)
GERMANY: The US 5th Division crosses the Rhine near Nierstein. Patton sends his troops across the Rhine at Nierstein, stealing the glory from Montgomery, who had long been planning a crossing on the next day.
Soviet troops under Konev bridge the Oder at Oppeln.
Soviet pilot L.I. Sivko flying a Yak-9 claims to shoot down an Me262 jet but is himself swiftly thereafter shot down himself by an Me-262 jet piloted by pilot Unteroffizier. Franz Schall, the wingman of his victim, and one of the leading jet aces of the war.
EUROPE: Over 2,700 USAAF bombers hit targets in Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia. Over 1,280 Eighth Air Force B-17s and B-24s hit four airfields and three marshalling yards east of Frankfurt and ten military encampments in the Rhine. Nearly 800 Ninth Air Force A-20s, A-26s and B-26s bomb nine communications centers and a marshalling yard east of the Rhine River; and over 680 Fifteenth Air Force B-17s and B-24s hit oil refineries and rail targets in Austria and Czechoslovakia.
EGYPT: The Arab League is formed with adoption of a charter in Egypt.
PACIFIC OCEAN: Task Force 58 retires to take on fuel, ammunition and supplies at sea. The damaged carriers USS Enterprise (CV-6) with Night Carrier Air
Group Ninety [CVG(N)-90], USS Franklin (CV-13) with Carrier Air Group Five (CVG-5) and USS Wasp (CV-18) are organized as Task Group 58.2 and retire towards Ulithi Atoll in the Caroline Islands. TF 58 is reorganized as follows:
Task Group 58.1 (CarDiv 5)
USS Bennington (CV-20) with CVG-82
USS Hornet (CV-12) with CVG-17
USS Belleau Wood (CVL-24) with Light Carrier Air Group THIRTY (CVLG-30)
USS Jacinto (CVL-30) with CVLG-45
TG 58.3 (CarDiv 1)
USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) with CVG-84
USS Essex (CV-9) with CVG-83
USS Hancock (CV-19) with CVG-6
USS Bataan (CVL-29) with CVLG-47
USS Cabot (CVL-28) with CVLG-29
TG 58.4 (CarDiv 6)
USS Intrepid (CV-11) with CVG-10
USS Yorktown (CV-10) with CVG-9
USS Independence (CVL-22) with CVLG-46
USS Langley (CVL-27) with CVLG-23
SOLOMON ISLANDS: Cpl Reginald Roy Rattey (1918-86), Australian Military Forces, silenced three bunkers and later captured a machine gun intact. (Victoria Cross)
An attack by a company of 25th Battalion, Australian Military Forces on a strongly held enemy position was met by extremely heavy fire. Corporal Rattey, realizing that any advance would be halted by this fire and heavy casualties inflicted, dashed forward firing his Bren gun from the hip and completely neutralized the enemy fire from three forward bunkers.
Then, having silenced a bunker with one grenade, he fetched two more with which he silenced the other two bunkers. The company was then able to continue its advance. Later Corporal Rattey captured another machine-gun and 2,000 rounds of ammunition. (Daniel Ross)
Thank you for posting this information every day!!
I think what is being reflected in the Soviet response there is the raging paranoia of their supreme dictator, Stalin.
He’s projecting.
Since he himself is well-practiced at betrayal and pact-breaking, he figures everybody else is like him.
With all the Ivans that are dying, Soviet warehouses are probably full of "state property" taken from the deceased.
Beautiful work. Homer.
“Russian Magazine Scores U.S. Papers” - This doesn’t tell us what were the ‘untrue and incomplete’ items of information we were told for the prior 25 years. I find that article quite odd. Do you have any insight? Had we been stating the country lived in squalor or in riches and ‘was therefore an incorrect’ interpretation?
Something tells me we’re to be treated to ever-increasing pro-Soviet propaganda from the NY Times in the coming weeks, months and years.
Some more information on USS Barbel (SS-316)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Barbel_(SS-316)
Looks like she took a bomb by her conning tower, and that was all she wrote...
The human condition.
This page has a link to the crew, with pictures.
http://www.subsowespac.org/world_war_ii_submarines/uss_barbel_ss_316.shtml
He’s projecting.
Since he himself is well-practiced at betrayal and pact-breaking, he figures everybody else is like him.
1. The left tends to project A LOT.
2. This is Stalin we are talking about. Even by Communist standards he's brutal and ruthless dictator.
3. Hitler already stabbed him in the back, as far as he's concerned FDR and Churchill will do the same. I don't have a reference in front of me, but I think there were a couple of times during the War when the Soviets and Nazi's did put out peace feelers, but in each case the "winning" party decided they could do better on the battlefield. However if Stalin had thought a separate peace was the best option for himself, he would not have hesitated to betray the Western Allies.
Yep, yep, and yep.
and decades.
Absolutely.
The NY Times did it way before WW II:
Walter Duranty (1884 – October 3, 1957) was a Liverpool-born, Anglo-American journalist who served as the Moscow Bureau Chief of The New York Times (1922–36). Duranty won a Pulitzer Prize in 1932 for a series of stories on the Soviet Union. Duranty has been criticized for his denial of widespread famine, most particularly the Ukraine mass starvation (1932–33). Years later, there were calls to revoke his Pulitzer; even The New York Times acknowledged his articles constituted “some of the worst reporting to appear in this newspaper.”[1]
His reporting and motivations have been hotly debated, leading to calls to revoke his Pulitzer (which was for reporting unrelated to the later famine controversy). Duranty’s reporting is faulted for being too uncritical of the Soviet regime, including having presented Soviet propaganda as legitimate reporting.[2]
Duranty’s name has become for some synonymous with thinly veiled propaganda masquerading as news, in this case in support of Soviet communism.[3]
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