World War II Chronicle: 10 December 1941

Unto the Breach ^ | 10 December 2019 | Chris Carter

[fugazi]

Having just crippled the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, the Japanese attack several other locations in the Pacific. Also, Japanese bombers sink Britain's battleship HMS Prince of Wales and battlecruiser HMS Repulse in the South China Sea.

Headlines in today's edition:

• U.S. Navy Fighting off Manila
• Japs Sink 2 British Ships
• Americans Sink Japan Transport; Others are Hit
• Roosevelt Warns Nation Faces Long, Hard War
• FBI Moves to Round Up Dangerous Aliens in U.S.
• Blitz Warfare on the Ocean; Soon to Know What It Is Like
• Democrats Pass Up Party Politics for National Victory

[fugazi]

Hard to read the headline "Democrats Pass Up Party Politics for National Victory" without laughing.

[yarddog]

As the war progressed, new ships began to have more and more anti aircraft guns. Older ships when refitted also had them added.

Still in the end they were vulnerable to air attack.

[onona]

Those must have been dark and scary days...

[laplata]

“Those must have been dark and scary days...”

Yes, very scary in many ways. My Dad who went on to serve in CBI Theater of War was at his best friend’s house the night of Pearl Harbor. She said “The war should be over by the time you boys are old enough to serve”. Three years later, her only son, my Dad’s friend and Marine to be, was killed on one of the Pacific islands.

[House Atreides]

Noticed the ad for a NEW 1942 Studebaker. Price was $810.

[mad_as_he$$]

$810? To much for a Study unless it was a pickup.

[TADSLOS]

Those ads would auto trigger the SJW crowd today.

[hanamizu]

The Southeast Missourian is still around although much smaller, of course. There is still a J.C. Penney’s in Cape Girardeau, but the other business that had ads are long gone. Some of the names in the article still have families in the area.

There is a YouTube channel that does the stories of WWII week by week, but they are now in December of 1940. Ten to twelve minutes of the week’s war news. Learn something new every week.

[Peter Libra]

A vivid and graphic history of another era. As a child in England I remember the disaster. There followed a massive nation wide campaign to raise monies for new ships.

Thanks America and your saving of our bacon. God bless this land. May all end well for your president and the whole country.

[fugazi]

What is the name of the channel?

[fugazi]

I can’t wrap my mind around the level of lunacy it took to declare war on United Kingdom, Soviet Union, and the United States at the same time. Meanwhile, you’re devoting tons of resources to exterminate entire ethnic groups and also developing impressive but strategically worthless weapons like the V-1 and V-2 rockets.

Thank goodness the UK is on our side. I sure wouldn’t want to fight them.

[hanamizu]

It’s called World War Two. The latest is from last weekend:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0j8TIyS5-8Q&t=615s
Of course they cover things you know about, but they also cover Japan in China, Italy in Greece, etc. Very well done.

The same guy, different group, did WWI week by week 100 years later, which of course ended in Nov. 2018.

[Peter Libra]

Yes I agree that lunacy is the right word. Hitler was likely insane but disguised his condition. The Germans had factions that hated the man. Invading Russia was his death knell. Absolute madness. There were two attempts to kill him by Germans. Yes also the failure of the rockets to break the British resolve. I remember two incidents of each one in my area.

I have been absent from the UK for sixty years. I am told things have drastically changed in the make up of the population. Who knows?

[hanamizu]

Noticed the ad for a NEW 1942 Studebaker. Price was $810.

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Better jump on that deal quickly. The War Production Board will see to it no new cars ‘til ‘46. Gas and rubber rationing will limit your using it very much though.

[laplata]

Thank you.

[laplata]

I’m sad to say you wouldn’t recognize England. My parents would not recognize the United States.

[Retain Mike]

I have a book, which I am sure is long out of print titled, “The Mind of Adolf Hitler”. It is based on a report commissioned by the OSS to anticipate what Hitler would do. The conclusion of this team of physiatrists in 1943 is that he was a schizophrenic psychopath and accurately predicted his mental deterioration and how he would end his life. You might be able to find a copy at Amazon.

Well, here it is. And for no more than I got my copy at St Vinnie’s.

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Mind+of+Adolf+Hitler&ref=nb_sb_noss

[jmacusa]

December 10, 1941 Nazi Germany declared war on the US.

[NorseViking]

Yep, but nylon hose $2:)