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[Zovs]

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[RangerJoe]

Good morning folks!

Thanks for the support and liking the WW2 updates.

World War II Today: October 4

1939
Nazis begin euthanasia on sick and disabled in Germany.
Their version of socialized medicine!


1942

The fourth German offensive begins in Stalingrad as the XIV Panzer Corps launches an attack in force to capture the Tractor Factory in the northern part of the city.
I remember that from Squad Leader!

1943

The Free French secure Corsica.
Nappy's original home.

The first Liberty ship docks at Naples’s wrecked harbor.
That really helped supplies in the game Anzio.

In the First World War, the Argonne Offensive was occurring with Americans attacking to get to the Lost Battalion. Three Medals of Honor were presented to those soldiers not to mention many other top medals.

The original with no professional male actors according to my understanding:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLWzI78D54M

A 2001 remake mostly concerning the battle, some errors but maybe for clarity?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1YfEPxLh2w

[Zovs]

Good morning folks!

Thanks for the support and liking the WW2 updates.

World War II Today: October 4

1939
Nazis begin euthanasia on sick and disabled in Germany.
Their version of socialized medicine!


1942

The fourth German offensive begins in Stalingrad as the XIV Panzer Corps launches an attack in force to capture the Tractor Factory in the northern part of the city.
I remember that from Squad Leader!

1943

The Free French secure Corsica.
Nappy's original home.

The first Liberty ship docks at Naples’s wrecked harbor.
That really helped supplies in the game Anzio.

In the First World War, the Argonne Offensive was occurring with Americans attacking to get to the Lost Battalion. Three Medals of Honor were presented to those soldiers not to mention many other top medals.

The original with no profession male actors according to my understanding:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLWzI78D54M

A 2001 remake mostly concerning the battle, some errors but maybe for clarity?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1YfEPxLh2w

Ah Squad Leader... (spoken as Radar O'Reilly from M.A.S.H.).

https://youtu.be/0zWbpZPsrfc?si=_ysF4b4BE70eNju9

[Apollo11]

Hi all,

Good morning!


Leo"Apollo11"

[Zovs]

Good morning folks!

World War II Today: October 5

1938
The German government orders all German Jews to have red J’s printed on their passports, in order to more easily identify and track them in the future.

1939
Hitler enters Warsaw in triumph.

The Soviet Union forces a treaty on Latvia that allows the Red Navy to establish bases in her Baltic harbors.

The US Navy Hawaiian Detachment opens at Pearl Harbor.

1940
US Naval Reserve and US Marine Corps reserve divisions and aviation squadrons are placed on call for active duty.

1941
Advancing in the southern Ukraine, Panzer Group 1 reaches the Sea of Azov.

Field Marshal Paul von Kleist named commander of German First Panzer Army; Gen. Heinz Guderian over Second Panzer Army.

Marshal Georgi Zhukov ordered to replace Ivan Konev over Soviet Western Front.

1942
Himmler orders all Jews in concentration camps in Germany to be sent to Auschwitz and Majdanek.

1943
German troops complete the evacuation of the island of Corsica.

The first of two heavy raids by a US Navy Task Force against Wake Island, with 61 Japanese aircraft being reported as destroyed.

1944
Canadian troops cross Belgian-Dutch border north of Antwerp.

Germany begins conscription of sixteen-year-olds. Germans lose 36 “Linsen” explosive-packed motorboats in raid off the Scheldt Estuary.

The First Baltic Front begins an offensive South of Riga to cut off Army Group North in Lithuania.

1945
Lt. Louis Zamperini (Unbroken) returns home, over two years after his plane ditched in the Pacific.

[btd64]

Hi all,

Good Morning Folks!

World War II Today: October 3

I really like this daily WWII updates...


Leo "Apollo11"

Me too....GP

[btd64]

Good afternoon people....GP

[Apollo11]

Hi all,

Good morning!


Leo "Apollo11"

[btd64]

Good morning one n all....GP

[RangerJoe]

On the 6th of October . . .

1882 1st World Series Baseball Game 1: Cincinnati Red Stockings (AA) beat Chicago White Stockings (NL), 4-0 at Bank Street Grounds, Cincinnati

1917 Battle of Passchendaele: Canadian troops capture the village of Passchendaele in the Third Battle of Ypres, after 250,000 casualties on both sides
(If you thought that China in WITP:AE was bloody!)

1948 Paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey finds the first partial fossil skull of Proconsul africanus, an ancestor of apes and humans on Rusinga Island, Kenya

1949 US President Harry Truman signs Mutual Defense Assistance Act (for NATO)

1951 Joseph Stalin proclaims the Soviet Union has the atomic bomb

1956 Scientist Albert Sabin announces that his oral polio vaccine is ready for testing; it would soon supplant Jonas Salk's vaccine in many parts of the world
(Think of just how any people were helped!)
There were problems, however:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1383764/
Even working with the USSR and the Eastern Bloc:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/ ... 169813703/
But . . .
https://www.britannica.com/video/histor ... ne/-280386

1960 "Spartacus", directed by Stanley Kubrick and starring Kirk Douglas and Laurence Olivier, premieres in NYC

[Orm]

Afternoon Gentlemen. Ladies.

RangerJoe, how are you? I hope that your foot is fully recovered, or at least as good as it can get.

[RangerJoe]

Afternoon Gentlemen. Ladies.

RangerJoe, how are you? I hope that your foot is fully recovered, or at least as good as it can get.

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Oh yes, it is recovered although there is still some stiffness but that may also be due to the colder temperatures. Thank you for asking. The only problem is the cats like to run across my feet when they are play fighting and chasing each other - with their claws out!

[Zovs]

Good evening folks!

World War II Today: October 6

1939
After a 2 day battle against Soviet tanks and planes and then a 5-day fight against the Germans.

The last remaining Polish troops (17,000 men) surrender to German forces at Kock and Lublin.

Hitler in a speech to the Reichstag announces the victorious conclusion of the Polish campaign and calls upon Britain and France to cease hostilities and come to terms with Germany. This is rejected by both the British and French government’s.

The Japanese abandon Changsha after stiff Chinese defense.

Proclamation by Hitler on the isolation of Jews.

1941
Churchill gives a personal undertaking to Stalin to send a convoy every ten days to Russia’s northern ports.

1942
The setting up of a UN commission to investigate war crimes is announced in Washington.

The III Panzer Corps captures Malgobek at the bend of the Terek river in the Caucasus.

Montgomery issues the final plan to senior commanders for the Second battle of El Alamein.

1943
The U.S. Fifth Army takes Capua and Caserta.

Two Russian armies take Nevel on the boundary between Army Groups North and Centre.

1944
The Canadian 3rd Division attacks the Breskins Pocket, South of the Scheldt.

A Russian offensive by 64 divisions, 750 tanks and 1,100 aircraft commences near Arad in Hungary, with the aim of destroying Army Group South.

US General Joseph Stilwell recalled from position as Chiang Kai-shek’s chief of staff, maintains command over troops in Burma.

1945
General George Patton prepares to turn over command of the Third Army to General Lucian K. Truscott. Patton is relieved of the command because he is believed to be favorably inclined toward the Germans, as well as anti-Semitic. Patton later claims he was “done to death by slanderous tongues”.

[Orm]

Morning, Gentlemen. Ladies.

[Orm]

Morning Gentlemen. Ladies.

[Zovs]

Good Morning folks.

I missed yesterday's report.

World War II Today: October 7

1939
Heinrich Himmler made Commissioner for Consolidation of the German Race—to eliminate “inferior” people from the German Reich.

1940
German troops enter Romania, at the request of Fascist Gen. Ion Antonescu, to ‘help restrain the Army’.

Beaverbrook announces gifts received for aircraft purchases now total £6,098,826.

1941
Finland rejects a British demand to cease fighting the Soviet Union.

German advance on Moscow continues with the capture of Vyasma. Stalin lifts ban on religion in Russia to boost morale.

Curtin becomes the Prime Minister of Australia.

Japanese protest US embargo on vital materials as “unfriendly act.”

1943
The RAF bombs Stuttgart making use of the Airborne ‘Cigar’ jamming device, killing 1,700 and making 18,000 homeless.

The U.S. Fifth Army is halted by German defenses along River Volturno, 20 miles North of Naples.

Japanese execute approximately 100 American POWs on Wake Island.

1944
The 20th Gebirgsjeager Army retreats towards northern Norway in the face of strong Soviet attacks.

A revolt by Jewish slave laborers at Auschwitz-Birkenau results in complete destruction of Crematory IV.

The Eighth Army resumes its attacks on the Gothic Line. The British reach Corinth, land at Nauplion and take the island of Samos.

The US Third Army completes liberation of Luxembourg.

First German V-2 rocket hits Antwerp, Belgium.

1945
General Lucian Truscott assumes command of US Third Army, replacing Gen. George Patton, who has been transferred to command US Fifteenth Army due to his criticism of US “de-Nazification” program for German officers.

1949
Iva Toguri D’Aquino, better known as Tokyo Rose, is sentenced to 10 years in prison for treason.

[Zovs]

Now its really a good morning for today!

World War II Today: October 8

1939
RAF reconnaissance planes shoots down a German flying boat over the North Sea.

The American cargo ship “City of Flint” and its crew are captured by a German warship, despite the fact that the United States and Germany are not at war. The American sailors are eventually freed when the Germans are forced to dock in Norway.

An SS unit executes 20 Poles in the Jewish cemetery in Swiecie.

1940
The RAF attacks Berlin. Churchill makes statement to Commons claiming that bombing casualties are falling.

RAF forms Eagle Squadrons for volunteer American fighter pilots.

RAF ace, Czech pilot Jozef Frantizek (28 kills), killed in crash in Surrey.

First Indian Air Force pilots arrive in UK.

Churchill makes statement to Commons and claims that the Germans have the capability to ‘throw 500,000 men onto salt water or into it’.

Another heavily escorted supply convoy sets sail for Malta from Alexandria. However, bad weather stops the Italian fleet from putting to sea and the convoy arrives safely. Only the escorts return trip to Alexandria, they are attacked by a force of Italian Destroyers and Torpedo boats.

No casualties are suffered by the Royal Navy, but the Italians lose 2 destroyers and 2 Torpedo boats sunk and 1 Destroyer damaged.

Churchill makes statement to Commons that the Burma Road is to be reopened.

1941
In a letter to Stalin, President Roosevelt promises U.S. military aid to the Soviet Union.

1942
The final plans for the invasion of Northwest Africa (‘Operation Torch’) are issued.

Strong Japanese rearguard action against the Australians at Templeton Crossing on the Kokoda Trail in New Guinea.

1944
Units of the U.S. Ninth Army reach the outskirts of Aachen on the German border.

1945
President Harry S. Truman announced that the secret of the atomic bomb would be shared only with Britain and Canada.

Nazi Rudolf Hess (who stole plane May 10, 1941 and flew to Scotland in unauthorized attempt to negotiate peace with Britain) is flown from England for Nuremberg Trials.

[RangerJoe]

Good Morning folks.

I missed yesterday's report.

World War II Today: October 7

1939
Heinrich Himmler made Commissioner for Consolidation of the German Race—to eliminate “inferior” people from the German Reich.

1940
German troops enter Romania, at the request of Fascist Gen. Ion Antonescu, to ‘help restrain the Army’.

Beaverbrook announces gifts received for aircraft purchases now total £6,098,826.

Finland rejects a British demand to cease fighting the Soviet Union. Really? The Winter War was over and the Continuation War had not yet started!

German advance on Moscow continues with the capture of Vyasma. Stalin lifts ban on religion in Russia to boost morale.Since when were they fighting in 1940?

Curtin becomes the Prime Minister of Australia. Oh NO! It was Curtins for Australia!?

Japanese protest US embargo on vital materials as “unfriendly act.”

1943
The RAF bombs Stuttgart making use of the Airborne ‘Cigar’ jamming device, killing 1,700 and making 18,000 homeless.

The U.S. Fifth Army is halted by German defenses along River Volturno, 20 miles North of Naples.

Japanese execute approximately 100 American POWs on Wake Island.

1944
The 20th Gebirgsjeager Army retreats towards northern Norway in the face of strong Soviet attacks.

A revolt by Jewish slave laborers at Auschwitz-Birkenau results in complete destruction of Crematory IV.

The Eighth Army resumes its attacks on the Gothic Line. The British reach Corinth, land at Nauplion and take the island of Samos.

The US Third Army completes liberation of Luxembourg.

First German V-2 rocket hits Antwerp, Belgium.

1945
General Lucian Truscott assumes command of US Third Army, replacing Gen. George Patton, who has been transferred to command US Fifteenth Army due to his criticism of US “de-Nazification” program for German officers.

1949
Iva Toguri D’Aquino, better known as Tokyo Rose, is sentenced to 10 years in prison for treason.If I remember correctly, she was actually helping US POWs (and possibly others) In Japan during the war. Apparently the POWs did not inform the US Government of this.

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Just a reminder . . .

[Zovs]

Thanks RJ, left out a year.

[RangerJoe]

Thanks RJ, left out a year.

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Well, just remember that Jack Benny quit being 39 when his daughter turned 40. He said that it was hard being 39 with a 40 year old daughter! I guess that he left out many years for awhile . . .
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