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[Zovs]

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[Apollo11]

Hi all,

Good day!


Leo "Apollo11"

[RangerJoe]

Zovs: U.S. freighter “Lehigh” sunk in South Atlantic.

Here's an interesting description of the incident: http://usmm.org/lehigh.html

Wow what a story!

I agree.

The best part that I like is how he was drafted in the US Army and not the Navy, afterwards he was then pulled out by the Merchant Marine! I would have thought that with his experience, he would have been put on a ship. The US Army did run transport ships (USATs in the game) so he could have been put there or better yet, into the US Navy itself.

Just like someone that I met who went to a trade school for welding but then he was drafted and turned into a cook! Of course, of the 60 days of leave he took in Europe only 3 days were counted against him. After all, when the clerks wanted to have a steak dinner . . . . Then the locals would buy large bags coffee so he also had spending money . . . .

[Orm]

Hey.

[Orm]

1942
General Friedrich von Paulus pleads with the Fuhrer and the German High Command for supplies and reinforcements for his army, under siege at Stalingrad. He receives nothing but the order to fight to the last man.

The Japanese submarine I-36 launches a floatplane for a reconnaissance flight over Pearl Harbor. The pilot and crew report on the ships in the harbor, after which the aircraft is lost at sea.

German Jews no longer allowed meat, wheat products, milk, or eggs.

US War Production Board mandates tin can collection in cities with a population greater than 25,000.

I think that the reconnaissance flight over Pearl Harbor launched from I-36 was in 1943.

xxxxx

Thank you, again, for the fun, and interesting read.

[RangerJoe]

1942
General Friedrich von Paulus pleads with the Fuhrer and the German High Command for supplies and reinforcements for his army, under siege at Stalingrad. He receives nothing but the order to fight to the last man.

The Japanese submarine I-36 launches a floatplane for a reconnaissance flight over Pearl Harbor. The pilot and crew report on the ships in the harbor, after which the aircraft is lost at sea.

German Jews no longer allowed meat, wheat products, milk, or eggs.

US War Production Board mandates tin can collection in cities with a population greater than 25,000.

I think that the reconnaissance flight over Pearl Harbor launched from I-36 was in 1943.

xxxxx

Thank you, again, for the fun, and interesting read.

You are correct, my Swedish friend.

https://pacificeagles.net/submarine-rec ... -missions/

Also, not all of the submarine aircraft during the war were Glens!
https://pacificeagles.net/yokosuka-e6y-type-91/
https://pacificeagles.net/yokosuka-e14y-type-0-glen/

[btd64]

Good afternoon. It's almost 5 O'Clock....GP

[Orm]

Morning Gentlemen. Ladies.

[Apollo11]

Hi all,

Good morning!


Leo "Apollo11"

[btd64]

Good morning my friends. I hope everyone is having a great day .....GP

[Chickenboy]

Aloha dudes. Hope everyone's doing well.

Mrs./Dr. Mrs. Chickenboy and I are going to our 30th veterinary class reunion in California this weekend. It'll be nice to see old familiar class chums again. Sure, not as old as you lot , but nonetheless.

[RangerJoe]

Aloha dudes. Hope everyone's doing well.

Mrs./Dr. Mrs. Chickenboy and I are going to our 30th veterinary class reunion in California this weekend. It'll be nice to see old familiar class chums again. Sure, not as old as you lot , but nonetheless.

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How do you know how young I am not?

[Orm]

Morning Gentlemen. Ladies.

[Zovs]

Good morning folks!

World War II Today: October 22

1939
“Elections” are held in Soviet-occupied Poland now called “Western Byelorussia” and “Western Ukraine.” The USSR confiscates all property including bank accounts, and replaces Polish currency with the ruble. Poles are fired from their jobs and thrown into jail as the NKVD compiles lists for deportation. Factories, hospitals, schools, are dismantled and shipped to the USSR. Polish education and language is phased out; libraries are closed and books burned. Churches are destroyed and priests arrested. Even the wearing of crosses is forbidden. Owning a typewriter is now a crime.

1940
On a convoy in the North Atlantic, Royal Canadian Navy destroyer Margaree collides with freighter Port Fairy in poor visibility, 400 miles west of Ireland. It is the first convoy mission for the destroyer, and 140 lives are lost.

British Ambassador in Moscow Sir Stafford Cripps tries to woo Russians with three-point co-operation plan.

Deportation of 29,000 German Jews from Baden, the Saar, and Alsace-Lorraine into Vichy France.

1941
50 hostages shot in Nantes, France as reprisal for assassination of the German military commander. 50 more to die if the assassin isn’t caught.

German Major shot in Bordeaux 100 arrested, 50 shot immediately.

Russian partisans explode a bomb at Odessa, killing several Romanian and German officers and soldiers. Romanian Dictator Ion Antonescu orders two hundred Russians executed for every officer killed and one hundred Russians executed for every enlisted man killed.

1942
A Royal Proclamation is signed that reduces the British call-up age to 18.

Against fierce Soviet resistance, the 6th Army capture most of the Red October Steelworks and Barricades factories in the northern part of Stalingrad.

SS put down a revolt at Sachsenhausen by a group of Jews about to be sent to Auschwitz.

First transports for Operation Torch, the Allied landings in North Africa, depart Britain (cargo ships).

1943
The Germans publish a plan to kidnap Hitler, which was allegedly drawn up by the Italians.

Operation ‘Corona’ (the jamming of German night-fighter communications) begins during an RAF raid on Kassel.

1944
The Red Army continues its drive west and captures several towns near the Russian German border.

First use of napalm in the Pacific Theater—US fighters drop napalm on oil storage tanks on Ceram Island.

Capt. Alexander Patch III, son of the commanding general of the US Seventh Army, killed in action in France.

1945
In Hawaii, final performance of Irving Berlin’s This Is the Army; Berlin donated all proceeds to the Army Emergency Relief Fund.

[Apollo11]

Hi all,

Good day!


Leo "Apollo11"

[Apollo11]

Hi all,

Aloha dudes. Hope everyone's doing well.

Mrs./Dr. Mrs. Chickenboy and I are going to our 30th veterinary class reunion in California this weekend. It'll be nice to see old familiar class chums again. Sure, not as old as you lot , but nonetheless.

We are fine - tahanks!

You?

BTW, here we have Indian summer in full swing... sun and blue skies with afternoon temperatures of 24 degrees Centigrade...


Leo "Apollo11"

[Zovs]

Good morning folks!

World War II Today: October 23

1940
Hitler meets Franco, the Spanish head of state at Hendaye near the French-Spanish border. Franco declares ‘Spain will gladly fight at Germany’s side’, but remains non-committal regarding Spain’s entry into the war.

The RAF continue its attacks on Berlin.

1941
De Gaulle meets French Resistance and asks to spare the innocent and bide their time.

It is decided that British forces should make their main approach on Gondar in Abyssinia, from the direction of Adowa due to the better road conditions.

Nazis forbid emigration of Jews from the Reich.

1942
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt arrives in London for a three-week visit as guest of the King.

The battleship Tirpitz leaves Bogenfjord and moves south to Lofjord near Trondheim, where it is to be refitted.

The Western Task Force, destined for North Africa, departs from Hampton Roads, Virginia.

The Second Battle of El Alamein begins with a 1,000-gun bombardment. The Eighth Army gains ground on a 6-mile front and repulses Axis counter-attacks.

The RAF launches bombing raids against the Italian cities of Genoa and Turin.

The previously undefeated Sandai division of the Japanese army suffers its first loss of the war when it fails to capture Henderson Airfield on Guadalcanal.

1943
A German torpedo boat flotilla sinks the Royal Navy cruiser Charybdis and the destroyer Limborne in a Channel duel.

Russians take Melitopol after 10-days of fighting; Dnepropetrovsk falls to Malinovsky, while a tank army reaches Krivoi Rog.

1944
The 3rd Panzer Corps begin a six day counter attack around Debrecen.

The decisive three-day battle of Leyte Gulf begins. The Japanese lose four carriers, three battleships, six heavy and four light cruisers, 11 destroyers, one submarine and some 500 planes, with approximately 10,000 sailors killed. The first organised use of Kamikaze’s by the Japanese are reported.

[Orm]

Morning, Gentlemen. Ladies.

[Platoonist]

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[RangerJoe]

Good morning folks!

World War II Today: October 23

1941

It is decided that British forces should make their main approach on Gondar in Abyssinia, from the direction of Adowa due to the better road conditions.
A castle in Gondar . . .

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1942

The previously undefeated Sandai division of the Japanese army suffers its first loss of the war when it fails to capture Henderson Airfield on Guadalcanal.
Sendai Division
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2nd_Divis ... se_Army%29

1944

The decisive three-day battle of Leyte Gulf begins. The Japanese lose four carriers, three battleships, six heavy and four light cruisers, 11 destroyers, one submarine and some 500 planes, with approximately 10,000 sailors killed. The first organised use of Kamikaze’s by the Japanese are reported.

Lt Commander Ernest Evans MOH, his mother was Cherokee and he also had some Creek ethnicity from his father, was in Command of the USS Johnston which he ordered the ship to turn, make smoke, and attack the enemy fleet before he had orders to do so. His torpedoes hit the Kumano and forced it out of that battle. He previously was on the USS Alden (in the DEI) as an officer becoming first the Executive officer and then the Captain. Then he became the first and only commander of the USS Johnston.
https://blogs.cornell.edu/issues/milita ... m-a-flint/

He started as an enlisted man and then was selected for the US Naval Academy:
https://usnhistory.navylive.dodlive.mil ... est-evans/