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[btd64]

Good morning peeps ....GP

[Orm]

Afternoon Gentlemen. Ladies.

[RangerJoe]

Afternoon Gentlemen. Ladies.

Everyone please have a good afternoon, the rest of the day, and a better weekend!

[Orm]

Afternoon, Gentlemen. Ladies.

Winter season has begun, and the first lake-effect blizzard of the year has passed by. Time for warm clothes, tea, and a wargame that take ages to finish.

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[RangerJoe]

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Orm, it is just my opinion, but if you were to start playing games with the person on the right or someone like that person, the game could last a long time!

[Apollo11]

Hi all,

Good day!


Leo "Apollo11"

[BBfanboy]

Afternoon, Gentlemen. Ladies.

Winter season has begun, and the first lake-effect blizzard of the year has passed by. Time for warm clothes, tea, and a wargame that take ages to finish.
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If you ask me Sweden is carrying this 'burn less fuel to reduce climate change' thing a bit too far!

[Apollo11]

Hi all,

Good morning!


Leo "Apollo11"

[Orm]

Morning Gentlemen. Ladies.

[Orm]

Afternoon, Gentlemen. Ladies.

Winter season has begun, and the first lake-effect blizzard of the year has passed by. Time for warm clothes, tea, and a wargame that take ages to finish.
tukholma911_ul.jpg

If you ask me Sweden is carrying this 'burn less fuel to reduce climate change' thing a bit too far!

Yea. Not going to going to get close to that fire. Even if it is cold outside.

[Zovs]

Good morning folks!

As was pointed out to me, yesterdays today's post were posted in the old geezer forum, fittingly maybe but my bad nonetheless.

World War II Today: November 24

1939 (Friday)
Germany warns all neutral shipping to stay clear of British and French coasts, or risk being sunk. This had already happened to a number of neutral ships, particularly at night when it was difficult to identify them. U-boat skippers were now given the go ahead to sink any ship not showing lights at night.

British steamer Mangalore is mined.

Two German raids hit the Shetlands but no bombs are dropped.

Gestapo execute 120 Czech students accused of participating in anti-Nazi conspiracy.

British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) is created by Act of Parliament.

1940 (Sunday)
Treasury cancels Boxing Day Bank Holiday.

Slovakia, created out of Czechoslovakia, joins the Tripartite Pact (Germany, Italy and Japan). Slovakian Prime Minister joins the Tripartite pact in Berlin.

The Luftwaffe bombs Bristol.

1941 (Monday)
Two Luftwaffe officers, make the war’s most audacious attempt to escape from a British POW camp. Lt. Heinz Schnabel and Oblt. Harry Wappler were prisoners in Camp No.15 near Penrith, Northumbria. Forging papers that identified them as Dutch officers serving in the RAF, they made their way to the RAF airfield at Kingstown near Carlisle and started the engine of a Miles Magister. Taking off, they soon realized they did not have the fuel to make it to Nazi-occupied Holland reluctantly they turned back, landing in a field about five miles north of Great Yarmouth. Recaptured, they were sent back to Camp No.15 again and sentenced to 28 days solitary confinement.

Theresienstadt Ghetto is established near Prague, Czechoslovakia. The Nazis will use it as a model ghetto for propaganda purposes.

Rommel gives orders for his tanks to cut off the British supply routes by thrusting towards the Egyptian frontier, or as it became known, the ‘dash for the wire’. By the end of the day Rommel’s tanks had reached the frontier and caused complete confusion in the rear of the Eighth Army. (source 1)
Operation Crusader: General Auchinleck issues an order to "Attack and pursue. All out everywhere". (source 2)

US Army commanders across the Pacific are warned of the possible imminence of war.

The United States, while remaining neutral, expands the Lend-Lease program to include Charles de Gaulle’s Free French troops.

Soviet forces begin a counterattack west of Rostov.

1942 (Tuesday)
Laval sets up Phalange Africaine, to fight allies in Africa.

Russian Kalinin Front army begins an attack designed to prevent the Germans moving troops south to relieve the troops besieged at Stalingrad.

Eighth Air Force Heavy Bomber Mission No. 24: 66 aircraft dispatched to attack industrial targets at Lille and 19 to attack the airfield at Abbeville/ Drucat. Two aircraft lost.

1943 (Wednesday)
Berlin reported as a ‘sea of flames’ this morning with casualty estimates put at 8 to 10,000 killed.

US Marines begin an attack on the first important Japanese defensive line at Bougainville, close to the Piva River.

The aircraft carrier USS Liscombe Bay is sunk by a Japanese submarine off Makin.

Laval sets up Phalange Africaine, to fight allies in Africa.

1944 (Friday)
The allies cross the Saar near the Franco-German border. Troops of the French First Army capture Mühlhausen in Alsace, while the French 2nd Armored Division takes Strasbourg.

In controversial decision, Gen. Eisenhower orders 6th Army Group not to cross Rhine but to drive north and assist Patton’s Third Army.

Japanese capture Nanning, completing a land corridor between occupied China and Indo-China.

USAAF B29s from Saipan Island in Pacific, bomb Tokyo for first time, but to little effect.

German Army Group North isolated in Baltic province of Kurland.

War in the Air
B-29s of the USAAF raid Japan from the Marianas for the first time

Egypt, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Chinese leader Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek (leader of a sometimes forgotten ally) continued their series of talks during their Cairo Conference (November 23–27, 1943). Churchill and his party had hoped to establish a way to deal with Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, who had declined an invitation to meet in Cairo, forcing the Western “Big Three” to meet in Tehran, Iran, at the end of the month.

In Terrace, BC, Canadian conscripts (many are French-Canadian) mutiny when they hear they might be sent overseas, the largest mutiny in Canadian history; put down by 11/29; news of the mutiny is censored.

France establishes Commission de Récupération Artistique (CRA) to return looted artwork, with curator Rose Valland as secretary.

The Battle of Guilin–Liuzhou during the Second Sino-Japanese War ended in Japanese victory.

The Baltic Offensive and the Moonsund Landing Operation ended in Soviet victory.

The government of Ferenc Szálasi in Hungary fled Budapest to escape encirclement by the Soviets and re-established itself in Sopron.

The Terrace Mutiny began when Canadian soldiers based in Terrace, British Columbia began disobeying orders and seizing weapons after hearing rumors that conscripts might be deployed overseas. The mutiny was largely censored by authorities and it did not come to be well known by the general public. About 1,000 Canadian soldiers from the military camp in Vernon, British Columbia paraded through the city shouting, "Down with conscription.

[Zovs]

Second good morning to ya.

The Great War Today: November 24

1915 (Wednesday)
Greek Government accept Entente demands of the 23rd.

Field-Marshal von der Goltz takes command of Turkish forces in Mesopotamia.

Danish merchants and manufacturers conclude agreement with the British Government to restrict supplies to Germany.

1916 (Friday)
M. Stürmer, Russian Premier and Foreign Minister, resigns and is succeeded by M. Trepov as Premier.

1917 (Saturday)
Battle of Nebi Samwil (Palestine) ends.
Ain ed Douleh succeeds Ala es Sultaneh as Persian Prime Minister.

1918 (Sunday)
British and United States troops reach German frontier.

[BBfanboy]

Good read Zovs! Muchos Gracias!

I am curious about the line

Two German raids hit the Shetlands but no bombs are dropped.

How were the Shetland Islands 'hit' if no bombs are dropped? Did they drop leaflets? Did they drop their bombs in the water? Did they decide there was nothing worth bombing and RTB? Or perhaps they carried no bombs so that they had enough fuel to reach the Shetlands (object of the 'raid' being to force the British to send fighters up there)?

[Orm]

Morning, Gentlemen. Ladies.

[Zovs]

Good Morning Folks!

The Great War Today: November 25

1914 (Wednesday)
No major events.

1915 (Thursday)
British retreat from Ctesiphon to Kut al Amara begins.

M. Albert Thomas announces arrangements completed for inter Allied organisation of munitions.

General Sir Charles Monro appointed Commander-in-Chief reconstituted Mediterranean Expeditionary Force with Sir William Birdwood General Officer Commanding Dardanelles Army.

1916 (Saturday)
The German air forces established as a separate branch of the German army.

1917 (Sunday)
German airship "L.-59" returns to Yambol from flight to East Africa [Evidence for this event rests on German statements only.].

German force under Colonel von Lettow-Vorbeck effects passage of the Rovuma and defeats Portuguese force at Ngomano. German operations in Portuguese East Africa, begin.

1918 (Monday)
Strasbourg occupied by French forces.

German forces in East Africa surrender to Allied forces at Abercorn (Rhodesia).

[Zovs]

Another good morning to you all.

World War II Today: November 25

1939 (Saturday)
Luftwaffe aircraft make two attacks on Royal Navy ships in the North Sea. No hits are scored.

RAF aircraft fly over north western Germany, including Heligoland.

Luftwaffe aircraft seen over the Orkneys and Shetlands.

German liner Adolph Woermann is scuttled.

1940 (Monday)
Zionist group Irgun blows up British liner Patria at Haifa to prevent removal of Eastern European Jewish refugees from Palestine to Mauritius (213/1771 refugees killed, 50/130 crew).

First flight of British De Havilland Mosquito bomber.

First flight of US Martin B-26 Marauder medium bomber.

End of the Delhi Conference.

1941 (Tuesday)
Germans begin all-out assault on Moscow. The Germans continue their advance against Moscow, throwing all their available strength in to the attack in a final attempt to capture the Russian capital.

Hitler takes time out from monitoring the assault on Moscow to meet with Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem in Berlin. While the Fuhrer refrains from giving an unqualified endorsement of Arab nationalist aims in the Middle East (he did not wish to upset Vichy France), the two agree on the need for the “destruction” of the “Jewish element.”

Rommel continues his attacks at the rear of the Eighth Army.

U-331 (Kplt. Tiesenhausen) sinks the British battleship HMS Barham in the Mediterranean, off of Sollum.

Work on the Bell XP-52 is abandoned in favour of the XP-59. Both are pusher engined fighter aircraft, neither ever fly.

1942 (Wednesday)
No major events.

1943 (Thursday)
The US Navy Department announces that very few Japanese are left alive in the Gilbert Islands. On Tarawa, 1,090 Marines were killed and 2,193 wounded, with only 100 Japanese out of garrison of 4,836 being taken prisoner, with only 17 of them being soldiers.

Sattelberg in New Guinea falls to the 9th Australian Division.

A Destroyer action off Cape St. George results in the Japanese being routed to the north west of Bougainville and losing three destroyers out of five in the process.

German submarine U-600 sunk with all hands in the South Atlantic.

German submarines U-849 sunk with all hands off the Congo.

Japanese troops capture Changteh (Hunan province).

1944 (Saturday)
The French take Belfort.

Himmler orders the destruction of the crematories at Auschwitz.

The last Japanese resistance in Peleliu ends. 14,000 Japanese are killed or captured for 9,300 U.S. casualties.

German V-2 rocket hits Woolworth department store in London, killing 168.

Nazis demolish crematoria and gas chambers at Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Gen. Mark Clark named to command 15th Army Group (Allied Armies in Italy); Gen. Lucian Truscott to replace him over US Fifth Army.

German submarine U-322 sunk with all hands off the Shetland Islands

US troops break out of the Hurtgen Forest.

British 8th Army crosses the Cosina river.

General Alexander is promoted to Field-Marshal.

The Japanese carry out a series of kamikaze attacks on US Navy targets at Luzon and in Leyte Gulf.

1945 (Sunday)
British begin Operation Deadlight, the sinking of captured German U-boats off the Hebrides.

[BBfanboy]

Found a reference for the Battle of Cape St. George. https://www.worldwar2facts.org/battle-o ... eorge.html

The account is sketchy and contains inaccuracies which I commented on at the site.

[btd64]

Happy afternoon everyone ....GP

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