Morning Gentlemen. Ladies.
What a beautiful morning. The sun is shinning, and the sky is blue. Well, actually, the sun is shinning but not yet here. This time of year the sun is a late riser.
THE THREAD!!!
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Re: THE THREAD!!!
Orm wrote: Tue Dec 10, 2024 8:16 am Morning Gentlemen. Ladies.
What a beautiful morning. The sun is shinning, and the sky is blue. Well, actually, the sun is shinning but not yet here. This time of year the sun is a late riser.
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Seek peace but keep your gun handy.
I'm not a complete idiot, some parts are missing!
“Illegitemus non carborundum est (“Don’t let the bastards grind you down”).”
; Julia Child
I'm not a complete idiot, some parts are missing!
“Illegitemus non carborundum est (“Don’t let the bastards grind you down”).”
; Julia ChildRe: THE THREAD!!!
This was for yesterday, I forgot to post it before I fell asleep . . .
10 Dec 1937
China
Chiang Kaishek rejected Tang Shengzhi's request to negotiate with the Japanese for an evacuation of Nanjing, China. Having received no response to the ultimatum issued on the previous day that expired at noon, the Japanese began the assault at 1300 hours. General Iwane Matsui's order to attack included the wording "[y]ou are to observe military regulations to the letter, to set an example for the future.... Anyone who loots or starts a fire, even accidentally, will be severely punished." ww2dbase [Battle of Nanjing and the Rape of Nanjing | Nanjing | CPC]
10 Dec 1938
The Lockheed Hudson took flight for the first time. The Hudson would later become the first American-built aircraft to be used operationally by the RAF in World War II. Based on the Electra civil airliner, it was ordered by the British Purchasing Commission as early as in Jun 1938 and deliveries began arriving in the UK in Jan 1939. Pressed into service for Maritime Patrol and Anti-Shipping missions, the type saw wide-spread service around the world and was also operated by the RCAF, RAAF, RNZAF, and both the USAAF and US Navy. ww2dbase [A-29 Hudson | AC]
Sweden
Italian physicist Professor Enrico Fermi received the Nobel prize for Physics in Stockholm, Sweden for his work on radioactive elements. Instead of returning home he then fled to the United States with his family (his wife was Jewish) and would later contribute to the Manhatten Project. ww2dbase [Stockholm | AC]
10 Dec 1939
Chinese troops launched an attack on Henglingguan Pass south of Jiangxian in northern China; the Japanese troops at the strong point would be driven off by the month's end. ww2dbase [Winter Offensive | CPC]
Soviet 7th Army, while attacking Finnish defense fortifications, received flanking fire from coastal batteries on the island of Saarenpää; in response, Soviet battleship Oktjabrskaja Revolutsija bombarded the island, but failed to hit the batteries due to heavy fog. In the Gulf of Finland and the Gulf of Bothnia, Soviet submarines sank three ships going in and out of Finnish ports; two of them actually flew German flags. ww2dbase [The Winter War | CPC]
10 Dec 1940
Before dawn, colonial troops of the Libyan 1st Division withdrew from Maktila, Egypt. In the afternoon, Indian 4th Infantry Division and British 7th Royal Tank Regiment captured Sidi Barrani, pushing Italian 4th Blackshirt Division and another Libyan colonial division into the desert. ww2dbase [Operation Compass | CPC]
A shell fired randomly across the English Channel from one of Germany’s massive 280mm rail guns fell within a few feet of the British 13.5in "Peacemaker" rail gun at Martin Mill, England, United Kingdom severely damaging one of its bogies and mortally wounding one of the Royal Marine gunners. ww2dbase [AC]
10 Dec 1941
Thomas Phillips passed away. ww2dbase [Thomas Phillips | CPC]
Operation Crusader: The siege of Tobruk, Libya was lifted. ww2dbase [Operation Crusader | CPC]
Japanese Destroyer Squadron 6 conducted amphibious invasion on Wake and Wilkes islands in failure, losing one destroyer and three other craft to shore battery and one destroyer to US aircraft, making them the first Japanese ships to be sunk in the Pacific War; this invasion was the only time in the Pacific War that shore defenders overcame an amphibious landing. In the air, USMC Captain Elrod shot down a Japanese G3M2 Type 96 land attack aircraft at Wake, which was the first USMC air-to-air kill of the Pacific War. On the same day, Japanese aircraft destroyed a 125-ton dynamite cache, and the resulting explosion caused damage to coastal batteries. ww2dbase [Battle of Wake Island | CPC]
Aircraft from USS Enterprise sank Japanese submarine I-70 in Hawaiian waters. ww2dbase [Attack on Pearl Harbor | Detailed Timetable | CPC]
In the Mariana Islands, 1,400-strong landing party of the Japanese Navy 5th Defense Force from Saipan landed on Dungcas Beach at Guam. At the same time, 5,500 men of the Japanese South Seas Detached Force landed at Tumon Bay, near Merizo, and at Talafofo Bay. US military governor of Guam, Captain McMillin, surrendered the island to the Japanese Navy commanding officer. Two patrol craft, thirteen lighters, one dredge, three barges, and one auxiliary vessel at Guam were turned over to the Japanese. ww2dbase [Invasion of Guam | CPC]
British troops withdrew onto Hong Kong island after the defensive Gin Drinker's Line collapsed. ww2dbase [Battle of Hong Kong | AC]
The Japanese Navy 11th Air Fleet was reorganized to contain three air flotillas, a destroyer division, three transports, and two Special Naval Landing Forces. ww2dbase [CPC]
Soviet troops encircled three German divisions at Livny, south of Moscow, Russia. ww2dbase [Battle of Moscow | CPC]
German submarine U-130 attacked Allied convoy SC-57 200 miles southwest of Ireland just before midnight at the end of the day, sinking British transport Kurdistan, British transport Kirnwood, and Egyptian transport Star of Luxor. ww2dbase [CPC]
Atlantic Ocean
USS New Mexico accidentally rammed and sank US freighter Oregon south of the Nantucket Lightship off Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, United States, killing 17. ww2dbase [New Mexico | CPC] Bumper ships!
Pacific Ocean
Japanese submarine I-58 spotted British battleship HMS Prince of Wales and battlecruiser HMS Repulse off British Malaya, launched five torpedoes, but all of them missed; beginning at 1117 hours, Japanese aircraft began to attack. Overwhelmed, HMS Repulse was sunk at 1233 hours (513 killed), followed by HMS Prince of Wales at 1318 hours (327 killed); destroyers HMS Electra, HMS Express, and HMS Vampire rescued 1,862 survivors. On land, the British commanders dispatched the 1st Battalion of the 14th Punjab Regiment and the 2nd Battalion of the 1st Gurkha Rifles regiment to Changlun and Asun in northern British Malaya to counter the Japanese advance; contact was made at Changlun at 2100 hours, where two Japanese tanks were destroyed before the Punjabi troops fell back toward Asun. ww2dbase [Invasion of Malaya and Singapore | Kongo | Haruna | Kumano | Takao | Atago | Prince of Wales | Repulse | I-58/I-158 | South China Sea | CPC]
Philippines
Cavite Navy Yard in the Philippine Islands was heavily damaged by Japanese aircraft; destroyers Peary and Pillsbury, submarines Seadragon and Sealion, and submarine tender Otus were damaged; ferry Santa Rita was sunk; minesweeper Bittern was destroyed by fire; about 60% of US Navy Asiatic Fleet's torpedoes were destroyed at Cavite. A PBY Catalina aircraft, fleeing from the attack on Cavite Navy Yard, was attacked by three Zero fighters; gunner Chief Boatswain Payne shot down one of the Zero fighters, thus scoring the US Navy's first verifiable air-to-air kill of a Japanese aircraft in the Pacific War. Elsewhere, Japanese aircraft attacked Manila Bay area, damaging American freighter Sagoland. Finally, Japanese troops of the 2nd Taiwan Regiment of the 48th Division landed on Camiguin Island and at Gonzaga, Vigan, and Aparri on Luzon Island. ww2dbase [Invasion of the Philippine Islands | CPC]
Saburo Sakai*, flying an A6M Zero fighter, shot down a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber flown by Captain Colin Kelly in the Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Saburo Sakai | CPC]
United States
Franklin Roosevelt tore up a letter he drafted for Winston Churchill intending to delay Churchill's request for a conference as he heard news of the Japanese sinking of HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse off Malaya and realized the urgency of having to plan for a campaign against the Japanese. ww2dbase [First Washington Conference | Washington | CPC]
10 Dec 1942
Yekaterina Budanova** shot down two Bf 110 fighters. ww2dbase [Yekaterina Budanova | CPC]
No. 1 Demolition Squadron, PPA (Popski's Private Army), commanded by Major Vladimir Peniakoff, became operational as a British Special Forces unit, formed specifically to raid Axis fuel supply lines in North Africa. ww2dbase [AC]
Algeria
Ambra launched three manned torpedoes and ten frogmen against Algiers, French Algeria in Operation NA 1, sinking one cargo ship and damaging two other cargo ships; all Italian torpedo crew members and frogmen were captured at the end of the operation. ww2dbase [Ambra | Algiers | CPC]
Italy
The Italian Air Force established the Air Force Assault Engineer Battalion within 1st Air Force Assault Regiment. ww2dbase [CPC]
10 Dec 1943
Italy
British Eighth Army, with Canadian elements, crossed the Moro River in Italy and entered "The Gully", capturing Vino Ridge. To the west, US troops captured the heights surrounding the Mignano Gap in Italy. ww2dbase [Advance to the Gustav Line | TH, CPC]
10 Dec 1944
US Third Army captured Haguenau and Sarreguemines in northeastern France. ww2dbase [TH]
Burma
The world's longest Bailey bridge (at the length of 1,154 feet) was completed over the Chindwin River in Burma by the Anglo-Indian troops. ww2dbase [Battle of Meiktila-Mandalay | CPC]
Romania
The Soviet Foreign Commissariat began to expel US and UK intelligence personnel from Romania. ww2dbase [CPC]
10 Dec 1949
China
Chiang Kaishek departed Fenghuangshan Airfield, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China at 1400 hours for Taiwan aboard C-54 transport "Zhongmei" piloted by Yi Fuen. Communist general Ye Jianying in Guangdong Province in southern China requested permission to intercept the C-54 aircraft, but he would never launch his fighters as his superiors failed to respond to his request. ww2dbase [Fenghuangshan Airfield | Chiang Kaishek | Chengdu, Sichuan | CPC]
10 Dec 2011
United States
Battleship Iowa was opened to tourists as a museum ship at Port of Richmond, California, United States. ww2dbase [Iowa | Los Angeles, California | CPC]
10 Dec 2012
United States
Daniel Inouye was transferred from the George Washington University Hospital in Washington DC, United States to nearby Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington DC, United States. ww2dbase [Daniel Inouye | Washington | CPC]
On 21 Apr 1945, at the Colle Musatello ridge near San Terenzo in the Toscana region of Italy, his platoon was pinned down by three German machine gun positions. Despite a bullet wound in the stomach, he destroyed the first position and led his men to destroy the second position before collapsing from blood loss. When he learned that his men had distracted the third machine gun crew, Inouye crawled toward the position to throw a grenade into it. In the process, he was shot in the right elbow with a rifle-fired grenade, severing his arm. Again ignore his own injuries, he jumped toward his severed arm, retrieved the primed grenade from the still-closed hand, threw the grenade into the third machine gun position, fired several rounds into the position from his Thompson submachine gun, and was stopped after being wounded again, this time in the leg. He survived these injuries and was discharged from the US Army in 1947 at the rank of captain. He received the Purple Heart, Bronze Star, and Distinguished Service Cross medals for his WW2 service. His DSC was upgraded to the Medal of Honor by President Clinton in 2000.
https://ww2db.com/person_bio.php?person_id=765
All from:
https://ww2db.com/event/today/12/10
*In early 1942, he was transferred to Tarakan Island in Borneo and fought in the Dutch East Indies. Initially ordered to down all Allied aircraft regardless of military or civilian, but at one incidence, he allowed a Dutch DC-3 passenger liner to go unharmed after he spotted a blond woman with a child through one of the passenger windows. She reminded him of his English teacher, the little boy waved at him.
**https://ww2db.com/person_bio.php?person_id=645
10 Dec 1937
China
Chiang Kaishek rejected Tang Shengzhi's request to negotiate with the Japanese for an evacuation of Nanjing, China. Having received no response to the ultimatum issued on the previous day that expired at noon, the Japanese began the assault at 1300 hours. General Iwane Matsui's order to attack included the wording "[y]ou are to observe military regulations to the letter, to set an example for the future.... Anyone who loots or starts a fire, even accidentally, will be severely punished." ww2dbase [Battle of Nanjing and the Rape of Nanjing | Nanjing | CPC]
10 Dec 1938
The Lockheed Hudson took flight for the first time. The Hudson would later become the first American-built aircraft to be used operationally by the RAF in World War II. Based on the Electra civil airliner, it was ordered by the British Purchasing Commission as early as in Jun 1938 and deliveries began arriving in the UK in Jan 1939. Pressed into service for Maritime Patrol and Anti-Shipping missions, the type saw wide-spread service around the world and was also operated by the RCAF, RAAF, RNZAF, and both the USAAF and US Navy. ww2dbase [A-29 Hudson | AC]
Sweden
Italian physicist Professor Enrico Fermi received the Nobel prize for Physics in Stockholm, Sweden for his work on radioactive elements. Instead of returning home he then fled to the United States with his family (his wife was Jewish) and would later contribute to the Manhatten Project. ww2dbase [Stockholm | AC]
10 Dec 1939
Chinese troops launched an attack on Henglingguan Pass south of Jiangxian in northern China; the Japanese troops at the strong point would be driven off by the month's end. ww2dbase [Winter Offensive | CPC]
Soviet 7th Army, while attacking Finnish defense fortifications, received flanking fire from coastal batteries on the island of Saarenpää; in response, Soviet battleship Oktjabrskaja Revolutsija bombarded the island, but failed to hit the batteries due to heavy fog. In the Gulf of Finland and the Gulf of Bothnia, Soviet submarines sank three ships going in and out of Finnish ports; two of them actually flew German flags. ww2dbase [The Winter War | CPC]
10 Dec 1940
Before dawn, colonial troops of the Libyan 1st Division withdrew from Maktila, Egypt. In the afternoon, Indian 4th Infantry Division and British 7th Royal Tank Regiment captured Sidi Barrani, pushing Italian 4th Blackshirt Division and another Libyan colonial division into the desert. ww2dbase [Operation Compass | CPC]
A shell fired randomly across the English Channel from one of Germany’s massive 280mm rail guns fell within a few feet of the British 13.5in "Peacemaker" rail gun at Martin Mill, England, United Kingdom severely damaging one of its bogies and mortally wounding one of the Royal Marine gunners. ww2dbase [AC]
10 Dec 1941
Thomas Phillips passed away. ww2dbase [Thomas Phillips | CPC]
Operation Crusader: The siege of Tobruk, Libya was lifted. ww2dbase [Operation Crusader | CPC]
Japanese Destroyer Squadron 6 conducted amphibious invasion on Wake and Wilkes islands in failure, losing one destroyer and three other craft to shore battery and one destroyer to US aircraft, making them the first Japanese ships to be sunk in the Pacific War; this invasion was the only time in the Pacific War that shore defenders overcame an amphibious landing. In the air, USMC Captain Elrod shot down a Japanese G3M2 Type 96 land attack aircraft at Wake, which was the first USMC air-to-air kill of the Pacific War. On the same day, Japanese aircraft destroyed a 125-ton dynamite cache, and the resulting explosion caused damage to coastal batteries. ww2dbase [Battle of Wake Island | CPC]
Aircraft from USS Enterprise sank Japanese submarine I-70 in Hawaiian waters. ww2dbase [Attack on Pearl Harbor | Detailed Timetable | CPC]
In the Mariana Islands, 1,400-strong landing party of the Japanese Navy 5th Defense Force from Saipan landed on Dungcas Beach at Guam. At the same time, 5,500 men of the Japanese South Seas Detached Force landed at Tumon Bay, near Merizo, and at Talafofo Bay. US military governor of Guam, Captain McMillin, surrendered the island to the Japanese Navy commanding officer. Two patrol craft, thirteen lighters, one dredge, three barges, and one auxiliary vessel at Guam were turned over to the Japanese. ww2dbase [Invasion of Guam | CPC]
British troops withdrew onto Hong Kong island after the defensive Gin Drinker's Line collapsed. ww2dbase [Battle of Hong Kong | AC]
The Japanese Navy 11th Air Fleet was reorganized to contain three air flotillas, a destroyer division, three transports, and two Special Naval Landing Forces. ww2dbase [CPC]
Soviet troops encircled three German divisions at Livny, south of Moscow, Russia. ww2dbase [Battle of Moscow | CPC]
German submarine U-130 attacked Allied convoy SC-57 200 miles southwest of Ireland just before midnight at the end of the day, sinking British transport Kurdistan, British transport Kirnwood, and Egyptian transport Star of Luxor. ww2dbase [CPC]
Atlantic Ocean
USS New Mexico accidentally rammed and sank US freighter Oregon south of the Nantucket Lightship off Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, United States, killing 17. ww2dbase [New Mexico | CPC] Bumper ships!
Pacific Ocean
Japanese submarine I-58 spotted British battleship HMS Prince of Wales and battlecruiser HMS Repulse off British Malaya, launched five torpedoes, but all of them missed; beginning at 1117 hours, Japanese aircraft began to attack. Overwhelmed, HMS Repulse was sunk at 1233 hours (513 killed), followed by HMS Prince of Wales at 1318 hours (327 killed); destroyers HMS Electra, HMS Express, and HMS Vampire rescued 1,862 survivors. On land, the British commanders dispatched the 1st Battalion of the 14th Punjab Regiment and the 2nd Battalion of the 1st Gurkha Rifles regiment to Changlun and Asun in northern British Malaya to counter the Japanese advance; contact was made at Changlun at 2100 hours, where two Japanese tanks were destroyed before the Punjabi troops fell back toward Asun. ww2dbase [Invasion of Malaya and Singapore | Kongo | Haruna | Kumano | Takao | Atago | Prince of Wales | Repulse | I-58/I-158 | South China Sea | CPC]
Philippines
Cavite Navy Yard in the Philippine Islands was heavily damaged by Japanese aircraft; destroyers Peary and Pillsbury, submarines Seadragon and Sealion, and submarine tender Otus were damaged; ferry Santa Rita was sunk; minesweeper Bittern was destroyed by fire; about 60% of US Navy Asiatic Fleet's torpedoes were destroyed at Cavite. A PBY Catalina aircraft, fleeing from the attack on Cavite Navy Yard, was attacked by three Zero fighters; gunner Chief Boatswain Payne shot down one of the Zero fighters, thus scoring the US Navy's first verifiable air-to-air kill of a Japanese aircraft in the Pacific War. Elsewhere, Japanese aircraft attacked Manila Bay area, damaging American freighter Sagoland. Finally, Japanese troops of the 2nd Taiwan Regiment of the 48th Division landed on Camiguin Island and at Gonzaga, Vigan, and Aparri on Luzon Island. ww2dbase [Invasion of the Philippine Islands | CPC]
Saburo Sakai*, flying an A6M Zero fighter, shot down a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber flown by Captain Colin Kelly in the Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Saburo Sakai | CPC]
United States
Franklin Roosevelt tore up a letter he drafted for Winston Churchill intending to delay Churchill's request for a conference as he heard news of the Japanese sinking of HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse off Malaya and realized the urgency of having to plan for a campaign against the Japanese. ww2dbase [First Washington Conference | Washington | CPC]
10 Dec 1942
Yekaterina Budanova** shot down two Bf 110 fighters. ww2dbase [Yekaterina Budanova | CPC]
No. 1 Demolition Squadron, PPA (Popski's Private Army), commanded by Major Vladimir Peniakoff, became operational as a British Special Forces unit, formed specifically to raid Axis fuel supply lines in North Africa. ww2dbase [AC]
Algeria
Ambra launched three manned torpedoes and ten frogmen against Algiers, French Algeria in Operation NA 1, sinking one cargo ship and damaging two other cargo ships; all Italian torpedo crew members and frogmen were captured at the end of the operation. ww2dbase [Ambra | Algiers | CPC]
Italy
The Italian Air Force established the Air Force Assault Engineer Battalion within 1st Air Force Assault Regiment. ww2dbase [CPC]
10 Dec 1943
Italy
British Eighth Army, with Canadian elements, crossed the Moro River in Italy and entered "The Gully", capturing Vino Ridge. To the west, US troops captured the heights surrounding the Mignano Gap in Italy. ww2dbase [Advance to the Gustav Line | TH, CPC]
10 Dec 1944
US Third Army captured Haguenau and Sarreguemines in northeastern France. ww2dbase [TH]
Burma
The world's longest Bailey bridge (at the length of 1,154 feet) was completed over the Chindwin River in Burma by the Anglo-Indian troops. ww2dbase [Battle of Meiktila-Mandalay | CPC]
Romania
The Soviet Foreign Commissariat began to expel US and UK intelligence personnel from Romania. ww2dbase [CPC]
10 Dec 1949
China
Chiang Kaishek departed Fenghuangshan Airfield, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China at 1400 hours for Taiwan aboard C-54 transport "Zhongmei" piloted by Yi Fuen. Communist general Ye Jianying in Guangdong Province in southern China requested permission to intercept the C-54 aircraft, but he would never launch his fighters as his superiors failed to respond to his request. ww2dbase [Fenghuangshan Airfield | Chiang Kaishek | Chengdu, Sichuan | CPC]
10 Dec 2011
United States
Battleship Iowa was opened to tourists as a museum ship at Port of Richmond, California, United States. ww2dbase [Iowa | Los Angeles, California | CPC]
10 Dec 2012
United States
Daniel Inouye was transferred from the George Washington University Hospital in Washington DC, United States to nearby Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington DC, United States. ww2dbase [Daniel Inouye | Washington | CPC]
On 21 Apr 1945, at the Colle Musatello ridge near San Terenzo in the Toscana region of Italy, his platoon was pinned down by three German machine gun positions. Despite a bullet wound in the stomach, he destroyed the first position and led his men to destroy the second position before collapsing from blood loss. When he learned that his men had distracted the third machine gun crew, Inouye crawled toward the position to throw a grenade into it. In the process, he was shot in the right elbow with a rifle-fired grenade, severing his arm. Again ignore his own injuries, he jumped toward his severed arm, retrieved the primed grenade from the still-closed hand, threw the grenade into the third machine gun position, fired several rounds into the position from his Thompson submachine gun, and was stopped after being wounded again, this time in the leg. He survived these injuries and was discharged from the US Army in 1947 at the rank of captain. He received the Purple Heart, Bronze Star, and Distinguished Service Cross medals for his WW2 service. His DSC was upgraded to the Medal of Honor by President Clinton in 2000.
https://ww2db.com/person_bio.php?person_id=765
All from:
https://ww2db.com/event/today/12/10
*In early 1942, he was transferred to Tarakan Island in Borneo and fought in the Dutch East Indies. Initially ordered to down all Allied aircraft regardless of military or civilian, but at one incidence, he allowed a Dutch DC-3 passenger liner to go unharmed after he spotted a blond woman with a child through one of the passenger windows. She reminded him of his English teacher, the little boy waved at him.
**https://ww2db.com/person_bio.php?person_id=645
Seek peace but keep your gun handy.
I'm not a complete idiot, some parts are missing!
“Illegitemus non carborundum est (“Don’t let the bastards grind you down”).”
; Julia Child
I'm not a complete idiot, some parts are missing!
“Illegitemus non carborundum est (“Don’t let the bastards grind you down”).”
; Julia Child
Re: THE THREAD!!!
Well Oregon had no business being on the East Coast anyway!Ranger Joe: USS New Mexico accidentally rammed and sank US freighter Oregon south of the Nantucket Lightship off Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, United States, killing 17. ww2dbase [New Mexico | CPC]
No matter how bad a situation is, you can always make it worse. - Chris Hadfield : An Astronaut's Guide To Life On Earth
Re: THE THREAD!!!
But just what was New Mexico doing there? It doesn't even have a coast line! At least, not one for a very long time . . .BBfanboy wrote: Wed Dec 11, 2024 5:09 pmWell Oregon had no business being on the East Coast anyway!Ranger Joe: USS New Mexico accidentally rammed and sank US freighter Oregon south of the Nantucket Lightship off Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, United States, killing 17. ww2dbase [New Mexico | CPC]
Seek peace but keep your gun handy.
I'm not a complete idiot, some parts are missing!
“Illegitemus non carborundum est (“Don’t let the bastards grind you down”).”
; Julia Child
I'm not a complete idiot, some parts are missing!
“Illegitemus non carborundum est (“Don’t let the bastards grind you down”).”
; Julia ChildRe: THE THREAD!!!
Hey.
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb -- they're often students, for heaven's sake. - Terry Pratchett
A government is a body of people; usually, notably, ungoverned. - Quote from Firefly
A government is a body of people; usually, notably, ungoverned. - Quote from Firefly
Re: THE THREAD!!!
No, not always. Approximately 4.6 billion years ago the sun did not shine.RangerJoe wrote: Tue Dec 10, 2024 2:56 pmThe sun is always shining, it may be above the clouds or on the other side of the Earth or the moon might even be in the way but it is always shining!Orm wrote: Tue Dec 10, 2024 8:16 am Morning Gentlemen. Ladies.
What a beautiful morning. The sun is shinning, and the sky is blue. Well, actually, the sun is shinning but not yet here. This time of year the sun is a late riser.
Also, since the sun didn't shine once, the sun might not shine at some point in the future. Scholars even say that it is certain that the sun will not always shine. No one can exactly say when the shun doesn't shine again.
So, can you really count on that the sun is always shining?
Therefore, can you really say that the sun is always shining?
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb -- they're often students, for heaven's sake. - Terry Pratchett
A government is a body of people; usually, notably, ungoverned. - Quote from Firefly
A government is a body of people; usually, notably, ungoverned. - Quote from Firefly
Re: THE THREAD!!!
Orm wrote: Wed Dec 11, 2024 7:23 pmNo, not always. Approximately 4.6 billion years ago the sun did not shine.RangerJoe wrote: Tue Dec 10, 2024 2:56 pmThe sun is always shining, it may be above the clouds or on the other side of the Earth or the moon might even be in the way but it is always shining!Orm wrote: Tue Dec 10, 2024 8:16 am Morning Gentlemen. Ladies.
What a beautiful morning. The sun is shinning, and the sky is blue. Well, actually, the sun is shinning but not yet here. This time of year the sun is a late riser.
Also, since the sun didn't shine once, the sun might not shine at some point in the future. Scholars even say that it is certain that the sun will not always shine. No one can exactly say when the shun doesn't shine again.
So, can you really count on that the sun is always shining?
Therefore, can you really say that the sun is always shining?
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Seek peace but keep your gun handy.
I'm not a complete idiot, some parts are missing!
“Illegitemus non carborundum est (“Don’t let the bastards grind you down”).”
; Julia Child
I'm not a complete idiot, some parts are missing!
“Illegitemus non carborundum est (“Don’t let the bastards grind you down”).”
; Julia ChildRe: THE THREAD!!!
On this day:
11 Dec 1936
King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom abdicated in favour of his brother, Prince Albert, who would soon become King George VI. ww2dbase [George VI | AC]
11 Dec 1939
Soviet 163rd Division was held by Finnish defenses north of Lake Piispajarvi in Finland, while Soviet 81st and 759th Regiments were likewise bogged down by Finnish border police forces to the south at Suomussalmi, a road junction village. Lightly-armed troops of the Finnish 27th Regiment, on skis, launched an attack on the Soviet supply line along the Raate Road in an attempt to isolate Soviet troops at Suomussalmi. ww2dbase [The Winter War | CPC]
German submarine U-38 sank Greek freighter Garoufalia off Norway; 4 were killed, 25 survived. ww2dbase [CPC]
11 Dec 1940
German freighter Rhein, already being monitored by American destroyers Simpson and MacLeish, was intercepted by Dutch destroyer Van Kinsbergen near the Florida Straits; her crew scuttled the ship to avoid capture. ww2dbase [CPC]
British 7th Armored Brigade attacked Buq Buq, Egypt, forcing Italian 64th Infantry Division to surrender; meanwhile, Indian 4th Infantry Division and British 7th Royal Tank Regiment forced the surrender of Italian 4th Blackshirt Division and two colonial Libyan divisions in the desert. On the coast, British battleships HMS Barham and HMS Valiant bombarded Italian positions at Sollum, Egypt. The Allied forces had now captured 38,000 Italian prisoners of war, 237 guns, and 73 tanks. ww2dbase [Operation Compass | CPC]
German submarine U-96 attacked Allied convoy HX-92 125 miles northwest of the Outer Hebrides, Scotland, United Kingdom, sinking British liner Rotorua at 1512 hours (21 were killed, including HX-92 commodore Rear Admiral Fitzgerald; 108 survived) and Norwegian ship Towa at 2242 hours (18 were killed, 19 survived). ww2dbase [CPC]
German submarine U-94 sank British ship Empire Statesman 225 miles west of Ireland at 1912 hours, killing the entire crew of 31. ww2dbase [CPC]
278 German aircraft attacked Birmingham, England, United Kingdom, dropping 277 tons of high explosives and 685 incendiary bombs. ww2dbase [Battle of Britain | CPC]
HMS King George V was commissioned into service. ww2dbase [King George V | CPC]
11 Dec 1941
Japanese infantrymen under the command of Colonel Shizuo Saeki overran the defenses set up by Punjabi troops between Changlun and Asun, British Malaya, and gave chase into Asun, where Gurkha troops slowed the Japanese advance by destroying the two Japanese tanks in the spearhead; the Gurkha positions, however, would be captured by 1900 hours, killing or capturing 350 men. Nearby, Japanese troops also under Saeki reached the outskirts of Jitra, British Malaya, which was defended by troops of the 11th Indian Division. Out at sea, Japanese pilot Lieutenant Ito, flying a torpedo bomber over the location where Repulse and Prince of Wales were sunk on the previous day, dropped a wreath to honor the killed British sailors. ww2dbase [Invasion of Malaya and Singapore | CPC]
Germany and Italy declared war on the United States; United States responded with a declaration of war. ww2dbase [TH]
Japanese troops landed at Legaspi, Luzon, Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Invasion of the Philippine Islands | CPC]
In North Africa the Italians reformed the line running south from the coast at Gazala with their armour on the right flank. Rommel's Afrika Korps, reduced to just forty operational tanks after the Operation Crusader battles, protected the open southern flank. ww2dbase [Operation Crusader | AC]
North of Moscow, Russia, Soviet 16th Army captured Istra while Soviet 20th Army reached Solnechnogorsk. South of Moscow, Soviet troops captured Stalinogorsk. ww2dbase [Battle of Moscow | CPC]
German submarine U-374 sank British anti-submarine trawler HMS Lady Shirley in the Strait of Gibraltar at 0421 hours, killing all 33 aboard. 21 minutes later, U-374 sank British patrol yacht HMS Rosabelle, which attempted to locate U-374; 30 were killed, 12 survived and rescued by patrol yacht HMS Sayonara. ww2dbase [CPC]
British submarine HMS Truant fired two torpedoes at Italian tankers in Suda Bay, Crete, Greece; one of them hit torpedo boat Alcione, killing 20. ww2dbase [CPC]
British destroyer HMS Farndale forced Italian submarine Caracciola to surface 30 miles northeast of Bardia, Libya and sank her with gunfire; 1 was killed (a passenger with the rank of an army general), 53 survived. ww2dbase [CPC]
Adolf Hitler announced that since the start of the war against the Soviet Union, the German forces had captured 3,806,865 Soviet prisoners of war. ww2dbase [Adolf Hitler | CPC]
Hong Kong
Japanese troops advanced southward along the Kowloon Peninsula north of Hong Kong, capturing Stonecutter's Island. ww2dbase [Battle of Hong Kong | CPC]
United Kingdom
American aviator and poet John Gillespie Magee, Jr. was killed in a mid-air collision over Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom. He became famous for his poem High Flight, and had, before the United States entered the war, forsaken a place at Yale University in order to train as a fighter pilot in the Royal Canadian Air Force. ww2dbase [England | AC]
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/ ... d3cfb1e9b7
US Pacific Islands
While bombarding US installations at Wake Atoll, Tenryu was strafed by a US Marine Corps F4F-3 Wildcat fighter, wounding 5 sailors and mildly damaged three torpedoes in the No. 1 mount. ww2dbase [Tenryu | Wake | CPC]
The 2,890-ton Japanese light cruiser Yubari, flagship of Rear Admiral Sadamichi Kajioka, was seriously damaged by shell fire from two 5-inch guns at Peacock Point, Wake Island, and forced to retire listing heavily to port. ww2dbase [Battle of Wake Island | Yubari | Wake | AC]
11 Dec 1942
The Allies launched a new offensive toward Marsa Brega and El Agheila in Libya. ww2dbase [Second Battle of El Alamein | CPC]
The Cockleshell Heroes Raid: Ten British Commandos in five two-man canoes were launched from a submarine to attack enemy shipping in the port of Bordeaux, France. Three canoes were lost but two paddle 70 miles up-river to plant limpet mines on ships in the harbour. Six vessels were disabled. Two Commandos were drowned en route, six were captured and executed and two made it back to England, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [AC]
France
German Type IXC U-Boat U-505 arrived at Lorient, France from her fourth patrol with the distinction of being the “most heavily damaged U-boat to successfully return to port.”. ww2dbase [U-505 | Loirent, Bretagne | DS]
She also caused Columbia to declare war on Germany. You can visit her in Chicago, Ill-noise, USA. She was captured during the war. One of her captains committed suicide during a depth charge ordeal.
https://ww2db.com/ship_spec.php?ship_id=883
11 Dec 1943
The USAAF, including the 306th Bomb Group flying from RAF Thurleigh, bombed Emden, Germany, while 18 RAF Mosquito aircraft attacked Duisburg, Germany. ww2dbase [Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | RAF Thurleigh | CPC]
Francis Gabreski's aircraft engine was pierced by a 20-millimeter cannon shell from a German Bf 109 fighter. The shell failed to exploded, but destroyed the turbocharger nevertheless. The Bf 109 fighter pressed on, scoring another hit and temporarily stopped the engine. Gabreski was able to restart the engine by diving to low altitude, and then successfully making his escape. ww2dbase [Francis Gabreski | CPC]He flew for awhile with Polish pilots in the RAF. He had 37.5 kills for the US. He entered the US Air Force as a lieutenant Colonel.
https://ww2db.com/person_bio.php?person_id=1134
11 Dec 1944
USS Gar delivered 35 tons of supplies to an American position near Duriagaos Inlet, Luzon, Philippine Islands and picked up intelligence documents. ww2dbase [Gar | CPC]
Adolf Hitler held a meeting with top German military commanders at the Adlerhorst headquarters in Wetterau, Germany, stressing the importance of the upcoming Ardennes Offensive. ww2dbase [Battle of the Bulge | CPC]
Germany
Roddie Edmonds and the United States Army's 106th Infantry Division took up positions along the front lines near Prüm, Germany just east of Belgium. ww2dbase [Battle of the Bulge | Roddie Edmonds | Prüm, Mosselland | DS] "We are all Jews here."
https://ww2db.com/person_bio.php?person_id=1180
11 Dec 1945
William Halsey was promoted to the rank of fleet admiral. ww2dbase [William Halsey | CPC]
Germany
Beatrice Patton, wife of paralyzed George Patton, arrived at Heidelberg, Germany. ww2dbase [George Patton | Heidelberg | CPC]
11 Dec 1955
Frank Merrill passed away. ww2dbase [Frank Merrill | CPC]
https://ww2db.com/person_bio.php?person_id=148
https://ww2db.com/event/today/12/11
11 Dec 1936
King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom abdicated in favour of his brother, Prince Albert, who would soon become King George VI. ww2dbase [George VI | AC]
11 Dec 1939
Soviet 163rd Division was held by Finnish defenses north of Lake Piispajarvi in Finland, while Soviet 81st and 759th Regiments were likewise bogged down by Finnish border police forces to the south at Suomussalmi, a road junction village. Lightly-armed troops of the Finnish 27th Regiment, on skis, launched an attack on the Soviet supply line along the Raate Road in an attempt to isolate Soviet troops at Suomussalmi. ww2dbase [The Winter War | CPC]
German submarine U-38 sank Greek freighter Garoufalia off Norway; 4 were killed, 25 survived. ww2dbase [CPC]
11 Dec 1940
German freighter Rhein, already being monitored by American destroyers Simpson and MacLeish, was intercepted by Dutch destroyer Van Kinsbergen near the Florida Straits; her crew scuttled the ship to avoid capture. ww2dbase [CPC]
British 7th Armored Brigade attacked Buq Buq, Egypt, forcing Italian 64th Infantry Division to surrender; meanwhile, Indian 4th Infantry Division and British 7th Royal Tank Regiment forced the surrender of Italian 4th Blackshirt Division and two colonial Libyan divisions in the desert. On the coast, British battleships HMS Barham and HMS Valiant bombarded Italian positions at Sollum, Egypt. The Allied forces had now captured 38,000 Italian prisoners of war, 237 guns, and 73 tanks. ww2dbase [Operation Compass | CPC]
German submarine U-96 attacked Allied convoy HX-92 125 miles northwest of the Outer Hebrides, Scotland, United Kingdom, sinking British liner Rotorua at 1512 hours (21 were killed, including HX-92 commodore Rear Admiral Fitzgerald; 108 survived) and Norwegian ship Towa at 2242 hours (18 were killed, 19 survived). ww2dbase [CPC]
German submarine U-94 sank British ship Empire Statesman 225 miles west of Ireland at 1912 hours, killing the entire crew of 31. ww2dbase [CPC]
278 German aircraft attacked Birmingham, England, United Kingdom, dropping 277 tons of high explosives and 685 incendiary bombs. ww2dbase [Battle of Britain | CPC]
HMS King George V was commissioned into service. ww2dbase [King George V | CPC]
11 Dec 1941
Japanese infantrymen under the command of Colonel Shizuo Saeki overran the defenses set up by Punjabi troops between Changlun and Asun, British Malaya, and gave chase into Asun, where Gurkha troops slowed the Japanese advance by destroying the two Japanese tanks in the spearhead; the Gurkha positions, however, would be captured by 1900 hours, killing or capturing 350 men. Nearby, Japanese troops also under Saeki reached the outskirts of Jitra, British Malaya, which was defended by troops of the 11th Indian Division. Out at sea, Japanese pilot Lieutenant Ito, flying a torpedo bomber over the location where Repulse and Prince of Wales were sunk on the previous day, dropped a wreath to honor the killed British sailors. ww2dbase [Invasion of Malaya and Singapore | CPC]
Germany and Italy declared war on the United States; United States responded with a declaration of war. ww2dbase [TH]
Japanese troops landed at Legaspi, Luzon, Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Invasion of the Philippine Islands | CPC]
In North Africa the Italians reformed the line running south from the coast at Gazala with their armour on the right flank. Rommel's Afrika Korps, reduced to just forty operational tanks after the Operation Crusader battles, protected the open southern flank. ww2dbase [Operation Crusader | AC]
North of Moscow, Russia, Soviet 16th Army captured Istra while Soviet 20th Army reached Solnechnogorsk. South of Moscow, Soviet troops captured Stalinogorsk. ww2dbase [Battle of Moscow | CPC]
German submarine U-374 sank British anti-submarine trawler HMS Lady Shirley in the Strait of Gibraltar at 0421 hours, killing all 33 aboard. 21 minutes later, U-374 sank British patrol yacht HMS Rosabelle, which attempted to locate U-374; 30 were killed, 12 survived and rescued by patrol yacht HMS Sayonara. ww2dbase [CPC]
British submarine HMS Truant fired two torpedoes at Italian tankers in Suda Bay, Crete, Greece; one of them hit torpedo boat Alcione, killing 20. ww2dbase [CPC]
British destroyer HMS Farndale forced Italian submarine Caracciola to surface 30 miles northeast of Bardia, Libya and sank her with gunfire; 1 was killed (a passenger with the rank of an army general), 53 survived. ww2dbase [CPC]
Adolf Hitler announced that since the start of the war against the Soviet Union, the German forces had captured 3,806,865 Soviet prisoners of war. ww2dbase [Adolf Hitler | CPC]
Hong Kong
Japanese troops advanced southward along the Kowloon Peninsula north of Hong Kong, capturing Stonecutter's Island. ww2dbase [Battle of Hong Kong | CPC]
United Kingdom
American aviator and poet John Gillespie Magee, Jr. was killed in a mid-air collision over Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom. He became famous for his poem High Flight, and had, before the United States entered the war, forsaken a place at Yale University in order to train as a fighter pilot in the Royal Canadian Air Force. ww2dbase [England | AC]
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/ ... d3cfb1e9b7
US Pacific Islands
While bombarding US installations at Wake Atoll, Tenryu was strafed by a US Marine Corps F4F-3 Wildcat fighter, wounding 5 sailors and mildly damaged three torpedoes in the No. 1 mount. ww2dbase [Tenryu | Wake | CPC]
The 2,890-ton Japanese light cruiser Yubari, flagship of Rear Admiral Sadamichi Kajioka, was seriously damaged by shell fire from two 5-inch guns at Peacock Point, Wake Island, and forced to retire listing heavily to port. ww2dbase [Battle of Wake Island | Yubari | Wake | AC]
11 Dec 1942
The Allies launched a new offensive toward Marsa Brega and El Agheila in Libya. ww2dbase [Second Battle of El Alamein | CPC]
The Cockleshell Heroes Raid: Ten British Commandos in five two-man canoes were launched from a submarine to attack enemy shipping in the port of Bordeaux, France. Three canoes were lost but two paddle 70 miles up-river to plant limpet mines on ships in the harbour. Six vessels were disabled. Two Commandos were drowned en route, six were captured and executed and two made it back to England, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [AC]
France
German Type IXC U-Boat U-505 arrived at Lorient, France from her fourth patrol with the distinction of being the “most heavily damaged U-boat to successfully return to port.”. ww2dbase [U-505 | Loirent, Bretagne | DS]
She also caused Columbia to declare war on Germany. You can visit her in Chicago, Ill-noise, USA. She was captured during the war. One of her captains committed suicide during a depth charge ordeal.
https://ww2db.com/ship_spec.php?ship_id=883
11 Dec 1943
The USAAF, including the 306th Bomb Group flying from RAF Thurleigh, bombed Emden, Germany, while 18 RAF Mosquito aircraft attacked Duisburg, Germany. ww2dbase [Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | RAF Thurleigh | CPC]
Francis Gabreski's aircraft engine was pierced by a 20-millimeter cannon shell from a German Bf 109 fighter. The shell failed to exploded, but destroyed the turbocharger nevertheless. The Bf 109 fighter pressed on, scoring another hit and temporarily stopped the engine. Gabreski was able to restart the engine by diving to low altitude, and then successfully making his escape. ww2dbase [Francis Gabreski | CPC]He flew for awhile with Polish pilots in the RAF. He had 37.5 kills for the US. He entered the US Air Force as a lieutenant Colonel.
https://ww2db.com/person_bio.php?person_id=1134
11 Dec 1944
USS Gar delivered 35 tons of supplies to an American position near Duriagaos Inlet, Luzon, Philippine Islands and picked up intelligence documents. ww2dbase [Gar | CPC]
Adolf Hitler held a meeting with top German military commanders at the Adlerhorst headquarters in Wetterau, Germany, stressing the importance of the upcoming Ardennes Offensive. ww2dbase [Battle of the Bulge | CPC]
Germany
Roddie Edmonds and the United States Army's 106th Infantry Division took up positions along the front lines near Prüm, Germany just east of Belgium. ww2dbase [Battle of the Bulge | Roddie Edmonds | Prüm, Mosselland | DS] "We are all Jews here."
https://ww2db.com/person_bio.php?person_id=1180
11 Dec 1945
William Halsey was promoted to the rank of fleet admiral. ww2dbase [William Halsey | CPC]
Germany
Beatrice Patton, wife of paralyzed George Patton, arrived at Heidelberg, Germany. ww2dbase [George Patton | Heidelberg | CPC]
11 Dec 1955
Frank Merrill passed away. ww2dbase [Frank Merrill | CPC]
https://ww2db.com/person_bio.php?person_id=148
https://ww2db.com/event/today/12/11
Seek peace but keep your gun handy.
I'm not a complete idiot, some parts are missing!
“Illegitemus non carborundum est (“Don’t let the bastards grind you down”).”
; Julia Child
I'm not a complete idiot, some parts are missing!
“Illegitemus non carborundum est (“Don’t let the bastards grind you down”).”
; Julia Child
Re: THE THREAD!!!
Hi all,
Good morning!
Leo "Apollo11"
Good morning!
Leo "Apollo11"
Prior Preparation & Planning Prevents Pathetically Poor Performance!
A & B: WitW, WitE, WbtS, GGWaW, GGWaW2-AWD, HttR, CotA, BftB, CF
P: UV, WitP, WitP-AE
Re: THE THREAD!!!
Morning Gentlemen. Ladies.
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb -- they're often students, for heaven's sake. - Terry Pratchett
A government is a body of people; usually, notably, ungoverned. - Quote from Firefly
A government is a body of people; usually, notably, ungoverned. - Quote from Firefly
Re: THE THREAD!!!
On this day:
12 Dec 1936
Xi'an Incident: Chinese generals kidnapped Chiang Kaishek in an attempt to force the Nationalist and Communist forces to form an unified front against the Japanese. ww2dbase [Xi'an Incident | CPC]
12 Dec 1937
China
At 0300 hours, General Tang Shengzhi, commanding officer of Chinese forces in Nanjing, China, having learned that Japanese naval vessels were heading up the Yangtze River, ordered his officers to prepare a small group of men to retreat across the river while the bulk would gather for an offensive to break out of the Japanese line. During the day, troops of the Japanese 114th Division wooed 1,500 Chinese troops into surrendering at the southern side of the city wall, promising to spare them their lives; they were all executed by the end of the following day. In the afternoon, Japanese bombers sank the American gunboat USS Panay in Nanjing, China at 1554 hours. At 1700 hours, Tang met with his officers again (several of whom were absent, having fled the city without permission) and was told that the Japanese were advancing faster than anticipated. He decided to increase the size of the Yangtze River evacuation to 5 divisions of troops. Tang would depart via the Yijiang Gate on the northern side of the city at 2100 hours, crossing the river on a small launch. ww2dbase [Battle of Nanjing and the Rape of Nanjing | Nanjing | CPC]
12 Dec 1938
Albacore aircraft took its first flight. ww2dbase [Albacore | CPC]
12 Dec 1939
Adolf Hitler postponed the decision to invade France to 27 Dec 1939; if he was to launch the attack, the date of action was to be 1 Jan 1940. Since the decision was to be made after Christmas, he permitted the granting of Christmas leave. ww2dbase [Invasion of France and the Low Countries | CPC]
Erich Raeder reported to Adolf Hitler after Raeder had met with Norwegian leaders Vidkun Quisling and Albert Viljam Hagelin. Raeder noted of the Norwegian popular hostility toward Germany, Britain's great influence on the Norwegian government through its high court, and the possibility that Britain might soon occupy Norway. Hitler stated that Britain must never be allowed to occupy Norway. Raeder also recommended Hitler to be neutral in the Winter War, although it was advisable to continue supplying fuel for Soviet submarines. ww2dbase [Adolf Hitler | Erich Raeder | HM]
Finland
Soviets suffered heavy casualties near Tolvajärvi, Finland as Finnish troops wiped out two Soviet divisions. ww2dbase [The Winter War | Tolvajärvi | TH]
12 Dec 1940
Hungary and Yugoslavia signed the Treaty of Eternal Friendship. ww2dbase [CPC]
British 7th Armored Brigade moved into the desert to outflank Italian forces at Sollum, Egypt and to cut the road to Bardia, Libya, as the latter port was subjected to carrier aircraft attack by HMS Illustrious. Meanwhile, the first groups of Italian prisoners of war began to arrive by truck at the British headquarters at Mersa Matruh, Egypt. ww2dbase [Operation Compass | CPC]
German submarine U-96 attacked Allied convoy HX-92 12 miles south of St. Kilda, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, United Kingdom, sinking Swedish ship Stureholm at 0156 hours (killing entire crew of 32) and Belgian ship Macedonier at 0431 hours (4 killed, 37 survived). ww2dbase [CPC]
Philippe Pétain received an invitation from Adolf Hitler to attend the ceremony in which Napoleon II's remains were to be returned from Austria to the Les Invalides cemetery in Paris, France. ww2dbase [Philippe Pétain | CPC]
United Kingdom
British monitoring stations detected X Verfahren radio beams being laid across northern England, United Kingdom, and suspected a German attack would take place on the city of Sheffield. In the evening, 13 He 111 bombers of Kampfgruppe 100 arrived over the Sheffield suburbs of Norton Lees and Gleadless at 1941 hours, dropping 16 SC50 high explosive bombs, 1,009 B1 E1 ZA incendiaries, and 10,080 B1 E1 incendiaries. Shortly after, three groups of German bombers, the main force, attacked. The first group was consisted of 36 Ju 88 bombers and 29 He 111 bombers; the second group was consisted of 23 Ju 88 bombers, 74 He 111 bombers, and 7 Do 17 bombers; the third group was consisted of 63 Ju 88 bombers and 35 He 111 bombers. The 280 German aircraft heavily damaged the city center and residential districts through the night through 0400 hours on the next day. ww2dbase [Battle of Britain | Sheffield, England | CPC]
12 Dec 1941
The United Kingdom declared war on Bulgaria while Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania declared war on the United Kingdom and the United States. ww2dbase [TH]
Germans reported widespread typhus on the Eastern Front of the European War. ww2dbase [TH]From lice, aka cooties. Sleep with dogs, get fleas . . .
Refugee ship SS Struma departed Romania with 769 Rumanian Jews on board, sailing for Palestine. ww2dbase [CPC]
Churchill placed the defence of Burma under Wavell's command, promising four fighter and six bomber squadrons and matérial reinforcements, together with the 18th Division and what remained of 17th Indian Division (since two of its Brigades had been diverted to Singapore). On the same day, the 3rd Squadron of the American Volunteer Group was transferred to Rangoon, Burma. ww2dbase [Invasion of Burma | AC]
In a meeting with Adolf Hitler, Erich Raeder noted to Hitler that the Americans would most likely divert warships to the Pacific Ocean which was advantageous for the German Navy. ww2dbase [Erich Raeder | CPC]
The Australian government decided to abandon Rabaul in the Bismarck Islands should the Japanese invade; only civilians, restricted to women and children, were allowed to be evacuated. ww2dbase [New Guinea-Papua Campaign, Phase 1, Bismarck Islands | CPC]
12 Dec 1942
Spanish General Muñoz Grandes passed the command of the German 250th Infantry Division of Spanish volunteers to General Esteban-Infantes; Muñoz Grandes was awarded the Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves upon his departure. ww2dbase [Emilio Esteban Infantes | CPC]
Axis rear guards engaged the attacking Allied forces near Marsa Brega and El Agheila in Libya as the main Axis force evacuated to the west. ww2dbase [Second Battle of El Alamein | CPC]
Russia
Operation Winter Tempest was launched towards Stalingrad, Russia with German 3 Panzer Divisions and 10 other divisions. ww2dbase [Battle of Stalingrad | TH]
United States
M3 submachine gun entered US military service. ww2dbase [M3 'Grease Gun' | CPC]
12 Dec 1943
Feldmarschall Rommel was appointed the head of Armeegruppe B based in France. ww2dbase [Erwin Rommel | TH]
In Moscow, Russia, a treaty of friendship was signed between Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union. ww2dbase [TH]
A treaty of amity, mutual aid and collaboration after the war was concluded by the Soviet Union with Czechoslovakia. ww2dbase [AC]
Jean Knox relinquished the temporary rank of chief controller of the British Auxiliary Territorial Service. ww2dbase [Jean Knox | England | CPC]
https://ww2db.com/person_bio.php?person_id=1097
12 Dec 1944
US Third Army captured the V-rocket factory at Wittring in eastern France. ww2dbase [TH]
The American invasion fleet for Mindoro, Philippine Islands set sail. ww2dbase [Philippines Campaign, Phase 2 | CPC]
Roza Shanina was wounded in the right shoulder by a German sniper. ww2dbase [Roza Shanina | CPC]
She had 59 confirmed kills as a sniper, she also took prisoners and participated in regular combat and not just as a sniper. She tried to protect an officer and was fatally wounded. She was written about in Canada.
https://ww2db.com/person_bio.php?person_id=873
Pictures
https://ww2db.com/photo.php?source=all& ... ype_id=873
Burma
Allied troops attacked the Arakan region of Burma. ww2dbase [Third Battle of Arakan | Arakan | CPC]
Italy
Brazilian troops attacked Monte Della Torraca southwest of Bologna, Italy. ww2dbase [Battle of Monte Castello | Monte Castello, Emilia-Romagna | CPC]
United Kingdom
Dwight Eisenhower arrived in London, England, United Kingdom and secured Winston Churchill's agreement on Eisenhower's strategy for the war in Europe for the foreseeable future. ww2dbase [Dwight Eisenhower | London, England | CPC]
B-17 bomber 'Devil's Own', piloted by Lieutenant John E. DeWitt, landed at RAF Debach in eastern England, United Kingdom with a burning engine. Moments after he and his crew safely evacuated the aircraft, the fire detonated its bomb load, destroying the 
aircraft and damaging nearby facilities. ww2dbase [Debach Airfield | Woodbridge, England | CPC]
12 Dec 1947
Victoria Cross winner Nand Singh of the Indian Army was killed whilst leading a successful attack to extricate his battalion from an ambush by Kashmir raiders from Pakistan. ww2dbase [AC]
12 Dec 1953
Chuck Yeager surpassed Scott Crossfield's flight speed record by reaching Mach 2.44. ww2dbase [Charles Yeager | CPC]
https://ww2db.com/event/today/12/12
12 Dec 1936
Xi'an Incident: Chinese generals kidnapped Chiang Kaishek in an attempt to force the Nationalist and Communist forces to form an unified front against the Japanese. ww2dbase [Xi'an Incident | CPC]
12 Dec 1937
China
At 0300 hours, General Tang Shengzhi, commanding officer of Chinese forces in Nanjing, China, having learned that Japanese naval vessels were heading up the Yangtze River, ordered his officers to prepare a small group of men to retreat across the river while the bulk would gather for an offensive to break out of the Japanese line. During the day, troops of the Japanese 114th Division wooed 1,500 Chinese troops into surrendering at the southern side of the city wall, promising to spare them their lives; they were all executed by the end of the following day. In the afternoon, Japanese bombers sank the American gunboat USS Panay in Nanjing, China at 1554 hours. At 1700 hours, Tang met with his officers again (several of whom were absent, having fled the city without permission) and was told that the Japanese were advancing faster than anticipated. He decided to increase the size of the Yangtze River evacuation to 5 divisions of troops. Tang would depart via the Yijiang Gate on the northern side of the city at 2100 hours, crossing the river on a small launch. ww2dbase [Battle of Nanjing and the Rape of Nanjing | Nanjing | CPC]
12 Dec 1938
Albacore aircraft took its first flight. ww2dbase [Albacore | CPC]
12 Dec 1939
Adolf Hitler postponed the decision to invade France to 27 Dec 1939; if he was to launch the attack, the date of action was to be 1 Jan 1940. Since the decision was to be made after Christmas, he permitted the granting of Christmas leave. ww2dbase [Invasion of France and the Low Countries | CPC]
Erich Raeder reported to Adolf Hitler after Raeder had met with Norwegian leaders Vidkun Quisling and Albert Viljam Hagelin. Raeder noted of the Norwegian popular hostility toward Germany, Britain's great influence on the Norwegian government through its high court, and the possibility that Britain might soon occupy Norway. Hitler stated that Britain must never be allowed to occupy Norway. Raeder also recommended Hitler to be neutral in the Winter War, although it was advisable to continue supplying fuel for Soviet submarines. ww2dbase [Adolf Hitler | Erich Raeder | HM]
Finland
Soviets suffered heavy casualties near Tolvajärvi, Finland as Finnish troops wiped out two Soviet divisions. ww2dbase [The Winter War | Tolvajärvi | TH]
12 Dec 1940
Hungary and Yugoslavia signed the Treaty of Eternal Friendship. ww2dbase [CPC]
British 7th Armored Brigade moved into the desert to outflank Italian forces at Sollum, Egypt and to cut the road to Bardia, Libya, as the latter port was subjected to carrier aircraft attack by HMS Illustrious. Meanwhile, the first groups of Italian prisoners of war began to arrive by truck at the British headquarters at Mersa Matruh, Egypt. ww2dbase [Operation Compass | CPC]
German submarine U-96 attacked Allied convoy HX-92 12 miles south of St. Kilda, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, United Kingdom, sinking Swedish ship Stureholm at 0156 hours (killing entire crew of 32) and Belgian ship Macedonier at 0431 hours (4 killed, 37 survived). ww2dbase [CPC]
Philippe Pétain received an invitation from Adolf Hitler to attend the ceremony in which Napoleon II's remains were to be returned from Austria to the Les Invalides cemetery in Paris, France. ww2dbase [Philippe Pétain | CPC]
United Kingdom
British monitoring stations detected X Verfahren radio beams being laid across northern England, United Kingdom, and suspected a German attack would take place on the city of Sheffield. In the evening, 13 He 111 bombers of Kampfgruppe 100 arrived over the Sheffield suburbs of Norton Lees and Gleadless at 1941 hours, dropping 16 SC50 high explosive bombs, 1,009 B1 E1 ZA incendiaries, and 10,080 B1 E1 incendiaries. Shortly after, three groups of German bombers, the main force, attacked. The first group was consisted of 36 Ju 88 bombers and 29 He 111 bombers; the second group was consisted of 23 Ju 88 bombers, 74 He 111 bombers, and 7 Do 17 bombers; the third group was consisted of 63 Ju 88 bombers and 35 He 111 bombers. The 280 German aircraft heavily damaged the city center and residential districts through the night through 0400 hours on the next day. ww2dbase [Battle of Britain | Sheffield, England | CPC]
12 Dec 1941
The United Kingdom declared war on Bulgaria while Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania declared war on the United Kingdom and the United States. ww2dbase [TH]
Germans reported widespread typhus on the Eastern Front of the European War. ww2dbase [TH]From lice, aka cooties. Sleep with dogs, get fleas . . .
Refugee ship SS Struma departed Romania with 769 Rumanian Jews on board, sailing for Palestine. ww2dbase [CPC]
Churchill placed the defence of Burma under Wavell's command, promising four fighter and six bomber squadrons and matérial reinforcements, together with the 18th Division and what remained of 17th Indian Division (since two of its Brigades had been diverted to Singapore). On the same day, the 3rd Squadron of the American Volunteer Group was transferred to Rangoon, Burma. ww2dbase [Invasion of Burma | AC]
In a meeting with Adolf Hitler, Erich Raeder noted to Hitler that the Americans would most likely divert warships to the Pacific Ocean which was advantageous for the German Navy. ww2dbase [Erich Raeder | CPC]
The Australian government decided to abandon Rabaul in the Bismarck Islands should the Japanese invade; only civilians, restricted to women and children, were allowed to be evacuated. ww2dbase [New Guinea-Papua Campaign, Phase 1, Bismarck Islands | CPC]
12 Dec 1942
Spanish General Muñoz Grandes passed the command of the German 250th Infantry Division of Spanish volunteers to General Esteban-Infantes; Muñoz Grandes was awarded the Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves upon his departure. ww2dbase [Emilio Esteban Infantes | CPC]
Axis rear guards engaged the attacking Allied forces near Marsa Brega and El Agheila in Libya as the main Axis force evacuated to the west. ww2dbase [Second Battle of El Alamein | CPC]
Russia
Operation Winter Tempest was launched towards Stalingrad, Russia with German 3 Panzer Divisions and 10 other divisions. ww2dbase [Battle of Stalingrad | TH]
United States
M3 submachine gun entered US military service. ww2dbase [M3 'Grease Gun' | CPC]
12 Dec 1943
Feldmarschall Rommel was appointed the head of Armeegruppe B based in France. ww2dbase [Erwin Rommel | TH]
In Moscow, Russia, a treaty of friendship was signed between Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union. ww2dbase [TH]
A treaty of amity, mutual aid and collaboration after the war was concluded by the Soviet Union with Czechoslovakia. ww2dbase [AC]
Jean Knox relinquished the temporary rank of chief controller of the British Auxiliary Territorial Service. ww2dbase [Jean Knox | England | CPC]
https://ww2db.com/person_bio.php?person_id=1097
12 Dec 1944
US Third Army captured the V-rocket factory at Wittring in eastern France. ww2dbase [TH]
The American invasion fleet for Mindoro, Philippine Islands set sail. ww2dbase [Philippines Campaign, Phase 2 | CPC]
Roza Shanina was wounded in the right shoulder by a German sniper. ww2dbase [Roza Shanina | CPC]
She had 59 confirmed kills as a sniper, she also took prisoners and participated in regular combat and not just as a sniper. She tried to protect an officer and was fatally wounded. She was written about in Canada.
https://ww2db.com/person_bio.php?person_id=873
Pictures
https://ww2db.com/photo.php?source=all& ... ype_id=873
Burma
Allied troops attacked the Arakan region of Burma. ww2dbase [Third Battle of Arakan | Arakan | CPC]
Italy
Brazilian troops attacked Monte Della Torraca southwest of Bologna, Italy. ww2dbase [Battle of Monte Castello | Monte Castello, Emilia-Romagna | CPC]
United Kingdom
Dwight Eisenhower arrived in London, England, United Kingdom and secured Winston Churchill's agreement on Eisenhower's strategy for the war in Europe for the foreseeable future. ww2dbase [Dwight Eisenhower | London, England | CPC]
B-17 bomber
'Devil's Own', piloted by Lieutenant John E. DeWitt, landed at RAF Debach in eastern England, United Kingdom with a burning engine. Moments after he and his crew safely evacuated the aircraft, the fire detonated its bomb load, destroying the aircraft and damaging nearby facilities. ww2dbase [Debach Airfield | Woodbridge, England | CPC]12 Dec 1947
Victoria Cross winner Nand Singh of the Indian Army was killed whilst leading a successful attack to extricate his battalion from an ambush by Kashmir raiders from Pakistan. ww2dbase [AC]
12 Dec 1953
Chuck Yeager surpassed Scott Crossfield's flight speed record by reaching Mach 2.44. ww2dbase [Charles Yeager | CPC]
https://ww2db.com/event/today/12/12
Seek peace but keep your gun handy.
I'm not a complete idiot, some parts are missing!
“Illegitemus non carborundum est (“Don’t let the bastards grind you down”).”
; Julia Child
I'm not a complete idiot, some parts are missing!
“Illegitemus non carborundum est (“Don’t let the bastards grind you down”).”
; Julia ChildRe: THE THREAD!!!
Hi all,
Good morning!
Leo "Apollo11"
Good morning!
Leo "Apollo11"
Prior Preparation & Planning Prevents Pathetically Poor Performance!
A & B: WitW, WitE, WbtS, GGWaW, GGWaW2-AWD, HttR, CotA, BftB, CF
P: UV, WitP, WitP-AE
Re: THE THREAD!!!
Morning, Gentlemen. Ladies.
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb -- they're often students, for heaven's sake. - Terry Pratchett
A government is a body of people; usually, notably, ungoverned. - Quote from Firefly
A government is a body of people; usually, notably, ungoverned. - Quote from Firefly
Re: THE THREAD!!!
On this day for yesterday:
https://ww2db.com/event/today/12/13
13 Dec 1931
United States
While visiting New York City in the United States, Winston Churchill was struck by a car as he crossed the street, having looked the wrong way as he crossed. He suffered injuries to the head but would recover fully. ww2dbase [Winston Churchill | New York | CPC]This happens to Americans in the UK!
13 Dec 1936
With the frontal attack on Madrid, Spain having failed, the Spanish Nationalist forces attempted to tighten their siege by cutting off the capital from the rest of Republican Spain. José Varela launched an offensive to cut the Corunna Road which ran for 25 miles north of Madrid. ww2dbase [The Spanish Civil War | AC]
13 Dec 1937
China
The Japanese Sabae Regiment occupied the Guanghua Gate in Nanjing, China after two days of heavy fighting. In the afternoon, Chinese forces twice attempted to attack the headquarters of the Shanghai Expeditionary Force at Tangshuizhen, but the Japanese was able to repulse the attacks. Later in the day, Zhongshan Gate and Taiping Gate were captured by the Japanese as well, while Japanese Navy warships began to arrive to provide support. By nightfall, the Chinese capital city was declared as captured. German businessman John Rabe, who was in Nanjing, noted the diary entry on this date "It is not until we tour the city that we learn the extent of destruction. We come across corpses every 100 to 200 yards. The bodies of civilians that I examined had bullet holes in their backs. These people had presumably been fleeing and were shot from behind. The Japanese march through the city in groups of ten to twenty soldiers and loot the shops.... I watched with my own eyes as they looted the café of our German baker Herr Kiessling. Hempel's hotel was broken into as well, as almost every shop on Chung Shang and Taiping Road." On this day, troops of the Japanese 16th Division massacred over 3,000 Chinese people, military and civilian, attempting to flee the combat near Guanjiangan and Jiangli areas of Nanjing. Troops of the Japanese 114th Division captured over 1,000 Chinese during its mop up operations, most of whom would be executed within days. Vessels operated by the 11th Task Force of the Japanese 3rd Fleet fired on Chinese refugees attempting to cross the Yangtze River. ww2dbase [Battle of Nanjing and the Rape of Nanjing | Nanjing | CPC]
13 Dec 1939
In China, troops of the Chinese 47th Corps captured the Taihang Mountain and cut the Taosin Railway by taking the stations at Poshan and Changkou. Chinese troops launched an offensive in eastern Shanxi Province in China, nearly encircling the Japanese 36th Division. ww2dbase [Winter Offensive | CPC]
Atlantic Ocean
At the Battle of the River Plate, British naval forces damaged German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee, forcing her enter the neutral port of Montevideo for repairs. HMS Cumberland was ordered to join Exeter, Ajax and Achilles off the Plate estuary off Uruguay. ww2dbase [Battle of the River Plate | Admiral Graf Spee | Cumberland | Exeter | CPC]
Finland
Ivan Khabarov was relieved as the commanding officer of Soviet 8th Army due to its poor performance in Finland. ww2dbase [The Winter War | Ivan Khabarov | CPC]
13 Dec 1940
Führer Directive 20 was issued to prepare for Operation Marita, the invasion of Greece. ww2dbase [Balkans Campaign | TH]
German Army units began redeployment in preparation for Operation Barbarossa. ww2dbase [TH]
British 4th Armored Brigade crossed the desert between Halfaya and Sidi Omar in Egypt in an attempt to cut the road to Tobruk, Libya. To counter the British naval bombardment, Italian submarine Neghelli attacked British cruiser HMS Coventry 40 miles northeast of Sidi Barrani, Egypt at 2042 hours, nearly blowing off her bow; she was able to sail under her own power to Alexandria, Egypt for repairs. ww2dbase [Operation Compass | CPC]
British submarine HMS Truant sank Italian ship Sebastino Bianchi 20 miles off the southern tip of Italy. ww2dbase [CPC]
German submarine U-43 torpedoed and damaged British ship Orari 450 miles west of Land's End, England, United Kingdom at 2046 hours. ww2dbase [CPC]
13 Dec 1941
I-68* was attacked by American depth charges on this day and following days, damaging many battery cells and flooded the aft torpedo tubes. ww2dbase [I-68/I-168 | CPC]
New Zealand and Indian troops of the British Eighth Army launched an attack on the Gazala Line in Libya while the Germans launched a counterattack. British tanks exploited the gap opened by Indian troops, but the advance was soon halted by German tanks. Both sides incurred heavy casualties in men and equipment after the day's fighting. ww2dbase [Operation Crusader | CPC]
Niihau Incident: Downed Japanese pilot attempted to recover sensitive documents seized from him by Niihau islanders; two of the islanders attacked and killed the pilot. ww2dbase [Attack on Pearl Harbor | Detailed Timetable | CPC]
General Timoshenko's Southwest Front assaulted German lines at junction of 2.Panzergruppe and 2.Armee. 2.Armee withdrew, leaving 2.Panzergruppe's flank unprotected. Feldmarschall von Bock secretly ordered Armeegruppe Mitte to withdraw to a winter line 90 miles west of current positions, without informing Hitler. ww2dbase [Battle of Moscow | TH]
Chinese troops mounted an offensive against Japanese troops in the Hong Kong area; earlier on the same day, the last British troops in Kowloon on the mainland were evacuated onto Hong Kong island. ww2dbase [Battle of Hong Kong | CPC]
Japanese Navy aircraft again struck the US Navy base at Olongapo at Subic Bay at Luzon, Philippine Islands. Various other bases and airfields in the Manila Bay area were attacked as well. ww2dbase [Invasion of the Philippine Islands | CPC]
British destroyers HMS Sikh, HMS Maori, and HMS Legion and Dutch destroyer HNLMS Isaac Sweers defeated Italian light cruisers Alberto da Giussano and Alberico da Barbiano and torpedo boat Cigno off Cape Bon, Tunisia at 0325 hours. The two Italian cruisers sank (1,020 killed, 645 survived) with nearly 2,000 tons of aviation fuel meant for Axis forces fighting in North Africa. ww2dbase [Battle of Cape Bon | Isaac Sweers | CPC]
Goebbels wrote in his diary "The World War is here, the extermination of the Jews must be the necessary consequence." ww2dbase [Joseph Goebbels | AC]
The United States Marine Corps formed the Marine Garrison Forces, 14th Naval District at Honolulu, US Territory of Hawaii. ww2dbase [CPC]
Just after 0000 hours, Dutch submarine O.16 entered Mueang Patani, Thailand and damaged four Japanese freighters with six torpedoes, sinking a number of them in shallow water. All ships would later be repaired and put back into service. At 0200 hours, rearguard Indian troops blew up the bridge at Jitra, British Malaya before joining the main body falling back toward Gurun to the south. Later on the same day, Japanese troops arrived at the abandoned airfield at Alor Setar, British Malaya, capturing bombs and aviation fuel. ww2dbase [Invasion of Malaya and Singapore | CPC]
British submarine HMS Upright sank Italian transports Fabio Filzi and Carlo del Greco in Gulf of Taranto, Italy. ww2dbase [CPC]https://ww2db.com/ship_spec.php?ship_id=116
*The submarine changed its name. https://ww2db.com/ship_spec.php?ship_id=116
Belgium
The German Gestapo arrested Soviet Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) radio operator Mikhail Makarov in the Rue des Atrebates, Brussels, Belgium. There followed a year long series of arrests of Soviet Agents across Europe including the complete elimination of the "Red Orchestra" espionage group. By 1943 the Soviets would have no active agents still operating within greater Germany. ww2dbase [Brussels | AC]
Japan
The Japanese Navy ordered submarines I-15, I-9, I-10, I-17, I-19, I-21, I-23, I-25 and I-26 to shell the west coast of the United States on the night of 25 Dec 1941. A detailed list of targets was included in the order. Rear Admiral Tsutomu Sato, aboard I-9, was given tactical command of the operation. ww2dbase [Japanese Attacks on the Continental United States | DS]
Philippines
USS S-39 fired four torpedoes at a Japanese transport just north of the San Bernardino Strait in the Philippine Islands, scoring one hit. ww2dbase [S-39 | CPC]
Russia
Allied convoy PQ-5 arrived at Arkhangelsk, Russia. ww2dbase [Arctic Convoys | Arkhangelsk | CPC]I hope that it brought some SPAM!
United Kingdom
British battleship HMS Duke Of York departed the Clyde, Scotland, United Kingdom with Winston Churchill on board, sailing for the United States. The battleship was escorted by destroyers HMS Faulknor, HMS Foresight, and HMS Matabele. ww2dbase [First Washington Conference | Duke of York | Scotland | CPC]
The British police raided the office of Lord Sempill who had been passing military secrets to the Japanese for some years. Various secret document were discovered which he should have handed back to the Admiralty three weeks earlier. ww2dbase [AC]
United States
Minoru Yasui was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation as an enemy alien. ww2dbase [Minoru Yasui | CPC]
13 Dec 1942
Italian troops fought off an attack by British troops north of El Agheila, Libya in a rear guard action. ww2dbase [Second Battle of El Alamein | CPC]
American troops captured Buna, New Guinea. ww2dbase [New Guinea-Papua Campaign, Phase 2 | CPC]
"Millions of human beings, most of them Jews, are being gathered up with ruthless efficiency and murdered", reported American journalist Edward R. Murrow. "There are no longer 'concentration camps' - we must speak now only of 'extermination camps'." ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | CPC]
United Kingdom
The British Admiralty announced the loss of the Hunt-class destroyer HMS Penylan (Lieutenant-Commander J. H. Wallace DSC, RN) which had been torpedoed and sunk off Start Point, Devon, England, United Kingdom by German E-Boat S-115 on 3 December 1942, while escorting convoy PW-257. ww2dbase [AC]
The Enigma codebooks captured by HMS Petard from the sinking German submarine U-559 arrived at Bletchley Park's Hut 8 and within one hour intercepts of German submarine signals allowed the British Admiralty to instantly pinpoint the location of fifteen U-Boats. ww2dbase [Enigma Code Broken | Bletchley Park | Milton Keynes, England | AC]
13 Dec 1943
American code breakers learned that battleship Yamato was scheduled to arrive at Truk, Caroline Islands on 25 Dec 1943 ferrying men and supplies. ww2dbase [Yamato | CPC]Put that into the game!
One of the first war crimes trials was held in Kharkov, where 4 Germans are accused of using death vans to murder thousands of civilians. ww2dbase [Nuremberg Trials and Other Trials Against Germany | TH]
German Armeegruppe Mitte was heavily engaged in defensive combat in and around Vitebsk, Byelorussia. ww2dbase [TH]
USS Puffer sank Japanese freight Teiko Maru west of the Philippine Islands, hitting her with 1 of 4 torpedoes fired. ww2dbase [Puffer | CPC]
Atlantic Ocean
After TBF Avengers from USS Bogue attacked the surfaced German submarine U-172 in the eastern Atlantic the day before and after a 27-hour running battle that included over 200 depth charges being dropped from the destroyers USS George E. Badger, USS Clemson, USS Osmond Ingram, and USS Du Pont, U-172 sank with 13 killed and 46 survivors taken prisoner. ww2dbase [U-172 | Bogue | DS]
China
The Sino-American Cooperative Organization (SACO) team in transit to Xamba, Suiyuan Province, China reached the Yellow River in Ninxia Province. As the river was partially frozen, thus no ferry service was available, they waited several weeks for the ice to thicken before attempting to drive their vehicles across. ww2dbase [Ningxia | CPC]
Dutch East Indies
Patrol Boat No. 102 completed her starboard propeller calibration work at Surabaya, Dutch East Indies. ww2dbase [Stewart | Surabaya, Java | CPC]
13 Dec 1944
German 7.Armee withdrew to fortified positions on the Westwall on the French-German border. ww2dbase [TH]
Pacific Ocean
US submarine USS Bergall and Japanese heavy cruiser Myoko engaged in a brief combat south of French Indochina during in which both vessels sustained damage; Myoko was hit by one torpedo (of six fired) on the aft port side while Bergall was damaged by an 8-inch shell that passed through without detonating. ww2dbase [Bergall | South China Sea | CPC]They needed to put in a porthole!
Philippines
USS Ticonderoga launched Air Group 80 aircraft for strikes on Japanese positions in northern Luzon, Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Ticonderoga | DS]
In the late afternoon south of Mindoro, Philippine Islands, a special attack aircraft struck light cruiser USS Nashville amidships, killing 133 and wounding 190. Two hours later, another special attack aircraft struck, hitting destroyer USS Haraden. ww2dbase [Tokko "Kamikaze" Special Attack Doctrine | Nashville | Bohol Sea | CPC]
Singapore
Patrol Boat No. 102 arrived at Seletar Naval Base, Singapore at 1848 hours. ww2dbase [Stewart | CPC]
13 Dec 1945
Germany
Juana Bormann was executed by hanging in Hamelin, Germany. ww2dbase [Juana Bormann | Hamelin | CPC]
36 of the 42 accused war criminals at the Dachau trial were sentenced to death. ww2dbase [Nuremberg Trials and Other Trials Against Germany | Dachau Concentration Camp | Dachau, München-Oberbayern | CPC]
United Kingdom
William Joyce's treason conviction was upheld by Lords William Jowitt, Hugh Macmillan, Robert Wright, Gavin Simonds, and Samuel Porter of the British House of Lords, with Porter dissenting. ww2dbase [William Joyce | London, England | CPC]
The funny man, Lord Haw-Haw.
https://ww2db.com/person_bio.php?person_id=1159
13 Dec 1962
John Cunningham passed away. ww2dbase [John Cunningham | CPC]
https://ww2db.com/person_bio.php?person_id=379
13 Dec 1969
Raymond Spruance passed away. ww2dbase [Raymond Spruance | CPC]
He tended to get seasick!
https://ww2db.com/person_bio.php?person_id=80
https://ww2db.com/event/today/12/13
13 Dec 1931
United States
While visiting New York City in the United States, Winston Churchill was struck by a car as he crossed the street, having looked the wrong way as he crossed. He suffered injuries to the head but would recover fully. ww2dbase [Winston Churchill | New York | CPC]This happens to Americans in the UK!
13 Dec 1936
With the frontal attack on Madrid, Spain having failed, the Spanish Nationalist forces attempted to tighten their siege by cutting off the capital from the rest of Republican Spain. José Varela launched an offensive to cut the Corunna Road which ran for 25 miles north of Madrid. ww2dbase [The Spanish Civil War | AC]
13 Dec 1937
China
The Japanese Sabae Regiment occupied the Guanghua Gate in Nanjing, China after two days of heavy fighting. In the afternoon, Chinese forces twice attempted to attack the headquarters of the Shanghai Expeditionary Force at Tangshuizhen, but the Japanese was able to repulse the attacks. Later in the day, Zhongshan Gate and Taiping Gate were captured by the Japanese as well, while Japanese Navy warships began to arrive to provide support. By nightfall, the Chinese capital city was declared as captured. German businessman John Rabe, who was in Nanjing, noted the diary entry on this date "It is not until we tour the city that we learn the extent of destruction. We come across corpses every 100 to 200 yards. The bodies of civilians that I examined had bullet holes in their backs. These people had presumably been fleeing and were shot from behind. The Japanese march through the city in groups of ten to twenty soldiers and loot the shops.... I watched with my own eyes as they looted the café of our German baker Herr Kiessling. Hempel's hotel was broken into as well, as almost every shop on Chung Shang and Taiping Road." On this day, troops of the Japanese 16th Division massacred over 3,000 Chinese people, military and civilian, attempting to flee the combat near Guanjiangan and Jiangli areas of Nanjing. Troops of the Japanese 114th Division captured over 1,000 Chinese during its mop up operations, most of whom would be executed within days. Vessels operated by the 11th Task Force of the Japanese 3rd Fleet fired on Chinese refugees attempting to cross the Yangtze River. ww2dbase [Battle of Nanjing and the Rape of Nanjing | Nanjing | CPC]
13 Dec 1939
In China, troops of the Chinese 47th Corps captured the Taihang Mountain and cut the Taosin Railway by taking the stations at Poshan and Changkou. Chinese troops launched an offensive in eastern Shanxi Province in China, nearly encircling the Japanese 36th Division. ww2dbase [Winter Offensive | CPC]
Atlantic Ocean
At the Battle of the River Plate, British naval forces damaged German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee, forcing her enter the neutral port of Montevideo for repairs. HMS Cumberland was ordered to join Exeter, Ajax and Achilles off the Plate estuary off Uruguay. ww2dbase [Battle of the River Plate | Admiral Graf Spee | Cumberland | Exeter | CPC]
Finland
Ivan Khabarov was relieved as the commanding officer of Soviet 8th Army due to its poor performance in Finland. ww2dbase [The Winter War | Ivan Khabarov | CPC]
13 Dec 1940
Führer Directive 20 was issued to prepare for Operation Marita, the invasion of Greece. ww2dbase [Balkans Campaign | TH]
German Army units began redeployment in preparation for Operation Barbarossa. ww2dbase [TH]
British 4th Armored Brigade crossed the desert between Halfaya and Sidi Omar in Egypt in an attempt to cut the road to Tobruk, Libya. To counter the British naval bombardment, Italian submarine Neghelli attacked British cruiser HMS Coventry 40 miles northeast of Sidi Barrani, Egypt at 2042 hours, nearly blowing off her bow; she was able to sail under her own power to Alexandria, Egypt for repairs. ww2dbase [Operation Compass | CPC]
British submarine HMS Truant sank Italian ship Sebastino Bianchi 20 miles off the southern tip of Italy. ww2dbase [CPC]
German submarine U-43 torpedoed and damaged British ship Orari 450 miles west of Land's End, England, United Kingdom at 2046 hours. ww2dbase [CPC]
13 Dec 1941
I-68* was attacked by American depth charges on this day and following days, damaging many battery cells and flooded the aft torpedo tubes. ww2dbase [I-68/I-168 | CPC]
New Zealand and Indian troops of the British Eighth Army launched an attack on the Gazala Line in Libya while the Germans launched a counterattack. British tanks exploited the gap opened by Indian troops, but the advance was soon halted by German tanks. Both sides incurred heavy casualties in men and equipment after the day's fighting. ww2dbase [Operation Crusader | CPC]
Niihau Incident: Downed Japanese pilot attempted to recover sensitive documents seized from him by Niihau islanders; two of the islanders attacked and killed the pilot. ww2dbase [Attack on Pearl Harbor | Detailed Timetable | CPC]
General Timoshenko's Southwest Front assaulted German lines at junction of 2.Panzergruppe and 2.Armee. 2.Armee withdrew, leaving 2.Panzergruppe's flank unprotected. Feldmarschall von Bock secretly ordered Armeegruppe Mitte to withdraw to a winter line 90 miles west of current positions, without informing Hitler. ww2dbase [Battle of Moscow | TH]
Chinese troops mounted an offensive against Japanese troops in the Hong Kong area; earlier on the same day, the last British troops in Kowloon on the mainland were evacuated onto Hong Kong island. ww2dbase [Battle of Hong Kong | CPC]
Japanese Navy aircraft again struck the US Navy base at Olongapo at Subic Bay at Luzon, Philippine Islands. Various other bases and airfields in the Manila Bay area were attacked as well. ww2dbase [Invasion of the Philippine Islands | CPC]
British destroyers HMS Sikh, HMS Maori, and HMS Legion and Dutch destroyer HNLMS Isaac Sweers defeated Italian light cruisers Alberto da Giussano and Alberico da Barbiano and torpedo boat Cigno off Cape Bon, Tunisia at 0325 hours. The two Italian cruisers sank (1,020 killed, 645 survived) with nearly 2,000 tons of aviation fuel meant for Axis forces fighting in North Africa. ww2dbase [Battle of Cape Bon | Isaac Sweers | CPC]
Goebbels wrote in his diary "The World War is here, the extermination of the Jews must be the necessary consequence." ww2dbase [Joseph Goebbels | AC]
The United States Marine Corps formed the Marine Garrison Forces, 14th Naval District at Honolulu, US Territory of Hawaii. ww2dbase [CPC]
Just after 0000 hours, Dutch submarine O.16 entered Mueang Patani, Thailand and damaged four Japanese freighters with six torpedoes, sinking a number of them in shallow water. All ships would later be repaired and put back into service. At 0200 hours, rearguard Indian troops blew up the bridge at Jitra, British Malaya before joining the main body falling back toward Gurun to the south. Later on the same day, Japanese troops arrived at the abandoned airfield at Alor Setar, British Malaya, capturing bombs and aviation fuel. ww2dbase [Invasion of Malaya and Singapore | CPC]
British submarine HMS Upright sank Italian transports Fabio Filzi and Carlo del Greco in Gulf of Taranto, Italy. ww2dbase [CPC]https://ww2db.com/ship_spec.php?ship_id=116
*The submarine changed its name. https://ww2db.com/ship_spec.php?ship_id=116
Belgium
The German Gestapo arrested Soviet Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) radio operator Mikhail Makarov in the Rue des Atrebates, Brussels, Belgium. There followed a year long series of arrests of Soviet Agents across Europe including the complete elimination of the "Red Orchestra" espionage group. By 1943 the Soviets would have no active agents still operating within greater Germany. ww2dbase [Brussels | AC]
Japan
The Japanese Navy ordered submarines I-15, I-9, I-10, I-17, I-19, I-21, I-23, I-25 and I-26 to shell the west coast of the United States on the night of 25 Dec 1941. A detailed list of targets was included in the order. Rear Admiral Tsutomu Sato, aboard I-9, was given tactical command of the operation. ww2dbase [Japanese Attacks on the Continental United States | DS]
Philippines
USS S-39 fired four torpedoes at a Japanese transport just north of the San Bernardino Strait in the Philippine Islands, scoring one hit. ww2dbase [S-39 | CPC]
Russia
Allied convoy PQ-5 arrived at Arkhangelsk, Russia. ww2dbase [Arctic Convoys | Arkhangelsk | CPC]I hope that it brought some SPAM!
United Kingdom
British battleship HMS Duke Of York departed the Clyde, Scotland, United Kingdom with Winston Churchill on board, sailing for the United States. The battleship was escorted by destroyers HMS Faulknor, HMS Foresight, and HMS Matabele. ww2dbase [First Washington Conference | Duke of York | Scotland | CPC]
The British police raided the office of Lord Sempill who had been passing military secrets to the Japanese for some years. Various secret document were discovered which he should have handed back to the Admiralty three weeks earlier. ww2dbase [AC]
United States
Minoru Yasui was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation as an enemy alien. ww2dbase [Minoru Yasui | CPC]
13 Dec 1942
Italian troops fought off an attack by British troops north of El Agheila, Libya in a rear guard action. ww2dbase [Second Battle of El Alamein | CPC]
American troops captured Buna, New Guinea. ww2dbase [New Guinea-Papua Campaign, Phase 2 | CPC]
"Millions of human beings, most of them Jews, are being gathered up with ruthless efficiency and murdered", reported American journalist Edward R. Murrow. "There are no longer 'concentration camps' - we must speak now only of 'extermination camps'." ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | CPC]
United Kingdom
The British Admiralty announced the loss of the Hunt-class destroyer HMS Penylan (Lieutenant-Commander J. H. Wallace DSC, RN) which had been torpedoed and sunk off Start Point, Devon, England, United Kingdom by German E-Boat S-115 on 3 December 1942, while escorting convoy PW-257. ww2dbase [AC]
The Enigma codebooks captured by HMS Petard from the sinking German submarine U-559 arrived at Bletchley Park's Hut 8 and within one hour intercepts of German submarine signals allowed the British Admiralty to instantly pinpoint the location of fifteen U-Boats. ww2dbase [Enigma Code Broken | Bletchley Park | Milton Keynes, England | AC]
13 Dec 1943
American code breakers learned that battleship Yamato was scheduled to arrive at Truk, Caroline Islands on 25 Dec 1943 ferrying men and supplies. ww2dbase [Yamato | CPC]Put that into the game!
One of the first war crimes trials was held in Kharkov, where 4 Germans are accused of using death vans to murder thousands of civilians. ww2dbase [Nuremberg Trials and Other Trials Against Germany | TH]
German Armeegruppe Mitte was heavily engaged in defensive combat in and around Vitebsk, Byelorussia. ww2dbase [TH]
USS Puffer sank Japanese freight Teiko Maru west of the Philippine Islands, hitting her with 1 of 4 torpedoes fired. ww2dbase [Puffer | CPC]
Atlantic Ocean
After TBF Avengers from USS Bogue attacked the surfaced German submarine U-172 in the eastern Atlantic the day before and after a 27-hour running battle that included over 200 depth charges being dropped from the destroyers USS George E. Badger, USS Clemson, USS Osmond Ingram, and USS Du Pont, U-172 sank with 13 killed and 46 survivors taken prisoner. ww2dbase [U-172 | Bogue | DS]
China
The Sino-American Cooperative Organization (SACO) team in transit to Xamba, Suiyuan Province, China reached the Yellow River in Ninxia Province. As the river was partially frozen, thus no ferry service was available, they waited several weeks for the ice to thicken before attempting to drive their vehicles across. ww2dbase [Ningxia | CPC]
Dutch East Indies
Patrol Boat No. 102 completed her starboard propeller calibration work at Surabaya, Dutch East Indies. ww2dbase [Stewart | Surabaya, Java | CPC]
13 Dec 1944
German 7.Armee withdrew to fortified positions on the Westwall on the French-German border. ww2dbase [TH]
Pacific Ocean
US submarine USS Bergall and Japanese heavy cruiser Myoko engaged in a brief combat south of French Indochina during in which both vessels sustained damage; Myoko was hit by one torpedo (of six fired) on the aft port side while Bergall was damaged by an 8-inch shell that passed through without detonating. ww2dbase [Bergall | South China Sea | CPC]They needed to put in a porthole!
Philippines
USS Ticonderoga launched Air Group 80 aircraft for strikes on Japanese positions in northern Luzon, Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Ticonderoga | DS]
In the late afternoon south of Mindoro, Philippine Islands, a special attack aircraft struck light cruiser USS Nashville amidships, killing 133 and wounding 190. Two hours later, another special attack aircraft struck, hitting destroyer USS Haraden. ww2dbase [Tokko "Kamikaze" Special Attack Doctrine | Nashville | Bohol Sea | CPC]
Singapore
Patrol Boat No. 102 arrived at Seletar Naval Base, Singapore at 1848 hours. ww2dbase [Stewart | CPC]
13 Dec 1945
Germany
Juana Bormann was executed by hanging in Hamelin, Germany. ww2dbase [Juana Bormann | Hamelin | CPC]
36 of the 42 accused war criminals at the Dachau trial were sentenced to death. ww2dbase [Nuremberg Trials and Other Trials Against Germany | Dachau Concentration Camp | Dachau, München-Oberbayern | CPC]
United Kingdom
William Joyce's treason conviction was upheld by Lords William Jowitt, Hugh Macmillan, Robert Wright, Gavin Simonds, and Samuel Porter of the British House of Lords, with Porter dissenting. ww2dbase [William Joyce | London, England | CPC]
The funny man, Lord Haw-Haw.
https://ww2db.com/person_bio.php?person_id=1159
13 Dec 1962
John Cunningham passed away. ww2dbase [John Cunningham | CPC]
https://ww2db.com/person_bio.php?person_id=379
13 Dec 1969
Raymond Spruance passed away. ww2dbase [Raymond Spruance | CPC]
He tended to get seasick!
https://ww2db.com/person_bio.php?person_id=80
Seek peace but keep your gun handy.
I'm not a complete idiot, some parts are missing!
“Illegitemus non carborundum est (“Don’t let the bastards grind you down”).”
; Julia Child
I'm not a complete idiot, some parts are missing!
“Illegitemus non carborundum est (“Don’t let the bastards grind you down”).”
; Julia ChildRe: THE THREAD!!!
Hi all,
God day!
Leo "Apollo11"
God day!
Leo "Apollo11"
Prior Preparation & Planning Prevents Pathetically Poor Performance!
A & B: WitW, WitE, WbtS, GGWaW, GGWaW2-AWD, HttR, CotA, BftB, CF
P: UV, WitP, WitP-AE
Re: THE THREAD!!!
Hi all,
Good morning!
Leo "Apollo11"
Good morning!
Leo "Apollo11"
Prior Preparation & Planning Prevents Pathetically Poor Performance!
A & B: WitW, WitE, WbtS, GGWaW, GGWaW2-AWD, HttR, CotA, BftB, CF
P: UV, WitP, WitP-AE
Re: THE THREAD!!!
Morning, Gentlemen. Ladies.
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb -- they're often students, for heaven's sake. - Terry Pratchett
A government is a body of people; usually, notably, ungoverned. - Quote from Firefly
A government is a body of people; usually, notably, ungoverned. - Quote from Firefly
Re: THE THREAD!!!
It is soon midday, and it feels like dawn as it is grey outside. So I started another monster game. After two hours of preparations I am prepared to start the action. 
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb -- they're often students, for heaven's sake. - Terry Pratchett
A government is a body of people; usually, notably, ungoverned. - Quote from Firefly
A government is a body of people; usually, notably, ungoverned. - Quote from Firefly
Re: THE THREAD!!!
INP.
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb -- they're often students, for heaven's sake. - Terry Pratchett
A government is a body of people; usually, notably, ungoverned. - Quote from Firefly
A government is a body of people; usually, notably, ungoverned. - Quote from Firefly