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Post by Pumba on Sept 27, 2011 20:50:44 GMT 8
The Second World War, as it happened on these dates, 72 years ago. reposted from @realtimewwii twitter.com/#!/RealTimeWWII
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Post by Pumba on Feb 29, 2012 14:54:19 GMT 8
Heh out of boredome and general interest i will retweet the tweeted tweets on twitter. Its February 29, 1940 1st group of British volunteers arriving to fight in Finland. They're under command of Major Kermit Roosevelt.  --------------------------------------------------- 4 German airmen, shot down in North Sea, have been rescued by UK trawler. 1 said: war is "no good; only 1 man in Germany can open his mouth" --------------------------------------------------- 3 German Enigma cipher rotors, recovered from wreck of sub U-33 by UK divers, have arrived at top-secret codebreaking site Bletchley Park  --------------------------------------------------- Dr. Göbbels, Nazi propagandist, on radio warning neutral nations to "curb their public opinion" & not oppose Germany  --------------------------------------------------- 3800 Soviet soldiers, trapped by Finns north of Lake Ladoga, are about to try and break out of encirclement after almost 2 months starvation  ---------------------------------------------------- Red Army Sgt. Arkadi Tverskoi, part of the Red Army attempted breakout: "Our air force- supposed to be dropping food- has not impressed us." ----------------------------------------------------- "Soviet planes drop supplies from high altitude, often into Finnish hands. Hungry Red Army men & Finns run around trying to grab food drops" ----------------------------------------------------- Finns, having allowed Red Army to break out of encirclement, now hunting down straggling Soviet soldiers in snowbound forest. |
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Post by Pumba on Mar 5, 2012 7:51:41 GMT 8
March 1, 1940 New German propaganda/'comedy' film: Naughty Tran is stockpiling food (like a hamster) so good Nazi Helle fixes him: youtu.be/VunCD-5G1VA--------------------------------------------------- Wreck of German ship Graf Spee in Uruguay sold for scrap today. Secretly, buyers are UK spies investigating naval radar  ---------------------------------------------------- UK officials have publicly identified Nazi radio propagandist "Lord Haw-Haw" as Anglo-Irish Fascist William Joyce.  ----------------------------------------------------- Simo Häyhä, Finland's best sniper, has gone on leave today after 3 months in combat. He has 219 confirmed sniping kills so far.  ------------------------------------------------------- Simo Häyhä has also killed 200+ Soviets in close combat, with a machine pistol. Simo: "I don't count them. There's no sport in that" ------------------------------------------------------- Red Army forces have now reached holiday cottages just miles outside Viipuri, Finland's 2nd largest city. Finns evacuating all civilians. ------------------------------------------------------- The European War is six months old today. So far, approx. 400,000 people have died in the fighting- mostly Poles & Russians. ------------------------------------------------------- Patriotic British women are being urged to wear light-coloured clothing, to save dye for use by the armed forces. ------------------------------------------------------- Soldiers from New Zealand, recently arrived in Egypt, enjoying their 1st day's leave today by touring the Pyramids  ------------------------------------------------------- U.S. "Peace Envoy", Sumner Welles, now in Berlin after meeting Mussolini in Rome: "Duce thinks just & lasting peace can still be found" |
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Post by Pumba on Mar 5, 2012 9:09:09 GMT 8
March 2, 1940 Welles now meeting Nazi foreign minister Ribbentrop: "The man is saturated with hate for England."  --------------------------------------------------------- Finland's cabinet divided. Some want peace before Red Army overruns country- others think Finnish lines can hold until Allied troops arrive --------------------------------------------------------- The French government has offered to purchase "heavy water" from Norway. ------------------------------------------------------- Details of French rationing have been announced: spirits may only be sold 4 days/week, meat 3 days/week, chocolate rationed, pastries banned ------------------------------------------------------- Hitler issuing Führer Directive 10a: plans for invasion of Denmark & Norway, described as "peaceful occupation to protect their neutrality" ----------------------------------------------------- British Bulldog or Big Bad Wolf? Nazi cartoon warns Sweden not to trust UK, who wants to land troops in Scandinavia:  --------------------------------------------------- Gen Kurt Wallenius, hero of Finn victories in Arctic circle, now sent south to try & stop Soviets on frozen Viipuri Bay  ----------------------------------------------------- Unlike in northern forests, Finns fighting on ice have no room to manoeuvre: must stand & die. Wallenius: "The situation is hopeless." ----------------------------------------------------- Mohandas Gandhi has declared that "India cannot be a party to the war" & threatened campaign of "civil disobedience"  |
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Post by Pumba on Mar 5, 2012 9:16:42 GMT 8
March 3, 1940 U.S. peace envoy Sumner Welles now meeting Hitler in Berlin. "Hitler has none of the effeminate appearance of which he has been accused" ------------------------------------------ Hitler to Welles: "I did not want this war. It is a waste of my time. But now the only solution is a life-or-death struggle." ------------------------------------------ U.S. Republican Senator Taft has warmed that President Roosevelt is leading America into war; he promises Republicans would stay neutral. ------------------------------------------- Red Army troops now encircle Finnish city of Viipuri & have captured the train station. Finns fear being trapped: making fighting retreat. ------------------------------------------- Finnish Marshal Mannerheim refuses to order general retreat: the more ground the Finns hold, the stronger their negotiating position.  ------------------------------------------ Soviet sappers swimming through freezing water to repair bridges for their tanks. Finns call them: "Bravest Russians we have ever seen" ------------------------------------------- Overnight, German bombers sank British liner Domala in the English Channel. At least 108 people are dead. --------------------------------------------- SS Domala's quartermaster: "I was in a small lifeboat with 15 men- every few seconds a German plane dived down & poured lead into our sides" ----------------------------------------------- "After 3rd time, I jumped out & crawled onto a raft, where lay the bullet-ridden body of a dead Lascar. 5 mins later, I saw lifeboat sink." ----------------------------------------------- Finnish Gen. Kurt Wallenius, drunk & despairing, has been sacked by Marshal Mannerheim: "You're a disgrace; you'll never serve again."  |
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Post by Pumba on Mar 5, 2012 9:25:33 GMT 8
March 4, 1940 Britain & France have informed Finland that they can send only 18,000 troops to help them- previous offers of 50,000 were "estimates". ----------------------- U.S. envoy Welles leaving Berlin after meeting Göring- who evaded queries on treatment of Jews & Poles, but did show off vast art collection ------------------------ Welles: "Field Marshal Göring personally escorted me through his mansion, Karinhall. I have never seen so incredibly ugly a building."  ------------------------- 1 section of Finnish trenches wasn't attacked today- instead, troops heard 1 Russian voice from no man's land, screaming: "Stalin! Stalin!"  -------------------------- Finnish scouts found Soviets had accidentally shelled own troops as they lined up for an assault. Fresh uniforms on corpses- new regiment. --------------------------- 2 physicists at Birmingham University report possibility of "super-bomb', using the energy stored in atomic nuclei".  ww2today.com/super-bomb-first-steps-to-the-atomic-bomb |
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Post by Pumba on Mar 5, 2012 9:25:55 GMT 8
March 5, 1940 Winter so cold that Viipuri Bay, normally thawed by March, still frozen- Red Army marching on ice. Finns: "General Winter has betrayed us." ---------------------------------- UK Football Association announcing special "War Cup", replacing cancelled FA Cup. No more than 8000 spectators/match in case of air raid ------------------------------------- Football players also now get bonuses: £1 for wins, 10 shillings for draws. (Player salary capped at £12/week maximum). --------------------------------------- U.S. President Roosevelt marking 7 years in office today with a church service; he still refuses to say whether he will run for a 3rd term. ------------------------------------------ U.S. envoy Welles yesterday met ex-Nazi finance minister Dr. Schacht, who said: "If what I tell you becomes known, I'll be dead in a week" --------------------------------------------- Schacht: "A movement is now underway, by leading generals, to depose Hitler. Hitler is the greatest of all liars, a criminal genius" ------------------------------------------- Schacht: "Atrocities in Poland are worse than imagined, they beggar description. When word gets out in Germany, there will be resistance!" -------------------------------------------- Finnish troops abandoning the last fortified island in frozen Viipuri Bay. Red Army can now march to shore unopposed  --------------------------------------------- Berlin trams offering "Marriage Specials", incl. decorated carriages, to take wedding parties to church. Petrol rationed, cars too expensive ------------------------------------------------ 10,000 footballs being distributed to French soldiers on the Western front- 6 months without fighting have made troops "bored & lazy". ------------------------------------------------ Germans capture British outpost in Maginot Line (2 killed, 16 taken prisoner); outpost later recaptured.  |
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Post by Pumba on Mar 6, 2012 11:14:32 GMT 8
March 6, 1940 Finnish pilot Eino Luukkanen is strafing Red Army troops on Viipuri Gulf: "A column of men & horse is crossing the ice- a long black snake"  -------------------------------- "Russian not even wearing white camouflage- panicking, they scatter, slipping & sliding on ice, some trying to hold frightened horses." --------------------------------- "Backwards & forwards we roamed, pouring some 8000 rounds into the Russians." If Red Army reaches Viipuri shore, they can march on Helsinki.  ------------------------------------- Britons are being urged to kill house sparrows, dubbed "Hitler's Feathered Friends" as they eat seedling crops.  ------------------------------------ Finnish coastal artillery using last precious shells to blow holes in ice of Viipuri Gulf- plunging advancing Soviet tanks into freezing sea ------------------------------------- British blockade warships have seized 6 (neutral) Italian ships loaded with "contraband" German coal. Italy strongly protesting. -------------------------------------- Superman Vs. Hitler: From last week's Look Magazine, the Action Comics star takes on first 1 moustachioed dictator...  ------------------------------------------- ...then Superman rounds up Stalin & takes both warmongers for trial before the League of Nations  ----------------------------------------------- Finland has decided that British & French promises of military aid are not be trusted. Finns will negotiate a surrender to the Soviet Union. --------------------------------------------- Molotov, Soviet Foreign Minister, refuses request for ceasefire while surrender is negotiated: "Why stop the juggernaut now it is rolling?" -------------------------------------------- 5 months after their defeat, Polish troops still held in USSR's Ukrainian prison camps. In 1 camp, Starobilsk, they've befriended local dogs ---------------------------------------- Poles tuck notes into 1 dog's collar, hoping locals reply. Today, they did: "People say you'll soon be released. We don't know if it's true" --------------------------------------- In Moscow, Stalin is reading report from Beria, head of the NKVD (secret police): the Polish prisoners "would actively battle Soviet power" ---------------------------------------- Beria's report concludes: to 22,000 Polish prisoners, "apply the supreme punishment: shooting." Stalin signs agreement.  |
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Post by Pumba on Mar 6, 2012 12:31:33 GMT 8
People in the office think im working real hard heh heh
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Post by labrador on Mar 6, 2012 20:02:39 GMT 8
love the comics! keep em coming. And remember the activities from april 7-10 and the BIG GAME on April 22
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Post by Pumba on Mar 15, 2012 23:38:56 GMT 8
March 6, 1940 cont
The Finnish delegation to negotiate peace has left for Moscow; meanwhile, the Red Army has landed a beach-head on Viipuri shore.
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International Red Cross has announced that fewer than 300 Germans, 300 French & 150 British prisoners of war taken in 6 months of war.
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Vatican City has announced that the Pope's bomb shelter is nearing completion. They've also bought 1000 gas masks, 1 per resident.
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The Finnish delegation to negotiate peace has left for Moscow; meanwhile, the Red Army has landed a beach-head on Viipuri shore.
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Post by Pumba on Mar 15, 2012 23:49:03 GMT 8
March 7, 1940 Finnish defenders, short of ammunition, resorting to sawing holes in ice of Viipuri Bay to try & block Russians- but these quickly refreeze. -------------------- Due to "growing Arab unrest" in Palestine, the British Mandate Authority has restricted land sales to Jews (Jewish immigration already cut) --------------------- UK Labour party denouncing anti-Jewish measures as cruel to "a weak & hunted race"; Conservatives: "Now is not the time to face Arab revolt" -------------------- Simo Häyhä, Finnish sniper, has been shot in the head by a Russian soldier. He is the best sniper in military history: 505 kills in 95 days. --------------------- Simo Häyhä is not dead- although bullet has shattered his jaw. Finn troops who rescued his unconscious body: "half his head is hanging out"  ---------------------- Häyhä is famous to Finns & foreign press, who've nicknamed him "Magic Shooter". Red Army sent artillery barrage to try & kill him (missed) ---------------------- Allies, fearing Finns will not ask for military aid, have extended "deadline" to March 12. Allies want excuse to land troops in Scandinavia ---------------------- Dutch submarine O-11, at sea for filming of a propaganda film, has hit a tugboat & sunk; 3 drowned. Watch some footage: ---------------------- Finland, desperately short of trained troops, is now conscripting all 20-year-old men (21 - 44 year-olds already called up). ---------------------- UK: Royal Air Force now teaching "specially deputised" officers to fight "the war on gossip" by snooping on their men.  ---------------------- British Capt. Twomey, on the Western front: "Our posts are sited very poorly. Not one can see another to support it." |
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Post by Pumba on Mar 16, 2012 0:10:18 GMT 8
March 8, 1940 Relatives of the Polish POWs sentenced to death by the USSR to be deported to Siberia. They & their families are now "enemies of the state" -------------------------- Royal Air Force planes over German city of Poznan, dropping propaganda leaflets. Bombs vetoed for fear of retaliation to French cities ---------------------------- Finland has admitted it is seeking a peace deal with Moscow, but declares it will not accept "a peace of defeat" if USSR demands too much ---------------------------- 5PM Queen Elizabeth, the largest liner in the world, has arrived in New York after a secret transatlantic voyage.  ---------------------------- To dodge German u-boats, QE dashed from Scotland - New York in record time, with a skeleton crew. Onboard, a prototype anti-mine "degausser" ----------------------------- Correction: Poznan is a Polish city under German occupation, not a German city. --------------------------- Von Ribbentrop, German Foreign Minister, on radio: expects peace "within a year", but Germany ready for "5-year war" ----------------------------- The Freemason's United Grand Lodge of England announcing they will not permit Freemasons from nations at war with Britain to attend meetings ----------------------------- Late last night, Nazi police in occupied Polish city of Lodz ordered all Jews to move to the ghetto immediately. Those who didn't were shot ---------------------------- Irena Liebman is a Jewish resident of Lodz: "Starting this morning more & more people filled the streets with knapsacks, suitcases, bundles" ---------------------------- "We rush to the ghetto. People without faces, backs curved, heads low. A caravan of poverty. Grey, weary, miserable."  |
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Post by Pumba on Mar 18, 2012 0:29:47 GMT 8
March 9, 1940 UK press accuses USA of profiteering during "war boom". US Ambassador, Joseph Kennedy: "We're not playing Shylock, getting rich off misery" --------------------------------- Tanned & relaxed after 3 month's leave, Mr. Kennedy added: "America's desire to stay out of this war is getting stronger." -------------------------------- Canadian Army volunteers from hockey team the Toronto Maple Leafs are training in their team jerseys  -------------------------------- Irena Liebman & other Jewish inhabitants of Lodz now moved to the ghetto. Irena: "Dirtiest, ugliest part of the city. Tiny, narrow streets" -------------------------------- "A refuse dump choked with rats. A stinking toilet full of melting snow. A leaking roof. 1 little room for 7 people"  -------------------------------- French Commander-in-Chief Gamelin: "The public does not know what it wants done, but it wants something done. Above all they want action." ------------------------------- German Admiral Raeder warns Hitler that Allies may try to land troops in Norway under pretext of sending aid to Finland- urges invasion. ------------------------------- Raeder is correct: Allied promises to Finland are an excuse. Of 12,000 troops planned to land in Scandinavia, only 4,000 are for Finland ------------------------------- New York Times: "Silk stockings are being challenged today for the 1st time since Henry VIII tried on the 1st pair" by newfangled "nylons". ------------------------------- "Women are impatient to try new 'nylons', for sheer stockings are as necessary to a woman as a necktie to a man."  ------------------------------- Famed Finnish composer Sibelius, now 73, telegraphs plea to America: "My country, struggling for democratic freedom, requires arms & men." |
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Post by Pumba on Mar 18, 2012 0:32:31 GMT 8
March 10, 1940 Finnish battle-lines in the city of Viipuri have collapsed; Finns now only holding the city via desperate house-to-house combat. ------------------------------- Finnish General Öhquist: "This is an awful gamble. We might hold Viipuri until tomorrow night. After that, either city or army is doomed" --------------------------------- UK, fearful of driving Mussolini towards alliance with Germany, releasing 13 Italian coal ships interned this week for breaching blockade ------------------------------ "Is England Moving to Canada?" Nazi paper Der Angriff asks: claims UK plans to move King, govt. & aristocracy across Atlantic, fleeing bombs ------------------------------- Message to Finns negotiating peace in Moscow: "Headquarters not sanguine about carrying on fighting- we authorise you to accept any terms" ------------------------------- Certain of imminent military victory, Soviets will change "not a single comma" of their peace terms. Stalin has not even bothered to attend ------------------------------ Today is German "Heroes’ Memorial Day"; Hitler is reviewing wounded Wehrmacht veterans in Berlin.  ------------------------------- Hitler talking to assembled veterans: war "forced on Reich by capitalist France & England" will be great German victory  |
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