America at war! (1941--) -- Part 2

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Völkischer Beobachter (September 7, 1943)

37 Feindbomber bei Terrorangriffen abgeschossen –
Weiter schwere Abwehrkämpfe im Osten

dnb. Aus dem Führer-Hauptquartier, 6. September –
Das Oberkommando der Wehrmacht gibt bekannt:

Die starken Angriffe der Sowjets im Donezbecken, Im Raum von Charkow sowie südwestlich und westlich Wjasma halten unvermindert an.

Die Luftwaffe unterstützte wirksam die in schwerem Abwehrkampf stehenden Verbände des Heeres. In der Zeit vom 2. bis 5. September verlor der Feind 166 Flugzeuge.

Auf der kalabrischen Halbinsel gingen die gelandeten britischen Kräfte gegen die schwachen deutsch-italienischen Sicherungskräfte nur zögernd vor. Nur an einigen Stellen kam es zu Gefechten.

In der vergangenen Nacht führten feindliche Bomberverbände Terrorangriffe gegen das Gebiet der Städte Mannheim und Ludwigshafen. Die Bevölkerung hatte Verluste. In einigen Stadtteilen entstanden erhebliche Zerstörungen, vorwiegend durch ausgedehnte Brände.

Nachtjäger und Flakartillerie schossen, soweit bisher festgestellt wurde, 37 der angreifenden Bomber ab.

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Eisenhower befiehlt Nachrichtensperre –
Ausnahmezustand über Nordafrika verhängt

Eigener Bericht des „Völkischen Beobachten“

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Scharfe Gegensätze Mountbatten-Tschiangkaischek –
Amphibische Operationen oder Burmastraße?

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U.S. State Department (September 7, 1943)

Roosevelt-Churchill meeting, 10:50 a.m.

Present
United States United Kingdom
President Roosevelt Prime Minister Churchill
Mr. Davis Minister of Information Bracken
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The Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Fleet to the President 

Washington, 7 September 1943.

Secret
FF1/A1–1

SERIAL: 001900

SUBJECT: EXAMINATION OF SPECIAL HABBAKUKS AS DIRECTED ON FRIDAY, 3 SEPTEMBER 1943.

I transmit herewith – as Enclosures – the report of the ad hoc committee appointed on Friday, 3 September 1943, at a meeting in the White House with the President and Mr. Churchill.

A copy is enclosed for your reference to Mr. Churchill.

I concur in the recommendations of the Committee.

E. J. KING

[Enclosure]

Report of an ad hoc committee concerning HABBAKUKs

Memorandum for Admiral King

SUBJECT: HABBAKUK – REPORT OF AD HOC COMMITTEE

The report of the ad hoc committee appointed to investigate into the practicability and feasibility of providing floating seadromes or the equivalent thereof for certain operations in southeast Asia, is submitted herewith.

Recommendations of this committee are:
a. That the British provide by target date, 1 February 1944, the CVEs necessary for this operation.

b. That, in case the British are unable to provide and man the necessary number of CVEs by the target date, 1 February 1944, an overriding priority be assigned to eight British escort carriers scheduled for completion prior to 15 December 1943, and that these be manned, and equipped with necessary air squadrons, by the United States.

c. That, in the latter case, and after the operation immediately contemplated, these carriers be employed, United States manned, to support operations in the Pacific scheduled for the late spring 1944, upon completion of which they would be taken over, manned, and operated by the British.

d. That, to determine the practicability and effectiveness of the use of HABBAKUKs, one concrete barge HABBAKUK be constructed by the British in India or elsewhere for trial.

JOHN S. MCCAIN
BEN MOREELL
O. C. BADGER

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Prime Minister Churchill’s Assistant Private Secretary to the President’s Naval Aide 

Washington, September 7, 1943.

Admiral Wilson Brown: Tonight, September 7, the President and the Prime Minister together signed the draft declaration about the use of poison gas against the Italians and the President asked that I should send you the original of this for your records. This is attached.

T L ROWAN
7. 9. 43.

[Attachment]

Declaration on Gas Warfare

Draft Declaration

In the name of the U.S. and British Governments, I wish to make it plain that the use of poison gas against the Italians will call forth immediate retaliation upon Germany with gas, using the Allied air superiority to the full.

ROOSEVELT
CHURCHILL

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Marshal Stalin to President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill 

Moscow, September 7, 1943.

Secret

[TRANSLATION]

Personal and secret message from Premier J. V. Stalin to President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill.

I have received your message of September 4th. The question raised in your message as to whether the Soviet Government agrees to authorize General Eisenhower to sign the brief terms of the armistice with Italy in its behalf is answered by the letter of September 2nd of the People’s Commissar for Foreign Affairs Mr. V. M. Molotov addressed to Mr. Kerr, British Ambassador.

This letter said that the authority given by the Soviet Government to General Eisenhower covers also the signing of the brief terms of the Armistice.

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The Commander-in-Chief, AFHQ to the Combined Chiefs of Staff

Algiers, 7 September 1943.

Secret
Urgent

W 9332. The following announcement will be made by General Eisenhower at 1830B hours D minus 1 day. To AGWar for Combined Chiefs of Staff signed Eisenhower. This is Naf 360. BIGOT AVALANCHE.

This is General Dwight D Eisenhower, Commander-in-Chief Allied Forces. The Italian Government has surrendered its armed forces unconditionally. As Allied Commander in Chief, I have granted a military armistice, the terms of which have been approved by the Governments of the United Kingdom, the United States of[and] the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics acting in the interests of the United Nations. The Italian Government has bound itself to abide by these terms without reservation. The Armistice was signed by my representative and the representative of Marshal Badoglio and becomes effective this instant. Hostilities between the armed forces of the United Nations and those of Italy terminate at once. All Italians who now act to help eject the German aggressor from Italian soil will have the assistance and support of the United Nations.

Marshal Badoglio’s announcement of the Armistice and his message to the Italian Armed Forces and people will be issued simultaneously with the above.

The Combined Chiefs of Staff to the Commander-in-Chief, AFHQ

Washington, September 7, 1943.

Secret
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Some of the Allied nations may object to the wording of the third sentence in your announcement which begins “As Allied Commander-in-Chief etc.” as set forth in your Naf 360. For Eisenhower Freedom Algiers, Fan 219, from the Combined Chiefs of Staff. The Combined Chiefs of Staff desire that this sentence should end with the word “Republics” and that the next sentence should read “I am thus acting in the interests of the United Nations.”

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The Pittsburgh Press (September 7, 1943)

WAVES OF PLANES SMASH EUROPE
RAF batters Munich with 1,000-ton raid

Fortresses stream over Channel in sixth day of offensive
By William B. Dickinson, United Press staff writer

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66 KILLED, 106 HURT IN PRR WRECK
Coach is cut ‘in half’ at Philadelphia

At least 60 are injured fatally; ‘hot box’ is blamed

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Wrecked PRR train is fastest of the electrics

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4 more towns in Italy taken

British advance 8 miles on northwest coast
By Richard D. McMillan, United Press staff writer

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Paratroops trap Japs in New Guinea

U.S.-Aussie forces land in valley near Lae

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New York train wreck kills 3

Crack 20th Century Limited is derailed

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Servicemen aid in heroic rescue work

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Wow… That’s it?!! Churchill was very stingy then.

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46 die, 20 hurt in hotel blaze

Many leap to their death in Houston fire

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Pyle flies home; will visit family

New York (UP) –
Ernie Pyle, newspaper columnist who has been covering the Mediterranean war theater arrived here today aboard a Pan American Clipper. He said he planned to remain in the United States about two months, visiting his father in Indiana and his wife on Albuquerque, New Mexico, before going out on another war assignment, possibly the Pacific.

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Post-war cooperation urged by Republicans

Mackinac Island, Michigan (UP) –
Republican Party national leaders today charted a post-war foreign policy favoring U.S. participation in cooperative organization among sovereign nations without jeopardizing traditional American independence.

The policy was adopted by a 50-member Post-War Policy Council appointed by GOP National Chairman Harrison E. Spangler.

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Republican group urges ‘full employment’ program

‘Minimum control’ of citizens by government also recommended by committee

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Soldier may visit bride, ‘as long as she wants him’

Judge balks parents; sergeant hurries off on happy mission

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2 train wrecks, fire add to U.S. Labor Day toll

Traffic fatalities drop, with curtailment of gas supply
By the United Press

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