Subject: WWII-L Digest - 14 Aug 1993 to 16 Aug 1993

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There are 6 messages totalling 254 lines in this issue.

Topics of the day:

  1. USAAF 16 AUG 43
  2. MISC: Aberdeen Museum
  3. Aberdeen Proving Grounds/Edgewood Arsenal Clarification
  4. Addr: Nagasaki miscellanea
  5. PLEASE COPY THIS DISK
  6. INF:Queenfish/Awa Maru?

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Date:    Mon, 16 Aug 1993 07:19:30 -0400
From:    [email-masked]
Subject: USAAF 16 AUG 43

COMBAT CHRONOLOGY OF THE US ARMY AIR FORCE
MONDAY, 16 AUGUST 1943
FTP SITES
  1. ftp.rutgers.edu in directory pub/wwii/usaf
  2. byrd.mu.wvnet.edu (129.71.32.152) in pub/history/military/airforce/
     wwii_chronology

AIRCRAFT MENTIONED IN THIS REPORT:
  A-36, North American Apache
  B-17, Boeing Flying Fortress
  B-24, Consolidated Liberator
  B-25, North American Mitchell
  B-26, Martin Marauder
  B-40, Boeing Flying Fortress
  P-40, Curtiss
  P-47, Republic Thunderbolt

AMERICAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS

  ALASKA (Eleventh Air Force): In the Aleutian Islands, a B-24 reconnais-
sance flight reconnoiters North Head, Main Camp, and northern Kiska Island,
and observes friendly forces' unopposed advance into Main Camp.

CHINA-BURMA-INDIA THEATER OF OPERATIONS

  BURMA-INDIA (Tenth Air Force): Bombers hit and claim 2 small vessels sunk
about 130 miles (208 km) S of Rangoon, Burma.
  The 89th Fighter Squadron, 80th Fighter Group, transfers from Karachi to
Gushkara, India with P-40's. The squadron will fly it's first mission on 8
Sep 43.

  CHINA (Fourteenth Air Force): 4 P-40's bomb town of Tengchung, China.

EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS

  STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Eighth Air Force): VIII Bomber Command Mission 83:
Luftwaffe facilities in France are targetted today.
  1. 179 B-17's and 1 YB-40 are dispatched to Le Bourget air depot in the
Paris area; 171 hit the target at 0929-0937 hours; they claim 29-3-11
Luftwaffe aircraft; 4 B-17's are lost and 46 damaged; casualties are 1 KIA,
4 WIA and 31 MIA; this mission is escorted all the way to the target by
P-47's using drop tanks.
   2. 66 B-17's are dispatched to Poix and Abbeville Airfields; all 66 hit
the targets at 0911-0923 hours; 38 aircraft are damaged; no casualties.
   VIII Air Support Command Missions 21, 22A and 22B: Airfields in France
are targetted today; no casualties.
   1. 36 B-26's are dispatched to Bernay St Martin Airfield; 31 hit the
target at 1117 hours; 2 aircraft are damaged.
   2. 36 B-26's are dispatched to Beaumont Le Roger Airfield; 29 hit the
target at 1700 hours and 3 hit Conches Airfield at 1703 hours; 3 aircraft
are damaged.
   3. A diversion is flown by B-26's of the 323d Bombardment Group (Medium).

MEDITERRANEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS

  EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN (Ninth Air Force): 86 B-24's bomb the city area and
airfields at Foggia, Italy. In Sicily, 50+ B-25's hit landing craft concen-
trations near Ganzirri and Messina, and 100+ P-40's hit shipping at Messina
and in the Straits of Messina, as the enemy continues the withdrawal of
rear guard troop to mainland Italy. Before midnight, US patrols enter
Messina, which is under fire from the Italian coast.

  WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN (Northwest African Air Force): In Italy, Northwest
African Strategic Air Force (NASAF) medium bombers hit Staletti and a tempo-
rary bridge at Angitola. In Sicily, Northwest African Tactical Air Force
(NATAF) light and medium bombers hit shipping in the Straits of Messina and
from N of Messina to Capo Pelaro. A-36's and P-40's concentrate on communi-
cations targets on the toe of Italy, hitting trains, trucks, railroad
yards, and sidings at Nicastro, Lamezia, Amantea, and Sambiase. Also bombed
are barges, ferries, and small vessels off Messina, Sicily and in the Golfo
di Sant' Eufemia, Italy.

SOUTH PACIFIC THEATER OF OPERATIONS (Thirteenth Air Force): In the Solomon
Islands, 9 B-24's bomb Papatura Fa Island. 12 B-25's, 5 B-17's, and 30+ US
Navy planes attack Vila Airfield on Kolombangara Island.

SOUTHWEST PACIFIC THEATER OF OPERATIONS (Fifth Air Force): Oil tanks at
Balikpapan, Borneo are hit by 2 B-24's. In New Guinea, 5 B-25's bomb Larat;
15 P-38's and 32 P-47's intercept 25 fighters preparing to attack transport
vessels near Tsili Tsili; the strike is completely thwarted and 12 fighters
shot down. This marks first the combat use of the P-47 in this theater.

SOURCES:
AIR FORCE COMBAT UNITS OF WORLD WAR II, Office of Air Force History,
  Headquarters USAF, 1961, ISBN 0-912799-02-1
COMBAT SQUADRONS OF THE AIR FORCE, WORLD WAR II, Office of Air Force
  History, Headquarters USAF 1982
THE ARMY AIR FORCES IN WORLD WAR II: COMBAT CHRONOLOGY, 1941-1945 by the
  Office of Air Force History, Headquarters USAF, 1973
THE MIGHTY EIGHTH WAR DIARY by Roger A. Freeman, ISBN 1-85409-071-2

Jack McKillop
USAF (Airways and Air Communications Service)
1955-59

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Date:    Mon, 16 Aug 1993 10:06:10 -0400
From:    "M. Joseph Barone" <[email-masked]>
Subject: MISC: Aberdeen Museum

        For those going to Aberdeen, be on the lookout for the T-34
with the bogus towing eyelets.  Apparently, the craftsmen from Tamiya
Model Company went to Aberdeen in order to study the vehicles to produce
their various armor models and one of these was the T-34.  The particular
T-34 they studied had had two additional towing eyelets welded on by the
Americans who had brought it over after the war.  These two eyelets are
positioned at the very front of the chasis of the vehicle.  Anyway, Tamiya
faithfully reproduced these eyelets on all of the 1/35 scale kits (even
though their box art does not show them!).  Other model companies followed
suit and now many scale models of the T-34 have these American additions.
To the modelers on the list:  Remove these eyelets from their models!
--
Joe Barone
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Moriarty: Buying this Tiger is going too far!
Odd Ball: It's a beautiful machine!
Moriarty: It's a piece of junk! The fuel system leaks all over!
Odd Ball: Always wit' da negative waves, Moriarty!

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Date:    Mon, 16 Aug 1993 10:13:16 -0400
From:    Eliot Friedman <[email-masked]>
Subject: Aberdeen Proving Grounds/Edgewood Arsenal Clarification

Correcting someone's geography in a previous post, the Aberdeen Proving
Grounds (and Edgewood Arsenal) are about 20 miles NORTH (actually,
northeast), NOT SOUTH, of Baltimore, MD.

Just as most native New Yorkers (myself included) have never visited the
Statue of Liberty, I have not yet visited the Ordnance Museum (closed
Mondays).  There's always next weekend.

-Eliot
[email-masked]

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Date:    Mon, 16 Aug 1993 10:41:04 EDT
From:    RICHARD KING <[email-masked]>
Subject: Addr: Nagasaki miscellanea

My librarian coworker tells me the Nagasaki bomb happened to
accidentally be dropped on the Catholic section of the city,
thereby almost wiping out the entire Catholic population of
Japan in one shot.
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Richard L. King, Reference Librarian, Vincennes (IN) Univ.
[email-masked]

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Date:    Mon, 16 Aug 1993 19:41:13 -0400
From:    "B.R. Samizdat Express" <[email-masked]>
Subject: PLEASE COPY THIS DISK

PLEASE COPY THIS DISK -- UPDATE 8/16/93

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Date:    Mon, 16 Aug 1993 22:13:25 EST
From:    Larry & Kim Jewell <[email-masked]>
Subject: INF:Queenfish/Awa Maru?

Any give me a ref for the sinking of the Awa Maru by Queenfish?  I have
WORLD WAR II; America at War, 1941-1945, which gives two different dates
for the same incident.

TIA,
Larry J

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