Today in World War II History—August 10, 1942: Germans cross the Don River and enter outskirts of Stalingrad. Kaiser Richmond Field Hospital opens for employees of Kaiser Shipyard in Richmond, CA.
From Sarah Sundin's blog. The Germans also took Maikop unopposed due to a Brandenburger Commando unit posing as NKVD troops, who ordered the Red Army unit there to retreat.
Meanwhile, the Battle of the Atlantic was raging, with U-boats taking impressive tolls daily.
In that context, on a day full of shipping losses, a heavily escorted British convoy of thirteen freighters including the American oil tanker SS Ohio passed through the Straits of Gibraltar headed towards Malta. The Germans and Italians deploy submarines to intercept.
Winston Churchill, on his way to Moscow, stopped in Iran and had lunch with the Shah.
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Re "The Germans also took Maikop…"
From Thomas McIntyre's book, Thunder Without Rain: A Memoir with Dangerous Game, God's Cattle, The African Buffalo, to be published next winter by Skyhorse, there is this historical note about Maykop [variant spelling], a bit earlier than 1942–
Lascaux may reign as the vertex of prehistoric parietal taurine art.
Not all bovine art was parietal, though. In a Bison kill site at the far western edge of Oklahoma, up against the Panhandle, a ten thousand five hundred-year-old skull was found, streaked with a lightning bolt painted in hematite–blood stone–the oldest known painted artifact in North America. In the almost six thousand-year-old kurgan, a tumulus burial mound, excavated at Maykop in far southwestern Russia, were found golden figurines of long-horned cattle, their satin surfaces smooth as apple skin.
Tom
Sheridan, WY
Fascinating!
I'll look forward to that book's publication!
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