Ostensibly exploring the practice of law before the internet. Heck, before good highways for that matter.
Wednesday, January 22, 2025
Monday, January 22, 1945. Relentless.
Saturday, January 18, 2025
Thursday, January 18, 1945. Advances in Poland, losses in Hungary.
The Soviet 2nd Belorussian Front captured Modlin. The 1st Belorussian Front and the 1st Ukrainian Front approached encircling Lodz and Krakow, and the Germans withdrew from the latter.
The 4th SS Panzer Division nearly destroyed the Soviet 135th Rifle Corps while attempting to relieve Budapest.
The Red Army liberated the Budapest ghetto.
British commandos landed on the Dutch island of Schouwen.
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Wednesday, January 17, 1945. The Red Army enters a destroyed Warsaw.
Saturday, December 14, 2024
Thursday, December 14, 1944. The tragedy of Lupe Vélez.
The great Mexican actress Lupe Vélez, pregnant with the baby of her recent fiance, Harald Ramond (Harald Maresch) committed suicide after a dinner with friends in Los Angeles, leaving this note:
To Harald, May God forgive you and forgive me too, but I prefer to take my life away and our baby's before I bring him with shame or killing him. – Lupe.
How could you, Harald, fake such a great love for me and our baby when all the time, you didn't want us? I see no other way out for me, so goodbye, and good luck to you, Love Lupe.
Ramond confessed confusion, declaring that even after their recent break up he had promised to marry her. In spite of the official ruling of suicide, there has been ongoing speculation about her death.
She had, at one time, been married to Johnny Weismuller.
May God rest her soul, and that of her child.
The Japanese murdered 150 Allied Prisoners of war near Puerto Princesa in the Philippine province of Palawan to prevent their liberation by American troops.
The Japanese attempted, but failed, to mount a large scale air attack on the U.S. Navy's invasion task force heading to Mindoro. The U.S. Navy hit airfields on Luzon.
The HMS Aldenham was sunk in the Adriatic by a mine. It was the last Royal Navy destroyer lost in World War Two.
Congress authorized the five start senior officer rank to address American commanders technically being junior to high ranking British ones.
The Germans banned the use of electricity in Holland.
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Wednesday, December 13, 1944. USS Goshen commissioned.
Wednesday, December 4, 2024
Monday, December 4, 1944. The Dutch Famine.
The Germans cut Dutch bread rations to two pounds per week.
Martial law was declared in Greece.
Heilbroon was firebombed, resulting in the deaths of 7,147 people.
The Kishinami was sunk in the South China Sea by the USS Flasher.
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Sunday, December 3, 1944. Dekemvriana (Δεκεμβριανά)
Sunday, November 17, 2024
Friday, November 17, 1944. Horrific losses at sea.
The Japanese aircraft carrier Shin'yō was sunk in the Yellow Sea by the USS Spadefish. The Japanese landing craft depot ship Mayasan Maru was sunk in the East China Sea by the USS Picuda with the 3,856 lives.
Over the last few days, American submarines had effectively destroyed the numerical equivalent of an entire Japanese Army division.
The British 2nd Army took Wessem, Netherlands.
The Allies agree with the Belgian government to have Belgian resistance forces lay down their arms.
Disarming resistance groups, which posed a danger to the governments of the liberated territories, was becoming a problem.
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Thursday, November 16, 1944. Attack on the Siegfried Line.
Sunday, November 10, 2024
Friday, November 10, 1944. The Explosion of the Mount Hood.
The USS Mount Hood, an ammunition ship, exploded at Seeadler Harbor at Manus Island in Papua New Guinea, killing all on board and damaging 22 other ships.
Imperial Japanese forces took U.S. airfields in China as part of Operation Ichi-Go. The Japanese were gaining ground in China.
The Germans rounded up over 50,000 Dutch me in Rotterdam as slave labor, and effectively as hostages.
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Thursday, November 9, 1944. Sorge meets his end.
Today in World War II History—November 10, 1939 & 1944
Wednesday, November 6, 2024
Monday, November 6, 1944.. The photo.
Walter Edward Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne, DSO & Bar, TD, PCk, British minister of state in the Middle East was assassinated by the Jewish terrorist group Lehi in Cairo.
The struggle over post war Palestine had begun.
Well, maybe begun again. British rule in Palestine had never been particularly easy.
The German garrison at Middleburg in the Netherlands surrendered to the Canadian Army.
The French government repealed Vichy anti Semitic laws, but implementation would prove to be difficult to implement in terms of restoring their possessions and occupations.
Penicillin began production in large scale in Liverpool.
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Sunday, November 5, 1944. The air and sea war off of Luzon.
Friday, November 1, 2024
Wednesday, November 1, 1944 Death of Greek Catholic Archbishop of Lviv and Metropolitan of Halych Andrey Sheptytsky
Із Послання Митрополита Андрея Шептицького “Не убий” [21 листопада 1942 року]Андрей ШептицькийБожою Милістю і Святого Апостольського Римського Престолу Благословенням Митрополит, Архієпископ Галицький і Львівський Єпископ, Кам’янецький Духовенству й вірним Мир о Господі і благословенствоНЕ УБИЙ![...] Дивним способом обманюють себе і людей ті, що політичне вбивство не уважають гріхом, наче би політика звільняла чоловіка від обов’язку Божого закону та оправдувала злочин, противний людській природі. Так не є. Християнин є обов’язковий заховувати Божий закон не тільки в приватному житті, але й в політичному та суспільному житті. Людина, що проливає неповинну кров свого ворога, політичного противника, є таким самим чоловіковбивником, як людина, що це робить для рабунку, і так само заслуговує на кару Божу і на клятву Церкви.Християнин, і не тільки християнин, а кожна людина обов’язана з людської природи до любови ближнього. І не тільки християн, але й усіх людей буде Всев[вишній] Бог І[сус] Христос, справедливий Суддя, судити по всім ділам життя, а передусім по ділам милосердя і любови ближнього, як це описане в притчі про страшний суд (Мат. XXV). Чоловіковбивник не тільки, що не мав милосердя до вбитого, терплячого, ув’язненого, але ближньому зробив найтяжчу кривду, яку тільки міг зробити, відбираючи йому життя, і то може в хвилі, коли той ближній, на смерть не приготований, стратив через неї всяку надію на вічне життя! Тим вчинком скривдив він усі діти вбитого, жінку, старих батьків, які без помочі вбитого, засуджені, може, на голод і нужду. Та не тільки вбив ближнього, але й свою душу позбавив надприродного життя, Божої благодаті, та ввів її у пропасть, з якої, може, вже й не буде спасіння! Бо прокляттям неповинної крові викликав, може, в своїй душі демонів пожадливости, які кажуть йому в терпіннях і болях ближнього шукати власної радости.[...] Світ гине з браку любови, гине з людської ненависти! Не переставаймо ж благати Всевишнього про обильні, теплі дощі його святої благодати з неба.Вкінці звертаюся ще до вас усіх, Дорогих Братів, вірних та усильно взиваю до заховування якнайбільшого супокою. Воєнні часи приносять нам неодно терпіння і неодну спокусу. Йде лиш про це, щоб з Божою благодаттю тривати при Божому законі і сильно надіятися на Всевишнього, що його пресвята ласка оберне на наше добро всі терпіння, які нам зіслав. Досвіди принимаємо з Божих рук; нічого не діється без волі Небесного Отця, Бог, добрий Батько, змилосердиться над нами, простить наші гріхи і дасть діждатися благословенного часу миру.
Sunday, October 13, 2024
Friday, October 13, 1944. Black Friday for the Black Watch.
A British-Greek force landed at Piraeus, Greece.
The British took Carpineta, Italy.
The Germans retreated from Rovaniemi.
The Red Army broke through German lines at Riga.
The Germans hit Antwerp with V1s and V2s for the first time.
The Black Watch of Canada attacks at Hoogerheide, Netherlands, with disastrous results.
Navy Task Force 38 hits Formosa again, with the Japanese attempting to counter attack by air.
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Thursday, October 12, 1944. Heroes and explorers.
Wednesday, October 9, 2024
Monday, October 9, 1944. The Fourth Moscow Conference Commences.
The Fourth Moscow Conference began, with Churchill, Stalin (of course), and W. Averell Harriman in attendance. The Allies, knowing that victory was coming, discussed post war Europe.
Polish delegates attended some of the meetings.
As odd as it may seem, to many in Germany, the coming defeat was not yet a mental reality. There's a lesson in there about believing what you want to believe, in spite of the evidence.
The St. Louis Cardinals took the 1944 World Series in the sixth game.
The Canadian 3d Division landed at Breskens on the south bank of the Scheldt.
A U.S. task force bombarded Marcus Island.
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Sunday, October 8, 1944 Passing of Fr. Nicolò Cortese and Wendell Willkie
Thursday, October 3, 2024
Tuesday, October 3, 1944. Breaking the Siegfried Line.
Finnish forces captured Taivalkoski.
The Red Army took Hiuma Island, Estonia.
The 1st Army broke through the Siegfried Line north of Aachen.
The RAF broke the dikes around Walcheren Island, flooding it.
Partisans attempted to kidnap fascist Italian Social Republic Minister of the Interior.Guido Buffarini Guidi with tragic unsuccessful results.
The ME 262 became operational.
October 3, 1944 The Littlest War Dog
The I-177 was sunk by the USS Samuel S. Miles
The USS Seawolf was sunk by the USS Richard M. Rowell in a friendly fire accident.
Pack mule train of 26th Indian Mule Co. with British 13th Corps, moving through town of Marradi.
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