Sunday, June 2, 2024

Friday, June 2, 1944. Eisenhower moves, Operation Frantic commences, Romania and the Soviet Union talk.

American medics from the First Special Services Force giving aid to a group of French soldiers... some of whom were killed and others wounded when three shells landed in Colleferro. Picture taken one minute after the shells landed. 2 June, 1944.

Hitler ordered Kesslering to abandon Rome, which Kesselring was already doing.

Some of the prisoners who were flushed out of the buildings on the eastern side of town.  The Alied troops are from the First Special Services Force, which explains their baggy M1943 paratrooper field trousers.  Artena and Colleferro area, Italy. 2 June, 1944.

3rd Division troops move into Valmontone, Italy, a strong point of German resistance for several days. 2 June, 1944.

Diplomats from the USSR and Romania met in secret in Stockholm to negotiate a Romanian surrender.

Sarah Sundin reports:

Today in World War II History—June 2, 1944 Countdown to D-day: Gen. Dwight Eisenhower moves his headquarters to a trailer at Southwick House in Hampshire.

The French Committee of National Liberation proclaimed itself to be the Provisional Government of France in a declaration from Algeria.

Operation Frantic, which saw U.S. aircraft fly from the United Kingdom and Italy on bombing missions, and then land in Ukraine, and then bomb again on their way back, commenced.

This would be done only seven times.  By and large, the effort was not a success as the Soviets were hostile to it, U.S. personnel assigned to Soviet bases were wary of the Soviets (for good reason and because of their backgrounds as having come from refugee families), and the Soviets proved to be incapable of defending the airfields, which they had warned they might be.

B-17 landing in Ukraine, June 2, 1944.

An ammunition train derailed in Soham Cambridgeshire and exploded, killing two people.

Lost on this day in 1944 with all of its crew.

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Thursday, June 1, 1944. Chanson d'automne.

Monday, June 2, 1924. All Native Americans granted citzenship.

The Indian Citizenship Act was signed into law making all Native Americans U.S. citizens.  A little under half of the 300,000 Native Americans in the country became citizens for the first time due to the act.

It read:

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all non citizen Indians born within the territorial limits of the United States be, and they are hereby, declared to be citizens of the United States: Provided That the granting of such citizenship shall not in any manner impair or otherwise affect the right of any Indian to tribal or other property.

The Communist Party's Central Committee chose the real leaders of the country, the Politburo.  The leaders chosen, in the wake of Lenin's death, were Bukharin, Stalin, Trotsky, Rykov, Kamenev, Tomsky and Zinoviev.  They'd all be victims of Stalin's purge, save obviously for Stalin, with Tomsky being the only one who wasn't executed, but only because he killed himself rather than be arrested.

Frank Lloyd's The Sea Hawk made an early premier in New York City.


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Sunday, June 1, 1924.



Saturday, June 1, 2024

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Best Posts of the Week of May 19, 2024.

Valley of the Tennessee, 1944

Thursday, June 1, 1944. Chanson d'automne.

 

LST's loading for Overlord, June 1, 1944.

Today in World War II History—June 1, 1944: Countdown to D-day: BBC sends first coded message to warn French resistance of the coming invasion. US Fifth Army opens final offensive for Rome.

The coded message was taken from lines of Chanson d'automne and the Germans were aware of its meaning, but failed to respond to it.

The poem:

Les sanglots longs

Des violons

De l'automne

Blessent mon cœur

D'une langueur

Monotone.

Tout suffocant

Et blême, quand

Sonne l'heure,

Je me souviens

Des jours anciens

Et je pleure;

Et je m'en vais

Au vent mauvais

Qui m'emporte

Deçà, delà,

Pareil à la

Feuille morte.

 

Rangers file through a Red Cross canteen prior to embarking on landing craft, June 1, 1944.

Quarantined U.S. troops cleaning small arms, June 1, 1944.

The British took Frosinone in Italy.  They also dropped 60 men of the 2nd Parachute Brigade behind German lines in the Abruzzo region in order to interdict supply lines, which met with an oversized German response.

Allied advances caused Kesselring to order a withdrawal from Rome to defensive positions north of the city.

Adolf Hitler dissolved the Abwehr and transferred its functions to the Reich Security Main Office.  This placed its duties under Heinrich Himmler.

German forces that were on the attack near Jassy were pushed back by counterattacks of the Red Army, which regained ground recently lost.

A German convoy bound to Crete from Greece was attacked from the air, losing several ships.

On Biak US forces began to gain ground with armored support, while around the Aitape beachhead US forces continued to fall back under heavy attack.

The USS Herring was sunk by Japanese coastal batteries on Matua Island, in the Kuril's.


Two U.S. Navy K-class blimps completed the first transatlantic crossing by non-rigid airframe, flying from the US to Morocco in 80 hours.

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Wednesday, May 31, 1944. Advances in Italy.

Sunday, June 1, 1924.

 


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The 2024 Election, Part XVIII. The list.

June 1, 2024

And the complete state races are now in.

First takeaway.  The Senatorial race is now a three-way race, with the most recent entrant being long expected. A democrat, Scott Murrow, has also entered the race, and accordingly will face off against the winner of the GOP primary, and lose.

Harriet Hageman is facing a challenge in the GOP primary from Steve Helling, who ran in the last House race as a Trump supporting Democrat..  He'll lose.


So what about the local county races?



House Contests
Contest Term
State Representative 352 years
RepublicanChristopher Dresang
RepublicanTony Locke
State Representative 362 years
RepublicanArt Washut
State Representative 372 years
RepublicanSteve Harshman
State Representative 382 years
RepublicanJayme Lien
RepublicanTom Walters
State Representative 562 years
RepublicanElissa Campbell
RepublicanPete Fox
RepublicanPamela Mertens
 
Contest Term
State Representative 572 years
RepublicanJulie Jarvis
RepublicanJeanette Ward
State Representative 582 years
RepublicanBill Allemand
RepublicanTom Jones
State Representative 592 years
RepublicanJ.R. Riggins
State Representative 622 years
RepublicanEdis Allen
RepublicanKevin Campbell


County Contests
Contest Term
(2) Two County Commissioners4 years
RepublicanPaul C Bertoglio
RepublicanCasey Coates
RepublicanRozmaring Czaban
RepublicanMatt Keating
RepublicanDave North
RepublicanCurt Simpson Jr
RepublicanTerry Wingerter
RepublicanArthur Youngberg


City of Casper Contests
Contest Term
(2) Two Casper City Council Ward I4 years
 Jude Buchanan
 Julie Collins-Thiel
 Ken Dockweiler
 Dawn Madrid
 Amber Pollock
 Kianna Smith
 Patrick "Pat" Sweeney
(2) Two Casper City Council Ward II4 years
 Bill Brockley Jr
 Lisa Engebretsen
 Kyle Gamroth
 Matthew Larson
 Ross Schriftman
 Gabriel Tullis
Casper City Council Ward III4 years
 Michael H Mcintosh


City of Mills Contests
Contest Term
(2) Two Mills City Council4 years
 James Hollander
 Dawade P Jones
 Sara E Mccarthy
 Laura Miramontes
 Brad Neumiller
 Angela Volzke


Bar Nunn Contests
Contest Term
(2) Two Bar Nunn Town Council4 years
 Keenan Morgan
 Frank Schwarzrock


Evansville Contests
Contest Term
(2) Two Evansville Town Council4 years
 Ernie Blackford
 Dacia Edwards
 Dale Shelden
 Alex Stoops
Evansville Town Council (2 year unexpired)2 years
 Alona Vigneault
Evansville Town Mayor (2 year unexpired)2 years
 Steve Krohn
 Candace Machado


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The 2024 Election, Part XVII. Standing on their feet or crawling on their knees.