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The Pop-Tart Whisperer
September 13 Saturday
ASIA: The Japanese Combined Fleet completes the 4-day training exercise in the North Pacific.
ATLANTIC OCEAN: British Submarine HMS "Tigris" sank Norwegian coastal steamer "Richard With" off Breisund, northern Norway.
EASTERN FRONT: The German OKW determined that Soviet prisoners of war would receive fewer rations than prisoners of other nationalities.
Armeegruppe Nord: German Army Group North continues to press toward Leningrad. General Georgy Zhukov, hero of the 1938 Soviet victory over Japan at Khalkhin Gol, flies from Moscow and arrives in Leningrad with trusted lieutenants Major-Generals I.I. Fediuninsky and M.S. Khozin to replace Marshal Kliment Voroshilov as the commanding officer of the city's garrison who is unable to control the numerous military and civilian groups defending the city. He orders the harshest of punishments for dereliction of duty and orders immediate counter-attacks. His actions, in large part, save the city from the Germans. Zhukov dismisses General Ivanov for incompetence and appoints General Fedyuninsky to command 42nd Army.
German forces land on Muhu (Moon) Island and Saaremaa (Osel) Island in the Baltic Sea off the coast of Estonia.
Armeegruppe Mitte: Model's 3.Panzer-Divisionen and Hube's 16.Panzer-Divisionen capture Lubna and Lokhvista and the 9.Panzer Divisionen (Lieutenant General Dr. A. Ritter von Hubicki) captures Mirgorod.
Armeegruppe Sud: Spearheads of German 1.Panzergruppe and 2.Panzergruppe have nearly isolated Soviet Southwestern Theater. XXIV.Armeekorps (mot.) (General of Panzer Troops Geyr von Schweppenburg) took Lokhvytsia. Manstein takes command of 11.Armee in German Army Group South.
Walther Dahl of II./JG 3 shoots down three Russian aircraft.
Stavka appoints Timoshenko to replace Budenny as commander of the Southwestern Direction High Command.
Suspicious that the Allies may be decoding its radio messages, Berlin orders German commanders in the Soviet Union to send future reports of Nazi executions of Jews and other Soviet civilians by courier instead of radio.
Eleven members of the Jewish Council of Piotrkow, Poland, who had cooperated with the city's Jewish underground, are executed following two months of Gestapo torture.
GERMANY: Werner Mölders married Luise Baldauf (née Thurner), widow of a friend who had been killed in combat. They would have one daughter, Verena, born after Mölders' death.
The food shortage is beginning to bite in the Third Reich. In a report soon to be issued by the ministry for food and nutrition, Germans will be urged to be more economical in the way that they eat potatoes. "In every household in Germany, potatoes should now only be served in their skins," it says. "It is most important that in canteens and restaurants, potato peelers are not used."
MEDITERANNEAN: The British cruiser HMS "Coventry" is sunk by aircraft off Tobruk. Three Italian vessels from a convoy bound from Naples to Tripoli are sunk by RAF aircraft from Malta.
RN aircraft carriers "Ark Royal" and "Furious" launch 45 Hurricane fighters, 22 to reinforce Malta and 23 onward to Egypt.
Operation Propeller: A Convoy departs Gibraltar for Malta. Such was the desperate condition of Malta that it was decided to explore the possibility of supplying the island by means of clandestine passage by unescorted merchant ships. An attempt was made under the title Operation PROPELLER by the freighter "Empire Guillemot". She had been repainted in peace time colors and left the convoy early in its passage and proceeded as a single ship. Patrols had explicit orders neither to approach nor challenge the ship. This time the ship was loaded with fodder. In explanation it must be appreciated that civilian transport in Malta now relied solely upon horse or donkey, as did work on the land, and that these animals also provided a food reserve. Even in normal times, much fodder was imported, in siege conditions little could be grown as cultivable land was devoted to food production for the population.
NORTH AFRICA: Hans-Joachim Marseille shot down a British Hurricane fighter over Sofafi, Libya, his 17th kill. The Hurricane fighter was flown by Sergeant Nourse.
NORTHERN FRONT: The Finnish 'armored ship' "Ilmarinen" hits a mine and sinks while on a deception maneuver to draw Russian attention from the invasions of the islands of Hiidenmaa and Saarenmaa (two large islands off the western coast of Estonia). They were to sail with other ships as conspicuously as possible for a while and then turn back. 'Ilmarinen' sank just when they were about to turn. 132 men are saved but 271 die, making it Finland's worse maritime disaster.
Norwegian passenger ship "Barøy" was sunk in the Vestfjord by a Fairey Albacore of No. 817 Squadron, Royal Australian Navy.
PACIFIC OCEAN: First Naval Member Vice Admiral Sir Guy C.C. Roy/e KCB, CMG, made a very brief inspection of A.C.H., Townsville, when on route to Rabaul by air.
UNITED KINGDOM: Yugoslavian government-in-exile in London begins radio communications with Mihailovic.
WESTERN FRONT: RAF Bomber Command sends 147 aircraft to attack Brest overnight.
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ASIA: The Japanese Combined Fleet completes the 4-day training exercise in the North Pacific.
ATLANTIC OCEAN: British Submarine HMS "Tigris" sank Norwegian coastal steamer "Richard With" off Breisund, northern Norway.
EASTERN FRONT: The German OKW determined that Soviet prisoners of war would receive fewer rations than prisoners of other nationalities.
Armeegruppe Nord: German Army Group North continues to press toward Leningrad. General Georgy Zhukov, hero of the 1938 Soviet victory over Japan at Khalkhin Gol, flies from Moscow and arrives in Leningrad with trusted lieutenants Major-Generals I.I. Fediuninsky and M.S. Khozin to replace Marshal Kliment Voroshilov as the commanding officer of the city's garrison who is unable to control the numerous military and civilian groups defending the city. He orders the harshest of punishments for dereliction of duty and orders immediate counter-attacks. His actions, in large part, save the city from the Germans. Zhukov dismisses General Ivanov for incompetence and appoints General Fedyuninsky to command 42nd Army.
German forces land on Muhu (Moon) Island and Saaremaa (Osel) Island in the Baltic Sea off the coast of Estonia.
Armeegruppe Mitte: Model's 3.Panzer-Divisionen and Hube's 16.Panzer-Divisionen capture Lubna and Lokhvista and the 9.Panzer Divisionen (Lieutenant General Dr. A. Ritter von Hubicki) captures Mirgorod.
Armeegruppe Sud: Spearheads of German 1.Panzergruppe and 2.Panzergruppe have nearly isolated Soviet Southwestern Theater. XXIV.Armeekorps (mot.) (General of Panzer Troops Geyr von Schweppenburg) took Lokhvytsia. Manstein takes command of 11.Armee in German Army Group South.
Walther Dahl of II./JG 3 shoots down three Russian aircraft.
Stavka appoints Timoshenko to replace Budenny as commander of the Southwestern Direction High Command.
Suspicious that the Allies may be decoding its radio messages, Berlin orders German commanders in the Soviet Union to send future reports of Nazi executions of Jews and other Soviet civilians by courier instead of radio.
Eleven members of the Jewish Council of Piotrkow, Poland, who had cooperated with the city's Jewish underground, are executed following two months of Gestapo torture.
GERMANY: Werner Mölders married Luise Baldauf (née Thurner), widow of a friend who had been killed in combat. They would have one daughter, Verena, born after Mölders' death.
The food shortage is beginning to bite in the Third Reich. In a report soon to be issued by the ministry for food and nutrition, Germans will be urged to be more economical in the way that they eat potatoes. "In every household in Germany, potatoes should now only be served in their skins," it says. "It is most important that in canteens and restaurants, potato peelers are not used."
MEDITERANNEAN: The British cruiser HMS "Coventry" is sunk by aircraft off Tobruk. Three Italian vessels from a convoy bound from Naples to Tripoli are sunk by RAF aircraft from Malta.
RN aircraft carriers "Ark Royal" and "Furious" launch 45 Hurricane fighters, 22 to reinforce Malta and 23 onward to Egypt.
Operation Propeller: A Convoy departs Gibraltar for Malta. Such was the desperate condition of Malta that it was decided to explore the possibility of supplying the island by means of clandestine passage by unescorted merchant ships. An attempt was made under the title Operation PROPELLER by the freighter "Empire Guillemot". She had been repainted in peace time colors and left the convoy early in its passage and proceeded as a single ship. Patrols had explicit orders neither to approach nor challenge the ship. This time the ship was loaded with fodder. In explanation it must be appreciated that civilian transport in Malta now relied solely upon horse or donkey, as did work on the land, and that these animals also provided a food reserve. Even in normal times, much fodder was imported, in siege conditions little could be grown as cultivable land was devoted to food production for the population.
NORTH AFRICA: Hans-Joachim Marseille shot down a British Hurricane fighter over Sofafi, Libya, his 17th kill. The Hurricane fighter was flown by Sergeant Nourse.
NORTHERN FRONT: The Finnish 'armored ship' "Ilmarinen" hits a mine and sinks while on a deception maneuver to draw Russian attention from the invasions of the islands of Hiidenmaa and Saarenmaa (two large islands off the western coast of Estonia). They were to sail with other ships as conspicuously as possible for a while and then turn back. 'Ilmarinen' sank just when they were about to turn. 132 men are saved but 271 die, making it Finland's worse maritime disaster.
Norwegian passenger ship "Barøy" was sunk in the Vestfjord by a Fairey Albacore of No. 817 Squadron, Royal Australian Navy.
PACIFIC OCEAN: First Naval Member Vice Admiral Sir Guy C.C. Roy/e KCB, CMG, made a very brief inspection of A.C.H., Townsville, when on route to Rabaul by air.
UNITED KINGDOM: Yugoslavian government-in-exile in London begins radio communications with Mihailovic.
WESTERN FRONT: RAF Bomber Command sends 147 aircraft to attack Brest overnight.
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