#WW2 June '43. USA. 'New Masses' reviews the 30-panel Harlem Series exhibition of paintings by African American Jacob Lawrence: 'everyday life in New York's Jim Crow Ghetto.' Featured here, 'This is Harlem'.
In October Lawrence will be drafted into the Coast Guard.
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#OTD 10 June 1943. #WW2 Laubach, Germany. Secret anti-nazi resister, Friedrich Kellner has seen the Italian press reports on the Allied attacks on Pantelleria. They claim 'strong coastal defence ... in no way being defeated'.
He includes this clip in his secret diary [My Opposition, p 246]
#OTD 10 June 1943. #WW2 Today in Germany General Martin Harlinghausen is relieved of his command of Fleigercorps II (2nd Air Corps). We think Harlinghausen had been the Luftwaffe senior officer at the Ennejma Ezzahra Palace in Tunisia between November 1942 - January 1943.
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#OTD 10 June 1943. #WW2 Rome. James Strachey Barnes asserts that Italians will fight 'magnificently'.
He re-writes his will, in case he has to flee the country, but is confident he will get his Italian citizenship.
'I believe in the Star of Italy - and I believe in the Justice of God'.
#WW2. June 1943. US magazine New Masses reviews 'Inside Fascist Spain', a short film for the series March of Time, made with the blessing of General Franco. The review ends:
'If these revelations are what Franco shows the world, what must be the things he conceals?'
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#WW2 June '43. USA: 'New Masses' praises the combat record of veterans of the Lincoln Brigade. Those who attend officer training perform well. But then are dropped from the program, on 'Orders from the War Department'.
Their crime: 'premature and excessive anti-fascism'.
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Thanks @crusaderproject.bsky.social for this post. I am pretty sure that Leo d’Erlanger then CHAIRMAN of Erlanger Bank (of the Ennejma Ezzahra Palace in Sidi Bou Said … and of Upper Grosvenor in Mayfair) was involved in the development of Mulberry Harbours. I think I have this on tape from 1975.
#OTD 9 / 10 June 1943, #WW2 Algiers: US diplomats respond to the Giraud / de Gaulle power struggle. It's in Allied interests to protect Giraud. Interesting to see their (negative) reaction to Gaston Palewski. He's a d'Erlanger friend, who stayed at the palace in June 1940.
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#OTD 10 June 1943, #WW2 Algiers. De Gaulle stages a dramatic walkout from today's meeting of the French National Committee for National Liberation. He retreats to his villa 'shrouded in sorrow' to wait for reaction. Outside 'seethed with alarming rumour'. DRAMA!
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#OTD 10 June 1943, #WW2 operation CORKSCREW continues. Pantelleria is under attack.
Soon, the four main 'actors' in this 'event' will be based in the same 'location' - 'Greater Carthage', Tunisia.
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War Winning Engineering: Mulberry Harbour and the D-Day invasion.Creating two ports, each the size of Dover harbour, was no mean feat in wartime Britain, requiring innovation, tenacity, and hard work....
