#OTD 14 June 1943, #WW2 North Africa, 'King George VI with General Mark Clark of the US Army in North Africa.'
'Photo shows: standing in an African vineyard his Majesty the King watches street-fighting tactics by an assault party.
IWM, (FRE 9819)
tinyurl.com/etrf6z3s
#OTD 14 June #WW2 Cairo, Egypt. United Nations Day.
'Two Sherman tanks taking part in the United Nations parade in Cairo which saw 5,000 troops and vehicles pass through the city, 14 June 1943.'
Photo credit: James Allan Johnstone Cash.
IWM tinyurl.com/22tnzkz2
#OTD 14 June 1943, #WW2, Mediterranean. Tedder reminds that CORKSCREW was a 'laboratory experiment', and should not lead to dangerous false conclusions that is could be replicated on HUSKY.
He predicts Pantelleria will become a 'perfect curse'.
'With Prejudice', p.443. tinyurl.com/54p8y7wx
#WW2: Mediterranean. Pantelleria and Lampedusa both surrendered in the face of relentless air attacks. Later Air Chief Marshall Lord Tedder would comment on the downside of this strategic military choice of carpet bombing. [see next post]
Carlo d'Este, 'Eisenhower: A Soldier's Life', p. 740.
#OTD 14 June 1943, #WW2, Nicolaus von Below, Hitler's Luftwaffe Adjutant returns to Berghof (Bavaria) after a fortnight's break. TheFuhrer) is concerned about the impact of Allied bombing. Then Sicily: he needs the Luftwaffe to 'help out'.
'At Hitler's Side' p.171, tinyurl.com/yuthrtrm
#JUne1943, #WW2
2 RAF officers, Patrick Lorne Welch and Flight Lieutenant Walter Morrison DFC, who tried to escape from Stalag Luft III, Sagan on 12 June 1943 (during so called delousing break) disguised as German airmen.'
Photo after recapture on the aerodrome near Sagan
IWM, tinyurl.com/2rkav64f
#OTD 14 June 1943. United Nations Day: Oran Algeria
French Foreign Legion Troops marching through Victory Square, Oran, during the parade.
Photo credit: Lt P G James,
IWM tinyurl.com/act692yk
#OTD 14 June 1943, #WW2, Berghof Bavaria. Hitles Luftwaffe adjutant Von Below finds a telegram Goring had sent earlier in the week berating the Luftwaffe for poor performance.
'The most pitiful bunch of fliers I have ever commanded'.
At Hitler's Side' p.171, tinyurl.com/yuthrtrm
The Day They Soloed
WASP Class 43-W-7
Anne Carolyn Culpepper Miller
(18 Feb 1919 – 7 Oct 2005)
Madeleine Allaire Bennett
(15 Feb 1918 – 3 Aug 2001)
Robbie Graham Grace Rinehart
(27 Aug 1919 – 12 Jan 1967)
Women Airforce Service Pilots
#WomenMilAv8rs #WomenAtWar2 #WomenOfAviation #WWII
#OTD 14 June 1943, #WW2. TIME on the power struggle within the French Committee of National Liberation, when
'Slander and counter-slander muddied the Algiers atmosphere.'
A good Harold MacMillan quote:
'Better to have an argument now than civil war in France later.'
tinyurl.com/3dsy2zzm
