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January 8
We Remember
1940: In Britain, rationing is introduced today, housewives had to take their ration books with them to buy butter, sugar and bacon from the shops with whom they have registered. Butter is rationed at four ounces a week. Adults are allowed 12 ounces of sugar and four ounces of bacon or uncooked ham - less of cooked ham. Hotels are allowed to serve one-sixth of an ounce of butter - a circular pat the thickness of three pennies - with each meal, including afternoon tea. Some have installed special weighing machines. They can serve one-seventh of an ounce of sugar, or two lumps. British housewives will be allowed extra sugar for making marmalade by the Ministry of Food, providing that the Treasury and Board of Trade permit the import of Seville oranges. Obtaining rationed food from Eire is punishable by six months imprisonment, unless it is sent as small gifts.
Bacon, butter and sugar are put on the ration list and are only available in small quantities. Butter is limited to 4 ounces (113 grams) per week. Adults are allowed 12 ounces (340 grams) of sugar and 4 ounces (113 grams) of bacon or uncooked ham -- less of cooked ham.
CHINA: Japan claims to have killed 25,000 Chinese in battle north of Canton.
GERMANY: The Italian Ambassador delivers a message from Benito Mussolini to Adolf Hitler cautioning the Fuhrer against waging war against Britain. Mussolini asked if it was truly necessary "to risk all-including the regime-and to sacrifice the flower of German generations." Hitler ignored him and moved forward with plans to conquer Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg, andFrance. Mussolini, rather than tie Italy's fortune to Germany's, which would necessarily mean sharing the spotlight and the spoils of any victory, began to turn an eye toward the east. Mussolini invaded Yugoslavia and, in a famously disastrous strategic move.
1942: BRITISH NORTH BORNEO: Japanese troops have advanced into Jesselton [Kota Kinabalu], the capital of British North Borneo, and hauled down the Union Flag. The British had little choice but to quit the town. On 15 December, when theJapanese 124th Infantry Regiment came ashore at the burning oilfields at Miri, all the British Empire had to oppose them was one Indian battalion, the local Sarawak Rangers and the police. From Miri two Japanese battalions sailed west to the airfield at Kuching, where they are still fighting; a third sailed east and took Jesselton. Japanese forces also occupy Beaufort, British North Borneo.
HAWAII: The Japanese submarine HIJMS I-19 launches a Yokosuka E14Y, Navy Type 0 Small Reconnaissance Seaplane (later given the Allied Code Name "Glen") to fly a reconnaissance mission over Pearl Harbor.
IRAQ: Baghdad: A court sentences Rashid Ali, who led an anti-British
coup last year, to death in absentia.
LIBYA: Axis forces retreat from El Agheila to Agedabia.Pilots of No. 3 Squadron RAAF flying Curtiss Kittyhawks attack 35 Italian aircraft and 8 Luftwaffe Bf 109s that are preparing to attack advancing British forces southeast of Agedabia. The Aussies claim 7 aircraft destroyed and 4 probably destroyed vs. 1 Kittyhawk lost.
1943: A summons is issued to FM Paulus' 6th Army to surrender. It is ignored.
1944: U-426 is sunk west of Nantes, France, in position 46.47N, 10.42W, by depth charges from an Australian Sunderland aircraft (RAAF Sqdn. 10/U). 51 dead (all hands lost).
U-757 is sunk in the North Atlantic south-west of Iceland, in position 50.33N, 18.03W, by depth charges from the British frigate HMS Bayntun and the Canadian corvette HMCS Camrose. 49 dead (all hands lost)
1945: France: Strasbourg: The US 7th Army fends off a strong German attack at Rimling.
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We Remember
1940: In Britain, rationing is introduced today, housewives had to take their ration books with them to buy butter, sugar and bacon from the shops with whom they have registered. Butter is rationed at four ounces a week. Adults are allowed 12 ounces of sugar and four ounces of bacon or uncooked ham - less of cooked ham. Hotels are allowed to serve one-sixth of an ounce of butter - a circular pat the thickness of three pennies - with each meal, including afternoon tea. Some have installed special weighing machines. They can serve one-seventh of an ounce of sugar, or two lumps. British housewives will be allowed extra sugar for making marmalade by the Ministry of Food, providing that the Treasury and Board of Trade permit the import of Seville oranges. Obtaining rationed food from Eire is punishable by six months imprisonment, unless it is sent as small gifts.
Bacon, butter and sugar are put on the ration list and are only available in small quantities. Butter is limited to 4 ounces (113 grams) per week. Adults are allowed 12 ounces (340 grams) of sugar and 4 ounces (113 grams) of bacon or uncooked ham -- less of cooked ham.
CHINA: Japan claims to have killed 25,000 Chinese in battle north of Canton.
GERMANY: The Italian Ambassador delivers a message from Benito Mussolini to Adolf Hitler cautioning the Fuhrer against waging war against Britain. Mussolini asked if it was truly necessary "to risk all-including the regime-and to sacrifice the flower of German generations." Hitler ignored him and moved forward with plans to conquer Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg, andFrance. Mussolini, rather than tie Italy's fortune to Germany's, which would necessarily mean sharing the spotlight and the spoils of any victory, began to turn an eye toward the east. Mussolini invaded Yugoslavia and, in a famously disastrous strategic move.
1942: BRITISH NORTH BORNEO: Japanese troops have advanced into Jesselton [Kota Kinabalu], the capital of British North Borneo, and hauled down the Union Flag. The British had little choice but to quit the town. On 15 December, when theJapanese 124th Infantry Regiment came ashore at the burning oilfields at Miri, all the British Empire had to oppose them was one Indian battalion, the local Sarawak Rangers and the police. From Miri two Japanese battalions sailed west to the airfield at Kuching, where they are still fighting; a third sailed east and took Jesselton. Japanese forces also occupy Beaufort, British North Borneo.
HAWAII: The Japanese submarine HIJMS I-19 launches a Yokosuka E14Y, Navy Type 0 Small Reconnaissance Seaplane (later given the Allied Code Name "Glen") to fly a reconnaissance mission over Pearl Harbor.
IRAQ: Baghdad: A court sentences Rashid Ali, who led an anti-British
coup last year, to death in absentia.
LIBYA: Axis forces retreat from El Agheila to Agedabia.Pilots of No. 3 Squadron RAAF flying Curtiss Kittyhawks attack 35 Italian aircraft and 8 Luftwaffe Bf 109s that are preparing to attack advancing British forces southeast of Agedabia. The Aussies claim 7 aircraft destroyed and 4 probably destroyed vs. 1 Kittyhawk lost.
1943: A summons is issued to FM Paulus' 6th Army to surrender. It is ignored.
1944: U-426 is sunk west of Nantes, France, in position 46.47N, 10.42W, by depth charges from an Australian Sunderland aircraft (RAAF Sqdn. 10/U). 51 dead (all hands lost).
U-757 is sunk in the North Atlantic south-west of Iceland, in position 50.33N, 18.03W, by depth charges from the British frigate HMS Bayntun and the Canadian corvette HMCS Camrose. 49 dead (all hands lost)
1945: France: Strasbourg: The US 7th Army fends off a strong German attack at Rimling.
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