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Et Tu, Brute?: The Assassination of Benito Mussolini

By Chris Oakley Part 21 (continued from Part 20)

From the morning edition of the September 1st, 1937 Boston Herald- American:

ALLIED FORCES MAKING SUBSTANTIAL GAINS IN ITALY

So-Called "Airborne" Troops Being Credited With Pivotal Role In Initial Gains Against Nazi Occupiers

From the Washington Post that same day:

CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS DEMAND INVESTIGATION OF REPORTS OF NAZI SCHEME TO ANNIHILATE EUROPEAN JEWS

Mrs. Roosevelt Calls Extermination Plot "Barbaric"

From the afternoon edition of the September 3rd, 1937 New York Daily News:

MAYOR LAGUARDIA CALLS FOR U.S. TO TAKE IN JEWISH REFUGEES

Dubs America “The New Colossus” In Speech Urging White House To Intervene Against Nazi Liquidation Plans

From a CBS Radio news broadcast dated September 4th, 1937:

Today in its official war communiqué the British Army reported that two armor divisions and an infantry division have surrounded German forces at Taranto…

From the book Death From Above: The Dawn Of Airborne Warfare 1937-1946, copyright 2007 VMI Press:

The Allied landings in Italy were the first major utilization of airborne troops in a combat operation, and while the results weren’t always perfect-- one of the British parachute units, in fact, landed nearly sixty miles from its planned drop zone and had to fight its way south to link up with other British forces -- the airborne troops certainly did help weaken the Nazis’ defensive position in Italy to a considerable degree...

From the September 6th, 1937 Daily Mail:

FIELD MARSHAL DEVERELL: OUR LINES AT TARANTO HOLDING

Chief Of Imperial General Staff Reports German Counterattack Repulsed With Heavy Losses To The Enemy

From the morning edition of the September 9th, 1937 Washington Post:

GERMAN ARMOR HITS ALLIED FLANKS NEAR TARANTO

British Position At Italian Port Threatened

From an NBC Radio news broadcast dated September 10th, 1937:

Tonight President Roosevelt has authorized the deployment of a Marine Corps infantry battalion to the Italian front to aid the British and French in turning back the German armies threatening Allied positions at the port of Taranto...

From the book Leathernecks In Rome: The Marine Corps In Italy During The Second World War, copyright 1977 VMI Press:

It was in the fight for Taranto that the Marines first learned, albeit at great cost, valuable lessons that they would later put to good use in subsequent combat operations in Europe and in the war against Japan. In the wake of the horrendous casualties American forces sustained at Taranto, a number of senior USMC officers would be sharply reprimanded and at least a dozen battalion commanders cashiered, but in the long run the Corps was better for the experience...

From a Columbia Pictures newsreel released September 15th, 1937:

These are the first pictures of American troops in action at Taranto! They show the grim nature of the struggle to wrest control of the vital Italian port from the Nazis....Here, we see Marines setting up a machine gun nest inside the ruins of what was once the town school...Just a few yards away the earth is littered with the results of their handiwork-- the bodies of dead Nazi troops lie scattered in all directions....

From the morning edition of the September 16th, 1937 Washington Star:

GERMANS PULL OUT OF TARANTO Allied Troops, Italian Partisans In Full Control Of Port; Marines In Hot Pursuit Of Fleeing Nazi Armies

From a BBC Radio news bulletin broadcast September 18th, 1937:

According to informed sources at the Soviet embassy in London, Red Army infantry advance troops have crossed the Polish-German border and are at this hour engaged in direct combat with the Wehrmacht. These same sources also indicate Soviet aircraft are bombing Dresden...

From the afternoon edition of the September 19th, 1937 Washington Post:

RED AIR FORCE HITS NAZI STRONGHOLDS IN EASTERN GERMANY Leipzig Bombed For First Time

From an NBC Radio news bulletin broadcast September 21st, 1937:

Today the Army Air Corps mounted its biggest raid on Berlin yet, sending at least three full bomber groups to strike at the heart of the Nazi empire as Allied troops continue to push into western Germany....

From the September 22nd, 1937 Paris-Soir:

ALLIED TROOPS UNDER FIRE NEAR SCHWEINFURT

SOVIET-BACKED PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT TAKES POWER IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA

From the afternoon edition of the September 24th, 1937 Boston Globe:

MARINE CORPS MOTORIZED TROOPS MAKING DETERMINED PUSH TOWARD ROME Navy Secretary Knox Deems Liberation Of Italian Capital “A Critical Priority”

From the morning edition of the September 25th, 1937 New York World-Telegram:

EXTRA--HESS RUSHED TO HOSPITAL AFTER SUICIDE ATTEMPT Captured Nazi Bigwig Said To Be Despondent Over His Recent Misfortunes

From the afternoon edition of the San Francisco Chronicle that same day:

KONRAD HEINLEIN DEAD Sudeten Nazi Agitator Executed By Red Army Firing Squad

From a Mutual Radio news bulletin broadcast September 28th, 1937:

The commander-in-chief of the German navy, Grand Admiral Erich Raeder, is reported to be gravely ill tonight....

From the afternoon edition of the October 1st, 1937 Chicago Tribune:

RAEDER TAKES TURN FOR THE WORSE Top Nazi Naval Commander Said To Have “Just Hours” To Live

From a CBS Radio special news bulletin broadcast October 2nd, 1937:

We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming to bring you the following special news bulletin....the German embassy in Stockholm has just confirmed within the past half-hour that German navy commander-in-chief Admiral Erich Raeder is dead...

To Be Continued

 

 

To Be Continued

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