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Van Arty Association and RUSI Van Members News Jan 21, 2020 Van Arty Association and RUSI Van Members News Jan 21, 2020 Newsletters normally are emailed on Monday evenings. If you don’t get a future newsletter on time, check the websites below to see if there is a notice about the current newsletter or to see if the current edition is posted there. If the newsletter is posted, please contact me at [email protected] to let me know you didn’t get a copy. Newsletter on line. This newsletter and previous editions are available on the Vancouver Artillery Association website at: www.vancouvergunners.ca and the RUSI Vancouver website at: http://www.rusivancouver.ca/newsletter.html . Both groups are also on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=vancouver%20artillery%20association and https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=rusi%20vancouver Wednesday Lunches - We need your support to keep the lunches going. Hope all you regular attendees can keep coming. The Mess serves a great 5 course buffet meal for only $20. Guests are always welcome, and we encourage members to bring their significant others and friends. Dress - Jacket and tie, equivalent for Ladies. For serving personnel, uniform of the day is always acceptable at lunch. Upcoming events – Mark your calendars See attached posters for details. Jan 01 Dues for VAA, RUSI and 15 Fd Officers Mess Associates now payable Jan 29 Seaforth’s Museum tour Jan 31 15 Fd Centennial Reunion & birthday pty – meet & greet Feb 01 15 Fd Centennial Reunion & birthday pty Feb 08 BCR Whiskey Tasting Mar 6 78FH & 15 Fd Whiskey Tasting World War 2 – 1945 John Thompson Strategic analyst - quotes from his book “Spirit Over Steel” Jan 22nd: TF38 sets course for a return to Ulithi: In the last three weeks, it has lost 201 aircraft (and 167 aircrew), in return for shooting down 615 Japanese aircraft and sinking 300,000 tons of shipping. Converging Soviet fronts threaten to turn all of East Prussia into a giant pocket. 1st Ukrainian Front (Konev) reaches the Oder and crosses it at Steinau. US 1st Army attacks on a broad front between Houffalize and St Vith, while British 2nd Army takes several towns in the 1 Roermond area. 2nd French Army begins offensive operations in the Vosges, concentrating on the Colmar Pocket. In Burma, British IV Corps takes Tilin in the southern advance towards the Irrawaddy. Jan 23rd: US XIV Corps takes Bamban on Leyte. Slim’s XXXIII Corps is doing a magnificent job in attracting Japanese attention around Mandalay, while his IV Corps continues to sneak up behind them. St Vith is back in US hands, while withdrawing German Armor takes heavy losses from Allied airpower. To the Germans, now much battered by Allied bombing, nightfighter pilots have become among their greatest heroes. One of them, Oberst Hans-Joachim Herrmann, has been flying bombers and nightfighters since the Spanish Civil War, and has flown over three hundred combat missions, before he became Inspector General of Night Fighters. For this he receives Oak Leaves and Swords to append to his Knight’s Cross this day. Jan 24th: 1st French Army reach the Ill River in Alsace and 3rd US Army reach the River Clerf. The first of five days of UK carrier raids on Japanese airfields and oilfields on Sumatra. Himmler is given a new job as commander of ‘Army Group Vistula’. With the liberation of Calapan, Mindoro is almost freed. Elements of 14th Air Force have to depart their Sichuan Airfield due to a Japanese advance. Everybody’s luck runs out sometime – the Japanese destroyer Shigure has been in nine battles from the Coral Sea in May 1942 to Surigao Straight in October 1944 and survived them all (sometimes with slight damage). Tonight, she is torpedoed by USS Blackfin and sinks with heavy loss of life. Essential Reading: Every library needs some impressive looking shelf filler and finding single copies from multi-volume editions of some history or another can be one of the small joys of the bibliophile with a lesser budget. In the late 1970s Time-Life books started to produce a mass of volumes on the Second World War – eventually coming out with 39 titles. These are pedestrian histories, and many of the authors for individual volumes are not that distinguished, but each one has some splendid and very unusual photographs and other illustrations. The volumes are durable, come without dust jackets, and can still be found in garage sales, second-hand stores, and so on. World War II Time-Life Books are always worth hunting down for a reasonable price. Jan 25th: East Prussia is virtually cut-off and the evacuation begins with all of the Germany’s remaining surface warships and transports called in to ferry civilians and wounded troops to safety. Konev’s troops cross the Oder near Breslau. 37th US Division takes much of Clark Field on Luzon. Hitler orders Operation Nordwind in Alsace to cease offensive operations. Iwo Jima is bombed by heavy bombers and shelled by USS Indiana. PFC Jose F Valdez of the 3rd Infantry Division is on outpost duty with five other men near Rosenkranz, France, when two companies of Germans supported by armor show up. He engages the enemy, and then covers the withdrawal of his patrol back into the lines amid very heavy fire. He is then struck with an extremely painful wound but calls down artillery and mortar fire on the advancing Germans, bringing fire within 50m of his own position. This breaks up their advance, whereupon he finally crawls back to his own line and expires from his wound. He is posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor. 2 Jan 26th: US 3rd Army crosses the Clerf River. Rokossovsky’s Front completes the isolation of East Prussia. There are more British landings off Southern Burma. Already a highly decorated infantryman, 2Lt Audie L Murphy is commanding a much-depleted company of infantry in the 3rd US Infantry Division near Holtzwihr France, when they are threatened with envelopment by German infantry supported by six tanks. Murphy orders his men to fall back but stays at his CP to direct artillery fire. When the enemy tanks are abreast of his position, he climbs up on a burning US tank destroyer and employs its .50 Caliber machinegun on the German infantry with considerable effect (despite a wound) until its ammunition runs out. Stripped of their infantry support by his actions, the German tanks fall back, and Murphy rejoins his company and leads them in a successful counterattack. He is awarded the Medal of Honor. Essential Reading: As Germany’s fortunes fade, Hitler places more and more of his faith in new wonder-weapons to salvage the situation; but Germany’s scientific establishment was facing a remarkable series of handicaps, starting with Hitler himself. Those who remained in Germany had to work around strange Nazi beliefs, Hitler’s notions of science as a quick fix, and with compromised principles and humanity. John Cornwell’s ‘Hitler’s Scientists: Science, War, and the Devil’s Pact’ recounts the story of what happened to one of Europe’s leading scientific communities. Jan 27th: 32nd US Division lands at Lingayen Gulf to reinforce the Americans on Luzon. The latest advance by 3rd Army has just about erased the Ardennes Salient made by the Germans. Soviet troops enter the Auschwitz concentration camp complex, liberating about 7,500 prisoners who had been abandoned during the evacuation. Memel in Lithuania falls to the Soviets and Poznan is surrounded. Chinese troops from Burma and Yunnan Province complete the clearing of the Ledo Road. One of the main components of the Soviet offensive power in the last two years are entire divisions composed of nothing but heavy field guns and multiple rocket launchers. These deliver enormous firepower. Marshal Leonid Govorov is made a Hero of the Soviet Union for his work in commanding Soviet artillery divisions over the past two years and for his epic command of the defences of Leningrad in 1941-43. Jan 28th: The Soviet juggernaut in Poland trundles into Leszno and Katowice, and noses into German Pomerania. With the recapture of virtually all the territory lost in December, the Battle of the Bulge is finally over. Essential Reading: Samuel W. Mitcham’s account of the Battle of the Bulge from the German perspective is another of the valuable works coming out of Stackpole Books. ‘Panzers in Winter: Hitler’s Army and the Battle of the Bulge’ has some conclusions that have been underplayed in conventional accounts of the campaign. For a start, the enterprise was doomed from the onset, particularly as the congested roadways in the Ardennes kept the Germans from reinforcing and refueling those spearheads that (often at significant cost) made progress. Contrary to many views, Eisenhower reacted very swiftly to the offensive. 3 Letter from HM the Queen on the 100th Anniversary of 15 Fd Regiment RCA 4 Marine Lance Corporal's Bored Selfie Got His Unit 'Killed' Gina Harkins Military.com January 11, 2020 A junior Marine got his artillery unit into a serious bind after snapping a photo during a massive force-on-force training exercise in California's Mojave Desert. Ten thousand troops recently descended on Marine Corps Air-Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms for the biggest training event of its kind in decades. The Marines, sailors and NATO forces faced drone attacks, cyber breaches and other high-tech challenges during the free-play exercise. But one team was taken out by a different kind of threat, Lt Gen Lori Reynolds, the Marine Corps' deputy commandant of information, told reporters at the Pentagon.
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