Tuesday 18 November 2014

WEDNESDAY 19th NOVEMBER 2014 07:53 GMT

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1. THIS DAY IN WORLD WAR 2 (19th November 1944)
On the Russian Front...
Kriegsmarine gun ferry AF-18 is sunk by Soviet aircraft in the Baltic

On the Western Front...
British 2nd Army attacks around Prummern, Wurm, Helden, and Panningen and captures Geilenkirchen
US 9th Army attacks around Freialdenhoven, Setterich, Duerboslar, Schleiden, St Joeris, and Kinzweiler
US 1st Army attacks in the Huertgen Forest sector
US 3rd Army, having encircled Metz, is now streetfighting towards the city centre
US 7th Army makes substantial progress and advances toward the Saverne Gap 
French 1st Army advances into the suburbs of Belfort and reaches the Rhine at Rosenau 

In the Pacific...
IJN submarine I-37 is sunk by USN destroyer escorts Conklin and McCoy Reynolds

Battalion of US 31st Infantry Division lands on Asia Island near Sansapor with strong air support

Japanese vessel Nichinan Maru is sunk by RN submarine Strategem off the East Indies

US 6th Army attacks unsuccessfully toward Ormoc on Leyte Island, whilst kamikaze aircraft damage four supply ships

IJN light cruiser Isuzu is cdamaged by USN submarine Hake off the Philippines

China...
Operation To-Go (Hunan-Kwangsi Operation): 
23rd Independent Mixed Brigade of Japanese 23rd Army advances toward Nanning


On the Salween front:
53rd Army of Chinese Y Force captures Japanese positions north of Chefang

Burma...
Indian 19th Infantry Division of British 14th Army crosses the Chindwin River at Sittaung
East African 11th Infantry Division of British 14th Army enters Indainggyi

Today's Air Raids...
Vienna, Linz, and Wiener-Neudorf, Austria by US 15th Air Force
Antwerp, Belgium by one V-2 rocket
Gyor, airfields, and transportation lines in Hungary by US 15th Air Force
Maribor and military targets in Yugoslavia by US 15th Air Force
Northern Italy on transportation routes by US 15th Air Force
Mindanao Island, Negros Island, Celebes Island and military targets in the Molucca Islands by US FEAF
Luzon by USN aircraft and US FEAF - three supply ships and a sub-chaser are sunk offshore
Chichi Jima and Haha Jima by US 7th Air Force
Tingka, Wan Lai-Kam, and Hankow, China by US 14th Air Force
Man Mao, Sekang, and Manlu, Burma by US 10th Air Force 

2. TODAY IN MY LIFE
Blogging
Shopping
Meditation/Me Time
Missus Time

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3. TODAY'S SELF-OBSERVATION
Another day in paradise! Troubles, such as they are, have centred on TV reception. With electronics problems, solving them are easy, it's FINDING THE CAUSE that takes forevermore. Poor reception of BBC1 on the Freeview upstairs turned out to be the TV picking it up from the wrong mast!  Channel 1
got allocated to the far-distant Lincolnshire mast whereas nearby Emley Moor got allocated to channel 804. Case solved!


4. TODAY'S QUESTION FOR YOU
When things are calm, what is your baseline emotion?

5. TODAY'S WEATHER IN BRADFORD  
Dry, settled and cloudy throughout
A light south-easterly will blow throughout
Max Temp = 8 degC
Min Temp = 7 degC
Sunrise at 07:41
Sunset at 16:03

Weathertrack: A very large high pressure system over Russia will extend over Britain, bringing settled and calm but cloudy weather 
Air Pressure:1017 millibars and rising

6. TODAY'S ONELINER
My cat came first in the swimming in milk competition - it won by a lap. :D

7. NOW THAT'S FUNNY!
Mock the Week: The Hadron Collider 

8. TRIVIA
The US state at greatest risk for a tsunami is Hawaii. Hawaii experiences about one tsunami a year and a damaging tsunami every seven years. California, Oregon, and Washington have a damaging tsunami about every 18 years.

9. ZEN WISDOM
Dialogue starts from the courageous willingness to know and be known by others. It is the painstaking and persistent effort to remove all obstacles that obscure our common humanity.
 
  

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