WWII. Day by Day. – 1939, December – 5/96
WWII. Day by Day. – 1939, December – 5/96
December 1939 1: Russia continues its war against Finland; Helsinki is bombed. In the first two weeks of the month, the Finns retreat to the Mannerheim line, an outmoded defensive line just inside the southern border with Russia. 2: British conscription is increased to cover men from 19 to 41. 5: The Russians start heavy attacks on the Mannerheim line. 7: Italy again declares its neutrality. Norway, Sweden, and Denmark also proclaim their neutrality in the Russo-Finnish quarrel. 11: The Russians meet with several tactical defeats by the Finnish army. 12: The destroyer HMS Duchess sinks after a collision with the battleship HMS Barham off the coast of Scotland with the loss of 124 men. 13: The Battle of the River Plate off Montevideo, Uruguay. A British naval squadron attacks the Admiral Graf Spee 14: The Graf Spee retreats, badly damaged, into Montevideo harbor. 15: The USSR is expelled from the League of Nations in response to the Soviet invasion of Finland on November 30. 16: The Graf Spee is forced by International Law to leave Montevideo harbor; it is scuttled just outside the harbor. Its captain, Hans Langsdorff, is interned. 17: The first Canadian troops arrive in Europe. 18: Germany defeats Britain in the Battle of the Heligoland Bight 20: Captain Hans Langsdorff commits suicide. 27: The first Indian troops arrive in France. 28: Meat rationing begins in Britain. 29: As the year ends, the Finns continue to have successes in fighting the invaders, along the way …
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Lieutenant General Robert Wilson visits IMCOM-Korea Region – March 2007
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Lieutenant General Robert Wilson visits IMCOM-Korea Region
7 March 2007
Lieutenant General Robert Wilson is the Assistant Chief of Staff for Installation Management and Commanding General of the U.S. Army Installation Management Command, located at the Pentagon in Arlington, Va.
Lieutenant General Robert Wilson became the first Commanding General of the Installation Management Command when it was activated on October 24, 2006. He also serves as the Assistant Chief of Staff for Installation Management. Lieutenant General Wilson assumed duties as the Assistant Chief of Staff for Installation Management on June 23, 2006. In this dual role, he is the Army’s single authority and primary provider of base support services while also being responsible for providing effective garrison support of mission activities.
Lieutenant General Wilson served as the Army’s Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff for G-3/5/7 before being selected as the Assistant Chief of Staff for Installation Management.
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Lieutenant General Robert Wilson was commissioned a second lieutenant through ROTC from Indiana University in 1972, graduating with a degree in Business Administration. He also holds a Master’s Degree from Central Michigan University, and is a graduate of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College and the U.S. Army War College.
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@galdurster In fact, Finland got further to areas that have never been part of Finland…
@IgorRussland
You are soo wrong
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@balticwater …more dead shipped home. finland had to pay a high price though in money, lives, area and infrastructure. we were also forced to fight a war against the germans who burned down all of lapland retreating. after the war we were supervised by the “allied commission” which was all russian and were more or less reporting to russia who dictated what we were to do or not to do, also forcing us to send many great people of finland to jail for “war crimes”. and that’s just a short list…
@balticwater …the war was no parade victory like stalin and his companions thought but became a bloody failure where finland kept it’s independence and the russian army got some of our land area and over 100,000 dead returned home.
6. the continuation war. russia drew up new plans to continue their attempt to crush finland and drove us into the claws of hitler to save our country. another bloody war was fought for years, we kept out independence again while russia got some land and 400,000..
@balticwater …and supported the red side with weapons, ammunition etc. the reds lost the war and many many got imprisoned and died in camps or were executed. all this led to internal struggle and hate for decades to come, until we had to unite the country against russia in a common defense.
5. the winter war, long story short russia faked an artillery bombardment, blamed finland and attacked with the objective to conquer the country and install a communist government.
@balticwater 3. the “russification period” in the late 1800s, our rights were being torn down, russian taught in school, everyone had to join the russian army etc.
4. the civil war. it’s true we got our independence 1917, however russia had plans to retake “their land” later on instead. the civil war in 1918 was the bloodiest in the history of europe, the white legal government supported by germany and the red worker class supported by…russia. russia had troops still in the country…
@balticwater 1st, “the great unrest” or something like that should be the name in english. in the 18th century while we were still part of sweden russian ships used to sail up along the coast of finland, land, kill, steal, burn and plunder anything they got their hands on.
2. the war 1808-1809 when finland was lost to russia. the period 1809-late 1800s finns actually liked russia, we had autonomy and a lot of rights and were allowed to deal with our own business.
@fentagin1917 well i can’t prove what stalin did, it’s like religion and holocaust deniers to me though…anyway back on topic, i guess i know more of the history between finland and russia than someone who doesn’t live here so i can’t blame you, but the time under the russian empire isn’t our only reason for disliking russians…there are quite a lot so i’ll mentioned a few of them.
@balticwater i can understand this and i know about the occupation of your country from Russian empire and Swedish empire. but Bolsheviks were those who gave independence to Finland the October revolution was your chance to create a state. also i do not like empires.
and i am not believe those things that they are saying about Stalin most of them were Goebbels propaganda that’s why by the way even today Russians loving him.
@fentagin1917 hmm actually you didn’t post me any link
@fentagin1917 happy new year, will check out the link.
i have to say though…i don’t like russia much and i guess that’s for historical reasons, however i don’t think i’m too brainwashed by western propaganda, finland has always had to try to stay neutral because it’s necessary in our geographical location, but as i said we have our historical reasons to dislike and distrust russians and anything they stand for.
btw did you look up how many russians died for stalin’s purges of his own ppl?
@balticwater first of all you are insulting the historical truth and also the 27 millions of murdered Soviet citizens and all the people who fought and gave their life to defeat fascism.
i posted to your profile an article about what i told to you from Wikipedia( even thought i do not trust her at all).
you are brainwashed by western propaganda by the way check it out friend and lastly happy new year from Greece!
@fentagin1917 well instead of some insults you’re free to provide some reliable sources to prove what you’re saying. to me it looks like it’s your “history” that’s twisted by soviet propaganda.
note that i could type 2 sentences without making insults regardless of what i think about you, try it.
@balticwater who had pissed in your brain dud?
it is another thing to not be a communist and an other to be an anticommunist…anticommunists are fascists just like this bastard mannerheim. Finland was Hitler ally
by the way LEARN HISTORY!
True, the Finns retook the territory the Soviets had taken from them earlier and very wisely refused to go any further. Mannerheim knew the Russians very well and probably realized early on that the Germans would never be able to defeat that vast manpower and industrial might.
@balticwater you should actually be thankful to mannerheim. he refused hitler’s direct order/request to help with the siege of leningrad. finland was never a true ally of germany but a co-belligerent. our objectives were different and finland never signed the axis pact.
@fentagin1917 fascist…no. anticommunist? not a bad thing…
he was voted the greatest finn of all time by the people of finland so admiration, sure and well deserved too. hitler’s ally? no, mannerheim didn’t even like hitler but your mass murdering dictator pushed the people of finland into the claws of hitler in order to defend and save our country from soviet occupation.
Great series.
But I need english subtitles for Nov. and Dec. How to ge them* Thanks, g.
@IgorRussland I do not care about if he was an officer in the army before the revolution. by the way the officers in the red army were from all the soviet union there were not only Russians. I like RED army not the Russian one. also Vlassov was an Russian officer but he was a traitor.
and by the way what was an imperial army believes? to killing workers in the name of the char? because this bastard fight against communists in the Finnish civil war, and also then Germans help him to win…
@fentagin1917
I do value it. I probably felt exactly the same a few years ago.
However, with years gone by and lot more information becoming available to us I cannot just plainly hate him. I still remember all his controversial deeds. But we cannot overlook the fact that Soviet policies sometimes did not leave him any choice.
As many former Russian Imperial officers he kept his dignity, he stood for his believes…
In my mind he was and is first of all The Russian Officer …
this bastard Mannerheim was a fascist piece of shit an anticommunist zealot!
and those people in this documentary speak about him with great admiring…this bastard was Hitler ally and he has great responsibility about the at least 25 million killed Soviet citizens…