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	<title>Post-blogging 1940</title>
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	<description>From Dunkirk to the Blitz</description>
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		<title>Heavy losses as Coastal Command attacks Prinz Eugen</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 07:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first force was unable to locate the cruiser, but part of the second force, which consisted of 52 aircraft, including 27 torpedo-carrying Beauforts, carried out an attack. Two possible hits with torpedoes are claimed. Considerable enemy fighter opp...]]></description>
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		<title>Day 990 May 17, 1942</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 01:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Battle of Kharkov. German 1st Panzer Army attacks into the base of the Izium salient, aiming to halt the Soviet offensive and encircle their Armies. After a 90 minute artillery barrage, tanks of Kleist's 3rd Panzer Corps attack with air support and cru...]]></description>
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		<title>SS discuss the use of mobile gassing vans</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 07:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I ordered the vans of group D to be camouflaged as house trailers by putting one set of window shutters on each side of the small van and two on each side of the large vans, such as one often sees on farm houses in the country. The vans became so well ...]]></description>
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		<title>Day 989 May 16, 1942</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 01:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gulf of Mexico. At midnight, U-507 sinks Honduran SS Amapala (1 killed, 56 survivors). At 11 AM off the Mississippi Delta, Louisiana, U-506 badly damages US tankers MV Sun and MV William C. McTarnahan. MV Sun reaches New Orleans for repairs under her o...]]></description>
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		<title>The sinking of HMS Trinidad</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 07:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At one time when we were bomb-dodging I spotted torpedo bombers dropping torpedos a couple of miles away. I kept a good eye in that direction and duly reported "TORPEDO TRACKS". Leaving the torpedoes to look after themselves, the skipper calmly assesse...]]></description>
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		<title>15.5.42 [George Orwell]</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 05:30:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I saw Cripps on Wednesday, the first time I had actually spoken to him. Rather well impressed. He was more approachable and easy-going than I had expected, and quite ready to answer questions. Though aged 53 some of his movements &#8230; <a href="http://orwelldiaries.wordpress.com/2012/05/15/15-5-42/">Continue reading <span>&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=orwelldiaries.wordpress.com&#38;blog=4303803&#38;post=3055&#38;subd=orwelldiaries&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Day 988 May 15, 1942</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 02:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[British cruiser HMS Trinidad is scuttled in the Barents Sea 170 miles North of Norway, to prevent further attacks on the stationary cruiser and her destroyer escort after being hit several times yesterday by German dive bombers and torpedo bombers (63 ...]]></description>
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		<title>The LRDG experiment with bombing vehicles</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 07:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The patrol carried 45 gallon drums for blocking the road; and in the hope of creating the impression of a stretch of road under repair two long poles were to be put across the drums, and two red lamps were hung on them with the notice “Achtung! Stras...]]></description>
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		<title>Day 987 May 14, 1942</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 02:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the Gulf of Mexico, U-506 torpedoes US tanker SS David McKelvy, carrying 81,000 barrels of crude oil which explodes (17 killed, 25 survivors many horribly burned, 2 men survive in fresh water tanks in the ship´s bottom until the fire burns out). SS...]]></description>
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		<title>Night patrol across the desert in No Mans Land</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 07:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Suddenly the officer kneels and holds up his hand. Everyone stops dead, kneels and listens intently A star shell bursts, burning whitely in the darkness. The light flickers and dies. Breathing more heavily the patrol rises and continues. Almost immedia...]]></description>
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		<title>Day 986 May 13, 1942</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 19:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Overnight, German armed merchant cruiser Stier attempts to break out into the Atlantic through the English Channel, escorted by torpedoboats Iltis, Kondor, Falke and Seeadler. 14-inch batteries at Dover fire on the convoy, without effect. British motor...]]></description>
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		<title>Pasadena Japanese take taxi to internment</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 07:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since yesterday we Pasadena Japanese have ceased to be human beings - we are now simply numbers or things. We are no longer 'Egamis’ but the number 23324. A tag with that number is on every suit- case and bag. Even on our breasts are tied large tags ...]]></description>
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		<title>Day 985 May 12, 1942</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 02:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At 5.40 AM 35 miles South of Cape Fear, North Carolina, U-558 sinks British anti-submarine trawler HMS Bedfordshire, which is on loan to the US Navy (all 37 hands lost). Mediterranean. British destroyer HMS Jackal, damaged by bombers yesterday burns ou...]]></description>
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		<title>On the cattle wagon to Sobibor</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 07:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We had to stand and the sea of filth grew bigger at our feet, and we went on and on like this for the whole day, locked inside the wagons, as if we were real beasts, in a stifling nauseating place, filled with dead bodies and putrid air. To add the fin...]]></description>
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		<title>11.5.42 [George Orwell]</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 05:30:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another gas warning (in Churchill’s speech) last night. I suppose we shall be using it before many weeks are over. From a Japanese broadcast; “In order to do justice to the patriotic spirit of the Koreans, the Japanese Government have &#8230; <a href="http://orwelldiaries.wordpress.com/2012/05/11/11-5-42/">Continue reading <span>&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=orwelldiaries.wordpress.com&#38;blog=4303803&#38;post=3053&#38;subd=orwelldiaries&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Day 984 May 11, 1942</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 02:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At noon, British destroyers HMS Kipling, Jackal, Jervis and Lively, which are searching for an Italian convoy to Benghazi, are detected by German reconnaissance aircraft from Crete. At 2.30 PM, 14 Ju88 bombers attack, carrying two 500kg and two 250kg b...]]></description>
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		<title>The reality of Home Guard life in Britain</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 07:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few soldiers had got out of the ruins only slightly hurt. The first to be brought out was young John Nicholls, 19, a young Home Guard in Trice’s old section. He had only just received his papers for joining the Army, and was not on parade. He died ...]]></description>
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		<title>Day 983 May 10, 1942</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 02:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At 2.30 PM 1500 miles West of Australia, German armed merchant cruiser Thor stops Australian liner SS Nankin (carrying general cargo, 180 crew and 162 passengers, including 23 naval and military passengers and 38 women and children) with shellfire (2 c...]]></description>
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		<title>Day 982 May 9, 1942</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 00:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Battle of the Coral Sea. While a tactical victory for the Japanese (having sunk US carrier USS Lexington and damaged carrier USS Yorktown for the loss of light carrier Shōhō), it is also a strategic success for the US. Japanese fleet carrier Shōkaku...]]></description>
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		<title>Post-blogging the Baedeker Blitz: conclusion</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 13:31:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brett Holman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So in case it isn't obvious by now, my most recent bout of post-blogging covered the period of the Baedeker Blitz, a series of Luftwaffe raids against English cities (unlike in the Blitz proper, there were no targets in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland) between 23 April and 3 May 1942. The individual blitzes were: [...]]]></description>
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