[Homer_J_Simpson]

Free Republic University, Department of History presents World War II Plus 70 Years: Seminar and Discussion Forum
First session: September 1, 2009. Last date to add: September 2, 2015.
Reading assignment: New York Times articles delivered daily to students on the 70th anniversary of original publication date. (Previously posted articles can be found by searching on keyword “realtime” Or view Homer’s posting history .)
To add this class to or drop it from your schedule notify Admissions and Records (Attn: Homer_J_Simpson) by freepmail. Those on the Realtime +/- 70 Years ping list are automatically enrolled. Course description, prerequisites and tuition information is available at the bottom of Homer’s profile. Also visit our general discussion thread

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
Gazala and Vicinity, Libya, Africa, 1942: Decisive German-Italian Breakout, 12-13 June, 1942
Southwest Russia, 1942: German Summer Offensive, Operations, 7 May-23 July 1942
North Africa, 1940: Rommel’s Second Offensive, 21 January-7 July 1942
India-Burma, 1942: Allied Lines of Communication, 1942-1943

[norwaypinesavage]

Your posts are always interesting. I only regret that I don't always have the time to study them completely. I have spent dozens of hours at the National Museum of the Pacific War in Fredricksburg TX (the home of Chester Nimitz). It's a great place, but it is so large that cannot establish the time line of all of the events. Your day-by-day re-reporting establishes that time line. Thanks

[iowamark]

Great post as always!

It really is amazing what a good job the NY Times did in those days, even with 1942 technology and wartime censorship. It is incredible how far they have fallen under little Pinch.

[Sasparilla]

My Father and his buddies were at ATTU in May, 1943, and remained in Alaska until the summer of 1945 when they shipped to Manila, Philippines to await their orders for the invasion of Japan.

[Sasparilla]

Part of the President’s Official citation For Ensign Milton Tootle, Jr.’s Navy Cross, the pilot in the story on the upper right corner of page 13, for his action in downing a Japanese torpedo plane that was attacking his aircraft carrier is found at:
http://ww2fighters.blogspot.com/2008/07/profile-19-18-flown-by-milton-tootle.html
There is also a depiction of his Wildcat fighter.

[Peter W. Kessler]

Radio News of 6/13/42:

http://ia701200.us.archive.org/0/items/1942RadioNews/1942-06-13-CBS-News-of-the-World-AM-Edition.mp3

[BroJoeK]

June 13, 1942:

• "Three thousand Jews are deported from the Theresienstadt, Czechoslovakia, camp/ghetto to their deaths.

• "British Ambassador to the Vatican Francis d'Arcy Osborne observes about Pope Pius XII that his 'moral leadership is not assured by the unapplied recital of the Commandments.' "

"As appalling as conditions were in the Warsaw Ghetto, some of the city's Jews survived, often by hiding outside the ghetto in the homes of gentiles who were willing to conceal them.
Here, Jacob, David, and Shalom Gutgeld pose with their Aunt Janke.
Janke managed to get the three boys out of the ghetto, hiding them in the small apartment of a couple named the Roslans.
Jacob and David survived the Holocaust, but Shalom died of scarlet fever."

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