[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
Papua, New Guinea, 1942
Initial Advance of Australian 7th Division on Gona and the Sanananda Track, 16-21 Nov. 1942
Initial Advance of 32nd Infantry Division on Buna, 16-21 Nov. 1942
The Solomons: Guadalcanal and Florida, 1942
Southwest Russia, 1942: German Advance to Stalingrad, Operations, 24 July-18 November 1942
Special Guest Map-November Race for Tunis (from Ike: An American Hero, by Michael Korda)
Tunisia 1942: The Race for Tunisia-Situation 1 January 1943, and Operations Since 17 November 1942
North Africa, 1941: Pursuit to Tunisia, November 1942-February 1943
The Far East and the Pacific, 1941: Status of Forces and Allied Theater Boundaries, 2 July 1942
India-Burma, 1942: Allied Lines of Communication, 1942-1943

[Rebelbase]

The Russian counter offensive commences tomorrow.

[GeronL]

Chutists are like parachutists, but se just the one chute?

Pepsi energy will win this war!

Japs run wild in the Aleuts

Drinking engineers with loose lips sink ships

[InMemoriam]

"Their failure is probably conclusive; it is unlikely that they will again be able to muster a strength relatively as great as that which has just been dispersed."

It's interesting that the typically cautious Hanson Baldwin correctly calls Guadalcanal today, while the Japanese are still planning the next attack that they will never launch, for which they will substitute a complete withdrawal. Today, they are even planning on giving Guadalcanal its own army, the 17th Army, which had been split around the region.