[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 and the occasional radio broadcast 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 .)
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[Homer_J_Simpson]

Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
The Western Pacific, New Guinea, and the Philippine Islands: The Invasion of Leyte (KING II), 17-20 October 1944 and the Battle for Leyte Gulf, 23-25 October 1944
The Philippine Islands: Leyte Island and the Visayas, 1944 – Sixth Army Operations on Leyte and Samar, 17 October-30 December 1944
Northwestern Europe, 1944: 6th and 12th Army Group Operations, 15 September-7 November 1944
Northwestern Europe, 1944: 21st Army Group Operations, 15 September-15 December 1944
Eastern Europe, 1941: Russian Balkan and Baltic Campaigns – Operations, 19 August-31 December 1944
Northern Italy 1944: Allied Advance to Gothic Line, 5 June-25 August and Gains 29 August-31 December
China, 1941: Operation Ichigo, April-December 1944 and Situation 31 December
China-Burma, 1941: Third Burma Campaign – Slim’s Offensive, June 1944-March 1945

[Steven Scharf]

Crazy quotes from page 19 above.

New York Times
Sunday, October, 22, 1944
Quotations

William L. Batt, vice chairman of the War Production Board, at a Boston conference of business executives: “ I don’t think we need fear Russia * * * Russia is one of the nations of the world which will want much of us. Russia can pay for these desired imports only if she has an opportunity to sell increasing amounts of her goods to us and to the rest of the world.”

Dr. Ernest A. Hooton, Harvard Anthropologist: “If women had run the affairs of the world for the past few thousands of years, they could hardly have made a worse mess of them than the men have. * * * I still look forward to the time when a woman will be sitting in the Presidential office of the White House.”

Mayor La Guardia, on the Army-at-War Painting exhibition in Manhattan: “I am happy to say that every work is a classic – none of this crazy futuristic or modernistic work, you know the kind that makes you hold your nose and shut your eyes when you look at it and you need someone to explain it to you.”