[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
Southern Okinawa: Naha-Shuri-Yonabaru, 1945 – Tenth Army Operations, 10 May-30 June 1945
Okinawa, Ryukyus Islands, 1945: Japanese Thirty Second Army Defensive Dispositions, 1 April 1945
Luzon, P.I., 1941: Final Operations on Luzon, 3 February-20 July 1945
Southeast Asia, 1941: Final Allied Offensives in the Southwest Pacific Area 19 February-1 July 1945
China, 1941: Operation Ichigo, 1945 and Final Operations in the War

[Larry Lucido]

Happy Father’s Day, Homer!

[PeterPrinciple]

Big Hitler Plane Ruined

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Would this be it? destroyed a year before.

Hitler’s personal transport[edit]

http://www.militaryfactory.com/aircraft/detail.asp?aircraft_id=237
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At the suggestion of his personal pilot Hans Baur, Adolf Hitler specified a modified and unarmed prototype Condor, the Fw 200 V3, as his personal transport, as a replacement for his Junkers Ju 52. Originally configured as a 26-passenger Lufthansa transport (Works No. 3099), it was reconfigured as a plush two-cabin airliner. Hitler’s seat in the cabin was equipped with a wooden table, seat-back armour plating, and an automatic parachute with downward throws. According to Baur, it was never armed. In line with Hitler’s aircraft preferences, it carried the markings “D-2600” and named “Immelmann III” in honor of World War I flying ace Max Immelmann. As the war progressed it changed designation to “WL+2600” and finally “26+00”; it was destroyed at Berlin Tempelhof Airport in an Allied bombing raid on 18 July 1944.

[PeterPrinciple]

Hitler Cremated

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I always thought that Hitler was very aware of what happened to Mussolini and decided that wasn’t going to happen to him.

[PeterPrinciple]

Marine hurls rock into sea

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I am guessing that “The Rock” was Marine slang for Okinawa that the significance of this is lost to us.

http://www.grunt.com/corps/scuttlebutt/marine-corps-stories/okinawa-the-rock-the-early-days-marine-corps-st-christophers-medal-tags/