[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
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

[BroJoeK]

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October 16, 1944:

• October 16-26: "Germans and members of the Fascist Nyilas group prohibit Jews in Budapest, Hungary, from leaving their homes.
  Many Jewish slave laborers are killed by Nyilas members on a bridge linking Buda with Pest."

"The secretarial staff of Oskar Schindler's enamelware factory in Kraków assembles for a group photograph.
Intensely loyal to the people who worked for him, Schindler risked his own life to rescue his 300 female workers when they were mistakenly sent on a train to Auschwitz, instead of to safety in Brünnlitz in the Sudetenland, where Schindler had opened his new factory."

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[Steven Scharf]

The front page notes that the last European ally of Germany has been taken out of the war. The map shows several other European contries still allied with Germany: Austria, Checzovakia, Norway, Italy* and others.

* Still a part of Northern Italy is under German control.

[fso301]

Given the number of American thigh bones broken by captured Japanese “knee” mortars, I wonder what the recoil is like from that new American 60mm mortar that can be fired like a rifle?