[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
Battle for Northern Entrance to Ormoc Valley, 16 November-14 December 1944 (from 32d Infantry Division website)
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, 8 November-15 December 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

[Patton@Bastogne]

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[PAR35]

Another war crime by Churchill? It appears that work on the bombs stored at the RAF base was being done by Italian POWs.

The Geneva Convention (Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War (1929)

ARTICLE 31.

Labor furnished by prisoners of war shall have no direct relation with war operations. It is especially prohibited to use prisoners for manufacturing and transporting arms or munitions of any kind or for transporting material intended for combatant units.

ARTICLE 32.

It is forbidden to use prisoners of war at unhealthful or dangerous work.

[BroJoeK]

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November 28, 1944:

• November 27: " 'The Trial and Punishment of European War Criminals,' a report by U.S. Secretary of War Henry Stimson and Secretary of State Cordell Hull, is submitted to President Franklin Roosevelt."

Dora-Mittelbau/Nordhausen

"Constructed as a subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp, Dora-Mittelbau, located near the town of Nordhausen in eastern Germany, became an independent camp in the fall of 1944.
Beginning in 1943, thousands of prisoners were assigned to Dora to expand the tunnels of an old salt mine buried deep in the Harz Mountains.
They built an underground factory that produced the secret V-1 and V-2 rockets.
Human life meant nothing in the Nazis' quest to turn the tide of war and avoid defeat.

"Even by concentration-camp standards, prisoners in Dora were treated brutally by their captors.
They spent their lives with no glimpse of the sun and with no sanitary facilities, laboring until they dropped.
Bodies, covered in lice and often weighing only 80 pounds, were returned to Buchenwald for burning at the rate of about 1,000 a month."

"Once completed, the factory that manufactured the rockets -- the state-owned Mittelwerk GmbH -- used thousands of prisoners as laborers, including many Jews.
They too labored under dismal conditions, drinking their water from leaks in the pipes.
Fear of sabotage provided the pretext for guards to employ extraordinary sadism, hanging prisoners or torturing them on a whim.
Untold thousands died at Dora and on death marches from the camp in the closing days of the war."

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[Jacquerie]

From Nimitz’ Graybook, this is the second time it appears the kamikazes’ skinpaint did not show up on radar, OR they have the USN’s IFF. The attacks were a complete surprise.

[Hebrews 11:6]

Very much appreciated the story of Lt. Carl C. Palm's heroic one-man actions and leadership in Prummern. He earned the Distinguished Service Cross thereby. http://projects.militarytimes.com/citations-medals-awards/recipient.php?recipientid=32323

[The Westerner]

Thanks, this is interesting. Homer, my dad was in the 3rd Army on Dec 24, he said it was the first attack in Battle of the Bulge. In Belgium. I wonder what town? They sheltered in snow all night while shelled by Germans.