[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 .)
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
Luzon, P.I., 1941: Final Operations on Luzon, 3 February-20 July 1945
West-Central Germany and Belgium, 1945: The Rhineland Campaign – Operations, 8 February-5 March 1945
Eastern France and the Low Countries, 1944: Summary – The Rhineland Campaign, 8 February-21 March 1945
Poland, 1945: Russian Offensive to the Oder – Operations 12 January-30 March 1945
The Western Pacific: Allied Invasions of Iwo Jima and Okinawa (Operation Iceberg), 1945
China, 1941: Operation Ichigo, 1945 and Final Operations in the War
China-Burma, 1941: Third Burma Campaign – Slim’s Offensive, June 1944-March 1945

[Tax-chick]

One page one ... “as Ships and Fliers Bombard Iwo Isle.”

I rarely have serious disagreements with the Times’s use of language, but this clause in the headline has a bad compound subject. It should be “seamen and fliers” or “ships and planes.”

[Tax-chick]

The makeup ad featuring the women Marines (on page 10) is funny.

[Stosh]

Page 8: Sabu (the Indian kid in “The Thief of Baghdad”, “Jungle Book” and a bunch of other similar flics) signs on as a bomber ball-turret gunner!

I’d heard of a bunch of Hollywood-types who served with distinction (what a contrast to today), but I had no idea Sabu had even become an American citizen, let alone served in a combat role, especially one as hazardous as that.

Sabu on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabu_Dastagir

[Thurstan]

Those were the days...

[Squawk 8888]

To all- please ping me to Canadian topics.

Canada Ping!

[GreenLanternCorps]

The U.S. Navy has decided to say “Hello” to Tokyo. B-29’s are one thing. But to have US carriers striking at the heart of the Empire has to tell many Japanese that their navy is effectively out of the War. They can hurt individual ships, but the IJN cannot stop the USN from going wherever it wants, whenever it wants.

[Billthedrill]

So good. Thank you again for taking on this tremendous project. We are all very much in your debt.

March looms. It will all be over at the end of April, at least in Europe, and one can forgive them for the notion that it was so in all the world. Not the case, alas, and there will be an ocean of blood between Hitler's suicide and the final reckoning in Tokyo Bay.