[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. Also visit our general discussion thread.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
China, 1941: Operation Ichigo, 1945 and Final Operations in the War

[EternalVigilance]

Since we’re virtually unchecked, and destroying what was left of the IJN in its camouflaged moorings, the question occurs to me:

Did any major Japanese ship survive the war?

Maybe someone in this brilliant and knowledgeable group knows.

[Seizethecarp]

Love the story about “Paris Jeeps Seized To End Joy-Riding”..top of page one!

Enlisted man complained about officers taking French girls for rides in letter to Stars and Stripes...

[chajin]

Hidden in the Tokyo Radio article...

"the Government established a new communications bureau at Hiroshima, near the southwestern tip of Honshu Island, to function autonomously if that area were cut off" [from Tokyo].

I don't know what to say: it's only 11 days away...

[chajin]

For those who are interested in a short history of the oil fields that were bombed in Kawasaki, cf. here

[chajin]

OK, one more...Adm. Gatch (page 10) evidently didn't know what he was talking about. There aren't possibly two people who are as different as the Italians and the Japanese.

DeLassus, in his 1972 book The Japanese, says that the main difference between the Italians and the Japanese is that the Italians could produce great individuals but were inferior as a group, while the Japanese can only accomplish great things collectively, as followers of those who are their superiors.

The treatment of Mussolini at the end of his life fit the character of the Italians; the treatment of the Showa Emperor for the last 40+ years of his life after the war ended fit the character of the Japanese.