[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
The Western Pacific: Japanese Homeland Dispositions August 1945 and Allied Plans for the Invasion of Japan (Operation Downfall)

[Iron Munro]

Many thanks for taking the time to post these incredible historical documents.

[tired&retired]

I too thank you for posting this. Excellent read...

[Rebelbase]

Jet engines look like a fad that will die out soon enough.

[PeterPrinciple]

Bombing Korea

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We don’t think about Korea much when we think of WWII. Note we landed troops there in Aug of 45.

http://ww2db.com/country/korea

Korea was declared a Japanese protectorate per the Eulsa Treaty of 1905, and on 22 Aug 1910 it was annexed into Japanese borders with the Japan-Korea Annexation Treaty.

76 aristocratic Koreans were given Japanese peerage titles (all of whom were charged with treason after the war), while several princes of the Korean royal family married Japanese princesses.

During the final chapters of WW2, Russian troops crossed into Korean territory after overrunning northeastern China. After Japan surrendered on 15 Aug 1945, American troops landed in southern Korea to limit Soviet influence.

[PeterPrinciple]

Medical Report on the Tachibana Maru:

http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/ships/danfs/DD/dd581-mo-report.html

All patients lay with eyes closed while the inspecting party was passing thru the wards, no doubt previously instructed to look as sick as possible. No objections were voiced when the inspection party pried into several large boxes marked with red crosses and labeled medical supplies. These were found to contain thousands of ampoules of vitamin preparations. As the inspection progressed the Japanese medical officer became noticeably nervous and it was with relief that our party climbed out of the holds and up to the relative security of the bridge.
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A total of thirty-three (33) medical corpsmen were aboard. Hardly an impressive staff to care for over 1500 patients.
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While approaching and still several hundred yards away, the stench from the TACHIBANA MARU was very much in evidence. Urine and feces from cats and monkeys, of which there were numbers aboard, as well as excrement from the patients and crew were noted in the scuppers. There were two large heads on the port side of the ship aft, one on the main deck and one on the first platform deck. Many of the toilets were inoperable and the urinals had no flushing systems. Evidently they had not been cleaned for months and their odor was overpowering.
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2. Conditions in the galley were in keeping with the rest of the ship. The only cooking facilities were large kettles heated by steam from the engine room. Roaches two inches long swarmed over everything and no attempt was made to curb them. Rats nested in the raw rice bins and monkeys and cats played in them.
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4. By our standards the TACHIBANA MARU resembled a hospital ship only in the respect that she was marked as one.

[bert]

Let’s see..... only 5 more days.

For weeks now Japan has been burning, but they have no clue. There is no hint of the coming obliteration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Meanwhile in New York, summer dresses are all on sale for $15 and there is a picture of a P-80 jet.

I didn’t know of such an air plane’s existence in 1945