[Homer_J_Simpson]

I noticed the fighting between Russia and Japan. This would escalate to an undeclared war between the two countries where Zhukov annihilated the Japanese at Ulan Bator. Probably this played a major role in the Japanese not declaring war on Russia when Hitler invaded Russia.

The major part of that battle took place in the last few days of August. Alas for our purposes there was a nearly complete news blackout, at least as far as the NY Times was concerned. That and the growing crisis over Poland combined to push the story completely out of the paper. Maybe we can provide our own coverage delayed by 70 years. It is called (Hi, Cougar!) a major turning point in World War II, even though it happened before war had been declared.

[CougarGA7]

I will definitely try to provide extra detail on that conflict as we get into it. One of the classes I’m taking this semester starting August 3rd is MILH552 World War II in the Pacific which should hopefully cover that conflict too.

[BroJoeK]

"Alas for our purposes there was a nearly complete news blackout, at least as far as the NY Times was concerned."

Speaking of which, that reminds me -- in 1939 there was beginning to be some pretty interesting work going on in the field of nuclear physics -- Albert Einstein and his pals. I wonder if any of that ever made the newspapers? ;-)