[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 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.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

[Bringbackthedraft]

5 cent Pepsi’s, the drink of sand lot baseball players. I remember it well. Actually they were 7 cents, there was a 2 cent deposit tacked on. It was before little league came into play. No parents, no fights, disputed plays settled by fingers (odds/even).

[Vendome]

Another amazing post.

Liked the Gay Pepsi Ad. LOL

[dr_who]

The winter war...70 years ago...time flies, doesn’t it?

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1940/feb40/f07feb40.htm

Irish ship sunk by mine

Wednesday, February 7, 1940

In the North Atlantic... In the Irish Sea, the Irish passenger-mail ship Munster is sunk by a mine.

In Britain... IRA members, Barnes and Richards, are executed at Winson Green Prison, Birmingham. They were sentenced to death on December 11, 1939 at the “Coventry Explosion” trial for the murder of 5 people in Coventry on August 25, 1939.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andrew.etherington/month/thismonth/07.htm

February 7th, 1940

UNITED KINGDOM: Birmingham, Winson Green Prison: Peter Barnes of Banagher and James MacCormack of Mullingar, both in the Republic of Ireland, are the IRA men hanged for the Coventry bomb murders of 25 August 1939.
GERMANY: U-562 laid down. (Dave Shirlaw)

FINLAND: In Soviet air raids 4 died at Kajaani. (Mikko Härmeinen)

U.S.S.R.: Soviet submarine SC-311 received the Red Banner Award (Orden Krasnogo Znameni). (Dave Shirlaw)

CANADA: Flower-class corvettes HMCS Napanee, Sudbury and Prescott ordered. (Dave Shirlaw)

U.S.A.: The motion picture “Pinocchio” premiers at the Radio City Music Hall in New York City. This Walt Disney animated feature contains the song “When You Wish Upon A Star.” (Jack McKillop)

ATLANTIC OCEAN: About 0600, SS Munster struck a mine laid on 6 January by U-30 in the Queens Channel and sank. The master, 44 crewmembers and 190 passengers were picked up by the British coaster Ringwall and landed at Liverpool. (Dave Shirlaw)

[icwhatudo]

Pretty neat seeing how the world was concerned over a Soviet invasion of Iran. They went after Finland, Poland, and then only after Germany invaded did they become an “ally”.