[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]

Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
CAMPAIGN IN THE WEST, 1940, Situation 4 June, and Operations Since 21 May
The Far East and the Pacific, 1941 – The Imperial Powers, 1 September 1939

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Winston S. Churchill, Their Finest Hour

[Lancey Howard]

Okay, who could resist the “new airplane baked in oven” story? I would have sworn this was a Howard Hughes production, but it’s from “Timm Aircraft Corporation”. Interestingly, the material is spruce (like Hughes “Spruce Goose”) but the wood is saturated in plastics and oils and literally baked.

[Lancey Howard]

I always find it interesting that at this point (1940) the New York Times published foreign “War Communiques” (p16) from the French, Germans, and British without any favoritism or comment. The propaganda positively reeks from these communiques, but especially the Germans’.

[CougarGA7]

Over the last two days of reporting the one thing that really stands out to me is that even with the positive spin that some of the reports have tried to put on things, there is a mass exodus underway. Yesterday especially, but you can see that they are fleeing from Paris, leaving Egypt, streaming away from the front, and anywhere else where the Allies currently have a foothold. I wouldn’t be surprised if there was uneasiness in British Somaliland.

[The KG9 Kid]

This begins Dunkirk. Bless them all.