[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.
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[Homer_J_Simpson]

Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
The Balkans, 1941: Invasion of Yugoslavia and Greece, April 1941
North Africa – Rommel’s First Offensive, 24 March-15 June 1941
Marcks’ Plan, August 5, 1940
Operation Barbarossa (Dir. 21), December 18, 1940
The Mediterranean Basin
The Far East and the Pacific, 1941 – The Imperial Powers, 1 September 1939

[PzLdr]

A little off point, but isn’t sclachtschiffe BISMARCK about done working up in the Baltic?

[CougarGA7]

On question 2 today the answer is the liberty dime. Here's the fascist symbol in question.

This will remain on the dime throughout the war and only will disappear in 1946 when the first FDR dimes are produced.

[iowamark]

Hanson W. Baldwin was certainly a prolific author. His “United we Stand: Defense of the Western Hemisphere,” here reviewed, is in the University of Iowa Library which I will visit in a couple of days. I will look it up.

[iowamark]

Interesting front page article on the FCC taking action against radio monopolies. NBC would soon be forced to sell its’ NBC Blue network, which would become ABC. The NBC Red network would simply be NBC.