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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. Also visit our general discussion thread

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
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

[PAR35]

USS Prairie State (IX 15) - Pre-Dreadnought battleship USS Illinois (BB 7), demilitarized pursuant to the Washington Naval Treaty in the 1920s (and loaned to the State of New York). Renamed Prairie State in January, 1941 to free up the name Illinois for BB 65 (ordered in 1940, 5th ship of the Iowa class)

BB 65 was laid down in 1945 and was only partially built when broken up on the ways in 1958). Construction trailed that of BB 66 which got further along before construction stopped. BB 65 was the last battleship begun in the US. (All of the Montana class (BBs 67-71) was canceled in 1943)