[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 .)
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[Homer_J_Simpson]

Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
German Invasion of Russia – Operations, 22 June-25 August 1941
The Mediterranean Basin
The Far East and the Pacific, 1941 – The Imperial Powers, 1 September 1939

[PeterPrinciple]

Another recommendation by General Marshall was the adoption by Congress of a pending joint resolution to permit the Army to weed out regular officers who cannot keep pace with modern training.

He pointed out that means exist to remove inefficient members of the National Guard and Reserve commissioned personnel, but said that in the case of regular officers, “the law governing their removal from the active list requires a procedure so cumbersome as to make it totally ineffective during a national emergency.”

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The above caught my attention. Maybe because as I get older, I find it harder to change. Maybe that Marshall had foresight and lead on the issue. I also thought that such an article would not be written today, the reporter would slant things and tell me what to think, and make it politcal.

[beebuster2000]

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[CougarGA7]

• "I constantly try to put myself in the position of the enemy. He has practically already lost this war." - Adolf Hitler

• "Organize a reliable defense along the Western Dvina and Dnepr river lines, and, after concentrating reserves arriving from the depths of the country, deliver a series of counterstrokes along the Lepel', Borisov and Bobruisk axes." - Stavka order to Timoshenko for his Western Front forces

• "We're wet through all over, sweat is running down our faces in wide streams - not just sweat, but sometimes tears too, tears of helpless rage, desperation and pain squeezed out of us by the inhuman effort. No-one can tell me that someone who isn't an infantry man can possible imagine what we're going through here." - Harald Henry, German infantry soldier in letter home discussing the forced marches to try and catch up with the motorized divisions.

• Hoth's panzer group secures crossing of the Dvina at Disna while Guderian secures another one near Rogachev.

• Reinhardt's XXXXI Panzer Corps captures Ostrov.

• Zhukov orders Popov's Northern Front to occupy defenses on the Luga river.