[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

[CougarGA7]

• "The Japanese are taking the opportunity to establish themselves in Indochina, but in contrast they are only lukewarm about the hoped-for attack on Russia! Neither one nor the other surprises me." - Field Marshall Bock

[CougarGA7]

Interesting that you found an article that mentions H. Norman Schwarzkopf Sr, father of the more well known H. Norman Schwarzkopf Jr from the Persian Gulf War. Looks like he only got the Fifty-seventh Infantry Brigade for a week.

[PeterPrinciple]

JAPANESE SHIPS HELD OFF THE WEST COST

About 50 wary of Entering U.S. Ports - Tanker gets Clearance

................................The tanker Daini Ogura Maru, the only Japanese ship in the harbor here when Japan moved on Indo-China, got clearance tonight with here full cargo of about 4,500,000 gallons of oil. The State Department, in a second order during the day, reversed a notice informing the customs office here, the Shell Oil company and the Balfour Guthrie Company, the ship’s agents, that the tanker could not sail until the oil was unloaded.

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So the tanker sails out of port with 4,500,000 gallons of oil.

What happened here? Shell Oil company did some negotiation? What does it take to reverse a notice?

Oh, don’t forget the liner a few hours out of port with 150 Americans on it that is refusing to answer radio calls.

Maybe we needed the $2,500,000 of silk for war materials?

What would the wise people at FR do who always have an answer?

[PeterPrinciple]

USA CAMPAIGN HERE BRINGS $2,987,247

Chairman Reports Several Units Have Exceeded Quotas.

The New Your City USO Campaign has raised $2,987,347.67 so far of its ascribed total of $3,500,000..........................

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Very interesting for the USO to be so active and we hadn’t declared war yet. That was a lot of money in the day but then USO may have done a lot more than entertain in those days?