[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 chief political event is the publication of the joint declaration of Churchill and Roosevelt...the points, whose effects Hitler evidently fears, cannot be mentioned, but they are nevertheless disputed and crudely picked the pieces [in the press]. - Ulrich von Hassell

• "The situation has a bad effect upon on the troops, for everyone is aware of the absence of harmony. That is the product of unclear orders and counter orders, absence of instructions sometimes for weeks...we are missing so many opportunities. But it is annoying when no one knows the reasons. These most probably cannot be put right in this war which we will win despite it all. That is human nature in great moments and with great men." - General Heinz Guderian

• Guderian's panzers and Second Army infantry move into Pochep.

• Red Army engineers blow the dam and hydroelectric station at Dnepropetrovsk before Tiuleneve's 9th and 18th Armies can get across the Dnepr delaying their crossing until the 22nd.

• The Soviet 19th Army supported by the 101st Tank and 64th Rifle Divisions force the Vop river and penetrate six miles deep into the German 161st Infantry Division's line.

[CougarGA7]

[BroJoeK]

August 18

"Many Jews who had escaped the ghettos and camps volunteered to fight Nazis and Fascists.
Some 5000 joined the Polish Second Corps, formed in Russia in 1941, while about 30,000 others enlisted in the British Army.
Both groups later saw combat in Italy.
Here, Arab and Jewish recruits, composing the Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps of the British Army, march side by side during a training exercise in Palestine."

"The most important Resistance group in Occupied France was the FFI (Free French Insurgency), whose troops are pictured.
Commanded by General Charles de Gaulle, the Free French opposed recognition of the Vichy regime, a puppet government established by the Nazis.
The FFI coordinated much of the resistance activity within Occupied France and established an army that would participate in the approaching reconquest of Europe."

[mowowie]

I was just reading on wiki that the crew of the Robin Moor spent 2 weeks on a few lifeboats before being rescued.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Moor