[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
Advance on Moscow – Operations, 26 August-5 December 1941
The Mediterranean Basin
The Far East and the Pacific, 1941 – Major Japanese War Objectives and Planned Opening Attacks

[BroJoeK]

September 7, 1941

"British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden notes that 'if we must have preferences, let me murmur in your ear that I prefer Arabs to Jews.' "

[GeronL]

2 new cruisers and we’re testing a new bomber too??

We are just war mongering!

/s/

[GeronL]

NYC gets a police vehicle with a two way radio... is this the first one? Controlled from the air?? Is that why they had the big car numbers on the police cars?

[CougarGA7]

• "The mere mention of the urgent need to abandon Kiev threw Stalin into a rage and he momentary lost his self-control. We evidently did not have sufficient will-power to withstand these outbursts of uncontrollable rage or a proper appreciation of our responsibility for the impending catastrophe on the Southwestern direction." - Alexander Vasilevsky

• Guderian's forces reach Konotop.

• The 20th Motorized Division supported by the 12th Panzer Division capture Siniavino and take Shlissel'burg on the south shore of Lake Ladoga.

[engrpat]

Thank you for taking the time to do the work and post this. Absolutely fascinating.

[DeaconBenjamin]

USS ATLANTA CL 51 - Battle Damage The USS Atlanta received 49 major calibre hits, and one torpedo, during the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal disabling all but the aftmost 5"mount. The midship magazine was set afire and the bridge was riddled, killing most personnel in those spaces including Admiral Scott.

The Japanese were using shore bombardment shells that night which had a devastating effect on an unprotected ship. A single torpedo struck her on the port side in way of the forward engine room flooding both it and the forward boiler room rapidly. The after boiler room flooded in 20 minutes through damaged bulkheads fittings, probably at ruptured piping connections. The emergency diesel generator started up but the ship was left dead in the water, slowly flooding.

I have a detailed sketch showing the position of each hit and have tried to replicate that here. In the bottom picture the white circle represents each hit in addition to the location of the torpedo hit. I might be able to scan in the actual sketch I have in the near future but I hope this helps.

I appears that all the hits to the hull forward were from 5.5 inch shells mostly from the Japanese cruiser Nagara. The 5" mount in position A was hit in the front. Turret B, where my father was stationed was hit in the ammo room beneath the mount. Everyone in the room was killed except my father, who was wounded in the back. His shirt buttons and shoes were blown off as well!! Turret C had its barrels blown clean off by a shell from the USS San Francisco.

The superstructure, both fore and aft, was hit mostly by 8" shells from the San Francisco.