[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

[CougarGA7]

• The 3rd Panzer Division attacks southwest of Lokhvista capturing General V.N. Sotensky, the 5th Army's artillery commander. Later in the day, in the Shumeikovo Woods, Kirponos, Potapov, and around 2,000 troops fought the advancing German division. By the end of the day, Colonel-General Mikhail Kirponos and Major-General V.I. Tupikov were killed and Lieutenant-General Potapov was captured.

[Rebelbase]

So when does the snow start falling? Tomorrow is the first day of fall.

[Billthedrill]

Great stuff, and thanks again for your dedication to this project. I just finished Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege: 1942-1943 by Antony Beevor. Your next few months are going to be very, very interesting.

It's still nearly a year away but you can see it developing: the sweep by Army Group A into the Caucasus for the oil, the holding position of Army Group B in a strategic town at a loop of the Volga. Once the Soviets are swept from that town the entire Volga will be a line of defense and the border of the Reich. On a map it looks great. And by now the Russian army was finished, or at least that's what Hitler was told. But they weren't, and they're moving the factories into the Urals at this point. Hitler has awakened his own "sleeping giant" and things are about to get very ugly indeed.

[Billthedrill]

One more thing - I see that financier Bernard Baruch called for wage and price controls in this issue. Richard Nixon was 28 years old. What a very odd thing.