[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

[bert]

I visited the WW II museum in New Orleans last week. It strikes me as not so much a museum as an elaborate and comprehensive presentation of the war and the various elements. There were few exhibits of stuff but many many displays of text and graphics. There were also numerous movie and TV displays, some long some short. It is a teaching experience to open doors to further study

It is very well done and to start at the beginning and see everything to the end would take perhaps two days. We were there most of the day.

New Orleans is home to the Higgins boat so the big displays included the landing craft prominently and they are restoring a Higgins made PT boat as well. The displays also include some air craft, a Sherman tank, a half track, a jeep and an ambulance.

The “stuff” exhibits are weak when compared to the Naval air museum in Pensacola or the Nimitiz National Museum of the Pacific War museum in Fredicksburg Texas

The museum is still growing and more stuff will be acquired I think. It is worth a day if you are in New Orleans.

[GeronL]

You realize that some nuts think that “we were warned” means Pearl Harbor is our fault, right?

lol

[CougarGA7]

• "Let no one say to me we cannot send them into the swamp! Who takes any interest in our people? It is good if our advance is preceded by fear that we will exterminate Jewry. The attempt to create a Jewish state will end in failure." - Adolf Hitler

• Erhard Wetzel, an official in charge of race questions for the Ministry of Occupied Eastern Territories wrote Hinrich Lohse, Reich commissioner for the Ostland, suggesting that personnel from the former euthanasia program be allocated to construct gas installations for eliminated deported Jews who are unfit for work.

• The Sixth Army drives Tsiganov's 38th Army from Khar'kov.