[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

[abb]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Cleveland_%28CL-55%29

USS Cleveland (CL-55) was the lead ship and one of the 26 United States Navy Cleveland class light cruisers completed during or shortly after World War II. She was the second ship to be named for the city of Cleveland, Ohio.

Cleveland was commissioned in June 1942, and saw extensive service in the war, in both the Mediterranean and Pacific theaters. Like almost all of her sister ships, she was decommissioned shortly after the end of the war, and never saw active service again. Cleveland was scrapped in the early 1960s.

[Rinnwald]

I think the most disturbing news in the entire post was the bottle of “Ohio” wine used to christen U.S.S. Cleveland.

[beebuster2000]

thanks.

[CougarGA7]

• "We are now operating in the West [the Western Front] - on the approaches to Moscow. The main thing is that Konev and Budenny are missing all of their armed forces. I received from them only a trace - a headquarters and 98 men from Budenny and a headquarters and two reserve regiments from Konev." - message from Zhukov to Zhdanov, Commissar of the Leningrad Front

[BroJoeK]

October 29, 1941

"Soviet troops reposition an antitank gun at the Battle of Moscow late in 1941.
The Germans' superiority in tactics and armor resulted in huge initial losses of Soviet troops and territory.
The main German objectives were Kiev, Leningrad, and Moscow, but the winter weather and desperate Russian resistance prevented the Germans from fully capturing any of the three cities."

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October 30, 1941

• "Four thousand Jews are murdered at Nesvizh, Belorussia."

• "A 12-year-old boy who escapes the Ninth Fort massacre of October 28 returns to the Kovno Ghetto and reveals what happened."

"Four members of Einsatzgruppe A execute three Jewish men in Kovno, Lithuania"