[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

[beebuster2000]

Nov 13 aboard Akagi:

Testing complete on new torpedo modification and drop techniques, tested at 82% effective hits. Genda believed that the last obstacle to successful attack had been removed.
Two techniques were used: the finn modified torpedo could be dropped from 20 metres at 100 knots. The second technique must have been more harrowing but also worked: drop from 10 metres while nosing down 1.5 degrees and running at 100 knots.
Genda decided to use the first technique at Pearl Harbor with the modified finn torpedo.

[CougarGA7]

For those who think General Huntziger sounds familiar, he was the French signee of the French armistice with the Nazi's after the fall of France last year.

French Sign Reich Truce

[CougarGA7]

• Halder and his principal OKH staff officers meet at Orsha to discuss future offensive options.

[fso301]

One can see on Pg8 the manpower needs of the Wehrmacht are so draining industry. This acceleration of high school matriculation is only a temporary measure as high school and middle school age boys will soon find themselves at the front while factories are manned by slaves.

The German monacle shortage reported on the last page is also interesting.

[BroJoeK]

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November 13, 1941:

"Warsaw diarist Chaim Kaplan writes that his wife has been stricken with typhus."

"Jacob Edelstein was among the leading figures in Czechoslovakia's Zionist movement before the start of the war.
He became the first chairman of the Theresienstadt Ghetto's Jewish Council.
He used this position to resist efforts to deport the ghetto's Jews.
Bravely, he falsified daily reports concerning the number of Jews in the ghetto.
The Nazis deported him in December 1943 to Auschwitz, where he and his family were shot on June 20, 1944."

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