[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
Southeast Asia, 1941: Japanese Centrifugal Offensive, December 1941
Malaya, 1941: Topography-Japanese Centrifugal Offensive, December 1941-January 1942
The Far East and the Pacific, 1941 – Operations of the Japanese First Air Fleet, 7 December 1941-12 March 1942
The Far East and the Pacific, 1941 – American Carrier Operations, 7 December 1941-18 April 1942
Micronesia, Melanesia and New Guinea: Japanese Centrifugal Offensive-Japanese Fourth Fleet and South Seas Detachment Operations, December 1941-April 1942
Luzon, P.I., 1941: Centrifugal Offensive, 10 December 1941-6 May 1942-Fourteenth Army Operations on Luzon
Netherlands East Indies, 1941: Japanese Centrifugal Offensive, December 1941-April 1942, Sixteenth Army and Southern Force (Navy) Operations
Southern Asia, 1941: Japanese Centrifugal Offensive (and Continued Operations), January-May 1942
North Africa, Auchinleck’s Offensive, 18 November-31 December 1941
Eastern Europe, 1941: Soviet Winter Offensive – Operations, 6 December 1941-7 May 1942
The Mediterranean Basin

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

I’ll be drinking Cutty Sark at the Brass Rail tonight.

After which I’ll need the second pair of slacks with my Bond suit.

[KoRn]

"I came through and I shall return"

[SES1066]

It is hard to put ones-self in the place of the citizen reading about these seemingly endless hammer blows by our enemies. This is just three and a half weeks after Pearl Harbor and there was nothing but bad news everywhere. The prepared Japanese appeared to be invincible as their short supply lines enabled them to have the advantage within the combat area. This was probably the blackest New Year since the American Revolution.

FYI: I see where our current President touched a commemorative wreath at the USS Arizona Memorial on Thursday.

[CougarGA7]

• From 1 October till the end of 1941, the Red Army lost 1,656,517 men across the entire front with 636,383 killed, captured, or missing.

• Since the beginning of war with Germany, the Soviets have mobilized 285 rifle divisions, 12 tank divisions, 88 cavalry divisions, 174 rifle brigades, and 93 tank brigades.

[GreenLanternCorps]

Goodbye 1941. Here’s hoping 1942 is a better year...

[BroJoeK]

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December 31, 1941:

"Abba Kovner, the founder of the United Partisans Organization in Vilna, Lithuania, calls for armed Jewish resistance to the Nazis, proclaiming, 'We must not go like sheep to the slaughter!' "

"Fearful Jewish women and children huddle together in the cold and in fear on the beach at Liepaja, Latvia, where they await their deaths at the hands of Latvians and SS.
They are about to be stripped of their clothing and shot to death.
Jewish clothing is to be sent back to Germany to be used by German civilians.
(One report from a German soldier's wife indicates that she was angry that a few of the items of Jewish clothing sent back to her had bloodstains on them.)
At least 2,700 Jews were killed in this Aktion of December 1941."

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