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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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Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
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
Eastern Europe, 1941: Soviet Winter Offensive – Operations, 6 December 1941-7 May 1942
North Africa, 1940: Rommel’s Second Offensive, 21 January-7 July 1942

Interesting mention on p6 that the Germans are running out of gas and will have to launch an offensive in 1942 to take the oil fields in the Caucases.

I wonder what it would be like to open the paper each morning and read these reports not knowing how the story ends?

February 1942:

Thirty-three Jewish doctors in the Warsaw (Poland) Ghetto begin a study of the effects of starvation as they themselves slowly starve to death.
Jewish partisans in the Eastern Galicia region of Poland attack German troops in several locations.
Bricks and cut stone made by concentration-camp inmates are diverted from future official monuments and buildings to construct badly needed German arms factories.
February 1: The SS Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt (Economic-Administrative Main Office; WVHA), led by Oswald Pohl, is established.

"A Jewish man scales the Warsaw Ghetto wall with a large bag of contraband food to be dropped to the waiting ghetto residents.
Often children were used to smuggle food in their clothing.
The German penalty for smuggling was death.
Yet despite this, some Jews and Polish gentiles took the risk because the benefits--money and food for themselves and their families--seemed to outweigh the consequences."