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
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general discussion thread 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
February 13, 1942:
"At the Minsk (Belorussia) Ghetto, Nazis execute Jewish leaders deported from Hamburg, Germany, three months earlier." 
"One hundred thousand ghettoized Jews lived in Minsk, Belorussia, when mass shootings began in the city in 1941.
In 1942 the Germans brought in gas vans, although the shootings continued as well. On March 2 the ghetto's nursery (or orphanage) was liquidated; the children were buried alive as SS officers tossed them candy.
On March 31 the Germans raided the ghetto in an attempt to arrest Resistance leaders.
As a result, much of the ghetto, including the synagogue pictured here, burned."
This is the second time now that there has been a report of a “Yawata” class carrier being sunk. The first was mid January when one was reported sunk by a submarine. The interesting thing is that after action report states that the carrier struck in this raid took three 500lbs bomb hits and one torpedo hit but does not report it “destroyed”. As far as I know, the first Japanese carrier the U.S. fleet actually did sink was the Shoho, but I may be wrong on that account.