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To: Homer_J_Simpson
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
2 posted on 02/14/2012 5:42:55 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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To: Homer_J_Simpson
FICTION ALERT! Also spoiler alert, if you are reading the novels.

In the coming days the Times will be getting an amazing amount of mileage out of the U.S. fleet’s raid on the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. See page 5 for today’s installment. Also page 5 from yesterday, and the original story was on February 2. In order to provide a fair and balanced presentation I am posting another excerpt from Herman Wouk’s novels of WWII. (We are now on volume 2, “War and Remembrance.”) In this case the fictional account may be more accurate historically than the mainstream media version, if you can imagine such a thing.

At this point in the novel the hero Capt. Victor Henry commands the treaty cruiser Northampton.

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Herman Wouk, War and Remembrance

3 posted on 02/14/2012 5:47:21 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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