[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
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

[abb]

http://destroyerhistory.org/destroyers/federal/

Federal Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. was originally located at Kearny Point, Kearny, New Jersey on the west bank of the Hackensack River, about three miles from today’s Newark International Airport. A subsidiary of United States Steel Corporation, it was organized in 1917 for the construction of steel ocean-going vessels.

From 1930 through the last of the Gearing class, Federal built more destroyers than any other builder except Bath Iron Works, including the lead ships of the Somers, Benham, Fletcher, Allen M. Sumner and Gearing classes. Federal’s Gearings were built at a separate facility, completed during the war, at Port Newark, New Jersey.

[Seizethecarp]

Interesting Midget U-boat story on front page...

http://uboat.net/types/midget.htm

[fso301]

Any ideas as to the Japanese tank described in p4 that has a V shaped "prow" which typically defeated American anti-tank rounds?

One might say the type-95 had the frontal profile of an inverted V but the type-95 had a 37mm gun, 7.7mm machineguns and 12mm armor plate that could be penetrated fairly easily by .50 cal AP.

[CougarGA7]

Anybody got a bead on what SP that is in the picture? It looks to me like its a French 155mm GPF, 1938 model.