[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 .)
To add this class to or drop it from your schedule notify Admissions and Records (Attn: Homer_J_Simpson) by freepmail. Those on the Realtime +/- 70 Years ping list are automatically enrolled. Course description, prerequisites and tuition information is available at the bottom of Homer’s profile. Also visit our general discussion thread

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
Battle of Bataan, 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

[Stevenc131]

MacArthur did nothing, hour after hour after hour after being informed about Pearl Harbor. The Japs destroyed his air force as it sat on the ground. He spent much of the time locked in his office by himself while his Chief of Staff stood guard at his door refusing to let his staff members in to see him.

[BroJoeK]

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March 18, 1942:

"March 17 - April 14, 1942: Nearly 30,000 Jews from the Lublin (Poland) Ghetto are deported to the Belzec death camp."

"The Nazis killed 3.5 million Jews and tens of thousands of other people at their six death camps, all located in Occupied Poland.
Workers at the Operation Reinhard camps (Treblinka, Belzec, and Sobibór) murdered 1.7 million Jews, the vast majority of whom were Polish.
More than a million Jews died at Auschwitz."

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