[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

[agere_contra]

An audacious raid!

But obviously not as audacious as the one masterminded by Obama. After all, that was the most audacious raid in the last five hundred years.

[fso301]

Interesting p10 mention about Hitler reading English language publications.

If the report is accurate, this adds support to speculation that he lived for a while with a relative in England.

[BroJoeK]

Page 10 headline: "Magazines in English Among Hitler's Reading"

" 'Reichsfueher Hitler reads English - language illustrated magazines,' reports the Berlin correspondent... 'he receives and reads the Illustrated London News and, whenever possible, Life'.

"...Only the headlines interest Herr Hitler, because the contents 'are all the same in all newspapers,' adds the Swedish reporter."

Uh, er... come again?

[CougarGA7]

• Forty thousand people assemble in Trafalgar Square to demonstrate for a Second Front.

[CougarGA7]

The War Department in its communique today again suggested that the long-anticipated Japanese drive to crush American and Filipino resistance on Bataan Peninsula might be imminent.

Ironically they don't know how right they are. II Corps was severely hit last night by a Japanese attack which I'm sure will be reported tomorrow. Fortunately they have re-established its line by morning and in reprisal the Japanese will bomb a base hospital on the southern tip of Bataan on the 30th claiming the next day that it was unintentional.