[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

[GadareneDemoniac]

What is the deal with not allowing cuffs on pants? Front page news? I suppose they wanted to conserve wool....

[fso301]

P1, purchasing of unfinished pants and having them cuffed is prohibited.

So, to get around this prohibition, might a man who normally wore a 32" finished length purchase the same pair of pants but with a 36" finished length and then have them shortened to 32" with cuffs?

[iowamark]

Interesting story about the three Negro soldiers being killed at Fort Dix. There were many such racial incidents and retaliations during the war. I think that they generally got little publicity.

[CougarGA7]

• General Homma sends a message to the defenders on Bataan and Corregidor suggesting that they follow the example of "the defenders of Hong Kong, Singapore, and Netherlands East Indies, in the acceptance of an honorable defeat."

• The Japanese open a new offensive against the Filipino and American forces on Bataan. General Parker's Second Corps on the east side of the Bagac-Orion line are quickly defeated and I Corps begins to retreat to protect their flank. At the same time MacArthur sends a message ordering Luzon forces to carry out a general counterattack towards the town of Olongapo suggesting the supplies captured there would solve the food shortage.

• Roosevelt dispatches Harry Hopkins and George Marshall to London in order to discuss his feelings on need of a second front to take the pressure off of Russia.

[CougarGA7]

I finally got around to updating my library listing on my profile. It mostly has the books added from my work on the First World War and 20th Century Warfare in China.

[PAR35]

I’m not buying the duel story on page 9. When 2 men and a woman end up shot, it isn’t over military tactics.