[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
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

[TonyInOhio]

The Doolittle Raiders Reunion is underway at the National Museum of the Air Force in Dayton today. Four of the survivng raiders are in attendance, and more than twenty B-25 Mitchell bombers are flying in formation over the memorial service early this afternoon. I'm leaving soon to go and see them!

[HerrBlucher]

The Japanese, buoyed by their constant success in the Pacific are now forced to contemplate the implications of the war if it is allowed to be carried to Japanese soil. This change in Japanese attitude will affect military decisions in such crucial battles as the battle of Midway and the Coral Sea

Looks like Doolittles raid was the beginning of the end for the Japanese. Midway didn't go to well for them.

[CougarGA7]

All I have for today is really sort of redundant.

• Early in the morning, the carrier Enterprise picks up one of the picket boats placed by Yamamoto to provide Japan warning of enemy ships approaching. After changing coarse a few times, more picket boats were encountered forcing Halsey to launch the B-25s destined for strikes on Japan 150 miles earlier than initially planned.

[jazusamo]

Thanks for your post and the heads up from the other day.

[BroJoeK]

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April 18, 1942:

• In the Warsaw Ghetto, 52 people on a wanted list are dragged from their beds and killed.
  This will become known as "The Night of Blood."

• One thousand Jews who leave the Theresienstadt, Czechoslovakia, camp/ghetto by train for a ghetto at Rejowiec, Poland, are diverted to the death camp at Sobibór.

• Disgusted with the inability to take Leningrad, Hitler relieves Field Marshal Wilhelm von Leeb of command of German forces in north Russia.

Joseph Goebbels

"Joseph Goebbels was the most ardent member of Hitler's inner circle.
Cunning and amoral, he was a masterful manipulator whose control of German media rallied the populace to the cause of Nazism, and threw gasoline on the fires of antisemitism.

"Paul Joseph Goebbels was born in the Rhineland in 1897 to parents of the lower middle class.
Crippled by polio while a small boy, he devoted himself to the development of his intellect.
He earned a doctorate in literature and philosophy in 1921 and soon joined the Nazi Party.
A failed novelist with grandiose ideas, Goebbels was initially more fond of Nazi ideology than of Hitler.
He soon fell under Hitler's spell, however, and became, after Hitler himself, the No. 1 proponent of the "Führer myth" of infallibility.
For his loyalty, Goebbels was named minister of propaganda when Hitler assumed power in 1933.

"Goebbels prohibited Jewish publishing activity and demanded the demonization of Jews through Nazi propaganda: feature films, faked newsreels, phony documentaries, fabricated news stories, radio plays, and choreographed antisemitic demonstrations.
Under his guidance, "Jew" became synonymous throughout the Reich with "enemy" and "vermin."

"Goebbels and his wife, Magda, committed suicide in the Führerbunker on May 1, 1945, shortly after poisoning their six children."

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[CougarGA7]

I got this message from Homer today. Look to see your Sunday edition a little late this evening.

Dear Ping List and Lurkers,

I am at the library gathering the news from May 1942. I will not be able to start the thread for April 19, 1942 until I return this evening around 7:00 p.m. PDT. See you then.

- Homer

[ken5050]

Even back then, gawd-damn NY Times...

Japs sneak attack Pearl Harbor..US is enraged, wants vengeance...so we launch the Doolittle raid, and the Times, in its headline on page 1, lists the Jap claims that we bombed hospitals. etc...

The stunk, may back when..