[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
Southwest Russia, 1942: German Summer Offensive, Operations, 7 May-23 July 1942
North Africa, 1940: Rommel’s Second Offensive, 21 January-7 July 1942

[iowamark]

The 10% withholding tax seemed like a radical idea at the time!

[BroJoeK]

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May 22, 1942:

• "In an exercise conducted in a forest outside Mielec, Poland, Gestapo agents "cast" Jews as partisans, beat and mutilate them, and then kill them."

"Jewish workers push a heavily loaded cart down a railroad line near Bor, Yugoslavia.
Guarded by Hungarians but supervised by Germans, workers in the Bor camp labored day and night in the copper mines, producing the mineral vital to the manufacture of armaments.
More and more slave laborers were needed to keep the German war machine going as the Germans battled on several fronts."

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[CougarGA7]

• The Yorktown arrives at Pearl Harbor to repair the damage sustained at the Battle of the Coral Sea. Technicians estimate it would take 90 days to fix the damage to which Nimitz informs them that "We must have this ship back in three days."

[Peter W. Kessler]

CBS New of the World, 5/22/42:

http://ia701200.us.archive.org/0/items/1942RadioNews/1942-05-22-CBS-News-of-the-World-AM-Edition.mp3