[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
The Far East and the Pacific, 1941: The Battle of Midway, 3-6 June 1942 Southwest Russia, 1942: German Summer Offensive, Operations, 7 May-23 July 1942
North Africa, 1940: Rommel’s Second Offensive, 21 January-7 July 1942 India-Burma, 1942: Allied Lines of Communication, 1942-1943

[MuttTheHoople]

June 6, 1942- the day the Japanese lost the war. It’d go on 3 more years, but after America’s victory at Midway, Japan was a Dead Man Walkin’.

[BroJoeK]

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June 6, 1942:

• "Adolf Eichmann insists via a telegram sent to Gestapo officials that residents of a mental institution must be included in a planned mass deportation of Jews from Coblenz, Germany, to Lublin, Poland.

• "The Jewish ghetto at Kraków, Poland, is liquidated; 6,000 Jews from the city are murdered at Belzec."

"On May 19, 1942, the Nazis expelled 1,420 Jews from the ghetto in Brzeziny Slaskie, Poland (pictured).
The Jews marched to the train station at nearby Galkowek, where they were loaded onto trains bound for the Lódz (Poland) Ghetto.
Most of those who survived the deportation and their time in Lódz eventually died in the Chelmno death camp."

"The Polish town of Wlodawa was one of the areas of Jewish resistance to the Nazi murderers.
The town's Jewish population of about 9,000 would eventually be deported to the Sobibor death camp.
The men pictured here were engaged in forced labor in a sawmill."

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[beebuster2000]

the big day. tide turns, japan never again to have the offensive.
best book ever on midway:

http://www.amazon.com/Shattered-Sword-Untold-Battle-Midway/dp/1574889249/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1338987366&sr=1-1

[CougarGA7]

• Planes from the Enterprise and Hornet attack two damaged Japanese cruisers attempting to withdraw from Midway at about 12 knots. They attack the cruisers sinking the Mikuma and damaging the Mogami to the point that it would be a year before it would engage in combat again.