[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
India-Burma, 1942: Allied Lines of Communication, 1942-1943

[GOP_Party_Animal]

That was the only Gay we had in the military back then.

[Peter W. Kessler]

Radio News, with mention of Ensign George Gay:

http://ia601200.us.archive.org/0/items/1942RadioNews/1942-06-09-CBS-News-of-the-World-AM-Edition.mp3

[Joe 6-pack]

If this had happened under the current regime, they would have reported how victory at Midway had been brought about by Obama personally cracking the Japanese code.

[BroJoeK]

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June 9, 1942:

• "At Lidice, Czechoslovakia, Germans begin to murder over 190 men and boys in retaliation for the attack on Reinhard Heydrich.
  The Germans will murder another 47 men, women, and children at Lezaky, Czechoslovakia; See June 18, 1942.

• "When a Jewish mother at Pabianice, Poland, fights fiercely for her baby during a deportation, the baby is taken from her and thrown out a window.

• "German police in Lódz, Poland, report to their superiors in Poznan that 95 Lódz Jews have been publicly hanged.

• "A gassing van is sent to Riga, Latvia, for the execution of Jews; See June 15, 1942."

"Jews of Kraków, Poland, were ordered to clean out the homes of their brethren, who had recently been deported from the ghetto.
The first round of deportations began at the end of May 1942 and continued until June 8.
During the first wave of roundups, 6,000 Jews were deported to the Belzec death camp and 300 were murdered on the spot.
A second Aktion took place on October 27-28; 7,000 Jews were deported and 600 were killed."

"Appointed president of the Vichy Republic in 1942, Pierre Laval immediately became a willing tool of the Nazis.
He approved and facilitated German efforts to round up and deport Jewish émigrés, including children.
Laval expedited the deportation process by ordering French police to cooperate with Nazi authorities, sending some 25,000 Jews to the ghettos and concentration camps of the East during the summer months."

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[CougarGA7]

• Molotov returns to London to sign an alliance with the British.