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
Homers posting history .)
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To: Homer_J_Simpson
Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War Gazala and Vicinity, Libya, Africa, 1942: Decisive German-Italian Breakout, 12-13 June, 1942
Southwest Russia, 1942: German Summer Offensive, Operations, 7 May-23 July 1942
North Africa, 1940: Rommels Second Offensive, 21 January-7 July 1942
India-Burma, 1942: Allied Lines of Communication, 1942-1943
2 posted on
06/13/2012 4:52:02 AM PDT by
Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: Homer_J_Simpson
Your posts are always interesting. I only regret that I don't always have the time to study them completely. I have spent dozens of hours at the National Museum of the Pacific War in Fredricksburg TX (the home of Chester Nimitz). It's a great place, but it is so large that cannot establish the time line of all of the events. Your day-by-day re-reporting establishes that time line. Thanks
7 posted on
06/13/2012 5:59:13 AM PDT by
norwaypinesavage
(Galileo: In science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of one individual)
To: Homer_J_Simpson
Great post as always!
It really is amazing what a good job the NY Times did in those days, even with 1942 technology and wartime censorship. It is incredible how far they have fallen under little Pinch.
8 posted on
06/13/2012 7:24:32 AM PDT by
iowamark
To: Homer_J_Simpson
My Father and his buddies were at ATTU in May, 1943, and remained in Alaska until the summer of 1945 when they shipped to Manila, Philippines to await their orders for the invasion of Japan.
To: Homer_J_Simpson
To: Homer_J_Simpson
12 posted on
06/13/2012 9:37:40 AM PDT by
Peter W. Kessler
(Dirt is for racing... asphalt is for getting there.)
To: Homer_J_Simpson
June 13, 1942:
- "Three thousand Jews are deported from the Theresienstadt, Czechoslovakia, camp/ghetto to their deaths.
- "British Ambassador to the Vatican Francis d'Arcy Osborne observes about Pope Pius XII that his 'moral leadership is not assured by the unapplied recital of the Commandments.' "
"As appalling as conditions were in the Warsaw Ghetto, some of the city's Jews survived, often by hiding outside the ghetto in the homes of gentiles who were willing to conceal them.
Here, Jacob, David, and Shalom Gutgeld pose with their Aunt Janke.
Janke managed to get the three boys out of the ghetto, hiding them in the small apartment of a couple named the Roslans.
Jacob and David survived the Holocaust, but Shalom died of scarlet fever."
14 posted on
06/13/2012 11:06:17 AM PDT by
BroJoeK
(a little historical perspective....)
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