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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 .)
To add this class to or drop it from your schedule notify Admissions and Records (Attn: Homer_J_Simpson) by freepmail. Those on the Realtime +/- 70 Years ping list are automatically enrolled. Course description, prerequisites and tuition information is available at the bottom of Homer’s profile. Also visit our general discussion thread.

Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
Papua, New Guinea, 1942
Japanese Advance, 21 July-16 Sept. 1942
The Solomons: Guadalcanal and Florida, 1942
Guadalcanal Campaign: Attack on Bloody Ridge, 12-14 September 1942
Southwest Russia, 1942: German Advance to Stalingrad, Operations, 24 July-18 November 1942
The Far East and the Pacific, 1941: Status of Forces and Allied Theater Boundaries, 2 July 1942
India-Burma, 1942: Allied Lines of Communication, 1942-1943

September 13, 1942:

"The Jewish community at Checiny, Poland, is deported."

Jewish Combatants

"Jews made significant contributions in the military effort to defeat Hitler.
Estimates suggest that almost one and a half million Jewish soldiers fought against the Nazis as members of Allied military units.

"Eminently motivated, Jews served in proportionately much greater numbers in every Allied country than their percentage of the total population.
United States forces included 550,000 Jews from a total American-Jewish population of 5,500,000.
That constituted a military representation of ten percent, when Jews made up less than three percent of the total American population.

"American Jews fought in every theater of the war, some flying bombing missions over Germany before the arrival of U.S. ground forces.
About 8,000 American Jews died in fighting, and thousands more were wounded.

"In the Soviet Union, Jewish submarine Captain Israel Fisanovich stalked German shipping in the Arctic and sank many ships.
Spirited Cossack commander General Lev Dovator contributed to the stalling of the German offensive in southern Ukraine, which had been pushing toward the oil fields of the Caucasus.

"British Army units included about 30,000 Jewish volunteers from Palestine, 5,000 of whom served in the Jewish Brigade, which saw action in Italy in 1944.
It was the only unit in World War II to fight under the Jewish flag."