[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.
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[Homer_J_Simpson]

Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
Papua, New Guinea, 1942
The Solomons: Guadalcanal and Florida, 1942
Southwest Russia, 1942: Soviet Winter Offensive, Operations, 19 November-12 December 1942
North Africa, 1941: Pursuit to Tunisia, November 1942-February 1943
Tunisia 1942: The Race for Tunisia-Situation 1 January 1943, and Operations Since 17 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

[PeterPrinciple]

Paratroop Hike 3 days.

...................................When the commander, Colonel Robert F Sink, made a talk at the hike’s end, he congratulated those who fell out.

“When you fell, you fell face forward.”

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Some how I read that as leadership. A reminder that some of them will fall in battle and a nice way of saying you can do better next time.

[PeterPrinciple]

WPA ABOLISHED

My hopes went up for a moment in that a large beureacrate organizaiton like the EPA can be abolished but then maybe not:

http://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/162.html
162.2 GENERAL RECORDS
1936-50

History: FWA established 1939 to supervise the PBA, a consolidation of the Public Buildings Branch (Treasury) and the Branch of Buildings Management (National Park Service); the PRA, formerly the Bureau of Roads (Agriculture); the PWA, formerly the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works (FEAPW); the WPA; and the USHA, formerly the Housing Division, FEAPW. FFC (an independent agency) transferred to FWA, 1939. BCF established in FWA January 1, 1945. USHA transferred to National Housing Authority and redesignated Federal Public Housing Authority by EO 9070, February 24, 1942. PWA abolished by EO 9357, July 1, 1943. WPA abolished, effective June 30, 1943, by Presidential letter of December 4, 1942. When FWA was abolished in 1949, its surviving constituent units were organizationally or functionally assigned to GSA: PBA was abolished and reconstituted as the Public Buildings Service, PRA was renamed Bureau of Public Roads, BCF became the Community Facilities Service, and the FFC was transferred without change in name.

[CougarGA7]

• Eichelberger launches his first attack against Buna which is turned back with heavy casualties.

[Zuben Elgenubi]

pg 4:

Britons Offer Even Bets
War Will End by June
By The Associated Press
LONDON, Saturday, Dec. 5 -
The vast improvement in Allied
positions in November has
brought an increase in betting
as to the war's duration.
Some brokers are wagering
even money the war will end by
June, 1943, The News Chronicle
reported today.
Lloyds, however, is refusing to
lay any odds or take any wagers.