[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 .)
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.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
Papua, New Guinea, 1942
Attack on Buna Mission, 18-28 Dec. 1942
The Solomons: Guadalcanal and Florida, 1942
Tunisia 1942: The Race for Tunisia-Situation 1 January 1943, and Operations Since 17 November 1942
North Africa, 1941: Pursuit to Tunisia, November 1942-February 1943
Southwest Russia, 1942: Soviet Winter Offensive, Operations, 13 December 1942-18 February 1943
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

[GailA]

Your article ties so well with this one on Milk prices spiking. He who controls the guns, food and medical treatment is a dictator.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2972874/posts

[Flick Lives]

Office of Price Administration. The socialist’s dream. A government agency accountable to no one charged with regulating the price and rationing of everything (there’s a war on, you know!!). I notice in the list of rationed items “pitted red cherries”. In the list of non-rationed items “fruitcake”. Why? The answer is because they can. These government types love power, and they love arbitrary power even more. There real joy is putting a boot on the neck of the public.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

My Brother-in-law’s parents had their ranch raided by government agents back in WW II.

They killed and canned lots of food for the ranch and the men who worked on it for winter use.

One day someone turned them in for ...”food hoarding” and they were raided. Every bit of food was taken form them.

How did they survive that winter? They had another cellar hidden way out in the hills and it had enough for them to get through the winter.

[fso301]

Note the report of the German Tiger I tank on page 7.

[BroJoeK]

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December 28, 1942:

• "Two Jews are shot for mutiny at the Stalowa Wola, Poland, slave-labor camp.

• "Dr. Carl Clauberg begins his sterilization experiments on women prisoners at Auschwitz."

"The December 28, 1942, entry in the Chronicle of the Lódz Ghetto tersely reports: 'Cold again.'
Here, young children and elderly Jews from the ghetto forage for bits of coal.
For the inhabitants of the Lódz (Poland) Ghetto, the fierce and unrelenting chill caused even more deaths than did hunger.
Within the ghetto, hopeful rumors of bread and sausage--even eggs--in honor of the Christmas holidays circulated among the populace, only to be proved untrue."

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[CougarGA7]

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

I have some ration coupon books partially used. They have my grandmothers hand written lists of how many apples, peaches, cherries and other stuff she canned.I think the stamps were for sugar, flour and milk. I don’t remember fruit being in there. I need to dig them out and see.