[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
North Africa, 1941: Pursuit to Tunisia, November 1942-February 1943
Tunisia 1942: Axis Initiative-Situation 14 February 1943, and Operations Since 1 January
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

[Happy Rain]

“Dirty Gertie from Bizerte,
hid a mousetrap ‘neath her skirtie.
Strapped it to her knee-cap purty,
baited it with Fleur-de-Flirte.
Made her boyfriends’ fingers hurty.
Made her boyfriends most alerte!
She was voted in Bizerte,
Miss Latrine for 1930...”

North African Dogface doggerel.

[BroJoeK]

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January 10, 1943:

• "In the Generalgouvernement, several thousand Jews who had left forest hiding places on November 10, 1942, after a Nazi promise of safe passage, are betrayed.
  Most are transported to Treblinka and gassed.
  The remainder are sent to labor camps at nearby Sandomierz and Skarzysko Kamienna."

• "Four hundred Jews who resist their German overseers at the Kopernik camp in Minsk Mazowiecki, Poland, are burned alive in their barracks."

"Miroslav Filipovic-Majstorovic was a ruthless killer who worked at the Jasenovac concentration camp in Croatia.
A former priest and member of the Croatian Fascist organization Ustasa, Filipovic-Majstorovic killed countless prisoners with his bare hands.
Approximately 600,000 people--including Serbs, Jews, Gypsies, and opponents of the Ustasa regime--were killed at Jasenovac."

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[colorado tanker]

It’s interesting to see the speculation that the Japanese were building up to something big. Hindsight is 20-20, but they were overstretched. They had to withdraw from the Port Moresby offensive to find troops to reinforce Guadalcanal - and it wasn’t enough.