[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 .)
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[Homer_J_Simpson]

Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
Southwest Russia, 1942: German Counteroffensive, Operations, 19 February-18 March 1943
Tunisia, 1942: Situation 22 April and Operations Since 26 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

[fso301]

Here's some more on that p6 B-17 rammed by the Messerschmidt:

[2nd Bn, 11th Mar]

In the far right column of page 6, there’s an Air Force announcement of Colonel Compton, TWENTY-SEVEN years old, taking command of a Heavy Bombardment Group in North Africa.

It reminds me of the Bill Mauldin cartoon of the grizzled old infantryman being greeted by a twentysomething flyer with colonel’s eagles: “Uncle Willy!”

[BroJoeK]

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March 4, 1943:

• "Noted painter Hermann Lismann is deported to the Majdanek death camp."

"The remaining Jews of Kolomyia, Ukraine, were slaughtered in March 1943.
A few years earlier, the Hungarian governor had prevented local Ukrainians from murdering Jews, but liquidations began in 1942.
This picture shows dozens of Jewish corpses lined up on the ground.
A sympathetic Ukrainian appears to be contemplating the bodies in sorrow."

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