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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 .)
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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

The story of the submarine sinking 13 Japaese ships might have been a little exaggerated.

USS Sculpin SS 191

SS-191, U.S.S. Sculpin

On 6 February, Chappell fired two torpedoes at a light cruiser, claiming hits. Post war examination of Japanese records indicated no hits, and it is now presumed that the torpedoes, fitted with the notoriously unreliable—but then believed to be otherwise—Mark-6 magnetic influence exploder, prematured.

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Sculpin's third war patrol, out of Fremantle, was plagued by torpedo problems, and ended with no results. On her fourth patrol she claimed hits on a 4,000-ton freighter, two 8,000-ton tankers, and a 7,000-ton freighter. She was credited with the latter, but JANAC was unable to confirm the sinking from Japanese records after the war.

Many years later the captain of the Sculpin, Lucius H. Chappell, had a minor role in the movie Operation Petticoat.

March 7, 1943:

March 5, 1943: "About 1,300 Jews are exterminated near the Khmel'nik (Ukraine) Ghetto.
Shmuel Zalcman, chairman of the Khmel'nik Jewish Council, is dragged to his death behind a horse-drawn cart because of his contacts with the local Jewish underground.
March 6, 1943: "Twenty young Jews escape the ghetto at Swieciany, Ukraine, to nearby woods.
March 7, 1943: "The Jewish community at Radoszkowice, Belorussia, is destroyed."

"German soldiers force Jews in Marseilles, France, aboard freight cars for deportation to Drancy or Compiègne, France.
Four thousand Jews were deported in the Aktion of March 1943.
In 1942 Monsignor Jean Delay, the archbishop of Marseilles, said his government was justified in defending itself against Jews, who, in his words, had done much evil and should be punished severely."

"Before United Nations flags and huge replicas of the Ten Commandments tablets, the Jewish pageant We Will Never Die opened in New York City on March 9, 1943.
The show starred such Jewish-American actors as Edward G. Robinson, Paul Muni, and Sylvia Sidney.
Ultimately, more than 100,000 Americans witnessed this pageant, including many government officials.
The spectacle was sponsored by Palestinian Jews, called the Bergson Boys, who worked in the United States to communicate the plight of European Jews.
They were unable, however, to change American policy."