[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
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

[Chad N. Freud]

Loved the indictment of the teaching of history on page 11. It could well be reprinted verbatim today.

“Stop educators, under the dominance of social studies extremists, from calling a miscellaneous discussion of sociology, civics, geography, psychology, and current events by the name of ‘American History’ and getting away with it.”

[fso301]

That was an interesting p11 article about social studies which I can’t say I disagree with. I don’t see where social studies should be anything but an elective with a prerequisite of American history.

[colorado tanker]

I see there is more talk in today's paper about placing a floating concrete landing strip in the Mid-Atlantic.

By this time pykrete had been invented and in top secret meetings the Brits were keen on building a super carrier out of it. But poor Pyke was being "frozen" out of his own project.

The prototype was built on a lake in the Canadian Rockies in early 1943, but I couldn't find exact dates.