[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
South Pacific Area Operations: Capture of New Georgia, 21 June-27 August 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

[PAR35]

That cliff might be 26 feet, but it certainly isn’t 46 feet.

[colorado tanker]

I don't buy the Air Force propaganda that air power alone won Pantelleria. By the accounts I read the Italian troops were mostly unharmed.

I attribute more importance to:

1. Imminent invasion and the fact that the Italian Army had been defeated in North Africa and a few hundred thousand Allied troops were only a few miles away.

2. Terrible morale and troops tired of fighting Germany's war.

[colorado tanker]

When it gets hot in NYC: