[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
Soviet Summer and Fall Offensives: Operations, 17 July-1 December 1943
South Pacific Area Operations: Capture of New Georgia, 21 June-27 August 1943
New Guinea Force Operations: Capture of Salamaua and Lae, 29 June-16 September 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
Cartwheel, the Seizure of the Gilberts and Marshalls, and Concurrent Air and Naval Operations, 30 June 1943-26 April 1944

[BroJoeK]

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August 26, 1943:

• "The Jewish community from Zawiercie, Poland, is destroyed at Auschwitz.

• "A young Jewish woman, one of 24 who was an unwilling guest at an SS "party" at the Janówska, Ukraine, labor camp the previous night, is shot during an escape attempt.
  The remaining 23 women are subsequently murdered."

"Partisans from Rovno in the Volhynia area of Poland prepare to join their comrades in the fight against their oppressors.
As the Nazis planned a final Aktion, some Jews escaped and fled to the surrounding forests.
Operating within Volhynia, Moshe Gildenman, known as "Uncle Misha," organized an effective partisan unit that inflicted losses on German and Ukrainian troops."

"The Nazis made widespread use of forced labor in high-tech industries, such as the manufacture of the V-2 rockets that rained down on Britain and Belgium during the final months of the war.
These workers are engaged in the construction of a vast system of underground tunnels to house the rocket works.
Unlike many of the Reich's millions of slaves, the primary danger to these inmates--who were housed in the open outside the tunnels--came from the threat posed by Allied bombing."

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