[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
Soviet Summer and Fall Offensives: Operations, 17 July-1 December 1943
Allied Advance to Volturno River, Reorganization, and Attack on Gustav Line (17 January-11 May 1944)
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
New Guinea and Alamo Force Operations: Clearing the Huon Peninsula and Securing the Straits, 19 September 1943-26 April 1944
Cartwheel, the Seizure of the Gilberts and Marshalls, and Concurrent Air and Naval Operations, 30 June 1943-26 April 1944

[Mears]

Thanks for the post—many memories here.

I was 11 years old when all of this was taking place. I remember asking my mother “What’s in the paper when there is no war?”.

I also enjoyed the small piece about the Japanese soldiers from Hawaii-—I had the pleasure of meeting one of them a few years ago.

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[BroJoeK]

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October 4, 1943:

• "In an address to senior SS officers, SS chief Heinrich Himmler notes that killing is hard but necessary, and that killing the Jews will never be spoken of publicly."

"Pictured is a child prisoner of the Jugendschutzlager (Youth "Protection" Camp), located in the Lódz (Poland) Ghetto.
The Jugendschutzlager, for non-Jewish Poles, was established in December 1942.
About 10,000 children passed through its gates; most were subsequently killed at Chelmno and Auschwitz. "

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