[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

[ex-snook]

A little bit more, maybe too much but its personal. We captured Schweinfurt in April 1945. I was on a task force to take over factories and get paper files. We were there when Roosevelt died and had a ceremony in the ruins. We bombed the hell out of them but they had some underground factories. I kept one of their slide rules for a war souvenir. It was a few day stay there then on to Bavaria where the Nazis were expected to make their last stand but that never materialized. Hitler killed himself when I was in Munich. We headed to Austria and the end of the European war. Almost 70 years, a long, long time ago.

Thanks for your postings. This was sort of a blackout period for me. I was undergoing infantry training then. Left for Europe that following November. Greeted by the Battle of the Bulge.

[rmlew]

We did not shoot down 104 Luftwaffe fighters over Schweinfurt. I’ve seen 20-30 quoted. I presume that if 5 allied bombers had gun crews shooting at an incomming fighter, each one claimed to down it. And it was an attempt to spin a disastrous raid that was Fubar from the get go.