[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

[Homer_J_Simpson]

The first two of the following excerpts are continued from yesterday.

Winston S. Churchill, Closing the Ring

[colorado tanker]

Zaporozhye became an industrial center largely because of a hydroelectric dam built there. The Sov’s dynamited it when the Germans came through and the Germans dynamited it again when they withdrew. Still, the town survived, although the Russians will have to repair horrific damage.