[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 and the occasional radio broadcast 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
St. Lo and Vicinity: The Cobra Operation, 25-29 July 1944
Normandy, 1944: The St. Lo Breakthrough – Operations 25-31 July 1944
The Marianas Islands: Tinian 1944 – Seizure of Tinian, 24 July-1 August 1944
The Marianas Islands: Guam 1944 – Invasion of Guam, 21 July-8 August 1944
Eastern Europe, 1941: Operation Bagration – Operations, 22 June-19 August, 1944
Northern Italy 1944: Allied Advance to Gothic Line, 5 June-25 August and Gains 29 August-31 December
China, 1941: Operation Ichigo, April-December 1944 and Situation 31 December
China-Burma, 1941: Third Burma Campaign – Slim’s Offensive, June 1944-March 1945

[Tax-chick]

“Patton is Reported on Normandy Front”

Thank heaven! What took them so long?!

[Steven Scharf]

Panel 3 says Rommel was in Percy, France (which is about 20 miles south of St Lo.). I cannot find anything on his wearabouts from the 17th when he was “an RCAF Spitfire of 412 Squadron piloted by Charley Fox strafed the car near Sainte-Foy-de-Montgommery.” (Rommel’s Wiki page)

Was he really back in business five days later?

This Wiki page on the assination plot say, “On 17 July, Erwin Rommel’s staffcar was strafed by a Spitfire in France. The Field Marshal was hospitalized with major head injuries. After that hospitalization he returned home to meet his wife.”

I thought the NYTs only reported the truth?