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
Homers posting history .)
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To: Homer_J_Simpson
Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War The Philippine Islands: Leyte Island and the Visayas, 1944 Sixth Army Operations on Leyte and Samar, 17 October-30 December 1944
The Philippine Islands: Leyte Island and the Visayas, 1944 Sixth Army Operations Mindoro and Marinduque Islands, 13 December 1944-24 January 1945
The Ardennes Area, 1944: Operations, 26 December 1944-16 January 1945
Eastern France and the Low Countries, 1944: Territorial Changes along the Front, 16 December 1944-7 February 1945 and Allied Plan for Rhineland Campaign
Eastern Europe, 1941: Russian Balkan and Baltic Campaigns Operations, 19 August-31 December 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 Slims Offensive, June 1944-March 1945
2 posted on
12/29/2014 4:41:57 AM PST by
Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: Homer_J_Simpson
December 29, 1944:
- "December 26: The Germans' last-ditch offensive of the war, instigated against American troops at Luxembourg's Ardennes Forest on December 16, stalls following ten days of impressive gains.
The offensive's ultimate goal, the seizure of Antwerp, Belgium, is not achieved.
Nearly a quarter of a million German troops have been killed, wounded, or captured, and more than 1,400 German tanks and heavy assault guns have been lost.
From this point, Germany's war will be strictly defensive. - December 28: "Members of Hungary's Arrow Cross abduct 28 Jews in a Budapest hospital.
They will murder them two days later."
"Bodies of German soldiers lie strewn over the battlefield of Bastogne, Belgium, the site of one of the fiercest confrontations of the Battle of the Bulge.
Reinforced by paratroopers, the Allied forces refused to surrender even though they were encircled and outnumbered.
When the clouds lifted, Allied planes dropped supplies, and Bastogne was relieved the day after Christmas."
11 posted on
12/29/2014 5:49:00 AM PST by
BroJoeK
(a little historical perspective.)
To: Homer_J_Simpson
14 posted on
12/29/2014 8:47:54 AM PST by
iowamark
(I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy)
To: Homer_J_Simpson; occamrzr06; abb; Hebrews 11:6; iowamark; EternalVigilance
Page 3, bottom right:
WASHINGTON, Dec. 28: The United States, in angry helplessness, is preparing to protest the shooting of American soldiers captured by the Germans during their forward rush into Belgium. The State Department is gathering from the War Department evidence that will form the basis of the protest.
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To whom, one wonders, will they address this protest ... and why bother? Surely there are more useful things for the clerks of the State and War Departments to do.
Such nice placement of prepositional phrases! You can tell the writer learned in school to diagram his sentences.
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12/29/2014 12:47:58 PM PST by
Tax-chick
(Our God is King!)
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