[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 .)
To add this class to or drop it from your schedule notify Admissions and Records (Attn: Homer_J_Simpson) by freepmail. Those on the Realtime +/- 70 Years ping list are automatically enrolled. Course description, prerequisites and tuition information is available at the bottom of Homer’s profile. Also visit our general discussion thread.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
MARKET-GARDEN Operations, September 1944
American Capture of Peleliu, September 15-26, 1944
Northwestern Europe, 1944: 6th and 12th Army Group Operations, 15 September-7 November 1944
Northwestern Europe, 1944: 21st Army Group Operations, 15 September-15 December 1944
Eastern Europe, 1941: Russian Balkan and Baltic Campaigns – Operations, 19 August-31 December 1944
The Western Pacific, New Guinea, and the Philippine Islands: Allied Advances to the Palaus and Morotai, 30 July-17 September 1944 and Air Attacks on the Philippines, 7-22 September 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

[BroJoeK]

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September 18, 1944:

• "Fourteen hundred Jewish boys at Auschwitz are taken from their barracks to the children's block and are later gassed."

"Two women in Strasbourg, France, read the first French newspaper they have seen since the German occupation began.
The sign on the wall behind them, stenciled in German, reads: 'Jews, Democrats, and Bolsheviks are the gravediggers of humanity.
Therefore, we will fight on to the final victory.' "

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[PeterPrinciple]

Air Troops Hide Wounds To Jump in Netherlands

A UNITED STATES AIR FORCE HOSPITAL in England, Sept 17 - Some American parachutists who were wounded by anti-aircraft fire before jumping in the Netherlands today, concealed their injuries from their jump masters and leaped anyhow, their more seriously wounded comrades said tonight.

One patient sad a “chutists sitting next to him crossed his legs to conceal a big wound while the jumpmaster was checking on the injured.” Others used similar stratagems.

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Makes you think....................

[GreenLanternCorps]

Almost lost in the news about Pelileu and Operation Market-Garden is the news about the sinking of USS Warrington (DD-383) in the 1944 Great Atlantic Hurricane.

She is the first US Destroyer to be sunk in a Tropical Cyclone in 1944. She will not be the last...