Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
Southern Asia, 1941: Japanese Centrifugal Offensive (and Continued Operations), January-May 1942
Southwest Russia, 1942: German Summer Offensive, Operations, 7 May-23 July 1942
North Africa, 1940: Rommel’s Second Offensive, 21 January-7 July 1942
I generally don’t pay attention to these WWII history posting but I notice the Burma Line mention, I collect world globes for awhile and a couple of them have the Burma road on them. There was a few paper fold out globes produced back then that you could get from like coffee companies by sending in a few labels and a small amount of money and they would send you one of these small globes. One was “Fold-A-Globe” which had the Burma Road and the other major globe was “Plano-Sphere” which has it also except the Plano-Sphere you really need to use a mangnifing glass to see it. The Plano-Sphere has a “Free France” words with a symbol on it at the bottom of it too. A lot of globes were sold back during the war as people would here the news on the radio and would use the globe to find where the events of the war were happening geographically. A lot of the globes back then used wooden bases as metal was in a short supply back then. Does anyone remember any of these globes.
It’s quite interesting to compare the news reports of that day with the actual history of what happened. Lots of propaganda.
Thanks for these posts. They’re awesome.
About this Nazi guy Heydrich mentioned on p6, I get a feeling we will hear more about him over the next month or two.
Should be required reading for Gen-X/Y/Z that often cannot tell the timeline between WWII, Korea, and Vietnam. I know my wife has this problem. They just do not realize what a massive thing WWII was.