[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 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
Papua, New Guinea, 1942
Allied Advance Across Owen Stanley Mountains, 26 Sept.-15 Nov. 1942
Allied Reinforcement by Air and Advance to Buna, 14 Oct.-15 Nov. 1942
The Solomons: Guadalcanal and Florida, 1942
Southwest Russia, 1942: German Advance to Stalingrad, Operations, 24 July-18 November 1942
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

[BroJoeK]

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October 28, 1942:

• "The first transport from Theresienstadt, Czechoslovakia, arrives at Auschwitz.

• "Sixteen thousand Jews are murdered at Pinsk, Poland.

• "Mieczyslaw Gruber, a Jewish former soldier in the Polish Army, escapes with 17 others from a Nazi POW camp on Lipowa Street in Lublin.
  The group will later establish a partisan group in the forest northwest of the city.

• "The SS issues a secret directive that mittens and stockings confiscated from Jewish children at death camps be gathered and sent to SS families.

• "Jewish Warsaw Ghetto leaders ask Jan Karski, a Polish Catholic working for the underground, to tell the Polish and Allied governments:
  "We are helpless in the face of the German criminals....The Germans are not trying to enslave us as they have other people; we are being systematically murdered....Our entire people will be destroyed...." "

"The deportation of the 22,000 Jews of Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland, began in the early morning hours of October 14, 1942.
In the process 1,000 Jews, most of them too sick to get out of bed, were shot.
The remaining Jews were shipped to Treblinka, where those who did not die on the journey perished in the gas chambers."

"Units of the regular military services often participated in deportations.
Here, Luftwaffe troops round up a group of Orthodox Jews in the Polish town of Szczebrzeszyn.
On October 21, 1942, Szczebrzeszyn's remaining Jews, about 1,000 of them, were transported to Belzec.
In addition, the Germans forced between 400 and 500 Jews from their hiding places and summarily shot them.
The town's gentile population, threatened with death if they hid Jews and tempted by offers of rewards for handing them over, helped the Germans find Jews who had concealed themselves."

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[Seizethecarp]

I have to wonder if the decision to admit the loss of the Wasp was made just before or just after news that the Hornet had been lost, the carrier that had launched the Tokyo raid. Terrible times with Halsey losing the carrier in his first week in command...and being reduced to only one damaged carrier.

I suspect that FDR thought they better come clean on the Wasp to avoid having to announce two carriers gone at a later time.

[InMemoriam]

Huh! We knew about the Japanese submarine aircraft carriers as early as ‘42! Also, I’m gonna tell my Korean friends about Kilsoo Haan stealing Japanese military documents and warning the State Department with his correct guess of December 7 at Pearl Harbor.