[Homer_J_Simpson]

Free Republic University, Department of History presents World War II Plus 70 Years: Seminar and Discussion Forum
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[Homer_J_Simpson]

Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
Soviet Summer and Fall Offensives: Operations, 17 July-1 December 1943
Allied Advance to Volturno River, Reorganization, and Attack on Gustav Line (17 January-11 May 1944)
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
New Guinea and Alamo Force Operations: Clearing the Huon Peninsula and Securing the Straits, 19 September 1943-26 April 1944
Cartwheel, the Seizure of the Gilberts and Marshalls, and Concurrent Air and Naval Operations, 30 June 1943-26 April 1944

[Rebelbase]

Rabul was bypassed and isolated for the next 21 months.

I’ve tried to find some detailed perspective on this but come up with not much more than the above sentence.

Does anyone have any links with more detail, particularly from the Jap perspective?

[BroJoeK]

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October 13, 1943:

• "Italy declares war on Germany.

• "Hatchets, knives, and warm clothing are secretly distributed among inmates at the Sobibór death camp; See October 14, 1943."

"Danish fishermen ferry a boatload of Jewish fugitives across a narrow sound to neutral Sweden during the nationwide rescue operation.
News of impending deportations of Jews spawned a rapid response by the Danes, who worked feverishly to save Jewish citizens.
Boats of every size and shape were used to transport the Jews from Denmark to Sweden, away from the grasp of the Nazis."

"This group portrait of Danish-Jewish children was taken in a children's home in Sweden after their escape from Denmark.
The rescue of Danish Jewry was one of the few positive stories in the tragic annals of the Holocaust.
These Jewish children unknowingly defied all odds by surviving the genocidal intentions of the Nazis."

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[Parmenio]

Thanks for posting these pages, Homer. One interesting thing to note about the Azores development. Salazar did not want to grant the U.S. access to the Azores. He wanted to let only the British in. The U.S. had to exert a great deal of pressure on Salazar to get U.S. access there. He had a real cultural prejudice against America for its materialism and commercialism, like many conservative Europeans have today.