[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 .)
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[Homer_J_Simpson]

Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
Eastern Europe, 1941: Russian Leningrad and Ukraine Offensives – Operations, 2 December 1943-30 April 1944
Allied Advance to Volturno River, Reorganization, and Attack on Gustav Line (17 January-11 May 1944)
Anzio-Cassino Area, 1943: Attempts to Cross Rapido and Garigliano Rivers, 17-20 January 1944. Anzio Landing, 22 January 1944. German Counterattack at Anzio, 16-19 February 1944
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
The Far East and the Pacific, 1941: Original Allied Strategic Concept, May 1943; Situation in Pacific, 1 November 1943

[fso301]

That was an interesting p2 article about the new 500lb "block burner" incendiary bomb recently used against Berlin.

I wonder if once we get close enough to launch air raids against Japan if incendiary bombs bomb can be used to any effect?

[fso301]

About that p4 photo of a German POW eating American corned beef. I’ve read that German rations by this time in the war were less than appealing.

[DuncanWaring]

1,400 U.S. PLANES SMASH AT BERLIN WITHOUT ANY FIGHTER OPPOSITION

What a difference six months made.

In October 1943 20% of the attacking force of B-17s (60 of 291)was lost to fighters and anti-aircraft fire.

[BenLurkin]

To this day it grates that the free world didn’t give Hanoi and Haiphong this kind of aerial urban renewal in 1965.

[BroJoeK]

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March 23, 1944:

• "In the Bialystok region of Poland, a Jewish partisan group led by Andrei Tsymbal destroys a German military train transporting armored cars to the Eastern Front.

• "Nearly 6,500 Jews from Greece, including 1687 from Jannina, are deported to Auschwitz."

"Saly Mayer was a Swiss businessman and president of the Schweizerischer Israelitischer Gemeindebund (Federation of Swiss-Jewish Communities) from 1936 until 1942.
He walked the tightrope of negotiating with the Nazis to save Hungarian Jews while refusing the Nazis' requests for resources that would have prolonged the war.
In 1940 he became the representative of the Jewish Distribution Committee (JDC) in Switzerland.
In that position, he sought to funnel Swiss-Jewish funds to support Jews in occupied countries and to bargain for their release."

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