[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]

In today’s news -

Eric Sevareid, Naples (see following reply), on the Mt. Vesuvius eruption and the situation at Cassino. He also interviews Lt. Ed Lucas, A-36 pilot with the 86th Fighter/Bomber Group.

Don Pryor, Washington, on home front news. Later in the program he interviews a torpedo bomber pilot home from the Pacific.

Larry LeSueur, London, interviews MSgt. Omer James, chief of the ground crew for the B-17 nicknamed “Screaming Red Ass,” of the 388th Bomb Group, stationed at Knettishall, England. (The last word of the nickname is omitted in the newscast.) That B-17G was downed by flack on its 46th mission, to Berlin, on March 8, 1944.

CBS military analyst Major George Fielding Eliot provides an update of the eastern front.

Bill Slocum Jr., New York, interviews an Army News Service officer about how news from home is disseminated to our troops abroad.

Webley Edwards, Pearl Harbor, gives an update of the situation in the PTO and interviews a WAC corporal newly arrived in Hawaii to relieve a male truck driver so he can go to the front.

To listen to the news click here.

[SunkenCiv]

Wow, that’s a great picture of him! He didn’t look anything like that when I was a kid. :’)