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
Homers 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 Homers profile. Also visit our
general discussion thread.
Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War Battle for Northern Entrance to Ormoc Valley, 16 November-14 December 1944 (from 32d Infantry Division website)
The Philippine Islands: Leyte Island and the Visayas, 1944 Sixth Army Operations on Leyte and Samar, 17 October-30 December 1944
Northwestern Europe, 1944: 6th and 12th Army Group Operations, 8 November-15 December 1944
Northwestern Europe, 1944: 21st Army Group Operations, 15 September-15 December 1944
Eastern Europe, 1941: Russian Balkan and Baltic Campaigns Operations, 19 August-31 December 1944
Northern Italy 1944: Allied Advance to Gothic Line, 5 June-25 August and Gains 29 August-31 December
China, 1941: Operation Ichigo, April-December 1944 and Situation 31 December
China-Burma, 1941: Third Burma Campaign Slims Offensive, June 1944-March 1945
November 21, 1944:
- November 18: "Jewish-Palestinian paratrooper Enzo Sereni is executed by Germans at Dachau, Germany.
- November 20: "Jewish-Palestinian paratroopers Haviva Reik, Rafael Reiss, and Zvi Ben-Yaakov are executed in Czechoslovakia.
- November 21: "Saarburg, Germany, is taken by Allied troops."
"The Germans became increasingly desperate as it became clear to them that their war was lost.
Germany's leaders placed a great deal of faith in newly conceived 'Vengeance' weapons that they believed would turn the tide of the war.
The infamous V-2 rocket was designed to wreak havoc on London."
"While hundreds of V-1s and V-2s rained down upon London late in the war, they had little military effect; still, the rockets unnerved many Britons and killed about 5,500."