[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]

Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
Luzon, P.I., 1941: Final Operations on Luzon, 3 February-20 July 1945
Southeast Asia, 1941: Final Allied Offensives in the Southwest Pacific Area 19 February-1 July 1945
West-Central Germany and Belgium, 1945: The Rhineland Campaign – Operations, 8 February-5 March 1945
Eastern France and the Low Countries, 1944: Summary – The Rhineland Campaign, 8 February-21 March 1945
Poland, 1945: Russian Offensive to the Oder – Operations 12 January-30 March 1945
The Western Pacific: Allied Invasions of Iwo Jima and Okinawa (Operation Iceberg), 1945
China, 1941: Operation Ichigo, 1945 and Final Operations in the War
China-Burma, 1941: Third Burma Campaign – Slim’s Offensive, June 1944-March 1945

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[BroJoeK]

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February 23, 1944:

• February 17: "Seven Jews, including a small orphan girl, are murdered by a Pole in Sokoly, Poland.

• February 18: "Five hundred Jews married to Christians are seized throughout Germany and deported to the Theresienstadt, Czechoslovakia, camp/ghetto.

• February 23: "Nazis evacuate the Jews from the concentration camp at Schwarzheide, Germany.
  The 300 weakest prisoners are sent in open wagons to the concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen, Germany."

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[exit82]

HJS, I have been reading the book excerpts and the Nimitz graybook pages on a daily basis.

We cannot imagine the daily losses we were suffering in early 1945 in the numbers of dead, missing and wounded.

We think the war was over in early 1945, but it was not, either in Europe or the Pacific.

I once found a newspaper page from Feb. 1945 in my parents’ attic. The entire page was covered with the names, in very small print, of the men who were listed as killed, wounded, and missing from just one county in NJ in that month.

One county.

Of one state.

400,000 is a lot of men to lose in any war.

When an escort carrier is hit by kamikazes and sinks in ten minutes, with 350 of 900 men missing (USS Bismarck Sea), we can scarcely wrap our heads around it today.

We know how it all turned out, but they were living it one day at a time.

Your daily threads help us to appreciate that.

[untenured]

Much of the war reporting throughout, much of it filed from HQ, has to this point been optimistic, Pollyannish even. David Dempsey’s report on p.4 may be, in contrast, the most somber thing I have seen yet in the pages of the Times since the U.S. entered the war.