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- Contents:
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- 1) History of this forum
- 2) Charter (Original Text)
- 3) Moderation Policy
- 4) Moderation Policies (Amendments 1994)
- 5)* Moderation Policies (Amendments 1995)
- 6)* Moderators List. Add/del policy. Setup
- 7) Why this forum exists
- 8) Where & How to submit articles
- 9) Some Helpful tips
- 10)* World War II Archives: Resource Sites
- 11)* 50 YA Archive & Other Files on World-Wide Web (www)
- 12) Books on World War II
- 13) Movies on World War II
- 14)* Weekly Admin posting on the Newsgroup
- 15)* This FAQ: Archive Info, History & Credits
-
- * Updated or New for this revision of FAQ.
-
- ************************************************************************
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- -------
- Subject: 1) History of this forum
-
- NewsGroup: soc.history.war.world-war-ii
- Description: History & Events of World War Two.
-
-
- Status: moderated
-
- Proponent: Joel Furr (jfurr@acpub.duke.edu)
-
- Request for Discussion: Feb 21, 1994
- Call for Votes: March 23, 1994
- Voting Ended: April 13, 1994 23:59:59 UTC
- Vote Taker: UVV
- Votes: 181 in favor, 17 against
-
-
- ************************************************************************
- ************************************************************************
- -------
- Subject: 2) Charter (Original Text)
-
- Author: Joel Furr
-
-
- Discussion of the era 1939-1945 in particular, but ranging as far b=
- ack
- as 1918 and as far forward as the 1950's for discussion of eve=
- nts
- leading to the War and post-war events such as the occupation of Ja=
- pan
- and Germany. The discussion will be limited to social, politic=
- al,
- military, economic, technological, demographic, and historial aspects=
- of
- World War II, including discussion of:
-
- * Arms limitations treaties in the 1920's, intended to head
- off any future war
- * the Weimar Republic
- * the rise of the Italian Fascists
- * the Japanese war with China
- * the rise of the Nazi Party
- * American isolationism
- * Franco-British appeasement
- * Italian misadventures in Africa
- * German occupation of the Sudentenland and Austria
- * the war proper, 1939-1945
- * the Manhattan Project
- * the Holocaust
- * Post-war occupation of Japan and Germany
- * Post-war governments of Europe
- * and so on.
-
-
- In other words, the mandate for soc.history.war.world-war-ii is inten=
- ded
- to be broad, rather than narrow, with moderation in place less to li=
- mit
- discussion than to keep out Gannon and the Holocaust Revisionists =
- and
- other malicious posters. Should Dan Gannon or Serdar Argic sub=
- mit
- articles which actually discuss World War Two rather than spread=
- ing
- their brand of conspiracy theory, their articles will be approved =
- for
- submission as well.
-
- ************************************************************************
- ************************************************************************
- -------
- Subject: 3) Moderation Policy
-
-
- Soc.history.war.world-war-ii will have a very relaxed moderation poli=
- cy.
- The main purpose, as noted above, for moderation of this group is=
- to
- prevent it from turning into a revisionist flamefest akin =
- to
- misc.headlines or soc.history. As such, any message which actua=
- lly
- discusses World War II will be approved for posting, provided that=
- it
- does not attempt to claim that events such as the Holocaust ne=
- ver
- happened. There are other groups for discussion of that question, m=
- ost
- notably, alt.revisionism.
-
- Moderation rules:
-
- * Articles which discuss World War Two and its events will be appro=
- ved
- for posting.
-
- * Articles arguing that the Holocaust never happened will not=
- be
- approved for posting.
-
- * Articles must contain original thought. Lengthy quoting of sou=
- rce
- material with a couple of lines of comment at the end will =
- not
- be approved for posting.
-
- * Blank messages, test messages, advertisements, MAKE.MONEY.FAST, and=
- so
- forth, will not be approved for posting.
-
- * Articles which include excessive quoting (e.g. an article which quo=
- tes
- an entire other article in order to add a few comments at the e=
- nd)
- will be trimmed down by the moderator in question.
-
- * An article MUST have a valid reply-to address or it will not=
- be
- approved for posting.
-
- * Rejected articles will be shared with the other moderators for gr=
- oup
- consideration.
-
- As noted below, the group will be group-moderated, to minimize de=
- lay
- between submission and posting and to keep the group running when =
- the
- traffic becomes heavy.
-
- ADDENDUM: 'War Buddies' [June 94]
-
- We've had a few of this type of message lately, and it seems to be a "gra=
- y
- area" in our charter. These messages don't _really_ discuss WW2, and the=
- y
- don't have any real historical content.
-
- People who want to search for old war buddies should post to soc.veterans.
-
- ************************************************************************
- ************************************************************************
- -------
- Subject: 4) Moderation Policies (Amendments 1994)
-
- The moderators of soc.history.war.world-war-ii, in exercise of th=
- eir
- rights to clarify & amend moderation policies for the news gro=
- up,
- clarify & amend the moderation policies for
- soc.history.war.world-war-ii.
-
- These amendments are effective immediately. Any questions should=
- be
- addressed to: ww2-mod@acpub.duke.edu.
-
- QUOTED TEXT:
-
- Any article that contains more than fifty percent quoted material (=
- and
- the author's signature shall not count as original material for purpo=
- ses
- of determining the proportion) may be trimmed or rejected at =
- the
- discretion of the moderator. In exercising this discretion, t=
- he
- moderator shall take readability considerations into account, such=
- as
- the amount of quoted material at the beginning of the message, and =
- the
- size of the blocks of quoted material. An article in which the aut=
- hor
- has included a long article as a quote without making any effort to t=
- rim
- the quoted article may be rejected. A moderator may trim quoted mater=
- ial
- from any article at his discretion.
-
- SIGNATURE LENGTH:
-
- In keeping with Usenet netiquette conventions, signatures should =
- be
- restricted to four lines. Moderators may, at their discretion, t=
- rim
- .sigs to four lines before posting articles.
-
- POSTINGS SEEKING 'WAR BUDDIES'
-
- Soc.history.war.world-war-ii is a forum for discussion of WW2 even=
- ts,
- not to seek out war buddies. Soc.veterans is the most appropri=
- ate
- newsgroup to seek out individual veterans. Moderators may, at th=
- eir
- discretion, reject articles that seek out individual veterans =
- and
- suggest that they be redirected to soc.veterans. However, the moderat=
- ors
- also recognize that some requests in that vein can generate g=
- ood
- discussions of history or of resources for WW2 research. Therefo=
- re,
- moderators will evaluate such articles before rejecting them, =
- and
- moderators may post such articles if they decide that they have =
- the
- potential to generate WW2 discussion of general interest to the read=
- ers
- of the newsgroup.
-
- ************************************************************************
- ************************************************************************
- -------
- Subject: 5) Moderation Policies (Amendments 1995)
-
- -June 95-
-
- REGARDING ANNOUNCEMENTS
-
- Moderators may accept articles announcing the availability of n=
- ew,
- scholarly materials, if the moderators determine, in the exercise=
- of
- their discretion, that the announcement of such scholarly materi=
- als
- furthers the purposes of the newsgroup. The posting of any s=
- uch
- announcements by commercial enterprises does not mean that =
- the
- moderators will feel obliged to post all articles from commerc=
- ial
- sources.Moderators will evaluate all such announcements on an individ=
- ual
- basis.
-
- SEEKING E-MAIL RESPONSES
-
- Moderators may reject any article that specifies replies by e-mail on=
- ly,
- if the author does not offer to summarize the e-mail responses for =
- the
- entire group. Authors should, of course, follow up on offers =
- to
- summarize, or they risk losing their credibility among the moderat=
- ors
- and other newsgroup readers.
-
- ************************************************************************
- ************************************************************************
- -------
- Subject: 6) Moderators List. Add/del policy. Setup
-
-
-
- Moderators will be added by majority vote of the existing moderators =
- and
- moderators will be removed by 2/3 vote in the event that a moderator=
- is
- shown to be failing to do the job (i.e. not posting anything).
-
- LIST OF CURRENT MODERATORS FOR soc.history.war.world-war-ii
- __________________________________________________________________
- Dated: October 16, 1997
-
-
- 1. drew@comped1.cas.vanderbilt.edu Andrew McMichael
- 2. rick@bcm.tmc.edu Richard Miller
- 3. graham@ee.washington.edu Stephen Graham
-
- WW2-SUB@ACPUB.DUKE.EDU LISTING: 10/16/97
-
- rick@bcm.tmc.edu
- graham@ee.washington.edu
-
- WW2-MOD@ACPUB.DUKE.EDU LISTING: 10/16/97
-
- rick@bcm.tmc.edu
- mg@ac.duke.edu
- graham@ee.washington.edu
- drew@comped1.cas.vanderbilt.edu
-
-
-
- HISTORY ON PREVIOUS MODERATORS:
- ______________________________
-
- June 09, 1994 - Due to technical problems moderator resigned.
- -------------
- ai292@freenet.carleton.ca Gordon McFee
-
- Oct 12, 1994 - E-mail address for moderator John Davis updated.
- ------------
- NEW Address: jbd@netcom.com John Davis
- OLD Address: jbd@osbm.state.nc.us
-
- Oct 24, 1994 - Moderator resigns due to other commitments.
- ------------
- jfurr@acpub.duke.edu Joel Furr
-
- Jan 10, 1995 - Resignation confirmed
- ------------
- kmcvay@oneb.almanac.bc.ca Ken McVay
-
- Feb 12, 1995 - E-mail address for moderator John Davis updated.
- ------------
- NEW Address: jbdavis@nando.net John Davis
- OLD Address: jbd@netcom.com
-
-
- Jul 20, 1995 - Moderator resign due to other commitments.
- ------------
- schafer@anubis.network.com Martin Schafer
-
- Mar 28, 1996 - E-mail address for moderator Kenneth Bullock updated.
- ------------
- NEW Address: kbullock@acpub.duke.edu Kenneth Bullock
- OLD Address: kbullock@southwind.net
-
- May 27, 1996 - E-mail address for moderator John Davis updated.
- ------------
- NEW Address: jbdavis@pobox.comt John Davis
- OLD Address: jbdavis@nando.net
-
- AUG 13, 1996 - New Moderator Voted-in
- ------------
- graham@ee.washington.edu Stephen Graham
-
- AUG 14, 1996 - New Moderator Voted-in
- ------------
- cpsidfw@onramp.net Dave
-
- OCT 1996 - Moderator resigned
- ------------
- cpsidfw@onramp.net Dave
-
- Jun 1997 - Moderator resigned
- ------------
- jbdavis@pobox.com John Davis
-
- AUG 31 1997 - Moderator resigned
- ------------
- mughal@alumni.caltech.edu Asim Mughal
-
- ADD/DEL POLICY FOR MODERATORS:
- _____________________________
-
- Moderators will be added by majority vote of the existing moderators =
- and
- moderators will be removed by 2/3 vote in the event that a moderator=
- is
- shown to be failing to do the job (i.e. not posting anything).
-
- MODERATION SETUP/APARATUS
- _________________________
-
- This group will be group-moderated using a Majordomo listserver. It =
- has
- been configured so that each article received at ww2-sub@acpub.duke.=
- edu
- will be sent to the next moderator in turn, using a list of subscri=
- bed
- moderators. Hence, the *submission* address for articles will=
- be
- ww2-sub@acpub.duke.edu. The *contact* address for the group, o=
- nce
- created, will be ww2-mod@acpub.duke.edu.
-
- ************************************************************************
- ************************************************************************
- -------
- Subject: 7) Why this Forum Exits?
-
- Author: Joel Furr
-
-
- A war includes more than military events. A war includes soci=
- al,
- political, economic, military, and demographic events. Discussion o=
- f a
- war typically includes the *war era* and not just the war. Pres=
- ent
- groups which exist to discuss military issues are very specif=
- ic:
- sci.military, alt.folklore.military, alt.war. All of these tend to fo=
- cus
- very strongly on the military aspects and less on the historical =
- and
- other aspects. Soc.history.war.world-war-ii will encompass all aspe=
- cts
- of war.
-
- Discussion of World War II and wars in general takes place on a w=
- ide
- range of newsgroups, many of which specialize on recent milit=
- ary
- history. The most notable example of war discussion taking pl=
- ace
- elsewhere is the World War II mailing list, which averages 800 kiloby=
- tes
- per month of traffic and which almost closed down after presenting =
- far
- too great a load on its moderators than they could handle. =
- The
- moderators of the list are in support of the proposed newsgroup as =
- the
- subject is far larger than can be easily dealt with in mailing l=
- ist
- form. A newsgroup is needed.
-
- ************************************************************************
- ************************************************************************
- -------
- Subject: 8) Where & How to submit articles ?
-
- There are two ways to do so:
-
- A- Thru USENET
-
- While reading newsgroup soc.history.war.world-war-ii simply respond=
- to
- the artilce or post a new article. The article will be automatica=
- lly
- routed to one of the active moderators for review.
-
- B- Thru E-MAIL
-
- You may submit your article to the following address. Again, y=
- our
- article will reach one of the moderators for review.
-
- The e-mail address is:
-
- ww2-sub@acpub.duke.edu
-
- ************************************************************************
- ************************************************************************
- -------
- Subject: 9) Some Helpful Tips
-
- It may take up to 1-2 days for your article to be reviewed and anot=
- her
- day or so for the article to reach your site after being posted fro=
- m a
- moderator's site.
-
- Articles not deemed fit for posting on the forum will be returned by =
- the
- moderator with an explanation citing a rationale & the guidelines of =
- the
- forum.
-
- 1. Always save a copy of your article you submit till it appears on =
- the
- forum.
-
- 2. If o The article does not appear on the newsgroup o The article =
- was
- not returned back by the moderator o AND 3 days have elapsed.
-
- Then please contact the moderators, asap, at the following em=
- ail
- address:
-
- ww2-mod@acpub.duke.edu
-
- ************************************************************************
- ************************************************************************
- -------
- Subject: 10) World War II Archives: Resource Sites
-
- FTP SITE
- --------
- <jewell@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Larry & Kim Jewell) June 8, 1994>
-
- Host: byrd.mu.wvnet.edu
- Directory: /pub/history/military/wwii
- Login: anonymous
- Password: _your_email_address
-
- Directory Listing:
-
- 150 Opening data connection for /bin/ls (131.215.139.234,3498) (0 bytes).
- 4307.txt* command.decisions/ pictures/
- 50.years.later/ conferences/ policy/
- D-Day/ declaration.of.war/ sept_1939/
- U.S.Army.campaigns/ gpo_wwii.txt* special.studies/
- USN_wwii/ justice.pap* speeches/
- active_carriers.txt* national_arc.txt* treaties/
- balkans.txt* naval_chronology/ wwii-l_digests/
- chrono_1938-41.txt* pearl.harbor/
-
- June 11,1994: FTP site byrd is accepting contributions of public
- domain items for the collection. Items should be
- uploaded to /pub/history/submissions.
-
- MORE Info on 'byrd'
-
- <tryhardz@popmail.mcs.com (James P. Long) June 14, 1994>
-
- Some of the subdir's in WWII are Battle of the Bulge/Command
- Decisions/D-Day/Naval Chronology.
-
- The D-Day material contains very detailed studies of Utah Beach and Omaha
- Beach, both done by the War Dept. in 1945 and signed by George Marshall
- (they're in .ZIP format).
-
-
- FTP SITE
- --------
- <Stupendous Man <BKOTTMANN@FALCON.AAMRL.WPAFB.AF.MIL> June 17 '94>
-
- The ftp address for Miss. State is:
-
- ftp.msstate.edu
-
- Also note that the archives are available from other servers
- as mirror files.
-
- Here are some more network archive sites:
-
- Name=3DUnites States Military Academy
- Path=3D
- Host=3Deuler.math.usma.edu
- #
- Name=3DHistory articles (various)
- Path=3D1ftp:English Server:History:
- Host=3Denglish-server.hss.cmu.edu
- #
- Name=3DWhite House information
- Path=3D1/.dir/president.dir
- Host=3Dgopher.tamu.edu
- Port=3D70
- #
- Name=3DFederal information services
- Path=3D1/Other
- Host=3Dstis.nsf.gov
- Port=3D70
- #
- Name=3DHistory Archives and Servers
- Path=3D1/Subject/History
- Host=3Driceinfo.rice.edu
- Port=3D70
-
- FTP SITE
- --------
-
- <BKOTTMANN@FALCON.AAMRL.WPAFB.AF.MIL Date: Fri, 15 Jul 1994 13:32 EDT>
- Update Request From:
- Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 14:53:53 -0500 From: "Jim D." <jim@galt.osd.mil>
- http://www.netready.com/Demo/WWIInet/
- Type: WWW page
- Access: Public
- Contributions: Mail to owner
-
- FTP SITE
- --------
- gprien@argo.net (richard charlton)
- Date: Mon, 30 Oct 1995 02:12:56 GMT
- ftp.spies.com/Gov/US-History/WWII
-
- ************************************************************************
- ************************************************************************
- -------
- Subject: 11) Other Files on World-Wide Web (www)
-
-
- Date: Sat, 1 Apr 1995 08:51:55 -0500
- >From: Kenneth Bullock <kbullock@acpub.duke.edu>
-
- URL for this resource is http://www.primenet.com/~custer
- ---x---
-
- >From: elmer@wpi.edu (Andrew Toppan)
- Subject: Battleship & Aircraft Carrier info on the WWW
- Date: 16 Apr 1995 05:00:49 GMT
- # Updated # 3/25/96
-
- Announcing new Battleship and Aircraft Carrier information availa=
- ble
- on the World Wide Web (WWW):
-
- I have (finally) completed a series of lists that provide informa=
- tion
- on all US and Canadian aircraft carriers, all Dreadnoughts (world=
- wide)
- and all US Pre-Dreadnought battleships. Except as noted, all the=
- se
- lists are my work, compiled from a variety of online and print
- resources.
-
- Comprehensive Lists:
- -------------------
- These provide "vital statistics" on each ship (dimensions, armame=
- nt,
- etc.) as well as dates laid down, launched, commissioned,
- reclassified,
- renamed, rebuilt, damaged, decommissioned, stricken, scrapped, et=
- c.
- This provides a brief history of each ship "in a nutshell". Many
- books
- have been written on these ships, I don't intend to duplicate tha=
- t
- work
- by including every detail.
-
- Aircraft Carrier Lists(http://www.wpi.edu/~elmer/navy/carriers.ht=
- ml)
-
- *Canadian Carriers (from mcclearn@ug.cs.dal.ca}
- *Pre WWII US CV series
- *WWII era US CV series
- *Post WWII US CV series
- *US Escort Carriers
- *US Helicopter/VSTOL Carriers
-
- Battleship Lists (http://www.wpi.edu/~elmer/navy/battleships.html=
- )
- (these cover *all* dreadnoughts)
- *US Pre-Dreadnoughts
- *US Dreadnoughts
- *British Dreadnoughts
- *German Dreadnoughts
- *French Dreadnoughts
- *Japanese Dreadnoughts
- *Italian Dreadnoughts
- *French Dreadnoughts
- *Russian and Soviet Dreadnoughts
- *South American Dreadnoughts (Argentina, Brazil, Chile)
- *Minor-Power European Dreadnoughts (Austria-Hungary, Greece,
- Netherlands, Spain, Turkey)
-
-
- Other Lists:
- ------------
- *Current Worldwide List of Aircraft Carriers
- *US WWII Carrier Force Levels (ftp'ed from byrd.mu.wvnet.edu}
- *Brief listing of British Dreadnoughts, 1906-1960
- (from bssbh2ahj@zippy.dct.ac.uk}
-
- WWW SITE: U-Boats 1939-45
- -----------------
- http://rvik.ismennt.is/~gummihe/Uboats/u-boats.htm
-
- From: <102551.2427@compuserve.com>
- Date: 26 Jan 1996 05:13:33 GMT
-
- WWW SITE - GERMAN INFANTRY BOOK
- -------------------------------
- http://www.infinet.com/~nafziger/books.html
-
- From: gruppen@aol.com (Gruppen)
- Date: 31 Jan 1996 08:34:47 -0500
-
- FTP SITE - Best of WW2 Newsgroup
- --------------------------------
- byrd.mu.wvnet.edu
- /pub/history/military/wwii/best-of-shwwii
-
- From: "Larry W. Jewell" <lwjewell@omni.cc.purdue.edu>
- Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 15:39:15 -0500 (EST)
-
- WWW SITE - US Troops in Austria 1945-1955
- -----------------------------------------
- http://www.image.co.at/image/salzburg
-
- From: how2surf@image.co.at (Albert Topitz)
-
- FTP SITE - Files of Interest to WWII
- ------------------------------------
- ftp://ftp.almanac.bc.ca/pub/places/poland/einsatzgruppen/
-
- From: kmcvay@nizkor.almanac.bc.ca (Ken McVay OBC)
- Date: 7 Nov 1995 08:02:17 -0800
-
- WWW SITE - First Division Museum
- --------------------------------
- http:///www.xnet.com/~cantigny
-
- From: kuchan@quark.cig.mot.com (Joseph M. Kuchan)
- Date: 12 Jun 95 13:44:44 GMT
-
- WWW SITE - Japanese surrender documents
- ---------------------------------------
- http://www.nara.gov/
-
- From: dorfman@netcom.com (Merlin Dorfman)
- Date: Sun, 17 Sep 1995 23:55:05 GMT
-
- WWW SITE - WW2 Historical re-enactors
- -------------------------------------
- http://reenactor.clever.net/WW2/
-
- From: ar536@lafn.org (Dwight Dutton)
- Date: 13 Aug 1995 12:55:51 GMT
-
- WWW SITE - 82 ABN Museum
- ------------------------
- http://www.fayetteville.net/museum/82ndAirborne/
-
- From: elb <elb@mario11.ppp.ncsu>
- Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 13:43:14 GMT
-
- WWW SITE - WW2 Pictures
- -----------------------
- http://www.webcom.com/dheller/wwii.html
-
- From: Dan Heller <dtheller@ix.netcom.com>
- Date: 15 Aug 1996 08:59:32 GMT
-
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- Subject: 12) Books on World War II
-
- The following is a listing of some of the books recommended for
- reading on the newsgroup by the readers.
-
- MOST RECOMMENDED: Gerhard Weinberg's _A World at Arms_
-
- 1. CharlesSmith <softwa19@laurel.us.net>
- Date: 28 Oct 1995 15:24:00 GMT
-
- HITLERS SPIES - By David Kahn - isbn 0-02-052440-4. It contains
- lots of details, lots of refs. and a pile of crypto history!
-
- 2. bcostell@CCIT.ARIZONA.EDU
- Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 08:37:16 MST
-
- The Trail of the Fox, by David Irving
- The Rommel Papers , by Field Marshall Erwin Rommel
- Ifantrie Grieft An (Infantry Attacks), by Erwin Rommel
-
- 3. jperkins@superior.ccs.carleton.ca
- Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 04:37:22 GMT
-
- Leasor, James. _Green Beach_. London: Heineman, 1975. A good
- introduction, focusing on the intelligence-gathering aspects.
-
- BGen. Denis Whitaker and Shelagh Whitaker. _Dieppe: Tragedy to
- Triumph_. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1992.
- Quite a good examination of the subject from a variety of viewpoi=
- nts.
-
- Brian Loring Villa. _Unauthorized Action: Mountbatten and the
- Dieppe Raid_. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. A very
- controversial book, which alleges that Mountbatten pushed ahead w=
- ith
- the raid despite opposition from his superiors, and without
- Churchill's
- direct approval.
-
- TOPIC: Wake Island Survivors
- FROM : jahorne@mediacity.com (Jonathan Horne)
- DATED: 01 Jun 96
- BOOK :
- Brig Gen George Kinney, USMC Ret.
- Published in 1995 by Brassey's Washington DC
- ISBN 1-57488-035-7
-
- TOPIC: German & Japanese Interaction
- FROM : Leo_Backman@online.tietokone.fi (Leo Backman)
- DATED: 04 Jun '96
- BOOKS:
-
- C A U S T O N, E.E.N.
- Militarism and Foreign Policy in Japan
- Allen & Unwin, London 1936
-
- D E A N E, John R.
- The Strange Alliance
- Viking Press, New York 1947
-
- I K L E, Frank W.
- German-Japanese Relations, 1936-40
- Bookman Association, New York 1956
-
- M E S K I L L, Johanna
- Hitler and Japan: The Hollow Alliance
- Atherton, New York 1966
-
- P R A N G E, Gordon W.
- Target Tokyo: The Story of the Sorge Spy Ring
- McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York 1984
-
- P R E I S S E N, Ernst L.
- Germany and Japan: A Study in Totalitarian Diplomacy,
- 1933-1941
- Martinus Nijhof, the Hague 1958
- Oxford University Press, New York 1987
-
- S C H R O E D E R, Paul W.
- The Axis Alliance and Japanese-American Relations, 1941
- Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York 1958
-
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- Subject: 13) Movies on World War II
-
- C050H39K@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU
- Date: Thu, 04 May 95 21:08:53 EDT
-
-
- Note that these are Hollywood studio releases on subjects with
- some connection to WW2 (i.e. Combat films, Homefront, Espionage, Drama an=
- d
- Comedy). It doesn't include foriegn films, or U.S. Government training,
- morale,
- indoctrination or documentary films (i.e. Capra, Ford or Wyler's wartime
- films)
-
-
- 1944 A-M
- Action in Arabia (RKO) - George Sanders, Virginia Bruce, Gene Lockhart
- Address Unknown (Columbia) - Paul Lukas, Mady Christians, Morris Carnovsk=
- y
- The Black Parachute (Columbia -
- The Canterville Ghost (MGM) - Charles Laughton, Margaret O'Brien, Robert =
- Young
- Charlie Chan in the Secret Service (Monogram) - Sidney Toler, Benson Fong
- The Conspirators (Warner Bros) - Hedy Lamarr, Paul Henreid, Peter Lorre
- Crime by Night (Warner Bros) - Jane Wyman, Jerome Cowan, Eleanor Parker
- The Cross of Lorraine (MGM) - Jean-Pierre Aumont, Gene Kelly, Peter Lorre
- Cry Havoc (MGM) - Margaret Sullivan, Joan Blondell, Ann Sothern, Fay Bain=
- ter
- Days of Glory (RKO) - Gregory Peck, Tamara Toumanova, Alan Reed, Maria Pa=
- lmer
- Destination Tokyo (Warner Bros) - Cary Grant, John Garfield, Alan Hale
- Dragon Seed (MGM) - Katherine Hepburn, Walter Huston, Turhan Bey, Henry
- Travers
- Enemy of Women (Monogram) -
- The Eve of St. Mark (20th Cent Fox) - Ann Baxter, Vincent Price, Dickie M=
- oore
- The Fighting Seabees (Republic) - John Wayne, Susan Hayward, William Fraw=
- ley
- Follow the Boys (Universal) - George Raft, Marlene Dietrich, Orson Welles
- Four Jills in a Jeep (20th Cent Fox)- Kay Francis, Martha Raye, Phil Silv=
- ers
- A Guy Named Joe (MGM) - Van Johnson, Spencer Tracy, Irene Dunn, Ward Bond
- Hail the Conquering Hero (Paramount) - Eddie Bracken, William Demarest,
- Here Come the Waves (Paramount) - Bing Crosby, Betty Hutton, Sonny Tufts
- Hey Rookie (Columbia) -Ann Miller, Larry Parks, Jack Guilford, Joe Sawyer
- The Hitler Gang (Paramount)- Robert Watson, Ludwig Donath, Sig Ruman
- Hollywood Canteen (Warner Bros) - Bette Davis, John Garfield, Joan Leslie
- The Hour Before Dawn (Paramount) - Franchot Tone, Veronica Lake, Binnie B=
- arnes
- I Love a Soldier (Paramount) - Paulette Goddard, Sonny Tufts, Beulah Bond=
- i
- The Imposter (Universal) - Jean Gabin, Ellen Drew, Richard Whorf, Allyn J=
- oslyn
- In Our Time (Warner Bros) - Ida Lupino, Paul Henreid, Nancy Coleman,
- In The Meantime Darling (20th Cent Fox) - Jeanne Crain, Frank Lattimore
- Janie (Warner Bros) - Joyce Reynolds, Edward Arnold, Ann Harding, Alan Ha=
- le
- Ladies Courageous (Universal)- Loretta Young, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Ruth =
- Roman
- Ladies of Washington (20th Cent Fox) -
- Lifeboat (20th Cent Fox) - Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix, Walter Slez=
- ak
- Make Your Own Bed (Warner Bros) - Jack Carson, Jane Wyman, Alan Hale
- Man From Frisco (Republic) - Dan Duryea, Michael O'Shay, Anne Shirley
- Marine Raiders (RKO) - Pat O'Brien, Ruth Hussey, Robert Ryan, Frank McHug=
- h
- The Master Race (RKO) - George Colouris, Lloyd Bridges, Osa Massen,
- Meet the People (MGM) - Lucille Ball, Dick Powell, Virginia O'Brien, Bert=
- Lahr
- Mr Winkle Goes to War (Columbia) - Edward G Robinson, Ruth Warrick,
-
- End of 1944 A-M
-
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- Subject: 14) Weekly Admin posting on the Newsgroup
-
- TITLE: Please Read Before Posting To This Newsgroup!!
- POSTED BY: mughal@alumni.caltech.edu (Asim Mughal)
- LAST UPDATE: 16 Oct 97
-
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