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The Institute is dedicated to preserving and sharing the historical, political, social, economic and military experiences of World War II, the most significant event of the 20th Century.

09/09/2024

Remembering WW II – Institute Programs Available for Presentation

Listed on the attachment are all the WW II Era Studies Institute programs available for presentation during the upcoming 80th Anniversary Year of the End of WW II. Contact the Institute at [email protected] to arrange for any in person or Zoom program arrangement. The Institute is looking forward to being of service.

09/02/2024

Remembering WW II – Imperial Japan Signs Formal Instrument of Surrender

On September 2, 1945, Imperial Japan’s Foreign Minister Mamora Shigemitsu signed a formal instrument of surrender for Japan aboard the US Battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay. US General of the Army Douglas MacArthur signed for the Allied Powers. Imperial Japan’s effort to establish a new world order throughout the Asia-Pacific region was now over.

08/26/2024

Remembering WW II – Paris Liberated on August 25, 1944

On the morning of August 25, 1944, the French capital Paris was liberated by the Allies as tanks of the French 2nd Armored Division began rolling into the city followed by U.S forces. Overwhelmed, the German commander in Paris, General Choltitz, surrendered to French Brigadier General Jaques Philippe Leclerc at 3:15 pm that day. On August 26, French leader, General Charles de Gaulle led services in the Notre Dame Cathedral commemorating the liberation.

08/19/2024

Remembering WW II – Operation DRAGOON: Allied Invasion of Southern France

Under the command of US Lt. General Alexander Patch, U.S. and French forces landed in southern France in the Cannes - Toulon Area on August 15, 1944. Codenamed Operation Dragoon the landing forces faced weak opposition because most German forces were coping with the Allied forces in Northern France. The Allied forces established within two days a 50 mile bridgehead. On August 22 the crucial port of Marseilles was captured.

08/15/2024

Remembering WW II – V-J Day, August 15, 1945

08/13/2024

Remembering WW II – Japan Agrees to Surrender

On August 14, 1945, Imperial Japan agreed to surrender unconditionally to the Allies. Emperor Hirohito went on the radio for the first time ever to order all Japanese ” to lay down their arms.” V-J Day was proclaimed by the Allies on August 15. All offensive actions were ended against Japan and US General Douglas MacArthur was informed he would become the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers. World War II was over!

08/07/2024

Remembering WW II – Advent of Nuclear Warfare

On August 6, 1945, a 9000 pound atomic bomb with destructive power completely unimaged was dropped by the U.S.A.F. bomber B-29 Enola Gay on Imperial Japan’s city Hiroshima. The center of the city was seared with a heat of 300,000 centifgrade resulting an immediate death of some 78,000. Hearing no response from the Imperial Japanese government about surrendering, a second atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Nagasaki on August 9 resulting an immediate death of 35,000.

07/29/2024

Remembering WW II – Next Move to Ultimately Defeat Imperial Japan

Having succeeded in seizing and securing from Imperial Japan the islands of the SW Pacific and capturing the Mariana Islands in the Central Pacific, US President Franklin Roosevelt decided to meet with his Pacific commanders to determine what’s next. On July 26, 1944, President Roosevelt flew to Honolulu, Hawaii to meet with US General Douglas MacArthur and US Admiral Chester Nimitz to discuss the next move. Ultimately it was decided to invade and reoccupy the Philippine Islands. This decision would enable General MacArthur to make good on his promise “I shall return!”

07/24/2024

Remembering WW II – Allied Breakout into Heart of France

After the successful invasion by the Allies across the French Normandy coastline on June 6, 1944, the German military did manage to counter the Allied advance from the coast thereafter. Allied command after seizing the port of Cherbourg on the Cotentin peninsula, quickly formed and successfully launched Operation Cobra. Under the command of US General George S. Patton, US forces moved through St. Lo and down the Cotentin Peninsula into the heart of France. The success of the operation ultimately leads to the collapse of N**i Germany eleven months after D-Day.

07/22/2024

REMEMBERING WORLD WAR II

August 6 Battle for Guadalcanal: 7:00 pm Turning Point in the South Pacific
August 15 Victory Over Japan - 10:30 am How It Was Achieved
August 21 Failure In American 7:00 pm Diplomacy: Summer 1941
October 16 Woodrow Wilson’s 10:30 am Attempt at Achieving A New World Order
November 7 WW II – The 20th 1:30 pm Century’s Most Significant Event Upcoming WW II Era Studies Institute Upcoming Programs
Barnegat Library David Bobrowicz
112 Burr Street Adult Services
Barnegat, NJ 08005 609 698 3331
Monroe Township Jeannine Fama
Senior Center Program Supervisor
12 Halsey Reed Road 609 448 7140
Monroe Township, NJ
08831
Jackson Branch Marguerite Dugas
Ocean County Library Jackson Librarian
2 Jackson Drive 732 928 4400
Jackson, NJ 08527
Monroe Township Jeannine Fama
Senior Center Program Supervisor
12 Halsey Reed Road 609 448 7140
Monroe Township, NJ
08831
Freehold Township Vera Ceravolo
Senior Center Program Coordinator
116 Jackson Mills Road 732 294 2196
Freehold, NJ 07728

07/15/2024

Remembering WW II – Imperial Japan’s Premier Tojo Removed

Imperial Japan’s Premier Hideki Tojo was removed from office by Japans’s High Command Council on July 18, 1944. His sudden fall from power was primarily the result ot Japan’s military setbacks in the Pacific such as the seizure of the Island of Saipan on July 9 by US forces. Lt-General Kuniaki Koiso, a successful China theater war leader, was charged by the High Command to form a new war cabinet.

07/09/2024

Remembering WW II – The Crucial Battle Across the Hedgerows

Having successfully landed across the Normandy Beaches on June 6, 1944, the next crucial battle for the Allies was to cross the surrounding hedgerow terrain to seize the road and rail junction town of St. Lo on the Cotentin Peninsula. Underestimated by the Allied planners was the nature of the hedgerow terrain on the peninsula. Hedges estimated to be only 2 to 3 feet high were 6 to 16 feet high enabling the Germans to use the hedgerows as defensive barriers and counter the drive to seize St. Lo for over 40 days. St. Lo was captured on July 18.

07/03/2024

Remembering WW II – Commemorating 2024 Independence Day

06/24/2024

Remembering WW II – Critical Battle of the Philippine Sea, June 1944

The Battle of the Philippine Sea was fought in a giant clash of Japanese Imperial Navy and US Navy aircraft, surface ships and submarines June 19 – 20, 1944. The Japanese Navy commanders sought via this naval engagement to totally destroy the US Navy Fleet operating around the Mariana Islands in the Central Pacific. In two days of engagement however, the Japanese fleet lost all their carriers and 416 planes. After appraising the battle losses, a stunned Japanese High Command thereafter abandoned hope that Japan could possibly win the war in the Pacific.

06/18/2024

Remembering WW II –New Phase of Warfare Initiated

In mid-June 1944, N**i Germany began launching V-1 rocket bombs against England. The missles marked a new phase of warfare – unmanned weapons flying one ton bombs a maximum of 155 miles as instruments of terror. Ultimately, 8000 V-1 (Reprisal 1) weapons were fired at England, 2300 of which were aimed at its capital, London

06/14/2024

Commemorating USA Flag Day, June 14, 2024

06/06/2024

Remembering WW II – 80th Anniversary of D-Day, 6 June 1944

An insightful book to read and come to fully understand why D-Day on 6 June 1944 succeeded is “The Longest Walk: 29th Infantry Division in Normandy, France, June 6 – July 18, 1944.” See the attached flyer. The success of D-Day ultimately leads to the surrender of N**i Germany 11 months later. The book can be purchased by sending a check to the WW II Era Studies Institute, 15 Beach Road, Neptune, NJ 07753. Shipping fee is included in the book price.

06/03/2024

Remembering WW II – 80th Anniversary of Operation Overlord, 6 June 1944

Operation Overlord, 6 June 1944, the largest amphibious operation ever conducted involved 90,000 assault troops in 6 divisions landing across a 50 mile front along the Normandy coastline of France with 3 airborne divisions landing on their flanks. Aim and goal of the operation was to seize and secure a landing area along the French coast and thereafter breakout to liberate France and defeat N**i Germany. The operation ultimately proved to be a success with Germany surrendering unconditionally to the Allies 11 months later.

05/29/2024

Remembering WW II – Upcoming June WW II Era Studies Institute Programs

05/24/2024

Remembering WW II – Memorial Day, 2024

05/20/2024

Remembering WW II – Allies in Italy Break Through Encirclement

After four months of encirclement at Anzio in southern Italy, the Allies finally breached the German line on May 25, 1944. Now, facing major advancing forces and incessant Allied air attacks, German units withdrew rapidly north, enabling the US Fifth Army commanded by General Mark Clark to enter Rome on June 4th. Rome was the first Axis capital to fall to the Allies.

05/14/2024

Remembering WW II – Monte Cassino Falls to the Allies

After a bitter four month struggle to seize the Benedictine Monastery Monte Cassino in Central Italy, Monte Cassino fell to the Allies on May 18, 1944. Soldiers from 15 allied nations participated in the costly battle with nearly 20,000 killed and another 100,000 wounded. The campaign to defeat the Germans in Italy moved on.

05/08/2024

Remembering WW II – 79th Anniversary of Victory in Europe Day

VE Day, May 8, 1945

05/06/2024

Remembering WW II – 79th Anniversary of Victory in Europe Day

On May 8, 1945, Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF) commander General Dwight D. Eisenhower announced from his headquarters in Rheims, France that N**i Germany had formally surrendered. World War II in Europe is now over - VE Day! The book “Unconditional Surrender: Witnessing History, May 1945” relates via insightful narrative and historic photos what took place on May 6 - 8, 1945.
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04/29/2024

Remembering WW II – Operation Fortitude Deception Plan

Operation Fortitude, an effort by Supreme Headquarters Allied Expedtionary Force (SHAEF) in the Spring of 1944 to deceive the German military into thinking that an invasion of occupied Europe was going to be launched in July 1944 over the beaches of NW France, north of the Seine River, proved to be a major success. The German Military High Command stationed most of their coastal defense forces north of the Seine River in the vicinity of Pas de Calais. Operation Overlord, the actual invasion was conducted across the beaches of Normandy, France, south of the Seine, on June 6, 1944.

04/08/2024

Remembering WW II – Operation Overlord Planning Initiated

Planning for Operation Overlord, the invasion of N**i Occupied Europe across the Normandy coastline of France, was fully initiated soon after Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF) under the command of US General Dwight D. Eisenhower was activated in February 1944. Ultimately involved in the planned operation, conducted on June 6, 1944, were 90,000 assault troops within 6 assault divisiions and 3 airborne divisions. “The hopes and prayers of liberty loving people everywhere are marching with you” was expressed in a letter written by General Eisenhower to the assault troops.

04/02/2024

Remembering WW II – Free French Leader Gen. Charles De Gaulle

On April 4, 1944, in advance of the planned invasion by Allied Forces across the beaches of Normandy, France, codenamed Operation Overlord, Allied leadership declared French General Charles De Gaulle commander of all Free French Forces. General De Gaulle upon the collapse and surrender of France to N**i Germany in June 1940, left his country and founded the Free French Movement based in Great Britain with its headquarters in London, England. Four years later, he returned to France and helped the Allies liberate his country.

03/25/2024

Remembering WW II – Informative Books on WW II for Sale

Two recently published books that detail via narrative and historic photos what, how, and why key events resulting in the end of World War II in Europe occurred are now available through mail. The publications can be purchased by sending a check for the book to the WW II Era Studies Institute, 15 Beach Road, Neptune, NJ 07753. Shipping fee is included in the book price.

03/18/2024

WW II Era Studies Institute – Upcoming Program Listings

03/05/2024

WW II Era Studies Institute – Commemorating Women’s History Month

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