Error in July-Sept Arrow

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I believe the acknowledged start of World War II was when Germany  
invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. The British, French and other  
British commonwealth countries declared war. The United States,  
heavily isolationist-minded remained officially neutral, despite US  
aid to its future allies.

The official US involvement came on December 8, 1941 when Congress  
declared that a state of war existed between the United States and  
the Japanese Empire since December 7, 1941 after attacks on Pearl  
Harbor,  Malaya, Hong Kong, Guam,  the Philippine Islands,  Wake  
Island on December 7 and then Midway island on December 8, 1941.

Germany and Italy declared war on the United States on the morning of  
December 11, 1941, Congress acted on these declarations the afternoon  
of December 11, 1941.

In July 1943, the fascist government in Italy was overthrown, an  
official armistice with Italy was announced on September 8. On  
October 13, 1943, the official Italian government (as opposed to the  
deposed Fascist government) declared war on Germany. Germany  
surrendered on May 7, 1945, Japan surrendered on August 14, 1945.

Ken Miller

On Aug 22, 2008, at 8:02 AM, NW Mailing List wrote:


> WW2 started on December 7, 1941 - Pearl Harbor Day.

>

> Terry Marshall

> Hagerstown, MD

>

> In a message dated 8/21/2008 11:17:44 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  

> nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org writes:

>

> I just found a glaring error in the July - August - September 2008  

> Arrow.  The

> last sentence of the first paragraph on page 8 says "It started  

> with the popular

> RS-1 that began production in March 1941, shortly before the  

> outbreak of

> World War I:"

>

> My sources tell me that World War I was fought from 1914 - 1918, so  

> the RS-1

> could not have been in production before WWI.  And it couldn't have  

> been

> before World War II either because WWII started in 1939!

>

> So there are two errors in one sentence.  It was not WWI and it was  

> not before

> WWII.  If I can trust the 1941 production date fot the ALCO RS-1  

> (and I'm not

> sure that I can based on these errors) then the sentence should  

> read "...after the

> outbreak of World War II".

>

> Jerry Kay, Portsmouth, Virginia

>

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