Best WWII Map You WIll Ever See

The Best WWII Map You will Ever See
We have just received what has to be the Best Map Ever of WWII.
The map is in a large PowerPointShow (*.pps) file (size nearly 2MB). Click here to download a zip file containing the presentation/map . If you do not already have the Microsoft Power Point or Power Point Viewer installed on your computer, you will need to download Power Point Viewer and install it in order to see the presentation/map.
It's an animated map showing the progress of WWII in Europe ..
Each time you click on map it shows the next move of the Germans or the Allies.
It is an excellent graphic of World War II. This is truly fascinating.Each click of the mouse moves the war forward.If you have never seen this, it is very well done – a great graphical presentation of the SecondWorld War.
Too bad specific dates were not included for the major campaigns.Truly scary how many countries fell to Hitler before he opened his fatal second front in Russia .
This is an outstanding depiction of Nazi Germany's takeover of Europe from 1942 to 1945. It puts the enormity of WWII in Europe inperspective.

comments by Col Robert L. Metcalf, Jr (USA-ret)
Looking back, it is hard to believe the United States won World War II. In 1940, Bob was already a 2nd Lt in the Army Reserve. He took a job with Republic Steel in Cleveland, Ohio in an executive development program. He ate lunch with two other young men in the same program - one from Notre Dame, one from Indiana University. Their typical conversation regarded what a travesty was ahead of them - they were going to have to go into the Army for one year of training - the Ohio National Guard had already been called to active duty for one year. None of them gave any thought to conditions in Europe - Hitler was over running all his neighbors, and Britian was fighting for her very life (they had already beat a hasty retreat (Dunkirk) from Europe). I guess the big Atlantic Ocean was to protect us from the trouble in Europe - good thing some of our leaders recognized the situation and established the military draft and started to send military equipment to England - certainly the man on the street was blissfully ignorant. Bob attended a two week training camp at Fort Knox, Ky in the summer of 1940 - he was a Field Artilleryman at the time. They trained with an old 75mm gun - opaque French sight (couldn't see thru it - had to look above, below, right or left of it) - metal bound wooden wheels - and a single trail (not a split howitzer style trail). One day during camp, a battery from the Regular Army 68th Field Artillery came to demonstrate their equipment (split trail, rubber pneumatic tires, American panoramic sight, the list goes on). We could look and ask questions, but could not touch. Half of the officers in Bob's camp were older guys who couldn't properly call our battery to attention let alone performing their duties of conducting fire! ONE YEAR LATER (Dee 7,1941) and we were in it for real, and somehow came out a winner! ?! ?