Diana Lewis was born on September 18, 1919 in Asbury Park, New Jersey. Lewis began her film career in “All the King’s Horses”
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1940 U.S. and Vichy France reach Green-Slade-Robert Agreement, an understanding on the status of French warships and aircraft in the French West Indies. Montreal mayor Camillien Houde is arrested, and charged under the Defence of Canada Regulations. He is imprisoned at Camp Petawawa in Ontario until the end of the war. Anglo-Polish military agreement signed.
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Diana Mumby was born on July 1, 1922 in Detroit, Michigan. Diana’s first film was “A Night at Earl Carroll’s” (1940). Diana next appeared uncredited in “Up in Arms” (1944) with Danny Kaye, and was one of many “Goldwyn Girls”.
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1940 The Italians begin their invasion of British Somaliland, East Africa. Using some 25,000 troops, they push the small British garrison back towards the port of Berbera. 1941 Stimson shows Hull the Magic intercept of Toyoda’s “encirclement” message to Berlin, that Japan and Germany will encircle their enemies, Russia and India. The US Far East
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1940 Churchill warns nation against believing rumours that invasion threat is over. Italian troops under General Guglielmo Nasi invade British Somaliland from Italian Ethiopia. 1941 The Archbishop of Munster gives a sermon in which he calls the Nazi euthanasia program murder. The archbishop is imprisoned in a German concentration camp until the end of the
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1940 Montreal mayor Camillien Houde publicly urges Quebecers to not sign up for national registration for war duty. Lord Beaverbrook appointed to War Cabinet. French military court sentences de Gaulle to death in absentia. Italy reported to be massing troops on Libya-Egypt border. British Royal Navy bombards Italian naval base on Sardinia. 1941 US and
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Lee and Lyn Wilde, sometimes billed as The Wilde Twins were twin sisters, who appeared in films of the early to mid 1940s.
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1940 RAF bomb Krupp works at Essen. British Order in Council declares the start of the grouse shooting season to be August 5 instead of the 12th. Hitler signs Directive No.17, requiring the Luftwaffe and Kriegsmarine to increase their attacks against Britain and her shipping, in preparation for ‘Operation Sealion’. Russian Foreign Minister Molotov reaffirms
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Words At War “Can Do“ Released March 13, 1945. Words At War, the series that brings you radio versions of the leading war book another adaptation of an important war book, “Can Do”. The story of the Seabees (Navy Construction Battalions). Take a look at these other WWII Posts: Words at War: Ten Escape
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1940Hitler appraised the Army plan for the invasion of Britain at a conference of his top Military chiefs. The Navy criticize the plan for being on a too broad a front, requiring 2,500 barges in order to transport the invading forces, which cant be concentrated before the 15th of September at the earliest. The Army
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