Irene Manning – WWII Yank PinUp: Irene Manning toured extensively with Bob Hope during WWII and while performing with an all-girl USO show in England, Irene was asked to perform with bandleader Glenn Miller shortly before his death in 1944.
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1941 Berlin suffers its first raid of the year by the RAF. German troops on parade in the city of Cherbourg have their show spoiled when British bombers hit the parade ground in the middle of the event. Rommel conducts a limited offensive to recapture El Agheila from the British, which succeeds with startling ease.
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Lucille Ball will always be remembered as the crazy, accident-prone, lovable Lucy Ricardo was born Lucille Desiree Ball in Jamestown, New York, on August 6, 1911.
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1940 Germany requires car owners to donate batteries and requires church bells to be melted down. 1941 Heavy Luftwaffe attack on Malta leads RAF to withdraw bombers and flying boats. 1942 During World War II, the U.S. government began moving Japanese-Americans from their West Coast homes to detention centers. The British convoy, have escaped serious
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Lauren Bacall was born Betty Joan Perske on September 16, 1924, in New York City. Her parents were middle-class, with her father working as a salesman and her mother as a secretary.
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1940 U-boats sink seven neutral ships. 1941 US 99th Pursuit Squadron activated, the first black unit in the Army Air Corps. Grand Coulee Dam opens in Washington state, the world’s largest source of electric power. 1942 Late in the afternoon after an unsuccessful Italian torpedo-aircraft attack, Admiral Iachino’s squadron engages the British convoy. The convoy
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1940 Paul Reynaud becomes Prime Minister of France, with Edouard Daladier being made Minister of Defense and War. First German merchant ship sunk by British sub: British submarine Ursula sinks German freighter Heddernheim. 1941 The last Italian post in East Libya, North Africa, falls to the British. 1942 In a repeat of Force H’s mission
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Words At War “Journey Through Chaos“ Released September 26, 1944. Words At War, the series that brings you radio versions of the leading war book another adaptation of an important war book, “Journey Through Chaos” Take a look at these other WWII Posts: Words at War: One Man Air Force WWII Today: February 10
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1940 The British Royal Air Force conducts an all-night air raid on the Nazi airbase at Sylt, Germany. French Prime Minister Edouard Daladier resigns after vote of no confidence from Parliament. 1941 Four Yugoslav ministers resign rather than accept German terms. The Berbera force and elements of the 11th African Division meet at Hargeisa inside
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1936 The Soviet Union signs a pact of assistance with Mongolia against Japan. 1940 The RAF retaliates against the Luftwaffe’s bombing of Scapa Flow, by attacking the German seaplane base at Hornum on the island of Sylt with 50 bombers. Later photo reconnaissance reveals little damage to the target. Helsinki releases figures showing that 26,662 Finns
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