Friday, December 12, 1941

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The Headlines

KNOX IN HONOLULU; MISSION NOT TOLD

#1 on Your Hit Parade

Chattanooga Choo Choo

Unknown Artist

The must-have

Red Ryder BB Gun

On This Day

• World War II: Fifty-four Japanese A6M Zero fighters raid Batangas Field, Philippines. Jesús Villamor and four Filipino fighter pilots fend them off; César Basa is killed.

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• The Holocaust: Adolf Hitler declares the imminent extermination of the Jews at a meeting in the Reich Chancellery.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Gustave Flaubert (1821)
• Frank Sinatra (1915)
• Edvard Munch (1863)
• Alfred Werner (1866)
• Connie Francis (1937)

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Tech Check

Aerosol Spray Cans, Z3 Computer & Dacron.

Cost of Living (1940)