Saturday, May 9, 1942

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The Headlines

British Optimistic; UNITED NATIONS BOLSTER THEIR POSITION IN INDIAN OCEAN CEYLON REINFORCED WITH MADAGASCAR

#1 on Your Hit Parade

Tangerine

Unknown Artist

The must-have

Red Ryder BB Gun

On This Day

• The Holocaust in Ukraine: The SS executes 588 Jewish residents of the Podolian town of Zinkiv (Khmelnytska oblast. The Zoludek Ghetto (in Belarus) is destroyed and all its inhabitants executed or deported.

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You Share a Birthday With

• J. M. Barrie (1860)
• Howard Carter (1874)
• José Ortega y Gasset (1883)
• Glenda Jackson (1936)
• Sophie Scholl (1921)

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Tech Check

V-2 Rocket, Bazooka & Napalm.

Cost of Living (1940)