Thursday, August 13, 1942

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The Headlines

NAZIS DRIVE AHEAD; Soviet Acknowledges a New Withdrawal in Cherkessk Area STALINGRAD LINES HOLD Russians Even Take Offensive in One Sector -- Nazis Claim Big Toll in Elbow of Don NAZIS DRIVE AHEAD IN THE CAUCASUS

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The must-have

Red Ryder BB Gun

On This Day

• Major General Eugene Reybold of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers authorizes the construction of facilities that would house the "Development of Substitute Materials" project, better known as the Manhattan Project.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Fidel Castro (1926)
• Alfred Hitchcock (1899)
• Frederick Sanger (1918)
• Karl Liebknecht (1871)
• John Logie Baird (1888)

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Tech Check

V-2 Rocket, Bazooka & Napalm.

Cost of Living (1940)