Sunday, September 13, 1942

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The Headlines

Patent Granted on New System For Blind Landing of Airplanes; New Yorker Devises System to Permit Easy Curve So Wheels Touch Ground at Lowermost Points SYSTEM PATENTED FOR BLIND LANDING

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(I've Got a Gal In) Kalamazoo

Unknown Artist

The must-have

Red Ryder BB Gun

On This Day

• World War II: Second day of the Battle of Edson's Ridge in the Guadalcanal Campaign. U.S. Marines successfully defeat attacks by the Japanese with heavy losses for the Japanese forces.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Roald Dahl (1916)
• Arnold Schoenberg (1874)
• Claudette Colbert (1903)
• Clara Schumann (1819)
• Óscar Arias (1940)

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Tech Check

V-2 Rocket, Bazooka & Napalm.

Cost of Living (1940)