Monday, September 21, 1942

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The Headlines

VOLGA CITY HOLDING; Red Army Also Reports Success in 2 Sectors of the Caucasus UPPER DON BATTLE FIERCE 3,000 of Foe Die in Voronezh Area -- Gains at Stalingrad Claimed by Germans

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The must-have

Red Ryder BB Gun

On This Day

• The Boeing B-29 Superfortress makes its maiden flight.

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• The Holocaust in Ukraine: In Dunaivtsi, Ukraine, Nazis murder 2,588 Jews.

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• The Holocaust in Poland: At the end of Yom Kippur, Germans order Jews to permanently move from Konstantynów to Biała Podlaska.

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• The Holocaust in Ukraine: On the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, Nazis send over 1,000 Jews of Pidhaitsi to Bełżec extermination camp.

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You Share a Birthday With

• H. G. Wells (1866)
• Kwame Nkrumah (1909)
• Leonard Cohen (1934)
• Abdul Hamid II (1842)
• Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (1853)

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Tech Check

V-2 Rocket, Bazooka & Napalm.

Cost of Living (1940)