Saturday, February 27, 1943

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The Headlines

ALLIES PURSUE FOE; Enemy Retreats Toward Faid and Gafsa Under Heavy Pounding BRITISH GAIN BELOW SBIBA Allies Reported in Kasserine -- 8th Army Closes In on the Mareth Line North Africa Front: The Camera Reports Prisoners, Damage and Allied Leader on the Job ALLIES PURSUE FOE IN CENTRAL TUNISIA

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The must-have

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On This Day

• The Holocaust: In Berlin, the Gestapo arrest 1,800 Jewish men with German wives, leading to the Rosenstrasse protest.

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• The Smith Mine #3 in Bearcreek, Montana, explodes, killing 74 men.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Constantine the Great (272)
• John Steinbeck (1902)
• Elizabeth Taylor (1932)
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807)
• Joanne Woodward (1930)

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Tech Check

Colossus Computer, Slinky & Aqualung (Scuba).

Cost of Living (1940)