Tuesday, June 13, 1944

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The Headlines

Periled Americans Saved Beach, Says Montgomery; AMERICANS SAVED FRENCH BEACHHEAD

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I'll Get By (As Long as I Have You)

Harry James and His Orchestra with Dick Haymes

The must-have

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On This Day

• World War II: The Battle of Villers-Bocage: German tank ace Michael Wittmann ambushes elements of the British 7th Armoured Division, destroying up to fourteen tanks, fifteen personnel carriers and two anti-tank guns in a Tiger I tank.

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• World War II: Germany launches the first V1 Flying Bomb attack on England. Only four of the eleven bombs strike their targets.

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• World War II: German combat elements, reinforced by the 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division, launch a counterattack on American forces near Carentan.

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You Share a Birthday With

• James Clerk Maxwell (1831)
• Ban Ki-moon (1944)
• W. B. Yeats (1865)
• John Forbes Nash Jr. (1928)
• Fernando Pessoa (1888)

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Tech Check

Harvard Mark I Computer, Kidney Dialysis Machine & Synthesized Quinine.

Cost of Living (1940)