Sunday, August 20, 1944

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The Headlines

German Rocket Fighter Planes Called Fastest Aircraft in Use; ROCKET FIGHTER IS FASTEST PLANE

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Swinging on a Star

Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra and the Williams Brothers Quartet

The must-have

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On This Day

• World War II: The Battle of Romania begins with a major Soviet Union offensive.

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• World War II: One hundred sixty-eight captured allied airmen, including Phil Lamason, accused by the Gestapo of being "terror fliers", arrive at Buchenwald concentration camp.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Benjamin Harrison (1833)
• H. P. Lovecraft (1890)
• Rajiv Gandhi (1944)
• Slobodan Milošević (1941)
• Salvatore Quasimodo (1901)

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Tech Check

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

Cost of Living (1940)