Wednesday, January 31, 1945

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The Headlines

War News Summarized

#1 on Your Hit Parade

Don't Fence Me In

Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters with Vic Schoen and His Orchestra

The must-have

Slinky (Gimbels Demo)

On This Day

• World War II: About 3,000 inmates from the Stutthof concentration camp are forcibly marched into the Baltic Sea at Palmnicken (now Yantarny, Russia) and executed.

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• US Army private Eddie Slovik is executed for desertion, the first such execution of an American soldier since the Civil War.

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• World War II: The end of fighting in the Battle of Hill 170 during the Burma Campaign, in which the British 3 Commando Brigade repulsed a Japanese counterattack on their positions and precipitated a general retirement from the Arakan Peninsula.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Franz Schubert (1797)
• Kenzaburō Ōe (1935)
• Beatrix of the Netherlands (1938)
• Norman Mailer (1923)
• Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543)

Slang

Tech Check

Atomic Bomb, ENIAC Computer & Microwave Oven Principle.

Cost of Living (1940)