Saturday, February 3, 1945

From the day

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The Headlines

4,200 PLANES SMASH AT REICH RAILS, OIL; 1,200 British 'Heavies' in Night Blow--2,000 Railway Cars Blasted in Daylight 4,200 PLANES SMASH AT REICH RAILS, OIL

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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: The United States and the Philippine Commonwealth begin a month-long battle to retake Manila from Japan.

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• World War II: As part of Operation Thunderclap, 1,000 B-17s of the Eighth Air Force bomb Berlin, a raid which kills between 2,500 and 3,000 and dehouses another 120,000.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Felix Mendelssohn (1809)
• Alvar Aalto (1898)
• Simone Weil (1909)
• Gertrude Stein (1874)
• Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (1830)

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Tech Check

Atomic Bomb, ENIAC Computer & Microwave Oven Principle.

Cost of Living (1940)