Friday, February 23, 1945

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The Headlines

VOLCANO IS SEIZED; MARINES INCH AHEAD ON RUGGED HILLS OF IWO

#1 on Your Hit Parade

Rum and Coca-Cola

The Andrews Sisters with Vic Schoen and His Orchestra

The must-have

Slinky (Gimbels Demo)

On This Day

• World War II: The capital of the Philippines, Manila, is liberated by combined Filipino and American forces.

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• World War II: Capitulation of German garrison in Poznań. The city is liberated by Soviet and Polish forces.

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• World War II: The German town of Pforzheim is annihilated in a raid by 379 British bombers.

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• World War II: During the Battle of Iwo Jima, a group of United States Marines reach the top of Mount Suribachi on the island and are photographed raising the American flag.

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• World War II: The 11th Airborne Division, with Filipino guerrillas, free all 2,147 captives of the Los Baños internment camp, in what General Colin Powell later would refer to as "the textbook airborne operation for all ages and all armies."

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• American Airlines Flight 009 crashes near Rural Retreat, Virginia, killing 17.

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You Share a Birthday With

• George Frideric Handel (1685)
• Karl Jaspers (1883)
• Kazimir Malevich (1878)
• Pope Paul II (1417)
• Peter Fonda (1940)

Slang

Tech Check

Atomic Bomb, ENIAC Computer & Microwave Oven Principle.

Cost of Living (1940)