Friday, April 20, 1945

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The Headlines

JAPANESE HARD HIT; Fleet Guns Join Army and Marine Artillery in Tremendous Fire ENEMY LINE DENTED 3 Army Divisions Drive on Island-Wide Front, Gain 500 to 800 Yards Japanese Resist Fiercely Supplies Poured Ashore ARMY TROOPS BEGIN DRIVE ON OKINAWA

#1 on Your Hit Parade

My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time

Les Brown and His Orchestra with Doris Day

The must-have

Slinky (Gimbels Demo)

On This Day

• World War II: U.S. troops capture Leipzig, Germany, only to later cede the city to the Soviet Union.

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• World War II: Führerbunker: On his 56th birthday Adolf Hitler makes his last trip to the surface to award Iron Crosses to boy soldiers of the Hitler Youth.

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• Twenty Jewish children used in medical experiments at Neuengamme are killed in the basement of the Bullenhuser Damm school.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Adolf Hitler (1889)
• Napoleon III (1808)
• Joan Miró (1893)
• Gro Harlem Brundtland (1939)
• George Takei (1937)

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Tech Check

Atomic Bomb, ENIAC Computer & Microwave Oven Principle.

Cost of Living (1940)