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... northern New Guinea.
Vinco Ad - January 1944
1945: Danish saboteurs wreck a V2 factory in Copenhagen.
1945: Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsey dies in plane crash near Paris and becomes the fourth prominent allied leader to die like this.... |
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| ... Friday morning, the day before Rosh Hashanah, Rabbi Marcus Melchior of Copenhagen announced that "There will be no services this morning ......tomorrow the Germans plan to ... arrest all the Danish Jews... By nightfall tonight we must all be in hiding." Melchior had been warned by Hans Hedtoft (later Prime Minister) who in turn had been warned by Georg Duckwitz, an attache to the ... |
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... bombshell--competing against the whistle-blowing likes of Jayne Mansfield and Mamie Van Doren. With mouth-dropping measurements reported at 40-24-36, this pin-up favorite became the best piece of Danish pastry in town. She also had her eye out for films.
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... an unmolested bombing run to their target, where they cause extreme damage without loss.
1943: Taganrog on the Sea of Azov is evacuated by the Germans.
1943: The Danish Prime Minister, Scavenius refuses to serve under the Germans.
1944 August 30, DOME SZTOJAY (Hungary)
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AGFA ANSCO Ad - August 1943
1943 August 28, GERMANS OCCUPIED COPENHAGEN (Denmark)
In response to Danish resistance, the Danish-German Agreement of 1940 was revoked. A year earlier, the Germans had changed their policy of relative non-interference with the Danes and had appointed Karl Werner Be... |
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... roles began with the part of reporter Hildy Johnson in "His Girl Friday" (1940), through whose male lead, Cary Grant, she met her future husband, Grant's house guest at the time. She married Danish-American producer Frederick Brisson (Freddie Brisson) on October 25, 1941. Their marriage lasted 35 years. They had one child in 1943, a son named Lance.
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... planes drop 1,100 tons of bombs on Cherbourg.
1944: An all-out ground attack begins against Cherbourg.
1944: The communist organized sabotage group BOPA, attacks the Danish arms factory "Riffelsyndikatet" ("the Rifle Syndicate") in Copenhagen.
1944: The Russian summer offensive, operation 'Bagration' begins against Army Group Centre in Byeloruss... |
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... effectively marks the end of a sustained German U-boat campaign in WW2 which did come very close to starving out Britain and forcing her to make terms with Germany.
1943: The Danish resistance blows up an engine shed at Toender as sabotage mounts, despite Danish King's appeal for a halt.
1943: The U.S. 15th Air Force bombs German and Italian airfields at Fo... |
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... was responsible for persecuting millions of Jews, was born.
1940: Danish Army demobilized.
1941: British forces in Greece retreat from Mt. Olympus. King George II heads new Greek government.
1942: An assassination attempt on Doriol, head ... |
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... nemzetiszocialisták megbízottait.
1939: Britain and France agree to support Poland if Germany threatens to invade.
1941: A US scientific/military team arrives in the Danish colony of Greenland, to consider the establishment of military bases there.
1941: British civilian casualties: 4,259 killed and 5,557 injured. London, Portsmouth, Merseyside, ... |
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