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Allied planes raid Eur for 6th successive day; attack ry targets and airfields; US Thunderbolts rout enemy planes over Belgium; rept on Bordeaux raid damage
Gayda asks US-Brit terms, Rome Giornale d'Italia article; Allied pamphlets cited; alleged Vatican proposal outlined; recall of Berne Papal Nuncio to Vatican conf linked to situation
floods spread in Ruhr dist as result of raid; thousands killed or homeless; RAF photos show damage; Brit War Cabinet lauds Gibson and fliers; Ger seeks to hide losses; map
Adopted as official language of internatl food conf
Knox reveals Attu battle details; defends secrecy; repts US pincers between Holtz and Massacre Bays; Jap radio suggests Jap defeat; map
1943Eddie May, English footballer and manager (died 2012)[†]
Edwin Charles May was an English football player and manager. May was born in Epping, and played for Dagenham, Southend United, Wrexham and Swansea City.
1943Shirrel Rhoades, American author, publisher, and academic[†]
Shirrel Rhoades is an American writer, publisher, professor, filmmaker, and the former executive vice president of Marvel Entertainment.
1943Kristjan Raud, Estonian painter and illustrator (born 1865)[†]
Kristjan Raud was an Estonian symbolist painter and illustrator who was one of the founders of the Estonian National Museum. Folklore elements figure heavily in his subject matter and his style is reminiscent of Primitivism.
1943Winston Churchill's second wartime address to the U.S. Congress[†]
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill's 1943 address to Congress took place May 19 at 12:30 p.m. EWT before a joint meeting of the United States Senate and House of Representatives, roughly a year and a half after his 1941 speech to the same body. He noted that some 500 days had passed since then, during which the two Allies had been fighting "shoulder to shoulder." Sometimes called Churchill's Fighting Speech, the 55-minute address was made while Churchill and other Allied leaders were in Washington for the Trident Conference, which was organized to plan what became Operation Overlord.Sure I am that this day, now, we are the masters of our fate. That the task which has been set us is not above our strength. That its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our cause, and an unconquerable willpower, salvation will not be denied us.