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Sweden investigates reptd sinking of 2 Swedish fishing boats by Ger destroyers in North Sea; 12 persons believed lost
com recognized by US, GB, Canada, USSR, Brazil and Peru; texts of statements by Roosevelt, GB and Canada
USSR forces gain in drive on Poltava, west of Kharkov; repel counter-attacks, Donets Basin; Ger agency admits Akhtyrka fall; repts successful evacuation
DFC, Foggia
Arrives in Auckland, NZ, by plane after stop at Fiji Is
1943Chuck Girard, American singer-songwriter and pianist[â ]
Chuck Girard was an American musician, considered a pioneer of Contemporary Christian music. He moved to Santa Rosa, California in his early teens, becoming a band member of the Castells and later the surf-rock band The Hondells.
1943Bob Kerrey, American lieutenant and politician, Medal of Honor recipient, 35th Governor of Nebraska[â ]
Joseph Robert Kerrey is an American politician who served as the 35th governor of Nebraska from 1983 to 1987 and as a United States Senator from Nebraska from 1989 to 2001.
1943Tuesday Weld, American model and actress[â ]
Tuesday Weld is an American retired actress. She began acting as a child and progressed to mature roles in the late 1950s. She won a Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Female Newcomer in 1960. Over the following decade, she established a career playing dramatic roles in films.
1943World War II: Japanese forces evacuate New Georgia Island in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II.[â ]
World War II or the Second World War was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries participated, with many nations mobilising all resources in pursuit of total war. Tanks and aircraft played major roles, enabling the strategic bombing of cities and delivery of the first and only nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II is the deadliest conflict in history, causing the death of 70 to 85 million people, more than half of whom were civilians. Millions died in genocides, including the Holocaust, and by massacres, starvation, and disease. After the Allied victory, Germany, Austria, Japan, and Korea were occupied, and German and Japanese leaders were tried for war crimes.
1943World War II: Aerial bombardment by the Luftwaffe razes to the ground the village of Vorizia in Crete.[â ]
The Luftwaffe was the aerial-warfare branch of the Wehrmacht before and during World War II. Germany's military air arms during World War I, the Luftstreitkräfte of the Imperial Army and the Marine-Fliegerabteilung of the Imperial Navy, had been disbanded in May 1920 in accordance with the terms of the 1919 Treaty of Versailles, which banned Germany from having any air force.