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Hitchcock, (Lt Col) T, Salisbury, Eng
Ger Rome radio repts plan for 21 coastal-vessel fleet to bring food
P L Grover, AP correspondent, comments on correspondents sitdown protest; explains Burma censorship
1944Toivo Aare, Estonian journalist and author (died 1999)[†]
Toivo Aare was an Estonian journalist.
1944Elmer Gedeon, American baseball player and pilot (born 1917)[†]
Elmer John Gedeon was an American professional baseball player, appearing in several games for the Washington Senators in 1939. Gedeon and Harry O'Neill were the only two Major League Baseball players killed during World War II. Gedeon flew several missions in the European Theater of Operations as an officer of the United States Army Air Forces before being shot down over France.