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Morning all. 64F under cloudy skies. Chance of thunderstorms. Rainfall amounts of a quarter to half-inch possible. High today of 67F.
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Allison Engines Ad - May 1942
1940: War Office announces withdrawal from Namsos; Allies remain only in Narvik to stop the supply of iron ore to Germany.
1940: Destroyer Afridi sunk by German bombers off Norway.
1940: Hitler postpones X-Day to the 6th May due to bad weather.
*Ruth Terry
1942: Off the northern coast of Norway, German destroyers sink the British cruiser Edinburgh which was escorting Convoy PQ-15.
1942: The Japanese make landings on Tulagi in the Solomon Islands.
Bell Telephone Ad - May 1943
1942: The Japanese covering force at Tulagi, which consisted of the carrier Shoho and escorts leaves to act as cover for the Port Moresby landings.
1942: The submarine USS Spearfish (SS-190) evacuates 12 Army nurses from the Philippines.
Ruth Terry
1943: The U.S. commander in Europe, Lieutenant General Frank M. Andrews is killed in air crash in Iceland.
1943: The Russians report the 'smashing' of a German counter attack in the Kuban, to the South of Rostov.
1943: US troops take Mateur, less than 50 miles Northwest of Tunis.
Ruth Terry
1944: The rationing of all meat, except for steak, is canceled. Supplies of pork and beef are judged to be sufficient for both military and civilian consumption.
1945: Typhoons and Tempests of 2nd TAF carry out devastating attacks on enemy shipping in the Baltic. Large numbers of flying boats and transport aircraft, attempting a massed evacuation to Norway, are also destroyed.
Champion Spark Plugs Ad - May 1943
1945: German envoys meet Montgomery at his HQ on Lüneburg Heath, South of Hamburg to discuss peace. The envoys return to Donitz and recommend unconditional surrender of all forces facing the 21st Army Group. The German defence system in NW Germany is now in chaos as troops, civilians and refugees pour west to escape the Russian advance. General Wolz surrenders Hamburg to the British Second Army and declares Hamburg an open city. The U.S. Ninth Army makes contact with the Russians in the Wismar area. The U.S. Third Army crosses the river Inn, while the U.S. Seventh Army captures Innsbruck and reaches the Brenner Pass.
1945: The Russians make contact with the U.S. 9th Army in the Wismar area.
1945: SEAC announces the liberation of Rangoon in Burma.
Ruth Terry
*Ruth Terry was born Ruth Mae McMahon in Benton Harbor, Michigan, on October 21st, 1920. She got her start in show business as a child when she would sing with the band in a dance hall where her father worked as a bouncer. She began entering amateur talent contests in the local area, and her beautiful singing voice resulted in her winning many of them. When she was in fourth grade her parents decided that she would embark on a professional singing career, and to that end took her out of school (her education continued with private teachers). She kept winning talent contests, and later became part of a vaudeville act called The Capps Family and Ruthie Mae. She eventually won a spot singing on a Chicago radio station, then she got her own 15-minute time slot on a station in South Bend, Indiana. At 12 years of age she won a contract to sing with a prestigious Chicago musical group, The Paul Ash Chicago Theater Orchestra. After that engagement she went to New York and got a job as a song plugger for composer Irving Berlin, who was a friend of her aunt's. She eventually got her own nightclub act--changing her name to Ruth Terry at the suggestion of gossip columnist Walter Winchell--and soon headed to Miami, where she was engaged to sing at several prestigious nightspots and hotels, and while there she was spotted by talent scouts from 20th Century-Fox. In 1937 she was playing in Chicago with bandleader Ted Lewis when Fox offered her a contract--and all this while she was barely 16 years old.
Ruth Terry
She was brought to Hollywood by Fox and given diction and acting lessons, and the studio soon put her in her first picture, "International Settlement" (1938), although she only had one line. She stayed with Fox for two more years, until she was dropped in 1939. In 1940 she was signed by Howard Hughes, who eventually sold her contract to Republic Pictures. It was at Republic where she began making westerns, a genre in which she would spend a lot of time. She made westerns with Gene Autry, Roy Rogers and Robert Livingston, among others. Ruth Terry's most famous picture, and her signature song, was Republic's "Pistol Packin' Mama" (1943). Her other famous Republic credits include "The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine" (1943), "My Buddy" (1944), "Steppin' in Society" (1945), and "The Cheaters" (1945). Her contract with Republic ended in 1947, and she made only one other film, "Smoky River Serenade" (1947), for Columbia, before retiring. She soon married, for a second time, and she and her husband moved to Canada. The marriage ended in 1957, and she moved back to the US. In 1962, as a favor to a friend, she did a small part in a low-budget horror film, "Hand of Death" (1962). Ruth guest starred on a number of television shows in the late 1950's and early 1960's. Those shows were "The Donna Reed Show" (1958), "The Real McCoys" (1958), "77 Sunset Strip" (1959), "Maverick" (1960), and "Cheyenne" (1961). She met her second husband, John Ledbetter, and they were married January 29, 1966. Ruth has been retired ever since. Terry died on March 11, 2016 at the age of 95.
Camel Cigarette Ad - May 1945
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Living in an alternative universe their Stitchie? Or are you just playing in your bathtub with your toys? Dark Helmet in their with you?
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Morning all. 70F under clear skies. More clouds will build in throughout the day ahead of a storm system. Temperatures remain mild in the upper 70s to low 80s. Pleasant overall! As a cold front approaches Sunday evening, rain will likely develop. Thunderstorms will be possible around sunset, and continuing into Monday.
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Cadillac Ad - May 1944
1940: Germans troops reach Aandalesnes. Allied forces are evacuated from Namsos. Chamberlain announces British forces are to withdraw from southern Norway.
1941: British Evacuation of Greece complete.
*Eleanor Parker
1941: Hostilities break out between British forces in Iraq and that country's pro-German faction. Iraqis attack the British base at Habbaniya, but are repulsed.
1942: Admiral Chester J. Nimitz, convinced that the Japanese will attack Midway Island, visits the island to review its readiness.
Eleanor Parker
1942: Admiral Fletcher, leaves the Lexington and her escorts to refuel, taking the Yorktown and her escorts and steamed north towards Tulagi.
1942: American bombers take time out from fighting the Japanese to fight Mother Nature; they bomb Hawaii's Mauna Loa volcano in order to divert a lava flow from the city of Hilo.
Eleanor Parker
1942: The Australian garrison on Tulagi is evacuated.
1943: SA Chief of Staff Viktor Lutze is killed. The actual cause of his death remains mysterious. Officially, he died in a automobile accident, although rumours persist that he was killed when German partisans ambushed his car. He is succeeded by Wilhelm Scheppmann.
Burma-Shave Ad - May 1944
1945: RAF Bomber Command, launch its last major action of war against Kiel.
1945: The British Second Army reaches Lübeck. The first lorry convoys carrying relief supplies to occupied Holland are allowed through German lines.
Eleanor Parker
1945: The German Army in Italy abides by the Caserta agreement and surrenders to the allies, with hostilities ceasing at 12 noon GMT.
Eleanor Parker
1945: General Weidling, the commander of Berlins Garrison meets with General Chuikov and accepts his terms of unconditional surrender of Berlin. The garrison in Berlin surrenders to 1st Belorussian and 1st Ukrainian Armies at 3pm local time. During the 2 week battle for the German Capital, the Russians suffer more than 300,000 casualties and while it is hard to estimate German casualties, the figure of 480,000 German prisoners says a lot.
1945: Theresienstadt, a Nazi concentration camp taken over by the Red Cross.
Eleanor Parker
*Eleanor Jean Parker was born June 26, 1922 in Cedarville, Ohio. At an early age, her family moved to East Cleveland, Ohio and she attended public schools. She is a graduate of Shaw High School. After high school, she was signed by Warner Brothers in 1941, at the age of 18. She would have debuted that year in the film "They Died with Their Boots On", but her scenes were cut. Her actual film debut was playing nurse Ryan in "Soldiers in White" in 1942. By 1946, she had starred in "Between Two Worlds", "Hollywood Canteen", "Pride of the Marines", "Never Say Goodbye" and "Of Human Bondage". She broke the champagne bottle on the nose of the California Zephyr train, to mark its inaugural journey from San Francisco, California on March 19, 1949. In 1950, she received the first of three nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress for "Caged", in which she played a prison inmate. For this role, she won the 1950 Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival. She was also nominated for the Oscar in 1951 for her performance as Kirk Douglas's wife in "Detective Story" and again in 1955 for her portrayal of opera singer Marjorie Lawrence in the Oscar-winning biopic "Interrupted Melody". Parker then performed with Charlton Heston as a 1900s mail-order bride in George Pal's "The Naked Jungle".
That same year, Parker appeared in Otto Preminger's film adaptation of the National Book Award-winner "The Man With The Golden Arm", in which she plays Zosh, the supposedly invalid wife of a morphine addicted, would-be jazz drummer Frankie Machine (Frank Sinatra). In 1956, she was billed above the title alongside Clark Gable for the Raoul Walsh-directed western comedy "The King and Four Queens". A year later, she starred in another W. Somerset Maugham novel, a remake of a "The Painted Veil" in the role originated by Greta Garbo, released as "The Seventh Sin". She also appeared in "Home from the Hill", "A Hole in the Head" and "Return to Peyton Place". Possibly her most famous screen role is as Baroness Elsa Schraeder, the second female lead in the 1965 Oscar-winning smash hit "The Sound Of Music".
She played an alcoholic widow in "Warning Shot" in 1966, and a love-starved talent scout in the all-star but unsuccessful "The Oscar". From then on, her big screen roles were less impressive, and television would occupy more of her energies. In 1963, Parker appeared in the NBC medical drama about psychiatry "The Eleventh Hour" in the episode "Why Am I Grown So Cold?", for which she was nominated for an Emmy Award as Outstanding Single Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role. In 1964, she appeared in the episode "A Land More Cruel" on the ABC drama about psychiatry, "Breaking Point". In 1968, she portrayed a sultry spy in "How to Steal the World" -- a film originally shown as a two-part episode on NBC's "The Man from U.N.C.L.E.". In 1969-70 she starred in the television series "Bracken's World", for which she was nominated for a 1970 Golden Globe Award as Best TV Actress - Drama. She also appeared in several made-for-television movies.
Parker has also starred in a number of theatrical productions, including the Lauren Bacall role in musical "Applause". In 1976, she quit the Circle in the Square Theatre revival of Pal Joey during previews. She wrote the preface to the book "How Your Mind Can Keep You Well", a meditation technique developed by Roy Masters.
Eleanor Parker died on December 9, 2013, at a medical facility in Palm Springs, California, of complications of pneumonia. She was 91.
TRIVIA:
Measurements: 36-26-36
She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6340 Hollywood Blvd.
Parker has been married four times. She first wed Fred Losee in 1943, but the union was brief, ending in 1944. She then married Bert E. Friedlob in 1946, divorcing him in 1953. They had three children together. She had a son, Paul, with her third husband, American portrait painter Paul Clemens; she and Clemens married in 1954 and divorced in 1965. The following year, she married her current husband, Raymond Hirsch.
Dodge Ad - May 1944
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Looking forward to part 3.
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1969 Chevelle SS Ad
May 1961: Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson visits President Diem in South Vietnam and hails the embattled leader as the 'Winston Churchill of Asia.'
May 1961: President Kennedy sends 400 American Green Beret 'Special Advisors' to South Vietnam to train South Vietnamese soldiers in methods of 'counter-insurgency' in the fight against Viet Cong guerrillas. The role of the Green Berets soon expands to include the establishment of Civilian Irregular Defense Groups (CIDG) made up of fierce mountain men known as the Montagnards. These groups establish a series of fortified camps strung out along the mountains to thwart infiltration by North Vietnamese.
May 1962: Viet Cong organize themselves into battalion-sized units operating in central Vietnam.
May 1962: Defense Secretary McNamara visits South Vietnam and reports "we are winning the war."
Brigitte Bardot
May 1963: Buddhists riot in South Vietnam after they are denied the right to display religious flags during their celebration of Buddha's birthday. In Hue, South Vietnamese police and army troops shoot at Buddhist demonstrators, resulting in the deaths of one woman and eight children. Political pressure now mounts on the Kennedy administration to disassociate itself from Diem's repressive, family-run government. "You are responsible for the present trouble because you back Diem and his government of ignoramuses," a leading Buddhist tells U.S. officials in Saigon.
Brigitte Bardot
May 1964: President Johnson's aides begin work on a Congressional resolution supporting the President's war policy in Vietnam. The resolution is shelved temporarily due to lack of support in the Senate, but will later be used as the basis of the Gulf of Tonkin resolution.
May 3, 1965: The first U.S. Army combat troops, 3500 men of the 173rd Airborne Brigade, arrive in Vietnam.
May 11, 1965: Viet Cong over-run South Vietnamese troops in Phuoc Long Province north of Saigon and also attack in central South Vietnam.
May 13, 1965: The first bombing pause is announced by the U.S. in the hope that Hanoi will now negotiate. There will be six more pauses during the Rolling Thunder bombing campaign, all with same intention. However, each time, the North Vietnamese ignore the peace overtures and instead use the pause to repair air defenses and send more troops and supplies into the South via the Ho Chi Minh trail.
May 13, 1965: Viet Cong attack the U.S. special forces camp in Phuoc Long. During the fighting, 2nd Lt. Charles Williams, earns the Medal of Honor by knocking out a Viet Cong machine-gun then guiding rescue helicopters, while wounded four times.
May 19, 1965: U.S. bombing of North Vietnam resumes.
Brigitte Bardot
May 2, 1966: Secretary of Defense McNamara privately reports the North Vietnamese are infiltrating 4500 men per month into the South.
May 14, 1966: Political unrest intensifies as South Vietnamese troops loyal to Prime Minister Ky over-run renegade South Vietnamese Buddhist troops in Da Nang. Ky's troops then move on to Hue to oust renegades there. Ky's actions result in a new series of immolations by Buddhist monks and nuns as an act of protest against his Saigon regime and its American backers. Buddhist leader Tri Quang blames President Johnson personally for the situation. Johnson responds by labeling the immolations as "tragic and unnecessary."
May 1, 1967: Ellsworth Bunker replaces Henry Cabot Lodge as U.S ambassador to South Vietnam.
May 2, 1967: The U.S. is condemned during a mock war crimes tribunal held in Stockholm, organized by British philosopher Bertrand Russell.
May 9, 1967: Robert W. Komer, a former CIA analyst, is appointed by President Johnson as deputy commander of MACV to form a new agency called Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support (CORDS) to pacify the population of South Vietnam. Nearly 60 percent of rural villages in South Vietnam are now under Viet Cong control. $850 million in food, medical supplies, machinery, and numerous other household items, will be distributed through CORDS to the population in order to regain their loyalty in the struggle for the "hearts and minds" of common villagers. CORDS also trains local militias to protect their villages from the Viet Cong.
May 13, 1967: In New York City, 70,000 march in support of the war, led by a New York City fire captain.
May 18-26, 1967: U.S. and South Vietnamese troops enter the Demilitarized Zone for the first time and engage in a series of fire fights with NVA. Both sides suffer heavy losses.
May 22, 1967: President Johnson publicly urges North Vietnam to accept a peace compromise.
May 5, 1968: Viet Cong launch "Mini Tet," a series of rocket and mortar attacks against Saigon and 119 cities and military installations throughout South Vietnam. The U.S. responds with air strikes using Napalm and high explosives.
May 10, 1968: An NVA battalion attacks the Special Forces camp at Kham Duc along the border of Laos. The isolated camp had been established in 1963 to monitor North Vietnamese infiltration. Now encircled by NVA, the decision is made to evacuate via C-130 transport planes. At the conclusion of the successful airlift, it is discovered that three U.S. Air Force controllers have accidentally been left behind. Although the camp is now over-run by NVA and two C-130s have already been shot down, Lt. Col. Joe M. Jackson pilots a C-123 Provider, lands on the air strip under intense fire, gathers all three controllers, then takes off. For this, Jackson is awarded the Medal of Honor.
May 10, 1968: Peace talks begin in Paris but soon stall as the U.S. insists that North Vietnamese troops withdraw from the South, while the North Vietnamese insist on Viet Cong participation in a coalition government in South Vietnam. This marks the beginning of five years of on-again off-again official talks between the U.S. and North Vietnam in Paris.
Brigitte Bardot
May 1969: The New York Times breaks the news of the secret bombing of Cambodia. As a result, Nixon orders FBI wiretaps on the telephones of four journalists, along with 13 government officials to determine the source of news leak.
May 10-May 20, 1969: Forty-six men of the 101st Airborne die during a fierce ten-day battle at 'Hamburger Hill' in the A Shau Valley near Hue. 400 others are wounded. After the hill is taken, the troops are then ordered to abandon it by their commander. NVA then move in and take back the hill unopposed.
The costly assault and its confused aftermath provokes a political outcry back in the U.S. that American lives are being wasted in Vietnam. One Senator labels the assault "senseless and irresponsible." It is the beginning of the end for America in Vietnam as Washington now orders MACV Commander Gen. Creighton Abrams to avoid such encounters in the future. 'Hamburger Hill' is the last major search and destroy mission by U.S. troops during the war. Small unit actions will now be used instead. A long period of decline in morale and discipline begins among American draftees serving in Vietnam involuntarily. Drug usage becomes rampant as nearly 50 percent experiment with marijuana, opium, or heroin which are easy to obtain on the streets of Saigon. U.S. military hospitals later become deluged with drug related cases as drug abuse causalities far outnumber causalities of war.
May 14, 1969: During his first TV speech on Vietnam, President Nixon presents a peace plan in which America and North Vietnam would simultaneously pull out of South Vietnam over the next year. The offer is rejected by Hanoi.
May 1, 1970: May Day, the traditional Communist holiday. A combined force of 15,000 U.S. and South Vietnamese soldiers attack NVA supply bases inside Cambodia. However, throughout this offensive, NVA and Viet Cong carefully avoid large-scale battles and instead withdraw westward, further into Cambodia, leaving behind their base camps containing huge stores of weapons and ammunition.
May 1, 1970: President Nixon calls anti-war students "bums blowing up campuses."
May 2, 1970: American college campuses erupt in protest over the invasion of Cambodia.
May 4, 1970: At Kent State University in Ohio, National Guardsmen shoot and kill four student protesters and wound nine.
In response to the killings, over 400 colleges and universities across America shut down. In Washington, nearly 100,000 protesters surround various government buildings including the White House and historical monuments. On an impulse, President Nixon exits the White House and pays a late night surprise visit to the Lincoln Memorial and chats with young protesters.
May 6, 1970: In Saigon over the past week, 450 civilians were killed during Viet Cong terrorist raids throughout the city, the highest weekly death toll to date.
Brigitte Bardot
May 3-5, 1971: A mass arrest of 12,000 protesters occurs in Washington.
May 1, 1972: South Vietnamese abandon Quang Tri City to the NVA.
May 4, 1972: The U.S. and South Vietnam suspend participation in the Paris peace talks indefinitely. 125 additional U.S. warplanes are ordered to Vietnam.
May 8, 1972: In response to the ongoing NVA Eastertide Offensive, President Nixon announces Operation Linebacker I, the mining of North Vietnam's harbors along with intensified bombing of roads, bridges, and oil facilities. The announcement brings international condemnation of the U.S. and ignites more anti-war protests in America. During an air strike conducted by South Vietnamese pilots, Napalm bombs are accidentally dropped on South Vietnamese civilians, including children. Filmed footage and a still photo of a badly burned nude girl fleeing the destruction of her hamlet becomes yet another enduring image of the war.
May 9, 1972: Operation Linebacker I commences with U.S. jets laying mines in Haiphong harbor.
May 15, 1972: The headquarters for the U.S. Army in Vietnam is decommissioned.
May 17, 1972: According to U.S. reports, Operation Linebacker I is damaging North Vietnam's ability to supply NVA troops engaged in the Eastertide Offensive.
May 22-30, 1972: President Nixon visits the Soviet Union and meets with Leonid Brezhnev to forge new diplomatic relations with the Communist nation. Nixon's visit causes great concern in Hanoi that their Soviet ally might be inclined to agree to an unfavorable settlement of the war to improve Soviet relations with the U.S.
May 30, 1972: NVA attack on Kontum is thwarted by South Vietnamese troops, aided by massive U.S. air strikes.
1970 Ford Mustang Ad
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May 1, 1951: In one of the most unique operations of the wary, Navy Task Force 77 carrier aircraft attack and breach the Hwachon Dam with torpedoes. The resulting flooding of the Han and Pukhan River valleys works to the benefit of the U.S. and UN troops fighting in the area.
May 9, 1951: 1st Marine Aircraft Wing (1st MAW) participates in a Fifth Air Force (FAF) 300-plane strike on Sinuiju, near the Yalu River. It is the biggest raid of the conflict.
May 14, 1951: General Ridgway formally requests authority to abolish racial segregation in Far East Command.
Anne Francis
May 15-20, 1951: Chinese Communist Forces (CCF) Second Spring Offensive. Four U.S. divisions (U.S. Army's 2nd, 3rd, and 25th Infantry Divisions, and the 1st Marine Division) participate.
May 20 - June 10, 1951: Eighth Army counterattacks and pushes the enemy north of the 38th parallel.
Anne Francis
May 20 - September 20, 1951: Operation STRANGLE. Massive all-out air interdiction campaign is carried out by FEAF, TF 77, and the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing (MAW) against Communist trains, trucks, supply centers and ammunition dumps in an unsuccessful attempt to deny logistic support to enemy frontline troops.
Anne Francis
May 1, 1952: General Matthew Ridgway is appointed Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR), replacing General Dwight Eisenhower, who would go on to become the 34th President of the United States.
May 7, 1952: Koje-do prison uprising begins.
May 12, 1952: General Mark Clark assumes command of U.N. forces in Korea.
Anne Francis
May 13, 1953: Raid on Toksan Dam. A dramatic strike by 58th Fighter-Bomber Wing F-84s destroys a major irrigation system. Five miles of valuable rice crops are scoured and miles of highways and railroad tracks are destroyed. Further attacks on irrigation dams follow over the next two weeks.
Anne Francis
May 28-30, 1953: While truce details are worked out by negotiators, Chinese Communist Forces launch regimental-strength attacks against the U.S. I Corps sector, with resulting heavy fighting in the Nevada Cities and Hook outposts. Marine Corps tanks and artillery are utilized in support of the defending units of the U.S. Army's 25th Infantry Division.
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16 hours ago, Stans said:
Please, allow me to escort you to an absorption center.
Sounds kinda kinky. Run Fork Run!
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Morning all. 57F under clear skies. Summer-like temperatures with a Spring-like bout of strong and gusty winds. Winds could reach or exceed 40MPH. High of 85F.
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Sheaffer's Voyager Ad - May 1943
1940: Amalgamated Engineering Union agrees to allow women workers in munitions factories.
1940: German mine-carrying bomber crashes on Clacton, Essex; two civilians and four Germans killed, 156 people injured.
**Carole Landis
1940: Norwegians surrender in Lillehammer.
1940: Rudolf Höss is chosen to be kommandant of Auschwitz.
Carole Landis
1941: The Luftwaffe begins a series of 8 consecutive night raids against Liverpool.
1941: Dissident forces in Iraq, led by Raschid Ali, surround the RAF airfield at Habbaniya and order the RAF to cease flying. Meanwhile in Greece, the evacuation of some 43,000 troops and civilians to Crete is completed. A total of 14 Hurricanes and 7 Royal Navy aircraft are available to defend the island against the enemy onslaught.
Carole Landis
1941: German attack on Tobruk is repulsed.
1942: Heavy fighting also continues on the front around besieged Leningrad whose inhabitants are suffering from bombing, disease and starvation. The siege of the Crimean fortress of Sevastopol by the 11th Army continues with a ceaseless bombardment by batteries of heavy guns (up to 800mm) and hundreds of bombers (up to 1,000 sorties a day) of Luftflotte 7.
Carole Landis
1942: The Japanese capture Monywa and Mandalay. The fall of Monywa was especially serious as this threatened to cut off the British withdrawal towards India. This turned a reasonably well organized withdrawal, in to a headlong retreat as British troops tried to avoid being cut off.
1942: The Lexington and Yorktown, link up 250 miles south-west of Espiritu Santo, and begin to refuel.
Carole Landis
1944: The Messerschmitt Me 262, the first combat jet, makes it's first flight.
1944: The Imperial Conference opens in London. A military mission from Tito arrives in London, his 60,000-strong army is now the recognized force in Yugoslavia.
Champion Spark Plugs Ad - May 1943
1945: Martin Bormann, private secretary to Adolf Hitler, escapes the Fuehrerbunker as the Red Army advances on Berlin.
1945: Grossadmiral Dönitz, following the death of Hitler, assumes his duties as the new German head of state. The U.S. Ninth and British Second Armies link bridgeheads over the Elbe. General Walther Wenck's Twelfth Army falls back to Elbe with wounded and refugees and try's to negotiate with U.S. forces. The U.S. Third Army reaches the German/Austrian border at Braunan, 70 miles East of Munich. Dönitz orders the utmost resistance in the East where tens of thousands of German civilians are still trying to escape from the stampeding Red Army.
Carole Landis
1945: Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's master of Propaganda, orders his 6 children killed with poison. He then orders his SS guard to shoot both himself and his wife.
1945: The Cessation of hostilities and surrender of all German forces in Italy is announced. This is as a result of unauthorized and secret negotiations with the allies by the German C-in-C, General von Vietinghoff. and SS General Wolff. New Zealand troops capture Udine, 60 miles Northeast of Venice and makes contact with Tito's partisans in the Trieste area. The situation is now desperate for the surrounded Germans of Army Group E in Yugoslavia as Titos partisans reach the river Isonzo near Monfalcone.
Carole Landis Chesterfield Cigarette Ad - 1944
1945: Indian paratroops land to the South of Rangoon, as the Fourteenth Army captures Pegu.
1945: The Australians land on Tarakan Island off Borneo.
*1937: President Franklin Roosevelt signs an act of neutrality, keeping the United States out of World War II.
Carole Landis
**Carole Landis was born on New Year's Day in 1919 in Fairchild, Wisconsin, as Frances Lillian Mary Ridste. Her childhood was, for the most part, normal. Her father, a railroad mechanic, was of Norwegian descent and her mother was Polish. Her father left the family and Carole, her mother and an older brother and sister were left to fend for themselves. Once she graduated from high school, she married Irving Wheeler, but the union lasted a month before the marriage was annulled because Carole was only 15 at the time. The couple remarried in August of 1934 and the two headed to California to start a new life. For a while she worked as a dancer and singer, but it wasn't long before the glitter of show business drew her to Los Angeles. She won a studio contract with Warner Brothers, but was a bit player for the most part in such films as "A Star Is Born" (1937), "A Day at the Races" (1937), and "The Emperor's Candlesticks" (1937). The following year started out much the same way with more bit roles. Carole's career was stalled. By 1939, she was getting a few more into speaking roles, although mostly one-liners, and that year ended much like the previous two years with more bit roles, plus a divorce from Wheeler. In 1940 she was cast as Loana in the Hal Roach production of "One Million B.C." (1940), where her beauty (and skimpy outfit) finally got her recognition, and her career finally began moving. She didn't star in big productions but began getting parts in B pictures. Although she had a fine acting talent, the really good roles were snatched up by the established stars of the day. Warner Brothers then sold her contract to 20th Century-Fox. She played "B" leads and "A" supporting roles in her first 12 Fox films, with a notable dramatic performance in "I Wake Up Screaming" (1941). Critics dwelled on her fresh-faced beauty, seldom mentioning her acting and comedy potential. Her busiest year ever turned out to be 1942, with roles in six films such as "Manila Calling" (1942), "The Powers Girl" (1943) and "A Gentleman at Heart" (1942). It seemed that her films never really attracted good critical reviews, and if they were reviewed at all it was in reference to Carole's breathtaking beauty.
Carole Landis
During World War 2 Carole spent more time visiting troops than any other actress. She took time off from her career and dedicated herself to the war effort. Carole toured the country selling war bonds and entertained soldiers all over the world. The press called her "a heroine" and "pride of the yanks". She joined the Hollywood Victory Committee and worked tirelessly with the Red Cross, the Naval Aid Auxiliary, and Bundles for Blue Jackets. Carole collected cigarettes for the soldiers, taught first aid, and donated blood as often as she was allowed. She never turned down a request to help and visited more than 250 military bases across the United States. When she went to Camp Bowie for a three day appearance in 1942 she danced with 200 soldiers, sang 15 songs, and signed 1000 autographs. In September 1942 she visited the Mare Island Navy Yard where she sang for the injured men in the hospital ward. Carole became one of the soldier's favorite pin-up girls and they nicknamed her "The Blonde Bomber". When she appeared on the Command Performance radio show one soldier requested that she "just sigh" into the microphone. In November 1942 Carole started a five month tour of Europe and Africa with Mitzi Mayfair, Kay Francis, and Martha Raye. She met her husband Tommy Wallace during this tour and she wrote about her experiences in her 1944 book "Four Jills In A Jeep". In the film version, "Four Jills in a Jeep" (1944), you can get a glimpse of the kind of talent she really had, and which Fox was wasting.
Landis, Mitzi Mayfair, Kay Francis, & Martha Raye.
Carole was a hostess at the Hollywood Canteen and she invited soldiers to her beach house every weekend. In June 1944 she began a U.S.O. tour with Jack Benny, singer Martha Tilton, harmonica player Larry Adler, and pianist June Bruner. During their camp shows Carole sang and jitterbugged with the boys. She spent much of her time visiting wounded soldiers and she wrote hundreds of letters to their families. Jack Benny said "You soon forgot she was Carole Landis, the sex symbol, the Hollywood star, the sweater girl, because she was a real human being and had a warm heart that spilled over with kindness".
During their two month tour of the South Pacific Carole almost died when she contracted malaria and amoebic dysentery. She was hospitalized for weeks, lost 15 pounds, and suffered with these illnesses for the rest of her life. Carole became an Air Raid Warden, a commander in the Aerial Nurses Corps, and an honorary Colonel in the American Legion. She auctioned off her favorite opal ring to raise money and she donated several movie projectors to bases overseas. Carole traveled more than 125,000 miles during the war. She performed for soldiers in Australia, Brazil, Algeria, Bermuda, Scotland, England, New Guinea, Ireland, Guam, and New Zealand. Carole said "Whatever we do for soldiers can't be enough in return for what they do for us. They are wonderful!"
By the middle 1940s her career was beginning to short-circuit. Her contract with 20th Century-Fox had been canceled, failed marriages to Willis Hunt Jr. and Thomas Wallace, her current marriage to Horace Schmidlapp on the skids, plus a battle with poor health spelled disaster for her professionally and personally. Her final two films were released in 1948, "Brass Monkey" (1948) and "Noose" (1948). On July 5, 1948, Carole committed suicide by taking an overdose of seconal in her Brentwood Heights, California, home. She was only 29 and had made 49 pictures, unfortunately, mostly forgettable ones. If Hollywood moguls had given Carole a good chance, she could have been one of the brightest stars in its history.
TRIVIA:
Measurements: 37C-24-35
Height:
5' 5" (1.66 m)
Nicknames:
The 'Ping' Girl
The Blonde Bomber
The Chest
Carole protested strongly and publicly against the nonsensical nickname "Ping Girl" (apparently short for "purring") coined by Hal Roach publicist Frank N. Seltzer in April 1940.
She knew how to fly a plane. Carole started taking flying lessons with her second husband Willis Hunt and got her pilots license in 1941. During World War 2 she flew for the Civilian Air Patrol.
In 1944 Carole appeared in ads for Chesterfield cigarettes. During her career she was also featured in ads for Lipton tea, Schaefer beer, Jergens lotion, Sinclair oil, and Nescafe coffee.
On her family's official web site they claim that Carole's death was not a suicide, they believe someone murdered her.
Army Air Force Recruiting Ad - May 1944
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Morning all. 54F under cloudy skies. We will have clear skies later this morning and afternoon with light NW winds and a high of 70F.
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Campbell Soup Ad - April 1943
1940: Germans announce they have established communication between Trondheim and Oslo. RAF attack Oslo airfield.
1940: The Lodz Ghetto in occupied Poland is sealed off from the outside world with 230,000 Jews locked inside.
*Shirley Ross
1941: British air raid casualty figures in April: 6,065 killed, 6,926 injured. Bristol, Coventry, Birmingham, Belfast, London and Portsmouth all badly hit. In retaliation the RAF attacks Emden, Kiel, Berlin, Bremen and Mannheim.
1941: All of Greece is under German and Italian occupation. During the campaign, the Greeks lose 15,700 killed and 300,000 prisoners. The British lose 2,000 killed and 10,000 made prisoner, while the Germans only suffer about 2,000 killed and missing.
1941: The Afrika Korps second attempt to capture Tobruk is again repulsed by the Australians.
Shirley Ross
1942: Hitler and Mussolini meet at Berchtesgaden to discuss future axis strategy in North Africa and the Mediterranean, the main objectives being the reduction of Malta and the seizure of the Suez Canal.
1942: Hitler and Mussolini agree that the capture of Malta (Operation Herakles) should take place on the 10th July 1942.
Shirley Ross
1942: The British 1st Burma Corps completes its withdrawal over the Irrawaddy at Mandalay in Burma.
1942: The US aircraft carriers, Hornet and Enterprise set sail from Pearl Harbor for the Corel Sea under the command of Admiral William 'Bull' Halsey.
Shirley Ross
1943: The British submarine HMS Seraph drops 'the man who never was,' a dead man the British planted with false invasion plans, into the Mediterranean off the coast of Spain. The 'man who never was' pulled off one of the greatest deceptions in military history--after his death.
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1945: The U.S. Third Army liberates 110,000 POW's in the Moosburg area, Northeast of Munich. The U.S. Seventh Army clears Munich and the French takes Friedrichshafen and cross into Austria. The U.S. First Army meet the Russians at Ellenburg, South of Berlin. The British Second Army liberates 20,000 prisoners (two third POW's and one third political prisoners) from Sandbostel camp in northern Germany.
1945: Allied Norwegian forces capture Finnmark.
1945: With the Red Army only a few hundred yards away, Hitler commits suicide with Eva Braun in the Reich Chancellery bunker at 1530hrs and their bodies immediately incinerated with gasoline by SS bodyguards
Shirley Ross
1945: A Sergeant of the Russian Army plant the Red Flag on top of the Reichstag building at 2.30 pm. As the final Russian assault on Tiergarten begins, Goebbels and Bormann send General Krebs, Chief of the General Staff to the headquarters of Marshal Zhukov with a permit to make an armistice, but Zhukov refuses and demands an unconditional surrender. Troops of the 4th Ukrainian front capture Moravska Ostrava. Fighting continues in Breslau, as the German garrison refuses to surrender.
1945: The U.S. Fifth Army in Northwest Italy, links up with French troops on the French/Italian border.
1945: The Mexican Air Force's 201 Squadron arrives at Manila. In operations from 4 June, 1945 to the end of the war, the 201 flies 96 combat missions, mostly in support of ground troops. The 201 will be the only Mexican unit to see overseas combat in the country's history.
Shirley Ross
*Shirley Ross was born Bernice Gaunt on January 7th, 1913 in Omaha, Nebraska, but her family relocated to California when she was a child. She studied at Hollywood High School and the University of California and auditioned successfully for Gus Arnheim's band during her second year at university. She made her first recordings at the age of 20 with Arnheim in 1933.
Her film career began in 1933 and the following year she introduced the melody of the song "Blue Moon" for the Clark Gable movie "Manhattan Melodrama", only with different lyrics. Ross first achieved prominence appearing opposite Bing Crosby in the 1937 film "Waikiki Wedding". In the film "The Big Broadcast" (1938) she sang "Thanks for the Memory" with Bob Hope. She re-teamed with Hope the following year to sing "Two Sleepy People" in the 1938 film "Thanks for the Memory".
Ross also introduced "The Lady's in Love with You" from the 1939 film "Some Like It Hot" featuring Bob Hope, which is not the 1959 comedy starring Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemmon, and Tony Curtis, although both films share the same name.
Her sole Broadway appearance was in the Rodgers and Hart musical "Higher and Higher" in 1940. Ross recorded four songs from the show including "It Never Entered My Mind". She made her final film, "A Song for Miss Julie", in 1945. She died from cancer in Menlo Park, California, on March 9th, 1975 at age 62.
TRIVIA:
Married to agent Ken Dolan, she had three children - two sons and a daughter.
Also notable for singing "The Bad In Every Man" in 1934's "Manhattan Melodrama". She sang this portraying a featured singer in the Cotton Club, obviously artificially ethnicized. When this song failed to become a hit, it was re-written as "Blue Moon" and became a standard.
"The Big Broadcast of 1938" is remembered today it's for the fact that it introduced Bob Hope in his first feature film and at the same time gave him his theme song "Thanks for the Memory". Hope was billed fifth in this production behind W.C.Fields, Martha Raye, Dorothy Lamour, and Shirley Ross.
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Stans new theme song?
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RIP Michael Collins.
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Morning all. Clear skies and 53F. Plenty of sunshine today with a high of 70F.
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Nash Kelvinator Ad - April 1943
1940: King Haakon VII and his government are evacuated from Molde and taken to Tromso in northern Norway, from where they can continue the fight.
1941: British intelligence 'Ultra', intercept numerous messages giving a positive indication that the Germans plan to attack Crete.
*Ruth Roman
1941: Another Brigade from the British 10th Indian Division lands at Basra, ignoring Iraqi's protests. The Iraqi Army lays siege to The RAF base at Habbaniyh, although RAF planes fly numerous air strikes against them.
1942: The Belgian resistance destroys Tenderloo chemical works, killing more that 250. Executions by the Germans reported to be running at 25-30 a month in Belgium.
Ruth Roman
1942: Japanese troops capture Lashio, thereby cutting the vital 'Burma Road' supply route into China.
1942: The Japanese continue to land reinforcements on Mindanao Island as the step up attacks against the Filipino garrison. The shelling of Corregidor increases as the Japanese prepare to invade the Island.
Ruth Roman
1943: A series of minor attacks in near Novorossiysk drive the Germans back slowly.
1943: U-boats begin a six-day attack on Convoy ONS5, during which 13 allied ships are finally sunk for the loss of six U-boats.
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1944: Curtin, the Australian Prime Minister arrives in London.
1944: The US Navy pounds the Japanese base at Truk, destroying 120 planes.
Ruth Roman
1945: The RAF begin Operation 'Manna', supply drops into Holland.
1945: Convoy RA-66 sailing from the Kola Peninsula to Loch Ewe is attacked by at least 2 U-boats north of Kola. The British destroyer HMS Goodall, which was lend-leased by the US in 1943 is sunk by U-286 (Oblt.z.S. Willi Dietrich), for 1,150 tons, marking this as the last convoy to come under attack in the war.
1945: The British Second Army crosses the Elbe near Hamburg, less than 100 miles west of the Russian forces in Mecklenburg. The U.S. Seventh Army reaches Munich. The French First Army captures Friedrichshafen on Lake Constance.
Ruth Roman
1945: The 2nd Belorussian front advances fast in the Stralsund direction and seizes Anklam. In Berlin furious fighting takes place around the Reichstag, Chancellery and along Potsdamer Strasse. In Kottbus South of Berlin, German troops are still holding the Russians back.
1945: The Germans armies in Italy sign surrender terms at The Royal Palace, Caserta, but German officers do not guarantee acceptance, the ceremony takes only 17 minutes. The British Eighth Army secures Venice and advances towards Trieste. The U.S. Fifth Army enters Milan and makes contact with the Eighth Army at Padua.
Ruth Roman
1945: The bodies of Mussolini and Clara Petacci are brought to Milan and hung upside down from lamp-posts in the square where 15 Partisans were executed a year ago. The bodies are shot and spat upon.
1945: U.S. 7th Army liberates Dachau Concentration Camp.
Ruth Roman
*She was born Norma Roman on December 22, 1922 in the Boston suburb of Lynn, Massachusetts. As a young girl, she pursued her desire to become an actress by enrolling in the prestigious Bishop Lee Dramatic School in Boston. Following completion of her studies Roman headed to Hollywood where she obtained bit parts in several films before being cast in the title role in the thirteen episode serial "Jungle Queen" (1945).
In 1949 she played an important role in the 1949 film, "Champion". In one of her most memorable roles, Roman costarred with Farley Granger and Robert Walker in the Alfred Hitchcock thriller "Strangers on a Train" (1951).
Married three times, she had one son, Richard, with her first husband, Mortimer Hall. In the 1950 film "Three Secrets", she played a distraught mother waiting to learn whether or not her child survived an airplane crash. In July 1956, Roman and her four-year-old son were passengers on board the SS Andrea Doria ocean liner. They were separated from each other when the ship collided with the MS Stockholm (now known as the MS Athena) off Nantucket and sank. Roman was rescued and waited at the pier in New York City for her son's safe arrival aboard one of the rescue ships.
Ruth Roman
As stage actress, in 1959 she won the Sarah Siddons Award for her work in Chicago theatre. Although she never achieved the level of success in film that many had originally predicted for her, Roman nevertheless worked regularly in film well into the 1960s after which she began making appearances on television shows and movies, including a recurring role in 1965-1966 in NBC's "The Long Hot Summer" and for the 1986 season of "Knots Landing" and on "Murder She Wrote", both on CBS. She also guest starred in many television series, such as NBC's "Sam Benedict" starring Edmond O'Brien, ABC's "The Bing Crosby Show" sitcom and its circus drama, "The Greatest Show on Earth" starring Jack Palance, and "I-Spy" starring Robert Culp and Bill Cosby. She also appeared in the early 1960s in both the NBC medical drama "The Eleventh Hour" and its ABC counterpart, "Breaking Point". Roman was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6672 Hollywood Blvd. for her contribution to television. She died on September 6, 1999 at the age of seventy-six in her sleep at her Laguna Beach, California home. She was survived by her son, Richard.
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Well I see Stans has fallen to the dark side. Soon the CIA boys will pick him up, take him to a secret location, and reprogram him back to his former self.
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Morning all. 53F under clear skies. Cooler today, slight chance of a shower. High of 68F.
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The New Haven R.R. Ad - April 1943
1940: Allied reinforcements arrive in Andalsnes, Norway.
1941: The British evacuation of Greece is completed.
**Ingrid Bergman
1941: A clampdown is made in Norway against degenerate literature, with large-scale book burnings being held.
1942: Coastal "dimouts" go into effect along a fifteen-mile strip on the Eastern Seaboard, in response to German U-boat activity of the U.S. Atlantic coast.
Ingrid Bergman - YANK Pin-up Girl - March 16, 1945 Issue
1942: At what turns out to be its last meeting, the puppet Nazi Reichstag passes legislation proclaiming Hitler "Supreme Judge of the German People," formalising the Fuhrer's position as being above the reach of the law.
1943: British forces repulse a last, desperate Panzer counter blow in Tunisia.
Ingrid Bergman
1944: The South African and Rhodesian Prime Ministers arrive for the imperial Conference.
1944: Chinese forces retreat in central China.
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1945: German U-boats sink 8 Allied ships, 3 destroyers and 2 corvettes in the English channel.
1945: The Canadian First Army captures Emden and Wilhelmshaven, while the U.S. Seventh Army takes Augsburg and reaches the Austrian border to the South. Hitler marries his mistress, Eva Braun, and dictates his political testament in which he justifies the political and military actions of his 12-year-rule, blaming the war on international Jewry and exhorting the German people even after defeat to adhere to the principles of National Socialism, especially its racial laws. Grossadmiral Dönitz is appointed as his successor.
Ingrid Bergman
1945: The U.S. Fifth Army take Brescia, 30 miles East of Milan. The British Eighth Army reaches Venice.
1945: Italian Partisans capture Mussolini, his mistress Clara Petacci and 12 of his cabinet members in a German convoy trying to reach Switzerland. All are shot in nearby village.
Ingrid Bergman
1945: Russian forces are fighting in the Wilhelmstrasse and reach the Anhalt Station which is just half a mile of the Führerbunker.
*1946: The Allies indict Tojo with 55 counts of war crimes.
Ingrid Bergman
**Ingrid Bergman was born in Stockholm, Sweden, on August 29, 1915. The woman who would be one of the top stars in Hollywood in the 1940s had decided to become an actress after finishing her formal schooling. She had had a taste of acting at age 17 when she played an uncredited role of a girl standing in line in the Swedish film "Landskamp" (1932) in 1932 - not much of a beginning for a girl who would be known as "Sweden's illustrious gift to Hollywood." Her parents died when she was just a girl and the uncle she lived with didn't want to stand in the way of Ingrid's dream. The next year she enrolled in the Swedish Royal Theatre but decided that stage acting was not for her. It would be three more years before she would have another chance at a film. When she did, it was more than just a bit part. The film in question was "Munkbrogreven" (1935), where she had a speaking part as Elsa Edlund. After several films that year that established her as a class actress, Ingrid appeared in "Intermezzo" (1936) as Anita Hoffman. Luckily for her, American producer David O. Selznick saw it and sent a representative from Selznick International Pictures to gain rights to the story and have Ingrid signed to a contract. Once signed, she came to California and starred in United Artists' 1939 remake of her 1936 film, "Intermezzo: A Love Story" (1939), reprising her original role. The film was a hit and so was Ingrid. Her beauty was unlike anything the movie industry had seen before and her acting was superb. Hollywood was about to find out that they had the most versatile actress the industry had ever seen. Here was a woman who truly cared about the craft she represented. The public fell in love with her. Ingrid was under contract to go back to Sweden to film "En enda natt" (1939) in 1939 and "Juninatten" (1940) in 1940. Back in the US she appeared in three films, all well-received. She made only one film in 1942, but it was the classic "Casablanca" (1942) opposite the great Humphrey Bogart.
Ingrid Bergman
Ingrid was choosing her roles well. In 1943 she was nominated for an Academy Award for her role in "For Whom the Bell Tolls" (1943), the only film she made that year. The critics and public didn't forget her when she made "Gaslight" (1944) the following year--her role of Paula Alquist got her the Oscar for Best Actress. In 1945 Ingrid played in "Spellbound" (1945), "Saratoga Trunk" (1945) and "The Bells of St. Mary's" (1945), for which she received her third Oscar nomination for her role of Sister Benedict. She made no films in 1947, but bounced back with a fourth nomination for "Joan of Arc" (1948). In 1949 she went to Italy to film "Stromboli" (1950), directed by Roberto Rossellini. She fell in love with him and left her husband, Dr. Peter Lindstrom, and daughter, Pia Lindström. America's "moral guardians" in the press and the pulpits were outraged. She was pregnant and decided to remain in Italy, where her son was born. In 1952 Ingrid had twins, Isotta and Isabella Rossellini, who became an outstanding actress in her own right, as did Pia. Ingrid continued to make films in Italy and finally returned to Hollywood in 1956 in the title role in "Anastasia" (1956), which was filmed in England. For this she won her second Academy Award. She had scarcely missed a beat. Ingrid continued to bounce between Europe and the US making movies, and fine ones at that. A film with Ingrid Bergman was sure to be a quality production. In her final big-screen performance in 1978's "Höstsonaten" (1978) she had her final Academy Award nomination. Though she didn't win, many felt it was the most sterling performance of her career. Ingrid retired, but not before she gave an outstanding performance in the mini-series "A Woman Called Golda" (1982) (TV), a film about Israeli prime minister Golda Meir. For this she won an Emmy Award as Best Actress, but, unfortunately, she didn't live to see the fruits of her labor. Ingrid died from cancer on August 30, 1982, the day after her 67th birthday, in London, England.
TRIVIA:
Height: 5' 9" (1.75 m)
Measurements: 34-24-34
Her famous love affair with the war photographer, Robert Capa was the basis for Alfred Hitchcock's "Rear Window" (1954).
During the making of "Casablanca" (1942), Humphrey Bogart's wife Mayo Methot continually accused him of having an affair with Bergman, often confronting him in his dressing room before a shot. Bogart would come onto the set in a rage.
Swedes are very proud of Bergman. They even have "Ingrid Bergman Square" with a statue of the screen goddess looking out over the water to her former home. Her ashes were scattered over the sea nearby.
Received a fan letter from James Stewart on his way to combat duty for World War II (1943).
One day at the studio she hooked bumpers with another car. A studio policeman found her tugging and heaving with all her might. The policeman said, "Darndest thing I ever saw. First film star I ever knew that didn't mind getting her hands dirty".
Enjoyed working with Gary Cooper, for she did not have to take off her shoes.
Tide Water Associated Ad - April 1944
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Morning all. 67F under mostly cloudy skies. Plan on another warm day in the 80s. The wind will be a little lighter when compared to yesterday, though it still may gust over 20mph at times. Looking ahead to tonight, we can’t rule out some scattered thunderstorms as a cold front slowly approaches our area, some of which may produce some small hail. Rainfall amounts appear low at this time. High today of 82F.
Pruneface, I think Stans is stuck in "peace" and "joy" mode. Your reprogramming isn't very good. Maybe a smack along side of his head will help?
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Sperry Corporation Ad - April 1944
1940: Himmler signs the order that initiates construction of Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland.
1941: German troops cross the Egyptian border and capture the Halfaya Pass, forcing the British to pull back to defensive a line running from Buq Buq on the coast to Sofafi, some 50km in to the desert. The British also begin construction of a major defensive line in front of Mersa Matruh.
*Sheila Ryan - YANK Pin-up Girl May 5, 1944
1941: German troops occupy Athens.
1942: The RAF use 107 aircraft in another raid against Rostok. Norwich is attacked by the Luftwaffe.
Sheila Ryan - YANK Pin-up Girl July 27, 1945
1942: RAF Bomber Command again attack the Tirpitz at Trondheim, without success. Wing Commander Bennett who led the raid crashes in Norway, but manages to escape to Sweden.
1943: A report that Soviet troops have executed thousands of Polish officers near Smolensk causes a rift between the Polish government-in-exile and Moscow, jeopardizing their alliance.
Sheila Ryan
1944: Both the Canadian and New Zealand Prime Ministers arrive in London for the Imperial Conference.
1944: German planes spot an Allied convoy west of Start Point along the Channel Coast. The convoy is actually making a practice run ('Operation Tiger') for the planned invasion of Normandy on a stretch of coast very much like that found in the Normandy region of France. The 5th and 9th Schnellbootflottillers are directed to attack at night, which they do with the following boats: S100, S130, S138, S138, S140, S142, S143, S145, S150. They engage the convoy, consisting of 8 landing craft and protected by the lone English Corvette Azeala at Lyme Bay. The result is that LST 507 was set on fire and had to be given up, LST 531 was sunk and LST 289 received a torpedo hit which killed many soldiers. Total Allied losses were 197 seaman and 441 soldiers lost.
Sheila Ryan
1944: Merrill's 'Marauders' begin a march on Myitkyina.
1944: The U.S. Army complete their capture of Hollandia's airfields and isolate 200,000 Japanese for the duration of war.
Sheila Ryan
1945: Total V-weapon casualties in Britain are announced as 2,754 killed and 6,523 seriously injured.
1945: The U.S. First Army captures Straubing and Kempten in Bavaria.
Sheila Ryan
1945: The Russians take Wittemberge on Elbe. Russian troops reach the Alexanderplatz in Berlin and Spandau is taken. The 2nd Belorussian front advances in Pomerania seizes Prenzlau and Angermunde, 70 miles northwest of Berlin. The German 9th Army tries to reach Berlin from the southeast and even counterattacks at Zossen. The German 20th Army does the same Southeast of Belzig. The German High command confesses that the last German forces in Pillau, East Prussia have surrendered.
1945: The U.S. Fifth Army enters Genoa.
Sheila Ryan
**Born Katherine Elizabeth McLaughlin on June 8, 1921 in Topeka, Kansas, she went to Hollywood in 1939 at the age of 18. She was signed by 20th Century Fox in 1940 and was credited in her early films as Bettie McLaughlin. Adopting the name Sheila Ryan, she starred in "Dressed to Kill" (1941) the following year. She appeared in other memorable films, including two Laurel and Hardy movies, "Great Guns" (1941) and "A-Haunting We Will Go" (1942), and the Busby Berkeley musical "The Gang's All Here" (1943). Ryan appeared in a several Charlie Chan and Michael Shayne mysteries, starring alongside Cesar Romero.
By the late 1940s, however, her career waned and she began appearing mostly in B movies, especially low budget westerns. In 1945, she married actor Allan Lane, but the marriage ended in divorce after a few months. She later worked with Gene Autry, starring in several of his films, including "The Cowboys and the Indians" (1949), and "Mule Train" (1950). She also had roles in several television shows.
While working with Autry, Ryan met actor Pat Buttram (known for his role as "Mr. Haney" in the 1965-1971 television comedy Green Acres). They married in 1952, and remained together until her death in 1975. They had a daughter, Kathleen Buttram, nicknamed (Kerry).
Sheila Ryan retired from acting in 1958. She died in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California in 1975 from lung cancer. She was 54 years old. She was survived by Pat and their daughter Kerry. Pat later died of kidney failure on January 8, 1994 and later on their daughter Kerry Buttram-Galgano died of cancer in 2007.
Coca Cola Ad - April 1945
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13 hours ago, Stans said:
Update with analysis. Dan Gryder is a long-time DC-3 pilot and trains pilots to fly the DC-3. He knows his stuff and this is really bad.
Great video! Thanks for sharing Stans. That warbirds group should be stripped of all credentials and not be allowed to fly their aircraft ever again. Not tearing that engine down, during all the years of restoration is criminal. Why would you risk that aircraft by not doing the engine teardown? Unbelievable. The pilot of the TBM should have his pilots license revoked for life. He is a menace to all those in the air and on the ground.
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