Donster Posted October 19, 2009 Report Share Posted October 19, 2009 George C. Marshall (READ COVER STORY) 1939: Germany officially incorporates western Poland into the Reich. 1940: Convoy HX-79 (49 ships), sailing from Halifax in Canada to Britain, is attacked by 5 U-boats between the 19th and 20th October in the North Atlantic. The British lost 12 ships for 75,063 gross tons, while not a single U-boat was lost. The destroyer Venetia sinks after hitting mine in Thames Estuary. 1940: The Australian 7th Division sets sail for the Middle East. * 1941: Army Group Centre finally clears the Vyazma pocket capturing 670,000 Russians, 1,000 tanks and 4,000 guns. Stalin declares state of siege in Moscow and orders its defense to the last. 1941: U.S. freighter "Lehigh" sunk in South Atlantic. 1942: General Friedrich von Paulus pleads with the Fuhrer and the German High Command for supplies and reinforcements for his army, under seige at Stalingrad. He receives nothing but the order to fight to the last man. 1942: The Japanese submarine I-36 launches a floatplane for a reconnaissance flight over Pearl Harbor. The pilot and crew report on the ships in the harbor, after which the aircraft is lost at sea. 1943: The offensive by the US 5th Army along the Volturno river bogs down due to bad weather and a skillful German defense. Martha Vickers 1944: Field Marshal Model gives up the attempts to relieve Aachen. 1944: The Germans evacuate Belgrade. 1944: Hitler orders the total destruction of Warsaw. The German 4th Army withdraws from the Tilsit area. 1944: The British capture an important Japanese supply depot at Mohnyin in Burma. 1944: The U.S. Navy announced that black women would be allowed into the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES). *Lovely, auburn-haired Martha Vickers (nee Martha MacVicar) was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on May 28, 1925, the daughter of James S. and Frances MacVicar. After attending schools in various states - Florida, Texas and California - she and her family settled on the West Coast. A raving beauty, she broke into the entertainment field as a model for still photographer William Mortenson. This attracted the interest of David O. Selznick and she signed a starlet contract with him, but nothing came of it. Universal took over her contract where she was groomed in inauspicious bit parts such as her corpse/victim in Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943), and in such low-level entries as Captive Wild Woman (1943) and The Mummy's Ghost (1944). In between assignments, Martha earned WWII pin-up exposure in such magazines as "Yank: The Army Weekly." Vickers was married three times; to A. C. Lyles (March 15, 1948–May 1949), Mickey Rooney (June 3, 1949–September 25, 1951) and actor Manuel Rojas (October 1, 1954– 1965). Each marriage ended in divorce. Vickers had one son with Mickey Rooney, and two daughters with Rojas. She died of esophageal cancer, aged 46, in California, and is buried in Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery in North Hollywood, California. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stans Posted October 19, 2009 Report Share Posted October 19, 2009 Martha was smokin' hot! And odds are it was smoking that gave her the cancer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madman Posted October 19, 2009 Report Share Posted October 19, 2009 Another Mmmmmm...........Martha! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dude Posted October 19, 2009 Report Share Posted October 19, 2009 Yeah, that Martha was super hot Damn tragedy her dying so young and of such a nasty cancer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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