Donster Posted March 4, 2012 Report Share Posted March 4, 2012 Allison Aircraft Engines Ad - March 1942 1941: On the northern Norwegian coast, British light naval units and commandos carry out a raid on the Lofoten islands near Narvik, destroying the port and oil storage facilities. 1941: Hitler increases the pressure on Yugoslavia to join the Tripartite pact by inviting Prince Paul, the regent, to Berchtesgaden. Hitler demands that he allows German troops to pass through Yugoslavia for an attack on Greece. In return, the port of Salonika and part of Macedonia will be ceded to Yugoslavia. 1941: The British start to transfer some of its units from Egypt to Greece. These are to be under the command of General Maitland Wilson. *Veda Ann Borg 1942: Two Kawanishi flying boats based at Jaluit and Wotje in the Marshall Islands were used as long-range bombers and on March 4 bombed Oahu, Hawaii. The French Frigate Shoals, some 700 miles northwest of Hawaii Island, were to be used by the Japanese seaplanes as a rendezvous point with submarines carrying fuel and bombs. The French Frigate Shoals had not been used by the Japanese Fleet as a seaplane base in the 1941 carrier attack on Pearl Harbor which began the Pacific War. Having come into classified U.S.Navy Information with the fall of Wake I. on 23 December 1941, however, the Japanese then possibly decided to utilize the atoll. Refueling and arming of two Kawanishi H8K flying boats took place in the night of 3 March 1942 (U.S. time), which carried out a unsuccessful raid on the Ten-Ten Dock at Pearl Harbor the day after. (MORE INFO) 1942: USS Enterprise attacks Marcus Island, just 1000 miles from Japan. Veda Ann Borg 1944: The USAAF launch, but then cancel the first daylight heavy bomber raid on Berlin. However 29 aircraft fail to receive the counter-order and bomb the capital. 1944: Convoy RA-57 (31 ships) sailing the Arctic route from the Kola Peninsula to Loch Ewe, is attacked off Norway. The steam merchant Empire Tourist is sunk by U-703 for 7,062 gross tons lost. However, the convoys escorts sink 3 U-boats en-route. Revere Copper And Brass Ad - March 1942 1944: Zhukov renews his attacks against the forces of Manstein's Army Group South in the Ukraine. 1944: Merrill's 'Marauders' fight their first major action in Burma. 1945: The First Belorussian Front breaks through at Stargard and drives towards Stettin and also establishes a new bridgehead across the Oder to the South of Frankfurt. Veda Ann Borg *Veda Ann Borg was born in Boston, Massachusetts on January 11, 1915. Borg was the daughter of Gottfried Borg, a Swedish immigrant and Minna Noble. She became a model in 1936 before winning a contract at Paramount Pictures. A car crash in 1939 necessitated drastic reconstruction of her face by plastic surgery over a period of two years. She appeared in more than one hundred films, including "Mildred Pierce", "Chicken Every Sunday", "Love Me or Leave Me", "Guys and Dolls", and "Thunder in the Sun". Her last appearance was as an bedraggled Indian woman in the John Wayne-directed "The Alamo" (1960). Veda Ann Borg Borg began accepting parts in television when the new medium opened up. From 1952 through 1961, she appeared on shows such as "Alfred Hitchcock Presents", "General Electric Theater", "The 20th Century-Fox Hour", "The Abbott and Costello Show", "Bonanza", "The Red Skelton Show", "Adventures of Superman", "Wild Bill Hickok", and "Mr. & Mrs. North", among many others. In 1953-54, she substituted for Joan Blondell as "Honeybee Gillis" in "The Life of Riley" TV series. Borg was married to Paul Herrick (1942) and Veda's second marriage (1946-1958) to director Andrew McLaglen produced three children, Mary McLaglen, Josh McLaglen, and Andrew Victor McLaglen II. She met second husband Andrew V. McLaglen in 1945 when appearing with his father Victor McLaglen in Love, Honor and Goodbye (1945). Both marriages ended in divorce. She died on August 16, 1973 of cancer in Hollywood, California at age 58. Curtiss Wright Ad - March 1945 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stans Posted March 4, 2012 Report Share Posted March 4, 2012 I would not have resisted being assimilated by Veda Ann Borg. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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