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April 15, 2016 www.militarypress.com • [email protected] For advertising information, call (858) 537-2280 • [email protected] April 15, 2016
• Income per year ..... $1,880• Minimum wage ............. 30¢• New house ................ $3,770• Rent ................................. $35• New car ......................... $920• Gallon of gas ................... 15¢• Gallon of milk ................. 62¢• Loaf of bread .................... 9¢• First-class stamp ..............3¢• Movie ticket ................... 27¢
COST OF LIVING
Franklin D. Roosevelt32nd. U.S. PresidentServed March 4, 1933 – April 12, 1945
‘Yes, we believe that the Nazis andthe Fascists have asked for it —and they are going to get it. ’
Chevrolet Convertable
“Casablanca” premiers in New York.
• PresidentRooseveltsignsabillcreat-ingtheWomen’sAuxiliaryArmyCorps(WAAC)onMay15.• ThefirstAfricanAmericanseamenaretakenintotheU.S.NavyonMay20.• TheOfficeofWarInformation,apropa-gandacenter,opensJune13intheUnitedStates.• Themovie“Casablanca”premiersNov.26attheHollywoodTheaterinNewYorkCity.
Movies• “Casablanca”• “TheTalkoftheTown”• “Bambi”• “JungleBook”• “Now,Voyager”• “TheBlackSwan”• “Mrs.Miniver”• “CatPeople”• “ToBeorNottoBe”• “ANighttoRemember”
Music• “WhiteChristmas,”BingCrosby• “(I’veGotaGalIn)Kalama-zoo,”GlennMiller• “Tangerine,”JimmyDorsey• “MoonightCocktail,”GlennMiller
• “SleepyLagoon,”HarryJames• “(IGotSpursThat)Jingle,Jingle,Jingle,”KayKyser• “AStringofPearls,”GlennMiller• “BluesintheNight,”WoodyHerman• “JerseyBounce,”BennyGoodman• “DeepintheHeartofTexas,”AlvenoRey
remember when...
Buick Super Convertable
Anne Frank starts her diary.
BORN THIS YEAR: Jimi Hendrix, musician (Nov. 27). Above left: Muhammad Ali, boxer (Jan. 17);
Barbra Streisand, musician/actress (April 24); Harrison Ford, actor (July 13); Joe Biden, politician (Nov. 20).
World events• U.S.andPhlippinetroopsfighttheBattleofBataanagainsttheJapaneseJan.1.• JapandeclareswaragainsttheNeth-erlandsonJan.11andivadestheDutchEastIndies.• NazisattheWannseeConferencein
BerlinonJan.20decidethe“FinalSolu-tiontotheJewishproblem”isrelocationandlaterextermination.• ThefirstAmericanforcesarriveinEuropeonJan.26,landinginNorthernIreland.• C.S.Lewis’“TheScrewtapeLetters”isfirstpublishedFeb.1.• Lt.EdwardO’HarebecomesAmerica’sfirstU.S.NavyflyingaceofWorldWarIIonFeb.20.
• TheBataanPeninsulafallsApril9andtheBataanDeathMarchbegins.• TheAlliesburnthemainoilfieldsofBurmaasJapaneseforcesreachYenang-yaungonApril17.ThebattlewouldendtwodayslaterinAlliedvictory.• TokyoisattackedApril18bytheDoo-littleRaid,asmallforceofB-25bomberscommandedbyLt.Col.JimmyDoolittle.• TheReichstagmeetsforthelasttimeApril26,dissolvingandproclaimingAdolfHitlerthe“SupremeJudgeoftheGermanPeople.”• TheAllieswintheBattleoftheCoralSeaonMay8.Itisthefirstbattlewheretwo
enemyfleetsfightwithoutseeingeachother’sships.
• TheJapanesenavaladvanceinthePa-cificishaltedJune7withanAlliedvictoryattheBattleofMidway.• Onher13thbirthday,AnneFrankmakesherfirstentryinhewnewdiaryJune12.HerfamilywouldgointohidingJuly6.• ThesystematicdeportationofJewsfromtheWarsawGhettobeginsJuly22.• BritishforcesarrestIndianleaderMo-handasGandhiinBombayonAug.9.• TheBattleofStalingradbeginsAug.23asGermantroopsreachthesuburbsofStalingrad.• ThefirstA-4rocketissuccessfullylaunchedOct.3fromTestStandVIIatPeenemünde,Germany.Therocketflies147kilometreswideandreachesaheightof84.5kilometres,becomingthefirstman-madeobjecttoreachspace.• TheBattleofGuadalcanalendsNov.15.AlthoughtheUnitedStatesNavysuffersheavylosses,itretainscontrolofGuadal-canal.• TheAlliesissuetheJointDec-larationbyMembersoftheUnitedNationsonDec.17,thefirsttimetheypubliclyacknowledgetheHolocaust.
U.S. News• Morethan1,400shellsarefiredataslow-movingobjectintheskiesoverLosAngelesonFeb.25,trig-geringawartimeblackoutovermostofSouthernCalifornia.
Henry A. Wallace33rd. U.S. Vice President
Served Jan. 20, 1941 – Jan. 20, 1945
1942Cadillac Series 60
C.S. Lewis publishes “The Screwtape Letters”
