Evelyn Ankers – YANK Pinup Girl July 13, 1945

Evelyn Ankers, a beautiful movie actress who was a staple of Universal’s horror films in the 1940s, was born in Valparaiso, Chile to English parents on August 17th, 1918. Her parents repatriated the family back to England in the 1920s, and it was in Old Blighty that Ankers developed a desire to become an actress.

NBC Words At War Episode 85 “Battle Report: Pearl Harbor To Coral Sea“

Words At War “Battle Report: Pearl Harbor To Coral Sea“ Released February 20, 1945. Words At War, the series that brings you radio versions of the leading war book another adaptation of an important war book, “Battle Report: Pearl Harbor To Coral Sea”. The story of a sub-tender, the U. S. S. Canopus, which was …

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World War II Today: July 8

1940 British Metropolitan Police to be armed when guarding vulnerable positions. The Swedish government agrees to transport German war material across Sweden to Norway. Swordfish aircraft damage the French battleship Richelieu at Dakar after the French reject demilitarization proposals. 1941 Soviet military mission arrives in London. Twenty B-17s fly in their first mission with the …

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