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July 12th, 1943, was my 17th birthday. I was attending a gliding school in preparation of an intended “career” as a fighter pilot. This was ridiculous. I was already nearsighted and wearing glasses. But my father had been a combat pilot (Kampfflieger) in World War I so they made an exception. Of course, I never piloted a powered plane, much less a fighter. The Luftwaffe was literally running out of gas. But in the meantime I had great fun sailing quietly over the Pomeranian landscape. (The first time up I lost my way because the church spires I had memorized were no longer visible on the horizon: they were below me.)
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Is there a (1970) Broadway play Sleep on the Runway by Art Buchwald?
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When Hitler was told this number, he became very angry: “How could the Russians of all people produce that many tanks! But it was the truth.—At the same time, on the other side of the globe, in San Francisco and Sausalito, Henry Kaiser assembled one big Liberty ship every 24 h.
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According to only recently released Kremlin archives, “Generalissimo” Stalin was reading a History of Greece at the time, whence he got the idea of fireworks to celebrate great victories. (I find it hard to believe that Stalin was engrossed in ancient history at the cusp of World War II, but that’s what the records say.)
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Schroeder, M.R. (2015). July 1943. In: Xiang, N., Sessler, G. (eds) Acoustics, Information, and Communication. Modern Acoustics and Signal Processing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05660-9_16
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