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1942: Woman are ‘soft’ allegation brushed off
21 Oct, 1942: An allegation, made in the journal of a Slough (Bucks) firm, that women in the south of England are soft, and will not tackle the heavy and dirty war jobs in the […]
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1942: First MBE for hero WRNS
21 Oct, 1942: THE first WRNS officer to be decorated for bravery is Third Officer Iris Nancy Grace, who has been awarded the M.B.E. (Military). She was asleep when a neat miss by a Nazi […]
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1942: Film Star May Robson has died
21 Oct, 1942: Film Star May Robson has died at her home in Beverly Hills, California. She was seventy-eight. Muzzy, as she was affectionately known, was a great-grandmother, and proud of it. In 1883, when […]
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1942: Soviet’s battle Nazis for Stalingrad
OCT 21, 1942: AFTER a day of furious Nazi attacks, Stalingrad’s defenders not only held their positions firmly last night, but—Berlin admitted — renewed their resistance in parts occupied by the Germans. Although the enemy […]