MIKE GRACIA
Art Carney as a young man in his school yearbook!
The sitcom originally aired from 1955 to 1956 on CBS.
Art Carney as a department-store Santa Clause
in The Twilight Zone TV episode “The Night of
the Meek”(1960).
Carney died at a care home in Chester, Connecticut, on November 9, 2003, five days after his 85th birthday.
Tim Maguire
I Love Lucy is an American television sitcom that originally
aired on CBS from October 15, 1951, to May 6, 1957, with a
ottal of 180 half-hour episodes, spanning six seasons.
The show starred Lucille Ball, her husband, Desi Arnaz,
along with Vivian Vance and William Frawley.
A German U-boat sunk a British troop ship, the Laconia, killing
more than 1,400 men on September 12, 1942. The commander
of the German sub, Capt. Werner Hartenstein, realizing that
Italians POWs were among the passengers, strove to aid in
their rescue.
The Laconia, a former Cunard White Star ship put to use to
transport troops, including prisoners of war, was in the South
Atlantic bound for England when it encountered U-156, a
German sub (below). It was under the command of Captain
Rudolph Sharp.
Werner Hartenstein
(27 February 1908 – 8 March 1943)
On September 3, 1939, in response to Hitler’s invasion of Poland,
Britain and France, both allies of the overrun nation declare war
on Germany.
The first casualty of that declaration was not German—but the
British ocean liner Athenia, which was sunk by a German U-30
submarine that had assumed the liner was armed and belligerent.
There were more than 1,100 passengers on board, 112 of whom
lost their lives. Of those, 28 were Americans, but President
Roosevelt was unfazed by the tragedy, declaring that no one
was to “thoughtlessly or falsely talk of America sending its
armies to European fields.” The United States would remain
neutral.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
(January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945)
British ocean liner SS Athenia was sunk when a torpedo
from the German submarine U-30 sank her in the Western Approaches.
After more than four years of Nazi occupation, Paris was liberated
by the French 2nd Armored Division and the U.S. 4th Infantry
Division. German resistance was light, and General Dietrich von
Choltitz, commander of the German garrison, defied an order by
Adolf Hitler to blow up Paris’ landmarks and burn the city to the
ground before its liberation. Choltitz signed a formal surrender
that afternoon, and on August 26, Free French General Charles
de Gaulle led a joyous liberation march down the Champs
d’Elysees.
Dietrich Hugo Hermann von Choltitz
(9 November 1894 – 5 November 1966)
