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Billboard Top Ten for the Week of November 28, 1942

#1 - “White Christmas” - Bing Crosby
#2 - “Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition” - Kay Kyser, with Glee Club
#3 - “Serenade in Blue” - Glenn Miller, with Ray Eberly and the Modernaires
#4 – “When the Lights Go On Again All Over the World” - Vaughn Monroe
#5 – “Der Fuehrer’s Face,” Spike Jones, with Carl Grayson
#6 - “Mister Five by Five” – Harry James, with Helen Forrest
#7 - “(I’ve Got a Girl) In Kalamazoo” - Glenn Miller, with Marion Hutton, Tex Beneke & the Modernaires
#8 – “Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition” - The Merry Macs
#9 - “Manhattan Serenade” - Harry James, with Helen Forrest
#10 - “There Are Such Things” - Tommy Dorsey, with Frank Sinatra and the Pied Pipers

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Freeper dynachrome posted an interesting thread yesterday that is linked to a Stalingrad 70-years later re-enacters site. Link below.

Battle for Stalingrad: 70 Years After.

Blasts Ruin Ships (Daniell) – 2-3
Darlan Says Nazis Laid a Fleet Trap – 3
Tunisian Drive On – 4-5
War News Summarized – 5
Navy Fliers’ Help Won Port Lyautey (by Walter L. Cronkite, first-time contributor) – 6
Russians Close In on Trapped Nazis (Parker) – 7
Smoke and Dust: Axis Tanker Afire – British Tanks on Move (photos) – 8
Solomns Battle a Fiery Spectacle (Wolfert) – 9-10
Allies Hurl Back Thrust from Buna (Durdin) – 10-11
Army Death List Increased by 145 – 11
Destroyer Duncan Lost in Solomons – 11
Toulon: End of an Era (Baldwin) – 13
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the Fighting in Various War Zones – 14-15

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Freeper dynachrome posted an interesting thread yesterday that is linked to a Stalingrad 70-years later re-enacters site. Link below.

Battle for Stalingrad: 70 Years After.

Blasts Ruin Ships (Daniell) – 2-3
Darlan Says Nazis Laid a Fleet Trap – 3
Tunisian Drive On – 4-5
War News Summarized – 5
Navy Fliers’ Help Won Port Lyautey (by Walter L. Cronkite, first-time contributor) – 6
Russians Close In on Trapped Nazis (Parker) – 7
Smoke and Dust: Axis Tanker Afire – British Tanks on Move (photos) – 8
Solomns Battle a Fiery Spectacle (Wolfert) – 9-10
Allies Hurl Back Thrust from Buna (Durdin) – 10-11
Army Death List Increased by 145 – 11
Destroyer Duncan Lost in Solomons – 11
Toulon: End of an Era (Baldwin) – 13
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the Fighting in Various War Zones – 14-15

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Alert readers and listeners no doubt discerned that the link to the Billboard #2 song posted above goes to the wrong youtube vid. Here is the correct one.

#2 - “Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition” - Kay Kyser, with Glee Club