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Brooklyn Today
Greetings, Brooklyn. Today is the 356th day of the year.
On this day in 1943, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle front page reported that the Soviets’ military offensive “Russian Winter” was proving to be a success. A Baltic front army of veterans crashed the Nazi “Iron Wall.” American bombers attacked Germany from the south and west in what the Eagle called a “one-two.” And an army coup ousted the head of Bolivia in South America, after the United States grew alarmed at his new government’s pro-Axis leanings.
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