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		<title>Celebrations on the Mighty Hood</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Dec 2010 14:01:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all drank a toast to 1941 - Peace and Victory. One of the midshipmen from the gunroom came in with a bagpipe and played Scotch tunes. Everyone started to dance the various Scotch dances from the Admiral down to the lowest midshipman. The Wardroom ta...]]></description>
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		<title>Back to work in the City</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2010 12:44:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a night the branch had moved back to working conditions worse than those of a century earlier. All entries were made by hand in candlelight, the branch counter with flickering wicks reflected in the pools of water scattered over the banking hall pre...]]></description>
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		<title>St Paul’s survives London firestorm</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Dec 2010 12:20:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[on the night 29th/30th December when a very large number of incendiary bombs were dropped, and serious and extensive fires—numbering in all nearly 1,500—were started in the City and the Docks area. In the City the fire at one period extended over h...]]></description>
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		<title>RAF and RAAF control the skies over Libya</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2010 12:32:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our fighters have continued to maintain their ascendancy over the Italian Air Force. On the 26th Gladiators of the Royal Australian Air Force shot down without loss two, and probably six, of a number of C.R. 42 fighters "which were escorting a bomber f...]]></description>
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		<title>Coastal Command in action against German shipping</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Dec 2010 12:27:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No fewer than six attacks were made on enemy merchant vessels on the 27th December; a Hudson bombed a ship of about 4,000 tons at anchor in Egersund Harbour and secured at least three direct hits; another ship in convoy North of Ameland was possibly hi...]]></description>
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		<title>Hanukkah in the Warsaw ghetto</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Dec 2010 12:31:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hanukkah in the ghetto. Never before in Jewish Warsaw were there as many Hanukkah celebrations as in this year of the wall. But because of the sword that hovers over our heads, they are not conducted among festive crowds, publicly displaying their joy.
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		<title>A second Christmas at war</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Dec 2010 12:11:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[H.M.S. Berwick reported that she had sighted an enemy 8-inch cruiser, which she engaged and drove off. Owing to low visibility the enemy was lost sight of, steering to the westward and Berwick rejoined the convoy. Berwick scored one certain hit on the ...]]></description>
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		<title>The convoys get through</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Dec 2010 12:27:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the week ending noon Wednesday, the 25th December, 785 ships, including 145 allied and 16 neutral, were convoyed, but no ships were reported lost. Two battleships, two aircraft carriers, three cruisers, ten armed merchant cruisers, 55 destroyers...]]></description>
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		<title>Churchill broadcasts to the Italian people</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2010 14:15:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Your aviators have tried to cast their bombs upon London. Our armies are tearing - and will tear - your African empire to shreds and tatters. We are now only at the beginning of this sombre tale. Who can say where it will end? Presently, we shall be fo...]]></description>
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		<title>Manchester Blitzed</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2010 12:28:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The following morning I cycled to work, arriving on time at 8 o'Clock and went straight to the roof to join most of the staff who had managed to get to work, enjoying the best view of the biggest fire ever seen in Manchester. Climbing on to the lett...]]></description>
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		<title>Liverpool Blitzed</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 12:31:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liverpool was probably the most important, wartime mercantile port, the destination of many convoys from America. Furthermore it was easy to locate by air, with the lights of Dublin burning across the Irish Sea.  It had already received much attention ...]]></description>
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		<title>North African campaign is morale booster</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 14:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What made people happiest was the perfect timing, slickness, and coordination of the attack, showing that the bitter lessons of France and Flanders have been well and truly learned. "Speed" and "brilliance" had been ruefully looked upon as exclusively ...]]></description>
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