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BREAKING: Pete Hegseth attacks the press for reporting on the deaths of American troops in Iran because it makes Trump look bad.

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🎬 1941: This image of Rita Hayworth in Life magazine where she knelt in a lace and silk nightgown on a bed was so popular that American servicemen made her one of World War II's most famous pinups, even adorning the nuclear test bomb dropped on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands.

She married five times but was unlucky in love, even though she had a remarkable romantic presence onscreen. She eventually worked on fewer projects, with competition coming from television and Columbia's new sex symbol Kim Novak. She had a memorable turn in fourth husband Orson Welles' The Lady from Shanghai (1947) but some attributed that film's failure at the box office to Welles' decision to cut off Hayworth's famous locks and dye them blonde for the movie.

Leaving Hollywood in 1948 she married playboy Prince Aly Kahn and lived in Europe but that marriage ended in 1951. Her career never returned to its former glory but she did return to Hollywood to star in a number of hits including Affair in Trinidad (1952) Salome (1953) and Miss Sadie Thompson (1953) and worked up until 1972 when she made her final film, a western, in The Wrath of God starring Robert Mitchum.

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The Normandy American cemetery

They will never be forgotten

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Patricia Morison and Merle Oberon pose with American soldiers in Salisbury, England on September 14, 1942.

Morison and Oberon were part of a group of Hollywood entertainers touring the British Isles.

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Washington at the Delaware

Artist: Edward Hicks (American, 1780-1849)

Date: ca. 1849

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia, United States

George Washington's Crossing of the Delaware River

George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River, which occurred on the night of December 25–26, 1776, during the American Revolutionary War, was the first move in a complex and surprise military maneuver organized by George Washington, the commander-in-chief of the Continental Army, which culminated in their attack on Hessian forces garrisoned at Trenton. Washington and his troops successfully attacked the Hessian forces in the Battle of Trenton on the morning of December 26, 1776.

The military campaign was organized in great secrecy by Washington, who led a column of Continental Army troops from today's Bucks County, Pennsylvania across the icy Delaware River to today's Mercer County, New Jersey in what was one of the Revolutionary War's most logistically challenging and dangerous clandestine operations. Other planned crossings in support of the operation were either called off or ineffective, but this did not prevent Washington from surprising and defeating the Hessian troops encamped in Trenton under the command of Johann Rall. After prevailing in the Battle of Trenton, Washington and his Continental Army troops crossed the Delaware River again, returning to Pennsylvania west-bound with Hessian prisoners and military stores taken in the battle.

Washington's army then crossed the Delaware River a third time at the end of 1776 under difficult circumstances by the uncertain thickness of the ice on the river. They defeated British reinforcements under Lord Cornwallis at Trenton on January 2, 1777, and were also triumphant over his rear guard at Princeton the following day prior to retreating to his winter quarters in Morristown, New Jersey. As a celebrated location and development in the ultimately victorious Revolutionary War, the unincorporated communities of Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania and Washington Crossing, New Jersey are both named in honor of Washington and the logistically complicated covert crossing of the Delaware River.