"C" Trivia: Caen - French city in Normandy that was scheduled to be captured by Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery by June 7, 1944 - within 24 hours after the D-Day landings of June 6. Montgomery took more than a month to cross the eight miles to the city with British casualties exceeding the total number of troops estimated by the British General Staff as necessary for the entire drive to Berlin. Canberra, U.S.S. (CL-81) - U.S. Navy cruiser. Only ship of the U.S. Navy to be named after a foreign city. It was commissioned on October 14, 1943 and was christened in memory of H.M.A.S. Canberra, an Australian cruiser lost at the Battle of Savo Island in 1942. Carol II - King of Rumania who abdicated the throne in 1940. He and his mistress, Magda Lupescu, were exiled to Spain at the request of Hitler. Colman, Ronald - Hollywood actor who, along with his wife, actress Benita Hume, headed the Hollywood division of the British War Relief Fund.
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