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Pat Owtram used her language skills to listen in on German U-boats during WWII
Pat Owtram didn’t need to go to war. As the Nazis took control of Germany and Austria, her father hired Jewish refugees to cook and clean at the family home in Lancashire, where the Owtram family raised pedigreed shorthorn cows and Pat rode a pony named Dolly. One refugee, Lilly Getzel, was a cultured woman from Vienna who told stories of concerts and the opera — exotic fare for Pat, who rarely left her rural home because of fuel shortages.
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Emotions expected to run high during sentencing of woman in case of missing mom Jennifer Dulos
Family and friends of Jennifer Dulos, who disappeared from her Connecticut home in 2019, are expected to offer emotional testimony Friday as her late estranged husband's former girlfriend is sentenced after being convicted of helping to plan and cover up her killing. Prosecutors say Dulos' estranged husband, Fotis Dulos, killed her at her home in New Canaan and drove off with her body, which has never been found. Troconis was Fotis Dulos' girlfriend and lived with him at the time Jennifer Dulos vanished.
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Dorothea Barron watched over men who tested portable harbors for D-Day
Dorothea Barron got a preview of the D-Day invasion from a watchtower on the coast of Scotland. During the spring and summer of 1943, she and her colleagues kept watch over the troops as they tested the prototypes for two portable harbors that would be used at Normandy to ease the delivery of men and equipment to the battlefield. Whenever someone got into trouble, Barron would unfurl her semaphore flags and signal for help.
