An Anglo Norwegian commando party raided the Glomfjord power plant in Norway. The raid was a success, although seven commandos were ultimately captured and then executed under Hitler's Commando Order issued in October, which illegally called for the murder of captured commandos.
Ernest Hemingway, Gary Cooper and guide Taylor Williams went on a duck hunting trip to Sun Valley, Idaho,
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One of the first persons Hemingway knew in Sun Valley was the resort's publicist, Gene Van Guilder, who'd helped draw the writer there in 1939–Hemingway driving over from Wyoming, accompanied by Martha Gellhorn. Within weeks, Van Guilder was dead, killed when accidentally shot by another hunter in a canoe in which they were out after duck. Van Guilder's widow, who would later marry the man who shot her husband, asked Hemingway if he would produce an epitaph for Gene. Hemingway wrote the below, thought to be the only epitaph he ever composed:
Best of all he loved the fall
The leaves yellow on the cottonwoods
Leaves floating on the trout streams
And above the hills
The high blue windless skies
Now he will be a part of them forever
Hemingway's memorial now bears these words.
Tom
Sheridan, WY
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