Samuel Pepys kept from 1660 until 1669 was first published in the 19th century and is one of the most important primary sources for the English Restoration period. It provides a combination of personal revelation and eyewitness accounts of great events, such as the Great Plague of London, the Second Dutch War, and the Great Fire of London. Pepys was born in Salisbury Court, Fleet Street, London on 23 February 1633, the son of John Pepys (1601–1680), a tailor, and Margaret Pepys ("née" Kite; died 1667), daughter of a Whitechapel butcher. His great uncle Talbot Pepys was Recorder and briefly Member of
The USA by Day and the RAF by Night The USA by Day and the RAF by Night The USA by Day and the RAF by Night is a World War II era song written and composed by Hal Block and Bob Musel. The song was published by Paramount Music Corp. in 1944. According to the book "The Songs That Fought the War" by John Bush Jones, the song ""applauds the heavy air strikes on Germany by Britain's Royal Air Force and the Army Air Force of the United States, specifically the strikes on the Ruhr that began on March 5, 1943, and the saturation bombing of Hamburg that