Duffy Decorated Air Medal Officer Recalls Channel Crash
Second Lieutenant James J. Duffy 23 nephew of Mr and Mrs Arthur J Duffy Verndale Circle credited as B 17 co pilot on five combat missions over Europe awarded the Air Medal. His letter to his aunt and uncle details a crash in the English Channel after flak strikes, rescue by an air sea launch, and his crew’s conduct during the ordeal. He later recovered in Scotland before returning to base.
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James J. Duffy
Arthur J. Duffy
Verndale Circle
Europe
United States
Duffy
English Channel
Germany
Art
Sade
St. Peter
RAF
Air Sea Rescue
Scotland
Bonme
Loach Lomond
Laura Gaspar Wins Bryant College Scholarship
Bristol senior Laura Gaspar daughter of Manuel Gaspar of 152 Bradford Street won the Bryant College of Business Administration scholarship in a New England competition among several hundred entrants. She is a Bristol Senior High School senior and was announced by the Dean's Office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laura Gaspar
Bristol
Bryant College of Business Administration
Providence
Miss Gaspar
Manuel Gaspar
Bradford Street
Bryant College
New England
Ernest G Brown Elevated to General Manager at U S Rubber
Ernest G Brown, long time U S Rubber Company executive in Rhode Island, named general manager of mechanical goods general products and Lastex yarn and rubber thread divisions. He succeeds Willard H Cobb, elected vice president and executive committee member. Brown has ties to Bristol Rhode Island community groups and Navy wartime service experience.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernest G. Brown
United States Rubber Company
Rhode Island
Willard H. Cobb
Brown
Bristol
Bristol Budget Commission
Bristol Yacht Club
St Michael's Church
Rhode Island Country Club
New Haven
Connecticut
Sheffield Scientific School
Yale University
Barcalo Manufacturing Company
Buffalo
New York
Acme Wire &Company
Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration
Central Planning and Engineering Department
Junior Promenade At High School Friday
The Class of 1945 stages the Junior Promenade at Colt Memorial High School Friday May 19 from 9 to 12. Irving Rosen and his orchestra provide the music while class officers lead the grand march. Executive board members and the class advisor are listed with volunteers thanked for decorations.
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Colt Memorial High School
Irving Rosen
John Mello
Matthew Maetoza
Cynthia McCaw
Mary Paiva
Samuel Steen
Nancy Simmons
Robert McHugh
Irene Sylvia
Leonora Costa
Peter Varela
Haffenreffer Room Dedic at Centennial Week at YMCA
Centennial Week at the YMCA features the dedication of the enlarged Haffenreffer Room with new drapes furniture and lighting. The week ends with a Centennial Dinner on June 10 in the gymnasium. speaker will be Cameron Beck former NYSE personnel director.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Haffenreffer
YMCA
Cameron Beck
NY Stock Exchange
Hi-Yo
Rockwell Hall
Reverend Delaney to Speak Sunday Night at K of C Home
The St Mary's Mothers' Club hosts Rev William Delancey director of CYO activities in Rhode Island for an 8 pm address Sunday at the K of C Home. The talk on youth issues will be followed by a musical program with solos by Anthony Jaunes and singing by Rita Serbst and Anna Peters, with Mrs James C Ruggiero and Mrs Norman Vermette guiding arrangements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St Mary's
Anna Peters
Rita Serbst
James C Ruggiero
Robert G Newbold
Henry F Serbst
Norman Vermette
Registration Opens At Columbia Hall On Wood Street
Town Clerk John W Church will register voters Tuesday evening from 7 to 9 at Columbia Hall next to St Elizabeth's Church for the First Representative District First Voting District. The hall will again be open Friday night with the same hours, then next week the Court House will host voters in the Second District.
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Columbia Hall
Wood Street
John W Church
St Elizabeth's Church
Kearney Post Plans First Midmonth Social Evening
Kearney Post No 6 The American Legion and its Auxiliary announce the first in a series of midmonth social meetings at the Post Home on Franklin Street Thursday at 8 pm. A motion picture Desert Victory will headline with a social hour and collation to follow.
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Kearney Post No. 6
American Legion
Post
Franklin Street
Legionaires
James A Sisson
Kearney
Butts Hill
Portsmouth
Albert A. Edmonds
Burnside Memorial Chosen For July Fourth Exercises
A town meeting decides July Fourth events will move to Burnside Memorial Building to include the dedication of the new town honor roll. James F Meiggs is named committee chair to coordinate plans with Honor Roll members. Officials elected include John G Stewart secretary Miss Nora A Dwyer assistant secretary and James J Velleca treasurer.
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Roswell S Bosworth
Joseph H Farrell
Frederick S Bartlett
Hubert F Hill
D V A Capone
Marion Kinder
Henry A Street
Ymca Board of
Wesley A Armstrong
Arthur W. Barrett
Frederik S Bartlett
R S Bosworth
JD V A. Capone
John W Church
F Reginald Dimond
Joseph H. Farrell
S W > Hopkins
Wallis EF Howe
Elmer S Mapes
Salvador Nunes
Charles B. Rockwell
John G Stewart
W Fred Williams
Henry Wood
Carmine C Cirillo
John Post Reynolds
Burnside Memorial
New Town
James F Meiggs
Nora A Dwyer
Carmone Brothers Meet at Alameda California
Mr and Mrs John Carmone of 646 Woodstreet received a telegram yesterday morning reporting that their sons George and Bob Carmone recently met in Alameda California George T Carmone GM 3c just back from duty in the Southwest Pacific and Robert A Carmone AEM 3c was in Alameda They plan to visit a sister in El Centro California George has crossed the Arctic Circle visited Europe and most recently crossed the Equator and the International Date Line
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John Carmone
Woodstreet
George
Bob
Alameda
Calif
George T. Carmone
Southwest Pacific
Robert A. Carmone
el Centro
Artic Circle
Europe
Cancer Control Drive Yields Bristol County Total
Preliminary reports from the United International Division Women’s Field Army show Bristol County contributing 2317.32 toward a state total of 10537.46. The announcement credits Mrs. James C. Carmark, state commander.
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U. I. Division
Women’s Field Army
Bristol County
James C. Carmark
Human interest dispatch from Italy fronts April 29
Milton Bracker reports from the Fifth Army area in Italy where soldiers battle to dislodge the enemy from fortified mountains. The NY Times dispatch dated April 29 shares a poignant vignette illustrating courage and hardship among troops amid the campaign.
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Italy
Fifth Army
Milton Bracker
The
N. Y. Times
Prisoners From Minturno Castelforte Collected At Farmhouse
About noon yesterday in the valley between Minturno and Castelforte Fifth Army infantrymen herded two men three women and an infant to a prisoner of war collection station. The deserted farmhouse was taken over by Sgt Victor Lewis of Rochester and four other MPs.
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Minturno
Castelforte
Fifth Army
Victor Lewis
Rochester
Refugee Family Treks to Second Floor Seeking Water
A 74 year old refugee with shrapnel wounds, his daughter with a baggy black garment and beads, and a 10 month old named Dinafrio, arrive at a home. They leave bundled possessions outside and climb to the second floor in search of water, asking for none of food.
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Dinafrio
Refugee Woman Recalls German Atrocity as Search Continues
Set Lewis notes an elderly refugee woman and her daughter who speaks in Italian. The woman claims German soldiers killed her husband and that they lived in Castelforte, with two Germans who came looking for him.
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Set Lewis
Castelforte
Portnoy Passes Chocolate Border Story Amid War Witness
Pfc Bernard Portnoy of 460 Herzl Street Brooklyn circulated a cellophane bag of chocolate while an elderly woman told of wartime horrors. She claimed German soldiers shot her husband after pursuing him around a cesspool, first wounding his arm then killing him with a shot to the head.
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Pfc
Bernard Portnoy
Herzl Street
Brooklyn
Cesspool
Lewis
Woman recounts witnessing husband’s death and bloodstained dress
The speaker describes a wife who says she ran out after the shooting, lifted her husband’s head to find him dead, and kept her bloodstained dress as a keepsake. She claims to see the German’s face and says she will never forget the moment.
Refugees Inside Shelling Rattled House At Dusk Observation
In a bare room refugees endure intensifying shellfire near Allied positions. At 6 30 p m three American infantrymen escort two German POWs a blond sergeant and a dark haired corporal. The widow with strange eyes watches as she greets her father and they examine the prisoners against the fading light and distant explosions.
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Lewis
German prisoners brought to ground-floor room
After formalities, the Germans were escorted to a ground-floor room where Pvt. Charles Thetford and Sgt. Robin Cohen stood nearby. The German sergeant smoked a cigarette as a corporal tilted back his chair, while the widow and her father watched from upstairs and spoke in German.
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Charles Thetford
South Orange
N. J
Robin Cohen
Fort Washington Avenue
N. Y
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Duffs
Rhode Island State College
Worcester
Mass
Worcester Telegram
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Colt
Cumberland
Gulleras Field
Gary Cooper
Yankees
Lou” Gehrig
Teresa Wright
Walter Brennan
Babe Ruth
Randolph Scott
Ella Raines
Barry Fitzgerald
Andy Devine
Poppa
Rita Hayworth
Gene Kelly
U. S. Rubber Company
Acme Wire Company
Army
Ordnance Engineering School
Aieutenant
Ordnance
Aberdeen Proving Ground
Aberdeen
Maryland
Francisco Canario
Wesley “Armstrong
Janice Hayden
Jacquelyne Péttine
Y.M.C.A
City of London
Young Women's Club
Wm. Delaney
Meiggs
Washington, D
Meiges
Velleca
Brightman
Gladding
Carmone Brothers
Almeda
Cancer Control
Shere
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