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Local service members listed as to ship and draft details
A Cedar Rapids Gazette report lists Linn county men bound for April draft induction in Des Moines and oversea assignments. Cpl Gordon Stoddard and Cpl Robert Engle return from Germany and Japan respectively, with others headed to Fort Monmouth and Fort Riley. Home leave and training updates include Airman William McNeill and Seaman Kenneth Martin as well as citizenship instruction for foreign-born spouses of infantry division personnel.
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Gordon Stoddard
L. Stoddard
Nineteenth Street
United States
Soen
Germany
McKinley High School
Army
Camp Chaffee
Ark
Robert R. Engle
Kieth R. Engle
Seventh Avenue SE
Kathleen Moore
Cedar Rapids
Japan
Camp Lejeune
N. C
Linn County
Des Moines
Martin A. Hartell
Fiftieth Street
Frederick G. Young
Marion
Donald D. Wash
Cpl
Ted Whiting
Roy £. Whiting
Twentieth Street
Tenth Infantry Division
Fort Riley
Kan
Whiting