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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1945
Page
5
The page lists multiple service members with their discharge details and home ties. Seaman Paul H. Seaton and relatives are noted for overseas service and return plans. Corporal William L. Seaton, Lt. Richard K. Jenkins, soundman LaVerne Miller, and others receive discharge confirmations. Family homes and postwar plans are mentioned for Cedar Rapids, Atkins, Cotter, and nearby areas.
23 months away, the son of Mr and Mrs James V Novak returns to Cedar Rapids to resume his law practice. He and his wife live at 118 Thirty eighth Street NE. Robert Franklin Day radioman third class from Anamosa has debarked at Guam to join Pacific duty.
The 100th Infantry Division landed in southern France on Oct 20 1944 to relieve veterans and pushed through Meurthe river crossings, capturing Raon L Etape, and advancing through the Vosges to Moyenmontier Senones and St Blaise. They reduced Fort Schiesseck at Bitche despite heavy German counterattacks and earned praise from Gen. Jacob L. Devers for forcing the enemy to shift focus from their front.
The report notes German forces claiming control within the vast Saarland pocket between the Third and Seventh armies, detailing strategic containment and pressure from Allied operations nearby.
Honolulu AP reports Japanese holdouts killed three Marines and wounded another in an ambush on Guam. Four Marines are unidentified pending next of kin. Special reconnaissance patrols search the area as part of Third Marine Division and Ninth Marine AA Battalion sweep for remaining Japanese. Col Howard N. Stent notes Nipponese knew Japan had surrendered.
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