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Cedar Rapids sets wartime bond record and honors local heroes
Cedar Rapids and Linn County earned national praise in 1942 for high war bond participation with 80 percent of workers investing up to 10 percent of earnings. Local ads urged support and funded planes and ships, including two B 17 bombers, three fighters, and the liberty ship Leo J. Duster, named for a Cedar Rapids resident. Leo Custer, born in Dyersville, rose from grocery owner to military leader and later state and national American Legion roles before his 1943 death.
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Dick Hogan Gazette
Cedar Rapids
Linn County
U.S. Treasury Department
Treasury
America
Associated Press
Linn County War Finance Committee
Afghanistan
United States
Pearl Harbor
Leo J. Duster
Fairfax
Marion
Mount Vernon
Leo Custer
Dyersville
Mitchell County
Douglas Co
Custer
American Legion
Bourke Hickenlooper
Uncle Sam