Where Are the Yanks in Sicily and Southern Italy
The fourth in the National Geographic series notes how American forces in the Mediterranean join the Two Sicilies, describing climate, farming, mining, and daily life. It contrasts Sicilian orchards and vineyards with southern Italian towns, notes rural sparsity, and highlights forests, crops, donkeys, festivals, and coastal ports like Naples, Palermo, and Messina.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Geographic Society
Cedar Rapids
Icily
Italy
Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
Mediterranean
Two Sicilies
Sicily
Nature
Eisenhower
Strait of Messina
Roger
Garibaldi
Island
Ceres
Sicilies
Naples
Scaramuccia
Palermo
Catania
Bari
Messina
Sorrento
Capri
Amalfi
Mondello
Caltanissetta
Foggia
Italy and Sicily Turbulence Through Centuries of Strife
The text describes enduring turmoil in southern Italy and Sicily, with Vesuvius and Etna threatening Naples and Catania, Pompeii buried as a warning, and earthquakes devastations in Catania Messina and Reggio Calabria. It notes one eighth of the Two Sicilies as uninhabitable waste and portrays warfare as vertical mountain clashes across rugged terrain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Italy
Sicily
Vesuvius
Etna
Naples
Catania
Pompeii
Messina
Reggio Calabria
Two Sicilies
California
Europe
Rotary Club to Hear H W Fraser Talk
Rotary club luncheon will feature Harry W. Fraser president of the order of Railway Conductors speaking Monday at noon at the Roosevelt hotel.
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Rotary Club
H. W. Fraser
Harry W. Fraser
The
Order of Railway Conductors
Roosevelt Hotel
T H Young to Speak At Dinner Meeting
T H Young will speak on Experience in the War Zones at a Cedar Rapids Retail Credit association dinner Thursday at 6 p.m. at the Roosevelt hotel. Music will be by the Inter Ocean Girls chorus.
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Cedar Rapids Retail Credit Association
Roosevelt Hotel
Inter-Ocean Girls’ Chorus
45 Men Enter Service from Board No. 3
Linn county selective service board No. 3 outside Cedar Rapids announced 45 registrants entered service including 27 in the army 3 in the air corps and 15 in the navy. Names span Central City Troy Mills Lisbon Center Point and Marion with units noted and gifts from United Service Aides.
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Linn County Selective Service Board
No. 3
Cedar Rapids
Army
Air Corps
Navy
United Service Aides
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Vatican City
Volturne River
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Atanzaro
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Sina
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Natl
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Paramount Theater Bldg
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Harold George Kessler
Lisbon
Hubert Frederick Deke
London
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Springville
Charles Donivan Murray
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Coggan
Charles Mac Towers
Donald Eugene Gilbert
Iowa City
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George Earl Bouck
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Palo
Marvon T. Landis
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Milas Albert Webb
Viola
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Ely
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Alburnett
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Robert
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Arnold Abraham Schippers
Cecil Earnest Oldridge
Walker
Leonard Church Murdock
Frederick Jessie
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Carlton D. Heins
Pere Point
Virgil
Ae von Ellis Wilkinson
H Cien
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Coggon
Eugene LaVerne Emerson
Otto Henry Welper
Harlan Gordon Smith
Junior Harold Polk
Charlies T. Carman
Richard C. Derflinger
Donald M. Anderson
Mt. Vernon
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John R. Gill
Allen B. McKean
Smulekoff
Hollywood Beds
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