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Newspaper

Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Sep 26, 1944

Page

5

Iowan First To Lead U S Patrol Into Reich

Lt C M Shugart of Sioux City led a Fourth Division patrol into Nazi Germany on Sept 11 followed by Col Charles T Lanham who directed a daring charge on Sept 14 breaking the Siegfried line at Schnee Eifel. Lanham rallied his men riding forward with a staff car and a .45 pistol as bullets rippled around. The division then seized the high ground beyond the bunkers and breached the Siegfried line opening the way into Germany.

Henry T. Gorney United States Hindenburg Line Meuse-Argonne Paris Germany Siegfried Line C. M. Shugart Sioux City Nazi Germany Charles T. Lanham Washington, D. C Shugart Lanham Schnee Eifel

Largest Opticians in America Drive Down Prices

A claim that home owned outlets cut overhead and offer cheaper specs while rivals push 30 other styles at higher prices signals a price battle in the eyewear market.

3,000,000 SATISFIED CUSTOMERS AND A World War II action scene

An account describes broken lenses and repaired frames alongside a WWII frontline incident. Lanham tends to a wounded French youth near a Siegfried line pillbox as German troops advance. A tank destroyer breaches doors, German soldiers surrender, and Shugart’s patrol fords a river edge with combat and souvenir scraps.

Diplomat Laurence A pictured in puzzle theme

A cryptic style crossword clue set features Laurence A as a pictured diplomat with cross references for peruse lively and various abbreviations. The grid includes entries for instruments, locales, animals and body parts, alongside Roman and Latin terms.

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