Letters From Boys in Service
Letters from Clare and nearby towns recount wartime letters from sons in France and Germany. Pfc Lee Gordon writes of farm country in France, meeting friends, and longing for home. Pvt Jerry W. Giers details injury and recovery in France. Lt Leo Coats describes Rhine Valley duty and war impressions. Pfc Neilan Cradit laments German reception, notes housing, and planning sleep between patrols.
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Roy Gordon
Clare
R-65
Pfc
Lee Gordon
France
J. C. Newman
Arthur Township
Leo. Coats
Clare County
L. M. Coats
Maneelanu
Germany
Hitler
Jerry
Heinie
Welding Shop on Wheels Helps Front Line Repairs
General Electric and army engineers unveil a mobile welding shop mounted on a standard army jeep. The welder jeep, equivalent to a one quarter ton truck, replaces a five ton truck and its welding trailer, enabling repairs on rugged battlefields. It fits airborne transport, carries three crew, and passed a 500 mile obstacle test.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
General Electric
Army Engineers
Army
Warehouses for Planes Sail to Pacific Beaches
Ocean going barges transport a vast array of aircraft parts to Pacific beachheads to support Seventh Air Force operations. These floating warehouses, some built by Ingalls Shipbuilding, carry up to 5 000 parts and are quickly moved ashore by landing craft to sustain newly captured bases.
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Washington
D. C
Pacific
Seventh Air Force
War Department
Navy
Ellice
Gilbert Island
Ingalls Shipbuilding Corporation
Decatur
Travel restrictions in 1845 reveal old insurance taboos
New York drills into history with an 1845 Mutual Benefit Life policy that canceled coverage if the holder traveled west of the Mississippi or south of Virginia and Kentucky in summer or died on a sea voyage. The rules aimed to shield policyholders from yellow fever and the perils of early steamship travel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
ODT
U.S
Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company
Mississippi
Virginia
Kentucky
South
Teen-Age Hitler Youth Sabotage Near Belgian Front
Report notes young Hitler Youth gangs age 12 to 17 on both sides of the Belgian German border. They are accused of stealing U S arms and ammunition, wire cutting, and fouling motors. A 12 to 14 year old group was found with a well stocked arsenal. A 10 year old girl wired cutting and a boy fouling a feed line were also cited.
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Jassie
Eva
Glennie
Josie
Vesta
Virg
Little Leo
U.S. First Army
Hitler
Still Aye Aye at the Altar Navy Vet Marries
Seaman Ray Chambless, a Pearl Harbor survivor, returns home to marry Miss Norm Dixon in Davis Oklahoma. The ceremony includes the vow Do you take this woman with the minister prompting the familiar aye response and Chambless replying with a snappy aye.
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O.K
Ray
Paris
DAVIS
Okland
Ray Chambless
Pearl
Harbor
Norm
Joe Dixon
Chambless
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U. S. War Department
Bureau of Failig Relations
Manila City
The
Philippines
TNT
Leonel and
Cleland
Dean Shaver
Bill Jesse
Charley Amble
Ray Spicer
Emil Giers
Jerry W. Giers
Jerry Giers
Wade Cradit
Neilan Cradit
Air Mail
States
Pacific Beaches
Hitler Youth
Yanks
H. E. Yager
Coleman, Mich
Clare Sentinel
Eureka
Regina
Don Reynolds
Thayers
Tocker
Ockey Fa
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