Defective German Gas Bombs Destroyed
More than 100 defective German mustard gas bombs from the freighter Francis Lee were destroyed on Horn Island off Mississippi by Chemical Warfare Service officers. Coast Guard confined a five mile zone, while two Washington officers supervised and ensured no contamination reaching land. Destruction used burning trenches with oil. Lt. Col. William J. Allen Jr. stayed days to test for residues. The Francis Lee then sailed to Charleston with about 800 tons to be destroyed at sea. 85 workers, mostly Black stevedores, were burned during handling.
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Mobile
Ala
Francis Lee
Chemical Warfare Service
Horn Island
Pas Cagoula
Miss
Coast Guard
Mississippi Sound Channel
CWS
Washington
Wiliam J. Allen, Jr
Theodore Naval Ame
Charleston
S.C
Eagle Scout Badge Earned By Sam Meeks
Sam Meeks of Dothan Troop 22 earned the Eagle Scout rank at a Board of Review held this week. He joins Billy Gregory and Wallace Harrison as recipients this year and will receive pins at the August Court of Honor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dothan
Sam Meeks
Billy Gregory
Wallace Harrison
Scouts Meeks
Gregory
Scout Harrison
Scout Meeks
Board of Review
Scout
Whit King
Turester
Boarad
Dade
Theophilis Carroll
Ralph Jubnsyn
Gene Ratige
Former Jap Internee Tours Wiregrass
Paul Woodward Brink a Bainbridge Georgia native and newspaperman who spent 44 months in the Gaito Tomay internment camp in the Philippine Islands arrived in Dolan yesterday to begin a three week tour through the Wiregrass as a representative of the American Home Bible League a nonprofit organization.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Woodward Brink
Bainbridge, Ga
Gasito Tomay
Philippine Islands
Dothan
American Home Bible League
Journalist Brink’s wartime exile and internee fate recounted
Brink stayed in the Philippines after liberation to testify at war crimes trials and later worked for Alabama and Georgia newspapers. He joined the Manila Times when war broke out and was in the same internment camp as Earl Carroll of Slocomb. His wife died of starvation there.
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Brink
Philippines
T Hals
Gory
Manila Times
Earl Carroll
Slocomb
Army Recruiting Broadcast To Air Twice Weekly
The Dothan Army Recruiting Station will present a twice weekly program on the new Andalusia radio station. Sgt. Clayton D. Taylor will lead the broadcasts with other Dothan recruiting staff. WAGF-2 will carry a weekly recruiting show each Friday at 6:45 PM.
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Andalusia Radio
Andalusia
Joseph R. Pickett
Dothan
Clayton D. Taylor
Dothap Recruiting Office
Wagf - 2Ready
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van Ritch
Ume Gay
Ditabringham
Wolnes
Vilhjalmur Stefansson
Arctic
Merrill's
T-Bones
Sirkins
Wiregrass
Allstate
Sears
Tad Sear Cary
Roebuck and Cai
W. Main
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