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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1945
Page
7
A War Department release details an officer's joke about invasion becoming a concrete plan. It describes a group including Korinwnd tui asian and Moe wrtet oboe TN WE Da.i forging a beach assault strategy with air and supply lines. A Colonel later notes criteria: any length of beach 100.
A Dothan native, Sergeant Rex Leneeiat Turner, appears in a photograph from London during World War II. The image, received by his mother Mrs Roy Turots, shows Turner with fellow soldiers in Trafalgar Square as Germany’s surrender news breaks. Turner, a 10.5 year service veteran, studied at Dothan High and Auburn, served two years overseas in England France Belgium Germany with an engineer unit, and was on a seven day London leave when the surrender was announced. The piece also notes local April disease reports and a separate discovery of a five foot rattlesnake in Bainbridge with details from A L Dupree.
Classified ad lists Small number Super Flectric 800 watt heaters for five dollars. Great Southern Stores at Earner Adams and St Andrews. Also offers land: sixty acres to Dothan with forty acres cultivated and pasture, balance woodland. Ten house, barn and car shed. Priced at 42.50 per acre with 1250.00 down and balance in three years.
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