UNLOCKING ADVENTURE chapter excerpt aboard wreck dives
Charles Courtney recounts his early dreams after returning to Portsmouth Virginia to work with a locksmith then diving with Merritt and Chapman. He describes joining as a diver tender, training under Captain and Hank, suiting up in heavy gear, and the daunting descent into dark, pressurized waters.
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Portsmouth
the Isaacs
Germany
Mr. Isaacs
Merritt and Chapman Derrick
Buddy
Merritt and
Chapman
Ike
Hank
Bob
Petersburg
Tom King
Tom
Cam
Aerial Group Goes Circus Like Show At Greenville Army Air Base
AP features a Greenville Army Air Base unit that performs as a traveling circus-like display. The 334th bombardment group touts unusual personnel such as Staff Sgt Basil the radioman and instructor and Capt Lyman Eddy who survived a submarine rescue. Also highlighted are Staff Sgt Francis Fox the living dead man and members Pecking a roster of famed names including Robert E. Lee Churchill Hess Wilson Sullivan.
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Greenville
S. C
334Th
Greenville Army Air SC
Fred Basil
Italy
Gunner Herold Weedin
Lyman Eddy
New Georgia Island
Francis Fox
New York
Fox
Army
Aelebrities
Robert E. Lee
Winston Churchill
Rudolph Hess
Woodrow Wilson
John L. Sullivan
Honor Gettysburg Teacher At Party
A roast was held Monday evening at the home of Mrs. George Armstrong to honor Mrs. Helen Cleland who leaves Friday for Gettysburg to teach the third grade She has been visiting her parents Mr and Mrs Charles Swartz and formerly taught at Wessington
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Hitchcock
Awether
George Armstrong
Helen Cleland
Gettysburg
Cleland
Charles’ Swartz
Wessington
New U. S. Medal Answers From Puzzle Clues
A reader submitted horizontal and vertical word lists for a New U S medal themed puzzle. Entries range from months and measures to animals and metals, with clues like street abbreviation and royal family name. The page mixes crosswords style hints and scattered partially legible entries from the original typeset.
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U.S
Constellation
Ireland
Tin Lizzie's Still A Lady Declares Jalopy Protectors
A Richmond effort by the Jalopy Owners Mutual Protective Association of America formed to defend old car owners against unfair license and tax schemes. Founders Boisseau Goudchaux and Dombrower hail from local barbershop talks, aiming to shield drivers of seven year old plus jalopies used by essential workers amid wartime needs.
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Richmond
Lizzie
Jalopy Owners’ Mutual, Protective Association of“America, ‘Inc
Andrew J. Boisséau
Yvonne Goudchaux
Ralph L. Dombrower
Lew
Boisseau
Van Zee resigns AAA post to run Clark implement business
William J. Van Zee, longtime South Dakota State Triple-A committee member and former chair of county and state agr cycle groups, resigns effective Sept 1 to operate a Clark farm implement business. He will take over the Clark establishment from Oscar Geise and relocate his family from Huron.
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William J. van Zee
South Dakota
Clark
Douglas County
van Zee
State Grain Board
Oscar Geise
Russia Keystone Of War Hopkins Says
Harry Hopkins calls Russia the keystone of the war and says losing it would not end the war but would shift the victory timeline. He outlines Japan and Germany strengths and predicts two more years of hard fighting and sacrifice, in a signed American Magazine piece.
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Russia
Hopkins
New York
Harry Hopkins
Roosevelt
American
Japan
Germany
Howme
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Jalopy Owners’ Mutual Protective Association “of America, Inc
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Frederick
San
Glenn’ Dickinson
Barbara
Delba
Dawn
TadteeTeet
Wend Aorrinta
Jurom
Dak
Randy
Jones
Mer Boer
Dick Tracy
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Kayo
Ea Pate
Gang
Colonel Annie
Wolf
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Corp
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Sicily
Uwo
Jumps
Ei Waw
Claudette Colbert
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