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Boys and Girls In The Service Signal To Join Army
Arnold Henningsen to-ahead signal Friday April 7 to join Uncle Sam's army. Several locals send updates on relatives in the armed forces including Bob Wendt at Camp Bowie and Warren Bishop stationed at Great Bend. War bond drive projections and community notes follow with local WWII home-front actions and a report on tuberculosis sanatoria trends and defense plant work.
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Arnold Henningsen
Uncle Sam
Anderson
Pequot
Minnesota
The
Times
Stars and Stripes
John
Brainerd
Marilyn
Inglewood
Louis E. Christensen
Alva
Oklahoma
Bob Schaney
Frank Jacobson
Ft. Custer
Winston Churchill
London
Empire
States
Pacific
Europe
Carl Rasmussen
Cpl
Ft. Sheridan
Chicago
Ft. McClellan
Alabama
Carl
Africa
Tunisia
Sicily
British Isles
New York
Schick
Clinton
Bob Olson
Bob
Sam
Navy
Wm. GC. Olson
Pacific Fleet
S. T. Olson
San Francisco
Graettinger
State Health Department
Iowa Tuberculosis Association
Wrailer
Liberty
Bill Cunningham
Stoneham
Mass
Nick Apalakina
Nick Apalakis