Brigham Relives Hand-to-Hand Fight With Nazis in Italy
Horace D. Brigham of Washington D C from the 91st Powder River division recounted a fierce up close clash near Di Sotto on the Fifth Army front. He slugged two Germans, fought off a machine gun and mortars, crawled 200 yards under fire, and finally reached safety 600 yards away after a brutal assault.
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Fifth Army
Italy
INS
Pfe
Horace D. Brigham
Washington, D. C
91St
Powder River
Brigham
Main Avenue
di Sotto
Kirk
Nazil
Jerry
Foh Hill
All Things Work Together for Good to Them That Love God
A casual column reflects on economic security and ministry life. A preacher and helper juggle income and duties while a chef observes family college costs and saving habits. The piece links faith and practical thrift with scriptural sentiment.
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High Point College
Paul
U S Navy Expands Rubber Stock From Brazil
Joint U S Brazilian efforts yielded 26 000 tons of high grade crude rubber in the 1944 season with 10 000 tons sent to Brazil and 16 000 tons used for U S war production. An additional 3 800 tons were found along the Brazilian coast after German ships were sunk in the South Atlantic.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Amazon Valley
Brazil
U. S
U. S. Navy
South Atlantic
Japan
Tin Can Posts: India Uses Five-Gallon Cans Creatively
Five gallon tin cans used by the Army to ship food and fuel are repurposed in India as theater seats and as materials for building sand and cement structures. Locals pay about 12 cents a can, roughly a third of a native’s daily wage, and local quarrels arise over discarded cans.
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New York
India
American Can Company
Wrong Woman and a Night of Misidentification Jokes
AP story recalls Julia Abaron beaten by a stranger who apologized for mistaking her for his wife. A joke in New York about mistaken identity ends with a man slapping a woman by dawn light and fleeing. Wind mills in eastern North Carolina illustrate crude craft and opportunity. Hertogenbosch rebuild estimates list bricks and materials. Mississippi land once held Natchez, Choctaw, and Chickasaw tribes.
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Associated Press
Niagara Falls
Julia Abaron
New York State
Joker
Albany
Pullman
North Carolina
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Mississippi
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