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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1945
Page
8
An elegiac reflection on a fallen 21 year old drafted in 1944. The speaker imagines the boy’s sleep among jungle grass, his sacrifice for a country, and questions whether the town and nation upheld the ideals for which he gave his life. The piece contrasts cherished hometowns with wartime greed and asks if the sacrifice was worth it.
The Paris Boat Train resume service from Victoria Station with 100 travelers eight in business and compassionate permits and a route kept secret for security. Passengers faced roughing it with limited food in France and were advised to bring supplies. Officials have been flooded with permit inquiries from railway passport and French consular offices.
Rome March 15 Allied headquarters said fighting on the Italian front was the lightest in days with only minor patrol clashes and no change in forward positions. Allied mortars silenced German machineguns at Verga to southwest of Agna and a clash occurred west of Castellaiano and west of Vergato. Other clashes occurred southwest of Monte Giovo near Monte Spigolino and in the Serchio valley. On the eighth army front a Nazi raiding party forced a withdrawal southeast of Riolo dé Bagni.
Private Frank J. Lewis of Cleveland leads a 511th Parachute Infantry patrol in Leyte as he uses a Browning automatic rifle to halt Jap machine gun fire. He clears a supply trail, endures mud and rain, and belts two more Nips with the BAR and a Jap bayonet. He survives multiple grenade threats and a near-miss from a pistol during the fighting.
The 45,000 ton aircraft carrier Midway will be christened by Mrs. Bradford Williams Ripley II of Dayton, widow of a navy lieutenant. Owes its name to the Battle of Midway and is sister ship to Coral Sea. Built at Newport News Shipbuilding, the plant is wor king on another 45,000 ton carrier and two more.
Congressman D Braumbaugh reports the Veterans Administration will construct three new veterans hospitals in Pennsylvania using part of a proposed 84 million dollar federal appropriation.
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