Kroner Earns Bronze Stars and Purple Heart in New Guinea
Corp Kroner, entering service January 13, 1942, earned three Bronze Stars and a Purple Heart for battles at Lae Buna Port Moresby and Wewak. He served two years in the Pacific, including Australia, and spoke of Jungle conditions, enemy raids, and Allied aid from chaplains. He noted family in military service and wild living in New Guinea.
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Kroner
New Guinea
L. Kroner
Camp Wallace
Ft. Bliss
Australia
Lae
Buna
Ft. Moresby
Wewak
Corp
Distingiit
Ifk
la Crosse
Park Falls
Green Lake
Corp. Kroner
Henry A
Ordnance Department
Aberdeen, Md
Set
Fred T
Air Corps
Frederic, Okla
Pvt
George
Signal Corps
Kelly Field
Tex
Grace
Jeanie
Jonson Presents Recital at La Crosse State Teachers College
La Crosse pianist Jonson gives a Tuesday morning recital in the main auditorium of the La Crosse State Teachers College. The program includes Chopin Berceuse, two MacDowell pieces, Prokofieff Poems, Servabin Le Polichinelle, Villa-Lobos Asturias, Albeniz Lotusland, Cyril Scott. Jonson also performs his own Scherzo from Sonata and Spinner In Love.
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Don Jonson
la Crosse
MacDowell
Prokofieff
Servabin
le Polichinelle
Viola-Lobos
Asturias
Albeniz
Cyril Scott
Jonson
Villa-Lobos
Jesus Sanroma
Hollywood
St. Louis
Islands
Men’s Sketch Club Meeting Delayed to Monday Evening
The Men’s Sketch club meeting moves to Monday at 7 30 p m for a treasurer’s report. Plans to continue the club will be discussed over the next two Mondays. Arthur Hebberd compiles sketching locations to publish next Sunday.
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Arthur Hebberd
la Crosse
Perils of Outfielder Worry Soldier's Ma
Boston woman Mrs. Fred Nason on leave from the Italian theater warned manager Joe Cronin that her bemedalled aviator son was shagging flies during Red Sox pregame practice and urged to move him away quickly or risk his life.
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Boston
Mass
Boston Red Sox
Fred Nason
Joe Cronin
Medinger Receives Presidential Citation for North Africa Action
Pfc. John Medinger 25 of La Crosse, home on furlough, earned a presidential citation for the capture of Hill 609 in the African campaign with the 34th Division. He suffered a Purple Heart wound and malaria, spent two months in hospital, and recalls Algiers and Naples during service beginning November 1941.
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la Crosse
John Medinger
Green Bay Street
Medinger
34Th Division
Camp Croft
S. C
Fort Dix
Ireland
Scotland
Hill 609
Algiers
Naples
Mediterranean
Oran
Home
United States
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Tribune Photo
T. Corp
Robert L. Kroner
Herbert H. Fuchs
Jacob Fuchs
South Eighth
13Th Aaf Service Command
South
Southwest Pacific
Fuchs
la Crosse State Teachers College
Rice Lake
Wis
Hawaii
100Th Infantry
Camp McCoy
Paderewski
New
Stein Your Cleaners
First Federal
J. R. Johnson
Sec’y.treas
de Luxe Beauty Shop
Fifth Ave
North Africa
Pearl Harbor
San Antonio
Texarkana
W. B. Ely
Army Air Force
John
Navy
Ely
Tribune
PFC
Pitzner
Imoento
Moen
Main &T
Beer and Beverage
Schlitz
Heileman's
Canada
Bon Ton Beverages
Cashway Market
LA Crosse Telephone Corporation
Sahat
Aceon
Wr Castle
Ian
War Production Board
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