Invasion Leaders Halt Talks To Direct Aid To Drifting Soldiers
A four and a half hour cruise off French invasion beaches was interrupted to direct aid to a drifting landing craft. Eisenhower Ramsay Montgomery and Goodrick Kirk held a high level conference near thousands of ships to coordinate rescue and improved communications.
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Etewer
Miram Ramsay
Eisenhower
Ramsay
Car Eisenhower
Bernard L. Montgomery
Alan Goodrick Kirk
U. S
Funeral Services Held For Spartan Killed In Italian War Campaign
Sparta Wisconsin May 1945 funeral services were held for Lyle Bemis born November 9 191? who died May 8 from wounds sustained in Italy while serving with American forces at Anzio. The service at Lanbem’s mortuary included hymns In the Sweet Bye and Bye Face to Face and Organ music. Survived by his wife Cecelia Brohmer, his mother Mrs George Anderson three sisters and two brothers in military service. He was inducted August 10 1943 and previously worked at Benedict’s and Erickson’s bakery.
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Sparta
Wis
Ern- E. Clarke
Lanbem
Lyle Bemis
William Bene
Flarke
Benedict's
Erickson’s
la Crosse
Italy
Anzio
Cecelia Brohmer
George Anderson
Charles
Infantry
England
Sgt
Robet
India
R. N. Holden
Ruth Lapella
Zen City
Byron Bemis
Captain Lilly Leads First Allied Parachute Drop Into France
Captain Frank Lilly of Syra Case New York, the first Allied soldier on French soil, led a parachute carrier unit in the initial invasion push. He and Lieut. Col. J. Crouch trained together aboard a lead C47, guiding parachute drops to the designated DZ. Leonard Schroeder of Maryland may have been the first to reach the beach from the sea.
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U.S
Frank Lillyman
France
Syra- Case
N. Y
J. &. Crouch
River
Calif
Death notices from Whitehall list Mrs Cummings and Myron Johnson
Mrs George W Cummings 71 of Tisdale Saskatchewan died of heart ailment at home. Funeral and burial planned in Tisdale. Myron Johnson 28 killed welding a gas tank at Carnegie Steel Chicago. Funeral at Chimney Rock Lutheran church in Whitehall. Johnson described as three feet tall and well known in Trempealeau county.
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Myron Johnson
Whitehall
Wis
Chimney Rock Luaitheran
Carnegie Steel Co
Chicago
H. A. Wichmann
Church
Johnson
Fred E. Johnson
Chimney Rock
Pearl
Arthur
Florence Johnson
Independence
Earl
Jerome
Floyd
Ettrick
Roger
Osseo
Herman
Paul
Boyceville
Trempealeau County
Lawyers Hold Picnic At Country Club Here
A joint picnic of the La Crosse County Bar association with the Tri County Houston and Winona County Bar associations at the Country club Wednesday attracted about 50 lawyers. Many played golf and a banquet followed at 7 p m. Speakers included Hon R S Cowie Hon Lincoln and Attorney Lloyd Duxbury of Caledonia.
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la Crosse
Hold Prayer Services At City Church Tonight
There will be a continuation of D Day services in Seventh Street Baptist church at Seventh and Winnebago streets. Rev M Vanderbeck notes Thursday at 7 45 p m as a special hour of prayer. The pastor will discuss The outcome of war and the part Russia will play in the settlement of things Tuesday night.
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Seventh Street Baptist Church
Seventh
Winnebago Streets
M. Vanderbeck
Russia
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