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Wartime Fleet Exercises Attract Hundreds Of Ships
Local reports describe a large Atlantic Fleet drill with nearly 100 warships, 280 aircraft and 35,000 personnel training across five weeks. Exercises involve the Trinity Lutheran Church, special clergy, and a mass readiness program amid a period of upkeep and religious services. The piece also notes community reactions to a wartime telegram leak and the gift of a handmade tool chisel from Gordon Stokes to the Globe Post, plus other hometown notices and personnel movements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
LE Mars Globe-Post
Trinity Lutheran Church
W.P
Atlant Fleet
Atlantic Fleet
Springbean Ports
Anna McCormack
Miller Way
Hettner
Scauman
Usn
Joe Hettner
W. le Mars
Iowa
Tnt
Feu
Carbbean
Vws
Wisn
Globe Post
Telewuiph
Gordon Stokes
Mt. Stokes
Stokes
Meroo
Clarence Dangendorter
Mars
Donald Hass
Florence
Kansas
Manin J Gengler
AC & W
San Francisco
Calif