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Joyful homecomings and love in wartime headlines
Many released prisoners of war began homeward flights from Tokyo with celebratory scenes in California towns. In Black River Falls Wisconsin Marine Prea Lione Peterson learned his former fiancé planned to marry another, and townspeople mourned the trio involved. Reports from Chicago, El Monte, Pusan, and Yonkers describe reunions, gifts, and gratitude for prisoners. President Eisenhower quot. Congressional Recordquot. tidelands debate and a California spider joke round out varied wartime era vignettes.
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Tokyo
California
Black River Falls
Wis
Marine Prea
Lione E. Peterson
Peterson
Chicago
San Francisco
Odana Stenerson
Douglas Oliver
Lione
Prt
Picerno
Springfield Gardens
Joe
Willam H. Cone
Yonkers Raceway
Sir Joseph
Aiken
Eisenhower
Reps
Fulton
Corbett
R.pa
Congress
Tidelands
Sen. Mors
Senate
Nixon
Fernando Najera
Albuquerque
N. M
Fernando