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Willingham's WWII Journey On a People-to-People Tour
Mr and Mrs Nelson Willingham of Mexico Missouri joined a 21 day People-to-People goodwill tour through Denmark Germany and Switzerland with stops in the Soviet Union Poland and Czechoslovakia. They visited the Munsingen cemetery where American airmen killed in World War II were buried and learned of the exchange of Willingham from Switzerland in 1945. The trip highlighted cooperative farming practices in Denmark and political conditions in Poland and the Soviet Union while stressing world peace and friendly US relations.
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Kay Speckhart
Nelson Willingham
Mexico
Switzerland
Hadeen
Swillinghams
Europe
Missouri
Willingham
Consolidated Electric Cooperative of Mexico
U.S. Air Force
Land
England
Germany
Texas
Bari
Italy
Lake Constance
Munsingen
Willinghams
Berne
U. S
Barnwell Legge
Free
United States
Leland Harrison
Misty
Holland
Denmark
Soviet Union
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Missouri Cooperatives
U.S
Missouri Co-operative Leaders
Randall E. Torgerson
Agriculture Economics
University of
Famors
Moscow
Kharkov
Prague
Nixon
Kremlin
Munsingen Church