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Duke Shoop Escapes DeathBy A Matter of Ten MinutesWar Correspondent and Former Local Reporter Accompanies Naval Mission To Supposed Captured Brittany PortBY RICHARD L. STOKES ithey decided to take their unit;? iWar Correspondent of the jof Seabees in to begin a survey?St. Louis Post-Dispatch jox harbor facilities. i| (Distributed by the Associated! Soon Learned Error j | Press) j It was an elegant cavalcade|i Monday. Aug. 8—(By Wireless) j that set forth. In contract to the |—Now that the American forces; bedraggled, grimy and unshav-! have rounded the shoulder of the en army tro«ps on the way to ; Brittany peninsula, a type of war-• the front, the naval officers! j fare has developed in which! were spick and span in fresh; ! anything is possible. But noth-j summer uniforms, the Seabees I ing more faniastic could happen j dapper in their spotless blue de-' - H ’'scent incident in which) mm overalls. ‘Duke Shoop, correspondent forj But they had no armored ve-| *».ansas City Star, escaped hide and no weapons except car-1; death or capture by a IQ-minute! margin.Early one morning Unitedbines and the officers’ pistuls. There were no machine guns or tommy guns, not even a singleStates naval officers in a sea- Garand rifle. None of the Sea-; coast town heard or thought!bees had ever been under fire.}i they heard over the radio an an- On the road they were join-1 nouncement that American ed by’an army lieutenant eolon-1troops had occupied a Brittany:el, a corps liaison officer who port. Without a further checkup5 (continued on page 2)!
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Jefferson City Post Tribune
Jefferson City, Missouri, US
Tue, Aug 08, 1944
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