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SYRACUSE HKHAliD-.JOUK.VAL, Feb. 22, 1045'Torpedoed Seamen, Adrift for 41 Days, Going Back to SeaNew York. Feb. 22 lt;NS.— You’d think a seaman who had been torpedoed In the Atlantic, drifted 41 days In the wintry Atlantic and finally passed a longperiod of Internment In a Nazi concentration camp would have had enough.But not William E. Weaver, 37, of East Tallassee, Ala., fireman and water tender aboard the S.S. Jonathan Sturgeswhen a U-boat sank the vessel just twoyears ago tomorrow.Weaver, one of the 40*odd repatriated merchant seamen brought back by the exchange liner GripshoJm, said today:Of course we’re going back to sea when we’re able* How can we hope to win this war if guys like us remain on the shelf?**The Nazis nabbed Weaver anda number of his shipmates—oneof whom died while they were adrift—when they beached their lifeboat on the Norwegian coast.ContinuedVast Plane*Fleets LashAt German}From Rage Onedone so. The city lies only fivetin* nnef a# 4 n aRhine from Cobien2 and is an Inland port Duisburg is the western part oi the Ruhr, and the attack on It was aimed at bottling up the military traffic through this great Industrial region. Approximately 3,000 tonsof bombs were dropped .the night before on Dortmund, eastern gateway of tne Ruhr.1,300 Acres DamagedThe Air Ministry announced •’more than-1,300 acres of Duisburg and Us satellite towns have been damaged.”The greatest railway network In Europe—one which explains how Hitler keeps his troops going despite the odds—lies in the triangle formed by the cities of Dortmund, Duisburg and Cologne.More than 1,200 Fortresses and Liberators dropped 3,000 tons of bombs. Including 400,000 small incendiaries, into the Nuernberg marshalling yards. Reconnaissance planes had reported 2,500 freight
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Syracuse Herald Journal
Syracuse, New York, US
Thu, Feb 22, 1945
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