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Lowel! Offi cer Home From Africa on Secret MissionLieut. Col. Henry E. McGowan Was on Dark Continent as Recently as WednesdayLOWELL — First army man from this city to report back with a first-hand account of the North African campaign is Lieut. Col.Henry E. McGowan, former principal of the Oaklands school, whose dramatic and sudden return to his family Sunday was as completely unexpected as would be an Armistice.He arrived here quietly and without fanfare two days ago, and as silently slipped away last night like the Arabs he has so recently been among to an important but undisclosed conference at an unnamed location.As recently as last Wednesday, he was in a sand-stung, heat-sticky capital city of North Africa.Where he is today, but a few army bigwigs know. Where he was yesterday was Lowell.Under orders to refrain from comment on his own activities in'Crmllinicci on I’njir Tlilrlcrn Henry E. McGowan
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Lowell Sun
Lowell, Massachusetts, US
Wed, May 05, 1943
Page 41
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