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LOCAL SOY WRITES FROMUtXEMBOUfteBut Leonard Kiple, Private, Is Tired of War and Bitter Fighting'.Writing from Luxembourg, Germany, Pvt. Leonard Kiple, son of Harr/ Kiple of Chillicothe, recounts some of the fighting the Yanks have gone through to get there but says “The sooner we drive Hitler and his leaders in a blind alley, the better**.“I was on detached service with an outfit for two weeks, fighting around St. Lo’\ Pvt. Kiple writes home. Then I joined my present j outfit which was in the same sector. * We had fighting at La Hage De Puit, then we fought our way along: the coast to St. Malo and DinardL We were there for some time and had some pretty tough going there. Finally, what Germans were left holed up on an island about four miles off the coast. They were so well dug in, as much as one him- f dred feet under ground, that they lt;had to be shelled day and night' and bombed several times before they finally gave up.“It was some sight watching the bombing. We had a front seat for the whole show. The big naval guns they had were knocked outThen we worked our way north without too much bard fighting, and ended up here in Luxembourg.“I got The Constitutfon-Tribune the other day. It sure looked good, although of course the news was old. My mail has been coming' through pretty well*'.Pvt. Kiple, an employe of the Missouri Distributing Company in Chillicothe before he entered service, was sent overseas early in 1944. He was inducted in September, 1943.
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Chillicothe Constitution Tribune
Chillicothe, Missouri, US
Tue, Nov 07, 1944
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