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Seabee Back. From Service in AleutiansGuy N. Gordon, carpenter’s mate 3/c, seabee, back in the states from the Aleutians, wheretw *1!_ bcca sinCE November, lJiJj is here on leave for a week's visit at the home of his brother, N. B. Gordon, route 1,Gordon has been in service with ine 45th battalion of seabc.es and Drought with him' a book telling the. story m pictures and description of that construction battalion in Alaska ‘-from that chill day in November, 1942,’* according to the foreword in the, book, “when we fivst saw the strange lights and high wire fence of boot camp until tnat day in May, 1944, when alter 16 months overseas in Alaska and the Aleutian islands we clambered aboard a troopship bound back to civilization and home. •One of the pictures shows Gordon seated on a bench In a Nis-awn-lifce building, the recreation hall: along with other member.'? of his battalion attending special Christmas services. Our homemade Christmas looked real in *he corner of the recreation hall,” sard the lines under the pictureAlso with the battalion was another Mason Cityan listed in the book as Otto Hugo Olson, shipper 2/e, 50a 20th S. E., and La ft Phi fin. mechanic's mate 2/c, Clear Lake.
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Mason City Globe Gazette
Mason City, Iowa, US
Fri, Sep 08, 1944
Page 15
Full Page
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Vern L.
USA 24 May 2024
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