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BATH BOY WOUNDED IN RECENT FIGHTING ,Kenneth L. Drake, U.S.N., Re-1Icovering at Hospital in the \Mediterranean AreaJr11Mrs. Harmon O. Barter, (if t Dike road, received word rc'- |,centlv from her son, Kenneth ' •* *L Drake, fireman 1st class, USN, that he is now in a hospital in | the Mediterranean area recov-; x mg from wounds received in ac-'j tion a few weeks ago. Though' ( still confined in bed he says that i j. he is coming along fine. The let- j c „ ter does not say the extent of his t » wounds except that there* were I (-i 12. of them, all below the waist, i | Kenneth visited his mother here ^ * i in April of this year and from J here went into overseas service.'1 ! A Morse high school freshman i I j at the time of his enlistment,' J which was on his birthday, July j 20, H42, young Drake, who is| 18, was very popular with his ( schoolmates and many friends he made while employed as an usher at the Bath Opera House. He has two other brothers in , i the service. Elwood, stationed at * j a North Atlantic post and For-j1T)\ii in the Navy. A third brother,t j Harold, expects to enter the'i1 | Army next week. Ilt;i l
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Bath Independent
Bath, Maine, US
Thu, Sep 16, 1943
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