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Bible Goes Through a Buttles In Two Warsi sfe' ' tCamp Shanks. N. Y.. Sept 21.—lt;U.P. —A father aixl son in the service of, their country met recently ai .this camp, an installation of the New YorkoCPort of Embarkation.Guess what I’ve got here? the son| ^ asked as he greeted his father. Mallfe#'* Sergeant Galan Swank, of Congers. New York, formerly of Minneapolis,3Minnesota, and a top kick in the first AEF.With that, the son. Staff Sergeant Marcell Swank, produced a Bible, bloody and sweat-stained, which his father had carried while ftghtin'r in the Argonne Forest in the last war. j vWhen young Swank went overseas, his father save him the Bible. It was with the son during nine bloody hours at Dieppe and when wounded, by shrapnel, he was pulled aboard a British destroyer.Swank recovered, and, taking the' * Bible along, went to North Africa. He 1 was at El Guettar In Tunisia when his outfit received, the ^residential citation. Npxt c*ipe Sicily and Salerno and then the drive through Italy. Finally. Swank and his battered Bible were returned horn^e.t
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Brookfield Argus
Brookfield, Missouri, US
Fri, Sep 22, 1944
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