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Memoir Medal Hope For Lt Col Jay Wessels Of Air Force
HAL BOYLE honors Lt Col Jay Wessels for his wartime work guiding P-40 pilots in North Africa Tunisia Sicily and Italy. Wessels led an unconventional press camp and bonded with air crew, earning praise for morale and storytelling as a combat reporter. He later ran a Texas ranch and is remembered for fearless advocacy of his men. In a separate note, John L Wishard, 51, was gored by a 2200 pound bull on the Samuel Kaylor farm near Boonsboro Maryland sustaining a chest wound but in satisfactory condition.
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