Corporal Brant of Fairbank Grows Crops Without Soil
Corporal Milan Brant, 23, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Brant, stationed in Brazil and Ascension Island, writes from Ascension Island about a volcanic outcrop in the South Atlantic where he tends a large garden in cinders. The hydroponic plot grows lettuce, tomatoes and cucumbers to feed 2,000 men, illustrating soilless farming aboard the site.
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Milan Brant
Ralph Brant
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Sailor to Return Home on Furlough from Norfolk
An Ascension resident recalls a sailor who had not seen vegetables for two years. Roy Bechkemmer of the U.S. Navy telephoned his parents in Des Moines to say a 30 day furlough awaits before reassignment after returning from overseas on the Atlantic. Howard Duffy Word, now in Fi Sheridan, is expected home soon on an honorable discharge. He served with the A station and fought in Tunisia and Ivelian campaigns, with a 30 day September furlough.
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U. S. Navy
Norfolk
Des Moines
Howard Duffy
Howard Duff
Sheridan
A. &. Sta Sion
Tunisia
Ivelian
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