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Newspaper
Reporter Boyden
Location
Boyden, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1944
Page
3
Ernie Pyle recounts a British RAF pilot trapped eight days in an upside-down wreck near La Detinais. American rescue workers pried him free amid a quiet battlefield vacuum, the man calm and grateful in Oxfordian tone.
Soldiers recount a plane crash ordeal as a GI pilot is rescued and told his leg was broken with a foot pinned. He questions being out of the plane during the wreck, while doctors confirm he was confined inside for half an hour. The exchange shows his stubborn perseverance and humor.
Washington dispatch details how American POWs in German camps pursue escape through theater productions in camps like Stalag Luft III, and through sports and leisure activities. It notes Red Cross aid, Geneva compliance, and the daily camp routine, plus letters from home and food parcels.
Bankhage reports Red Cross capture kits for POWs in transit camps in Germany. Captured prisoners, often arriving by parachute, receive brush, comb, razor and essentials. Normandy POWs volunteer to aid harvest in Britain. Youth groups join drive to recruit school-age milkweed pod harvesters for floss to replace kapok in life jackets.
The ad promotes Barbara Bell patterns for girls and young women in sizes 10 to 20 and ages 4 to 10. It highlights campus date dresses in flow crepe and wool, lists pattern numbers 1954 1972 and 1992 with yardage, and urges sending 25 cents for each pattern with size and address.
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