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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1944
Page
3
In a vivid frontline letter from the liberated area July 27, Amy Describes a near hit as shells screamed overhead while hedgerow fighting and artillery pound the front. She details moving forward with the army, scarce rations, and longing for home as Paris draws nearer.
The Harvey draft board lists nineteen registrants who recently entered the armed forces. Fifteen are serving in the Army: Clarence Donald Knapp, Burdon Charles Bennet, Arthur John Lowen, Charles Knox Flynt, John Ross, Eugene Everett Harris, Sylvester John Wujcik, Leonard Lawson Bennett, Floyd Broughton, Paul Lester Field, Jerome Robert Farravggia, Edward Anthony Mikolajczyk, Haydon Ray Nichols, Stanley Lawrence Maslinski and Elmer Thomas Evans. Four are training in the Navy: Horace Loren Walker, Joe Stanley Milclaczyk, Robert Edward Walker and Walter Siegfried Rohrbach.
The Brandt Letter from the Southwest Pacific recounts daily life aboard a U S N construction battalion ship. Lloyd J Brandt writes from a winter 1944 era camp scene detailing improvised comforts, homey glimpses, and morale under wartime isolation. He notes no Dorothy Labours and fondly recalls island makeshifts and showers in the birthday suit.
Mrs. August Bonse hosted recent guests Mrs. Emma Se gert and her daughter Clara of Denver Galo. Mrs. William Bricks from Chicago Heights spent a few days with the Bonse family. Mr. and Mrs. J H Haddon of Dalton returned from a week visiting their daughter and Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Bussiere in South Woodbury Vermont.
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