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Our Boys in the Armed Forces
Casual dispatches from Cedar Rapids Iowa detail servicemen and cadets across the U S and overseas. Pvt Verlon Braselton at Coe College for five months of Army Air Forces instruction and others at Fort Sheridan Camp Shelby Narra gansett Bay and India send home notes and thanks for the Pointer newspaper while sharing Christmas hopes and home memories.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Verlon W. Braselton
Benjamin Braselton
Emerald Ave
Riverdale
Coe College
Army Air Force
Army Air Forces
Earl H. Krueger
Lewis Krueger
Dolton
Fort Sheridan
Camp Shelby
Miss
Infantry
Vivian McPike
Pfc
Lloyd Bowerman
Bowerman
Camp Crowder
Jessen
Katherine Reitz
Dalton
Solomon Jessen
Fort Benning
Samuel Jessen
Gore Field
Mont
Jacob Jessen
Army Base
Boston
Mass
John Jessen
Tech
Iceland
Camp Robinson
Ark
Ordnance
Cycle
Pfe
Robert W. Klinkhammer
Keesler Field
Biloxi
Army Air Forces Training Command
Pvt
Klinkhammer
John Klinkhammer
Park Ave
Fort Litterator
Mayree
North Africa
Frank Lund
Pacific Ocean
Atlantic
Raymond A. Lembeke
James Wendel
Iowa
Paul Walford
Salt Lake City
Utah
United States
Pvis
Peter Lezean
William Koenig
Camp Blanding
Fla
Richard H. Peiguss
Miller’s
Lyle R. Dorman
Army Air Corps
Sheppard Field
Texas
Washington University
St. Louis
San Antonio
Ellington Field
Nays
Bernard L. Middleborn
Fort Bliss
el Paso
John N. Braun
Pointer
V-mail
Hawaiian Islands
Honolulu
Waikiki Beach
W.W. II