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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1944
Page
3
Mattoon authorities call the gas spraying prowler reports a mistake from beginning to end. They theorize fumes from a war plant and the mass system gas releases caused the over two week wave of supposed attacks. More than twenty residents claimed they were sprayed with an unidentified sickening gas through open bedroom windows.
Headquartered at Allied Expeditionary Force, the U S Ninth Army joins France as the largest American force on a single front. Lieutenant General William H Simpson commands, with origins traced to Weatherford Texas. Simpson, a WWI veteran, rose from division chief to corps and army commands, shaping the new imprint of American ground forces.
Wesley G. Hatchell, gunner's mate second class on a light cruiser, is on a Q1 day leave with his parents at 10k6 Dawson Street. He wears eight battle stars and the Pearl Harbor day ribbon, has served four years abroad, and his ship recently supported landings on Guam and Saipan. A Briskenridge High School graduate, he volunteered in February 1941.
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