Marines Award Unit Citation for Okinawa Amphibious Landing
The Sixth Marine Division unit earned a Navy Unit Citation for a surprise amphibious assault on Oroku Peninsula on June 4 paving the way to seize Naha airfield in the Ryukus. Pfc Heffley of Shafter son of Mr and Mrs Arnold Hettier joined Marines in December 1944 and served in the Pacific until war end. Irvin E Fike attended a Chrysler meeting at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles last Thursday evening.
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Okinawa
Oroku Peninsula
Naha
Ryukus
Heffley
Arnold Hettier
Shafter
U. S
Uty
Pacific
Sixth Marine Division
Guam
Irvin E. Fike
Chrysler
Biltmore Hotel
Los Angeles
Facts and figures from a fragmented 19th century column
A garbled scrapbook of scientific trivia notes from 1267 to 1866 and modern estimates. It mentions hummingbirds, electricity via barometric pressure, ocean tonnage removed per mile, U S population growth, an early artificial ice plant in New Orleans, and vast mineral reserves.
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Sur
United
America
New Orleans
Territorial cession from Russia to Japan in 1875 noted
A fragment mentions a 1875 territorial cession between Russia and Japan and lists various historical notes. The text also references Barry 8. Truman as a Santa Fe timekeeper around 1902 and notes five sister ships in the Great Lakes fleet with unspecified lengths. The date April 10, 1700 is cited for George Washington in the fragment.
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Russia
Japan
Barry
Truman
Santa Fe
Great Lake
George Washington
Relatives of Edmonds duo visiting Shafter
Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Sweet of Edmonds Washington are staying with their daughter Mrs. H. W. Kelly in Shafter. They arrived Friday from Los Angeles where they spent the last month with friends and relatives and will stay two weeks.
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E. W. Sweet
Edmonds
Washington
Shafter
H. W. Kelly
Los Angeles
Fike Family Attends Reunion in Hanford Sunday
Mr and Mrs Irvin Fike of Shafter joined 35 relatives at a family reunion hosted by cousins Mr and Mrs Ernest Sargent in Hanford Sunday.
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Irvin Fike
Shafter
Mr. Fike
Ernest Sargent
Hanford
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John G. Terry
KPMC
Kern
Terry
Congress
By Theodore Maisch
BOSCH
Fairbanks Morse
Magnetos
Magneto Service
Pipe & Salvage CO
S. Union
Annes
Africa
India
Harry S. Truman
John Quincy Adams
Benjamin Harrison
United States
Thomas Jefferson
John Adams
Henry Clay
Kelly
Shafter- Motel
Zimmerman Bros
Jack, Hugo
Otto
P-G-Ee
Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Shafter Warehouse Co
W. H. Hitchcock Lawrence Kattenhorn
Central Avenue
Solu
Bryant & Hitchcock
Shatter, Calif
Helene Curtis
Charlotte E. Fay
Bakersfield Beauty College
Chester Ave
Bakersfield
EL Tejon
Seventeenth
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