Winter Cloaks Fate of Norway Province
AP News describes Finnmark residents enduring a harsh Arctic winter in war wrecked northern Norway. Evacuations, wrecked mines, scattered shelters, fuel shortages, and isolation strain food supplies. Some returnees travel by small boats while northern towns resemble drifting Western boom towns during a brutal, uncertain season. The outcome will only be clear after spring thaw.
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Tromso
Norway
Finnmark
Alta
Hamnbucht
Hammerfest
Kirkenes
Haranbucht
Veteran, Wife and Friend Are Killed
In Los Angeles a former soldier Julius F. Sokol and his wife Georgi ana known as Butchy and her friend Joseph Oliver were murdered in a triangular shooting. Bechtel said Sokol shot them then killed himself after writing a letter to the wife’s parents explaining the motive tied to an upcoming divorce.
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Los Angeles
Julius F
Bill) Sokol
Bill Sokol
Georgiana
Butchy
Joseph Oliver
Gene Bechtel
Bechtel
Sokol
Oliver
Jacques Stark
Stark
Veteran Receives Release From AAF After 28 Months
Cpl Leon A. Spessard 24 of 216 North Cannon avenue has been placed on inactive Army status after 28 months in the AAF. He served 14 months overseas with the 15th Air Force in the Mediterranean and as an airplane mechanic at Morrison Field West Palm Beach Florida. He is married to Margaret Eloise Spessard and is the son of Adelaide and Charles Spessard. An odd remark notes armadillos reportedly produce quadruplets with all male or all female litters.
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AAF
Leon A. Spessard
Cannon Avenue
Cpl. Spessard
15Th Air Force
Mediterranean
ATC
Morrison Field
West Palm Beach
Fla
Fairchild Aircraft
Margaret Eloise Spessard
Adelaide
Charles Spessard
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AP News
North Cape
Laos
Crane
West
Washington Street
Icodemus
RON Bank
Peele
John D. Myers & Co
Hagerstown
Bohman-Warne, Inc
Franklin St
R. D. McKee
Lester Brothers
Harry M. Friedman
Harry
Jonathan Street
Miller’s
Chest of Drawers
Miller's
Miller’s Juvenile Dept
Harrisburg
Sunbury, Chambersburg and
Waynesboro, Pa
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