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Homecoming for Pacific veteran Gerald Norcross
Gerald Norcross 19, seaman first class, returns home on his first leave in ten months after serving aboard an aircraft carrier in major South Pacific battles. Censorship limits his details. he wears American Theater and Asiatic-Pacific campaign ribbons and will rejoin Sept. 1. A Joliet Catholic High School graduate.
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Gerald Norcross
South Pacific
Maddy
Cochrane Avenue
Jerry
Joliet Catholic High School