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Newspaper
The Spectator
Location
Joliet, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1944
Page
20
Local notes highlight soldiers and their families with photos and captions. Families deliver Chicago papers and cheer on servicemen while posts at Union Station brim with holiday travelers. Poems, reminiscences, and portraits mix with everyday chatter about work, dating, and community life amid wartime strain.
Staff Sgt. John J. Devine Jr. of Joliet receives a fourth oak leaf cluster to the Air Medal for courage in action over Nazi-held Europe. A B-17 waist gunner with the 390th Bombardment Group, he flew more than 30 major missions, including attacks on Schweinfurt and Regensburg, and took part in a shuttle raid from England to Russia and back.
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