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Newspaper

The Spectator

Location

Joliet, Illinois, United States of America

Date

Feb 24, 1944

Page

14

Joliet Hosts Two RCAF Flyers on Brief Visit

Two young Royal Canadian Air Force members toured Joliet for ten days as guests of Douglas Scarth and family. Douglas Scarth 27 and Norman Ashton 22, visiting from Newfoundland duties, praised American hospitality and hoped to stay longer. They train as navigators and bombardiers and are stationed off Newfoundland’s coast at Prince Edward Island.

Royal Canadian Air Force Joliet Douglas Scarth Norman Ashton Douglas George H. Scarth Sr E. Washington Street Mr. Scarth George Jr Marshalls Norman Canada Newfoundland Prince Edward Island Middlesboro Yorkshire Eng Judith Ann Tom

Local Hero From Nottingham In Allied Italy Fight

The report notes forces now clashing with the American Fifth Army in Italy while Norman from Nottinghamshire, England, remains with his parents and sister at home. His other brother serves in the British Army.

Fifth Army Italy Norman Nottingham Nottinghamshire Eng

Trinity Methodist Service Demonstrates Lent Cross Dedication

The Rev John Paul Stafford led a Go to Church Crusade themed service at Trinity Methodist with Gerald Zimmerman drawing a crayon picture. Four laymen assisted and a large attendance saw the dedication of the Lenten Cross boxes for self denial benefitting Christ and the church. Easter morning will see the cross remade with filled boxes.

Trinity Methodist John Paul Stafford Gerald Zimmerman Roy Hedstrom Earl Baxter Loren Swinford Lawrence Carlson

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WHITE Chicago and Webster Sts Joliet, Ill Mandalay RCAF Fitzgerald's Cass St Herkimer E. Jefferson St
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