Sailors Swap Tall Tales of Sub Sinkings
Sailors recall wartime peril and strange luck aboard merchant ships as German U boats threatened Atlantic convoys. Veterans like Bos Ebys and Red Dodge recount torpedo scares, close calls, and a lasting sense of immunity after surviving five submarine attacks and bombing runs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hal Boyle
London
Cme
United States
Mery
Inkinge
Bos
Afpmaansk
Madison Square Gerdes
Rother
Baby Arizmendi
Beane
Drun
Rea
Dodge
New Orleans
Trinidad
Red
Ike
Seaside voyage leaves crew ashore amid seasickness and tales
Seasickness disrupts a submarine voyage as Sven the purser and AS Aitken of New Orleans face ribbing at a late night poker game. Houston Woods of Witerington North Carolina endures a forcible stop, while Alphonse Johnson of Big Stone Gap Virginia plans a final trip home to reunite with a girlfriend in Rayennes New Jersey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sven
Aitken
New Orleans
Houston Woods
Witerington
N. C
Uws
Thepbuilding Co
Alphonse Johnson
Big Stone Gap
Rayennes XN
Averill Park Residents Share News From Troy Hospital
William Lanpert improves after hernia surgery at Troy Hospital. Dowald Bittig recovering from appendicitis. Theodore Simonson, Navy, visiting parents. Sanford Young of Fort Hancock, N J, visiting family. Alvin Oswald guests in Pittsfield for family. Mrs Mary Willinger travels after sister Matilda Gundrum’s death. Church services and activities announced for Averill Park Methodist Church and Hoags Corner Presbyterian Church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Lanpert
Troy Hospital
Eugene Warren
Navy of
Boston
Dowald Bittig
Corp
Sanford Young
Fort Hancock
N. J
Mroo
Evere Young
Théodore Simonson
Harvard
Alfred Simonson
Alvin Oswald
Pittsfield
Julius Goodermore
Clarence Taylor
Mary Willinger
Amsterdam
Matilda Gundrum
Averill Park Methodist Church
Orrin Ireson
Preaching Church
Hoags Corner
Beebe
Amy Hrate
Lillian Barten
Presbyterian Church
Vaz
James
This Funny World Oversees Supt Russell McCraw
A humorous note reports Russell McCraw as supervisor of This Funny World. West Sand Lake church clergy preach Sunday School at ten.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russell McCraw
West Sand Lake
Smuts Promotes Three-Way Invasion Of Europe
Field Marshal Smuts argues a three front Allied push from East West and South will squeeze Hitler and end Nazidom sooner. He calls the West front the third front and warns the big air attack will be followed by a major land offensive, while other fronts already engage Italy and the Soviet Union. Local notables and residents are listed in the week’s social notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
England
Europe
Adolf Hitler
Naridom
Jan Christiaan Smuts
South Africa
Smuts
Winstes Churchill
Hitler
Sasuta
Missionary Society Notes and Church Gatherings
The Olivet Presbyterian and Trinity Episcopal congregations held meetings and services. Readers and devotionals guided sessions led by Mrs Reed Mrs Ives and Mrs Derrick with hostesses Mrs Dormaddy and Miss Derrick. In a separate report a child named Geraldine Limerick drowned in Smoke Creek and was recovered by her mother after a search.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lackawanna
Geraldine Limerick
Smokes Creek
Andres Limerick
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Averill Park
Ery
Albany
Menands, N. Y
Funny
Cambridge
Edward Styles
Eastcamp
Ton
Frank Rogers
Carl Druba
John Druba
Poesio
Grace McNeil
Schenectady
Joba
James D. Austin
Gary
Thomas Gannon
North Cambridge
Jay Green
Ceaster Cambridge
Henry iVosberg
Mechanicville
Jahd
Brisol Chatterton
Ifamily
Valley Falls
Lamie
ES. Aiken
Satan
Ficor
India
Hollander
Ontgomery Ward
Troy
Lansingburg
Trinity Episcopal Church
Berner Jeliclers
Lamb Tuxedo
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