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sefOsage's FamedAnn in KoreaOnce Again She'sWith Fighting MenOsage, la. —(AP)— 0 s a g e’s world-famed Ann Goplerud, the Red Cross girl who won the hearts of thousands of GI’s overseas during World war II as “Anzio Ann,” is back once more with the fighting men.She is one of seven girls serving in Pusan, Korea, with the Red Cross unit for the United Nations and her letters to her parents, the Clifford Gopleruds, are filled with descriptions of the disorder and confusion in that war-torn areas.Sang for SoldiersAnn’s soft appealing voice sent her thousands of miles through Europe singing for service men during the last war. She was the subject of magazine and newspaper articles and the symbol of “the girl back home” for American soldiers in Europe. She arrived in Korea in October and sincethen had been trying to make connection with her brother, Capt. Peder Goplerud, serving there with an evacuation hospital unit. The two finally met the day after Christmas.But the emotion she felt at that meeting was no greater than the Christmas party given at the U.N. club in Pusan for 200 war orphans. Men of the United Nations forces held the children on their laps, she writes, and stuffed them into doughnuts, cocoa and candy — remembering their own children back home.L.tionmin-Heabil-bar-tiief,stryrf aBrings TearsAnd, when the 200 high squeaky voices were raised to sing “God Bless America” in English, Ann says there were tears runnin down the cheeks of the hardened veterans who had survived war in all its horrors.Ann knows about that, too, because she was the first woman to go on the beachhead at Anzio, where she sang for the battle wearytroops.y.\;«1W V,, RvXv•»\■yflw-MlocMeSUtarToinflSwiLoepidialmcthroIn150thouSommid:eveiIned teriction
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Dubuque Telegraph Herald
Dubuque, Iowa, US
Wed, Jan 10, 1951
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