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HighballingThe Freight1n FranceI\(By A. I. GOLDBERG) (Substituting for Kenneth L. Dixon;AVIGNON, France —(/P)— Avignon is only a bystop these days on the network of railways now operated throughout France by the U. 3. army's military railway service and French railway workers. Military security cloaks how much is being carried on how many trains, but froma tbrtf to a half of Fttnce is beingsupplied through Marseilles on a network ol lines to the north, west unci east.All along the lines you see American railroaders rebuilding bridges, restoring yards, laying track and ballast and moving food, ammunitionand lt;ther supplies to the fighting fronts and civil centers.Here at Avignon a company of the727th railway operating battalioncommanded by Capt. James Beard of Vinton, Va., former Southern railwa construction executive, is typical ol many units scattered along several thousand miles of tracks in southwestern France.Most railroaders along the Lyon-Marseilles stretch have been overseas upwards ol 28 months with stops at Casablanca, Sicily and in Italy. Someoutfits were brought over as units,but there have been a number of replacements as the work increased. f’fruMiaJtiog have been light.This outfit has railroaders from all ovi r- A track maintenance gang in the wards included Sgt. Harold Hollar. Route Three, Atchison, Kas.. who used to be a section foreman for the Missouri Pacific; Cpi. August Cannon ol Davy. W. Va., and the Norfolk and Western; Cpl. Druille Nelson, Amstown, Ky., (cable copy unlisted in postal guide) ex-foreman of the Southern; Pic. Clifford Sonder, RuralRoute, Mansfield, Olno, and the Erierailroad; Pvt. John Hrusko of Spring-boro, Pa., and the Bessemer and Lais.c Erie.Hrusko has been overseas 27months and say ' 1 m doing the same kind of work I did back home, but at least that was home and I'd sure like to be back there.”If •* il riciiii'rv l rnm !■ VPrvwiltTP
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Somerset Daily American
Somerset, Pennsylvania, US
Fri, Mar 09, 1945
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