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Local servicemen updates from Ainsworth area
Ainsworth area families receive notices on service members. Pvt Wm I Dea reports all safe via cable from Burlington after training at Camp Roberts and Camp Stoneman before air corps assignment. Cpl Nic McCleery travels to Camp Parkeley for Officer Candidate School after a furlough with parents. Harold Steiner earns air medal and oak leaf clusters while serving with a heavy bomber squadron in England. Cpl Firman TeBochorst returns to Indiantown Gap after furlough. Relations host visits from Rock Island and Iowa City residents.
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W. J. Dea
Ainsworth
Pvt
Wm. I. Dea
Burlington
Frank
Camp Roberts
Calif
Field Artillery
Pittsburg
Camp Stoneman
Air Corp
Washington High School
Cpl
Nic MecCleery
Camp Parkeley
Texas
Howard L. McCleery
Dan Steiner
Wellman
Set
Harold Steiner
England
Robert Shannon
Steiners
London
Keneland