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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1944
Page
5
Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company won a contract to build nine 100000 horsepower hydraulic turbines for the Dnieper river site at Dnieprostroi in Russia. The turbines replace earlier machinery destroyed by Russians in 1941 to stop German advance.
A tribute noting the death in action of Pfc. John Kern Jr. in Holland. The poem recalls ancestral Tulip fields and distant Western shores, and expresses that his blue eyed kin will guard him under Holland skies.
A war correspondent recalls Kath Irvin’s moving letter about her husband Bede Irvin, killed near St Lo by a misfired American bomb. She mourningly writes of loss, faith, and the impossibility of future letters or homecomings, while thanking Danny Grossi for sharing details of the death and support from friends.
Kath kept Bede happy with her letters during his 15 months abroad. The piece laments soldiers facing death on German battlefields while awaiting letters from loved ones and warns that lack of understanding from wives or sweethearts can dim a man’s resolve.
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