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Yanks in Palestine Find Farms and Cities Just Like Home
GIs at a Palestine base run a 250 acre fruit and vegetable farm supplying oranges lemons bananas dates figs and potatoes while serving as a workshop for Fourth Echelon repairs. Lt Col Jacobs notes 48 GIs claim the rest camp feels like home state plus proximity to Tel Aviv Jerusalem and modern Mid East life. A corporal asked for furlough at the rest camp near his own tent after ten months in Palestine.
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Palestine
Horsel
Hanks
Carthage
U.S
Middle East
Near East
Haifa
Tripoli
Haifa-Bagdad
Iran
Russia
Alan B. Jacobs
Charleston
S. C
Moses
Italy
Mediterranean
Asbury Park
N. J
Sicily
Jerusalem
Via Dolorosa
Church of the Holy Sepulcher
Holy Tomb
Tel-Aviv
Middle
States
Fifth Avenue
Col. Jacobs
Cairo
Beirut