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Newspaper
Yank
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1944
Page
3
Wagner of Chicago and Patton once an ex shoe salesman wed by proxy after a long courtship. Patton, in New Guinea, and Evelyn in Kansas City Kansas, faced legal hurdles as proxy marriages were illegal in Illinois. The $365 ceremony kept them together with no arguments to date.
Cpl. Jimmy Martin, a Chicago sax player with the New Friends of Rhythm, marks his 38th birthday in Teheran during the Roosevelt Churchill Stalin meeting. After drinks with Russian officers, he is escorted to camp gate by two captains and a first louey, lamenting it hurts their tradition that he is not a drinking man.
Private Marvin P. Patton of Fort Worth Texas returns home to a joyous welcome Delighted bride Evelyn is mentioned as the former Miss Evelyn in the unfolding wedding celebration The couple’s homecoming is framed as a personal milestone set against a wartime backdrop with the emphasis on family and reunion
In the South Pacific a Leatherneck sergeant eyes a crater with a Jap unit dining and plans a gun position. His insistence clashes with a subordinate voice, until a smiling English-speaking Japanese meets him. The sergeant roars to command, then vows to run his unit his own way.
Lt. Maxine Lykins of Albany Missouri smiles while digging a slit trench in Italy as part of a hospital grounds setup shortly after she and 21 other nurses landed in the Anzio Nettuno invasion area, the first American women to reach the beachhead south of Rome.
Photo credits enumerate personnel and units for image 2,3,4,5 showing Sgt George Aarons and entries from Fourteenth Air Force Coast Artillery Signal Corps Armed Forces Radio Service and others. Names include Maxter AAB, Syracuse AAB, Fort Riley Kans, WN Farnham, Paul Deutschmann, Pen Sehnall with associated bases such as Columbia AAB S C and Goldwyn Pictures.
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